Case Studies

Agents and integrations in production

Client deployments and open-source tools from our R&D lab — custom agents, API/MCP integrations, and Courier OS.

What we've shipped

Outcomes from custom agents, API/MCP integrations, and Courier-powered deployments — not slide decks.

FDA-grounded agent

SubmittalIQ — pharmaceutical AI with a unified FDA brain

Real FDA data powering submission feedback, structured analysis, and agent workflows.

Custom Agent · RAG · FDA Data

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200M+ tokens / mo

Cook'n / DVO ships recipe AI features via production APIs

Strategy + developer partnership — AI features users loved. Processes more than 200 million tokens per month on a single Mac Studio.

API Integration · Mac Studio · Product Strategy

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Specialized > generalist

Insurance SaaS replaces closed-API generalist with a 14B specialized model

Beat GPT-4o on the task. 4× usage without API bill growth.

Qwen2.5 14B · LoRA · Self-hosted

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Client work

Custom agents and product integrations

Strategy, agent design, MCP/API wiring, and deployment for teams shipping agent-first software.

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SubmittalIQ

Pharmaceutical AI agent with a unified FDA brain from real FDA data

SubmittalIQ is a pharmaceutical AI agent platform that grounds feedback in a unified FDA brain built from real FDA data. We partnered with the team on strategy, RAG architecture, and end-to-end platform development for AI-powered document submission review.

RAGCustom AgentsFDA Data

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AI Support Agent

Website support agent that offloads overwhelmed support reps

Client had two support reps overwhelmed with requests. We built an AI support agent that lives on their website to handle frontline FAQs, gather user info, and perform support actions.

Custom AgentWeb EmbedAutomations

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Self-Hosted Automation

Private AI automations on a single Mac Mini

We worked with an established business owner who was data-conscious and his own bottleneck to create private, self-hosted automations that free up time — running on Courier and n8n.

n8nCourier OSMac Mini

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Past Project

Insurance AI Automation

A specialized 14B model that outperformed GPT-4o on owned hardware

Flagship case for specialized models. The client was paying ~$2,500/mo for a closed-API generalist and wanted to 4× usage. We LoRA fine-tuned Qwen2.5 14B for the specific task — it outperformed GPT-4o on their workload and gave them headroom to scale.

TensorRT LLMOpenAI-CompatibleQwen2.5 14B

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AI Pay Stub Compliance Product

Payment discrepancy detection on a self-hosted Courier stack

We worked with a founder building a payments tracking app that used AI to discover complex payment discrepancies. Privacy requirements meant self-hosted AI — we used Gemma 3 27B on Courier.

vLLMOpenAI-CompatibleGemma 3 27B

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Cook'n / DVO Enterprises

API-powered AI features for a 30+ year recipe organizer

We partnered with DVO Enterprises and their Cook'n recipe organizer to design AI features users would love and help their developers ship them. The engagement centered on product strategy plus API integration — powering recipe workflows with production AI APIs.

API IntegrationProduct StrategyMac Studio

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Courier OS

The operating system for local AI on Apple silicon

Courier OS is the literal operating system for local AI — built to run open-source models on Apple silicon you control. A web dashboard for management and monitoring, plus inference, Scout (our local agent), custom apps, automations, agentic coding tools, and device management.

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Jackson Oaks and Ryker Ross — RecursionAI co-founders and the team that built Courier OS.

Open source & lab

Tools we build in the open

Agent interfaces, MCP servers, and infrastructure primitives from the RecursionAI lab.

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FlowDB

AI-native database stack with MCP out of the box

FlowDB is an open-source, AI-native database stack built for the age of agents. JSON in, JSON out — with automatic vectorization for RAG, MCP compatibility out of the box, and a REST API for programmatic control.

PythonNoSQLVector DB

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Courier Dispatch

MCP server for guided coding assistance

Courier Dispatch is an open-source MCP server that turns any AI chat app into a guided coding assistant. It teaches, reviews, and verifies — but never writes code for you.

PythonMCPCLI

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Mosaic

AI built for families and teams

Mosaic is a cross-platform AI chat app built with Kotlin Multiplatform, designed for families and teams — guardrails, usage limits, and conversation monitoring.

Kotlin MultiplatformTypeScriptMulti-model AI

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Pseudo Engine

Programming language for structured AI code-generation

The Pseudo Engine is an AI transpiler built in Rust, with a custom programming language called Pseudo Syntax — write concise Pseudo Code and transpile to any language using a fine-tuned AI model.

RustCustom LanguageCLI

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