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

We do not operate a Seattle-area office. Aiinfox runs from our Mohali, India HQ and a Frisco, TX office. For Seattle clients that need Pacific business-hours coverage, our Frisco pod runs a US-Hours rotation on a late-CT shift (typically 11am-to-8pm CT) that covers PT 9am-to-6pm with senior engineers live on Zoom, and the Mohali team picks up Seattle afternoons via an early-IST start. For on-site engagements at South Lake Union, Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland, or downtown Seattle offices (kickoff, milestone reviews, security walk-throughs), we travel to Seattle on a scheduled cadence rather than maintaining a sub-scale local team at Pacific Northwest tech-comp rates.

Honest answer: yes, with a planned shift. Our Frisco, TX office runs Central Time — two hours ahead of Pacific — so our default 9am-to-5pm CT only covers your morning. For Seattle clients we run a US-Hours rotation: a late-CT shift (typically 11am-to-8pm CT) covers PT 9am-to-6pm on Zoom in full, picking up your day and staying online into your evening when an incident requires it. Twice-weekly demos run in PT business hours; written async updates land before your Seattle standup; the senior engineer on your kickoff is the senior engineer through launch. If your engagement genuinely cannot survive without a Seattle-based team on the ground at all hours, we will tell you on the first call.

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.

Your call. We default to AWS us-west-2 (Oregon) for Seattle clients because it is the lowest-latency Pacific Northwest region with full AWS service coverage, HIPAA eligibility, and the broadest Bedrock model catalogue including Anthropic Claude. Azure West US 2 is the standard Azure route for Microsoft-adjacent operators. For inference, Claude (Anthropic on Bedrock) and GPT-4o (Azure OpenAI) have West US endpoints we route to explicitly; for Fred Hutch-adjacent biotech and Boeing-adjacent aerospace operators whose data-sharing agreements forbid egress to managed inference APIs, we self-host Llama 3 on vLLM inside your 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 — takeover audits are routine. Step one is reading the code, the data pipelines, the eval results (if any exist), the prompts, and the cost telemetry. Step two is shipping the smallest valuable change to prove we understand the system in a way the previous vendor did not. Step three is the longer-term plan — incremental stabilization, a parallel rewrite, or shutting it down and starting over. Most Pacific Northwest takeovers we have seen did not need a full rewrite; they needed evals, guardrails, observability, and a senior engineer who stayed on the build past the discovery phase. We will be honest on the first call about which is the right move.

Senior engineering rates at Aiinfox are roughly 45 to 65 percent lower than equivalent Bellevue or Seattle AI consultancies — real, but it is not the headline. Most Pacific Northwest consultancies bill at $300-to-$600 per hour on timesheets, run multi-month discovery phases, and either burn a junior pool behind a senior nameplate or lose senior staff to Amazon, Microsoft, or a foundation-model lab mid-engagement. We bill shipped systems on a fixed-price six-week scope; the senior engineer on your kickoff call stays on the build through launch; the overrun cost is on us if we miss for reasons on our side. Seattle clients typically save 55 to 70 percent on equivalent scope while getting the senior engineer in every standup.