We won't tell you we have five hundred AI experts. We have something professional firms actually need: senior engineers who ship production systems and stay accountable for them.
I've spent 12+ years as a full-stack engineer building software that businesses run on — SaaS products with hundreds of paying users, high-volume email infrastructure, automation pipelines, and the unglamorous production plumbing in between. I run StartBuilds, a development agency serving clients across Australia, the United States, Canada and India.
PrivateBuilds exists because of a pattern I kept seeing: the firms that would benefit most from AI — law firms, advisories, clinics — are precisely the ones that can't send their documents to it. Their staff use public AI tools anyway, quietly, because the time savings are irresistible. The partners carry the risk.
The fix isn't a policy memo. It's giving the firm the same capability on hardware it owns. That's an engineering problem, and engineering problems are what we do.
An AI deployment is 20% model and 80% everything around it: document pipelines, integrations with the tools your team already uses, access control, backups, monitoring, documentation. Those are the disciplines we've practiced for over a decade. The model is the newest component in the system — not the hardest one.
Small scope first, measured results, fixed prices, everything documented, everything owned by you. We'd rather earn the next stage than lock you into it — the contract says so explicitly.
Every system we offer is first built, benchmarked and run on our own infrastructure with our own agency’s data — document intelligence over our project history, agents on our inbound briefs — before it goes anywhere near a client. See the case studies.
PrivateBuilds is part of the Builds product family from StartBuilds — focused tools and services, each doing one job well.
Every pilot inquiry is answered by the person who'll architect your system. Bring your IT contact — we like hard questions.