UBIKON.ioAI
AI Integration for Existing Products
Typical engagement: $8k–$35k · 3–8 weeks
What this is
Ubikon adds AI — assistants, retrieval, automation — into a product you already ship, without a rewrite. A typical integration runs $8k–$35k across 3–8 weeks, scoped around your existing codebase and data rather than a greenfield architecture.
What you get
Concrete deliverables, not a vague promise.
- —An AI feature that ships inside your existing app, in your existing design system, not a bolted-on widget
- —A codebase audit up front so the integration respects patterns your team already uses
- —An evaluation set specific to the feature, so quality is measured before and after launch
- —Documentation your existing team can maintain without depending on us long-term
- —Rate limiting and cost monitoring on the new AI-calling code path
How we build it
Stack and architecture for a typical build.
Whatever your product already runs on — the integration is scoped to fit your existing stack, adding the Claude API and a retrieval layer only where the codebase doesn't already have an equivalent.
Pricing
Where the number comes from.
The $8k–$35k range above is priced from real delivery data across 300+ completed projects — not a day rate multiplied by a guess. A full itemized breakdown by phase is available on a scoping call, or get a rough one now from the calculator below.
Open the cost calculator →The honest comparison
Integrating AI into an existing product vs a rewrite
A rewrite is sometimes the honest answer — but it is rarely the first one.
| Integration (Ubikon default) | Rewrite around the AI feature | |
|---|---|---|
| Risk to existing functionality | Low — additive change | High — everything is in motion at once |
| Time to ship | 3-8 weeks typically | Months |
| Cost | $8k-$35k typically | Full product-build pricing |
| Best fit | Adding a real, scoped AI capability to a live product | The existing codebase is already due for replacement regardless of AI |
Process
3–8 weeks, start to launch.
Codebase audit
What exists today, and where the new feature fits without fighting the current architecture.
Fixed quote, 48 hours
Priced by integration complexity, not treated as a greenfield build.
Weekly builds
The feature ships inside your real app from week one, not a separate demo.
Launch with an eval set
Quality measured against real examples before and after launch.
Straight answers
What buyers ask about this service
Can you add AI to our product without a full rewrite? +
Yes — this is the default approach. Most AI features are additive: a new API route, a new UI surface, calling into your existing auth and data layer, not a ground-up rebuild.
How much does AI integration cost? +
Most integrations run $8,000–$35,000 across 3-8 weeks, priced by how much retrieval/context work the feature needs and how deeply it touches existing code paths.
What if our codebase makes the integration harder than expected? +
We audit the codebase against our published standards before quoting, specifically to catch this — if a rewrite genuinely is the honest answer for a particular case, we say so before you commit budget to an integration that would fight the existing architecture.
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