AI development company for Seattle cloud, aerospace, gaming & biotech.

Aiinfox does not keep a Seattle-area office — the operation runs from Mohali, India and Frisco, Texas. Pacific business hours get covered through Frisco's US-Hours rotation, a late-CT shift (roughly 11am-to-8pm CT) that keeps senior engineers live on Zoom across your 9am-to-6pm PT day, with Mohali's early-IST start picking up the afternoon stretch. For kickoff days, milestone reviews, or security walk-throughs at South Lake Union, Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland, or downtown Seattle, we schedule the trip rather than carry a permanent, sub-scale team at Pacific Northwest comp rates.

Yes — Frisco is two hours ahead of Pacific on Central Time, so left unadjusted our normal 9am-to-5pm CT day would only reach your morning. That is why Seattle engagements run a dedicated US-Hours rotation: a late-CT shift, roughly 11am-to-8pm CT, that stays live on Zoom across your entire 9am-to-6pm PT day and pushes into the evening if an incident needs it. Demos land twice weekly inside PT hours, async updates arrive before your Seattle standup starts, and the senior engineer from your kickoff call is still the one shipping code at launch. If an engagement genuinely needs a Seattle-based team physically on-site at all hours, we will flag that honestly on the first call rather than force-fit it.

Yes. The Washington My Health My Data Act (MHMDA) — in force for larger regulated entities since March 2024 and for small businesses since June 2024 — is the load-bearing framework for any Seattle health-adjacent build, and it is broader than HIPAA in scope: it covers consumer health data outside the HIPAA-covered-entity boundary, including data from wellness apps, fitness trackers, period-tracking apps, and any consumer-facing product that processes health information. The consent and opt-out architecture has to be designed into the system, not bolted on. We map the MHMDA's affirmative consent requirements, the per-purpose disclosure obligations, and the consumer rights (right to know, delete, withdraw consent) into the engagement scope. For Fred Hutch-adjacent and broader Seattle healthtech, we layer HIPAA + MHMDA + the WA biometric-data law on top of our SOC 2-aligned deployment.

You choose the region, we build to it. AWS us-west-2 (Oregon) is the Seattle default — lowest latency in the Pacific Northwest, full AWS service coverage, HIPAA eligibility, and the broadest Bedrock model catalogue including Anthropic Claude — with Azure West US 2 as the standard route for Microsoft-adjacent operators. Claude (Anthropic on Bedrock) and GPT-4o (Azure OpenAI) route to West US endpoints explicitly; Fred Hutch-adjacent biotech and Boeing-adjacent aerospace operators whose data-sharing agreements forbid managed-API egress get Llama 3 self-hosted on vLLM inside their own VPC with zero data egress to non-customer endpoints. Your DPA spells out the exact data path.

Yes. Our healthcare engagement defaults are HIPAA-aligned. BAAs are signed before any PHI is shared. Deployments default to AWS us-west-2 (Oregon) inside customer-controlled AWS, Azure, or GCP accounts so PHI never leaves a HIPAA-eligible region. Every model and tool call is audit-logged with input, output, prompt version, and operator identity — so the privacy officer accountable under HIPAA has the evidence required for an OCR examination. For Fred Hutch-adjacent oncology research, Allen Institute-adjacent computational biology, and Adaptive Biotechnologies-adjacent immune-profiling operators specifically, we layer the MHMDA on top of HIPAA and align audit-log retention with the customer's existing HIPAA security risk assessment.

Yes. We work with MSA-plus-SOW structures for ongoing engagements and single-document fixed-price agreements for pilots. Standard terms cover IP assignment (your code, your IP), limitation of liability tuned to scope, indemnification, MHMDA + HIPAA-compliant data handling, breach notification consistent with Washington and federal obligations, and a 30-day production warranty. NDAs are mutual and signed before any technical detail is shared. BAAs are signed before any PHI is shared. We are a registered Indian entity (Aiinfox Pvt. Ltd.) invoicing US clients in USD via wire transfer as a foreign corporation — no W-9 or 1099 entanglement on your side.

Yes, and it is a routine engagement type for us. Step one is a forensic read of the code, the data pipelines, whatever eval results exist, the prompts, and the cost telemetry. Step two is shipping the smallest valuable change — real proof of understanding the system, delivered as working code rather than a diagnosis deck. Step three is recommending a path forward: incremental stabilization, a parallel rewrite, or a clean shutdown, and we will say which one honestly on the first call. In our experience, most Pacific Northwest takeovers did not actually need a full rewrite — they needed evals, guardrails, observability, and a senior engineer who stayed on the build instead of rotating off after discovery.

Bellevue and Seattle AI consultancies typically charge $300 to $600 an hour, run discovery phases that run long, and often lose senior staff mid-engagement to Amazon, Microsoft, or a foundation-model lab — or backfill with a junior bench under a senior name. Our senior rate runs roughly 45 to 65 percent under that range. The engagement itself is fixed-price and six weeks, with the same senior engineer on the kickoff call through launch and any overrun on our side covered by us. Seattle clients typically see 55 to 70 percent total savings on comparable scope, and the senior engineer is present at every standup rather than a rotating team.