Building custom AI software through an agency costs $400K-$1M and takes 6-12 months. Clarista lets your team build custom AI apps in days, on your data, in your cloud — for a fraction of the cost.
Building custom AI software historically required: AI engineers ($350K each), ML platform infrastructure (~$200K/year), security & compliance work, ongoing model management. Most companies couldn't justify the team for a single use case.
AI consulting firms and AI development services offer this as a project: $400K-$1M per app, 4-9 months. Works once but doesn't scale across departments. Each new app is a new agency engagement.
Clarista takes the 80% of custom AI work that's common across apps (auth, audit, deploy, monitoring, security scanning, model routing) and platforms it. Your team focuses on the 20% that's actually unique to your use case.
Net effect: 10x faster, 4-6x cheaper than agency, owned by you. Same code quality. Better governance because the platform enforces it.
Your team describes what they want. Platform generates working code.
Deploys on AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem. Data never leaves your perimeter.
Claude, OpenAI, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, self-hosted. Your model contract.
SAST + SCA on every commit. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA-ready.
Generated code goes to your Git repo. You own it. Portable.
Native: Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, SAP, NetSuite, Oracle, AWS, Azure, GCP.
Finance variance analysis, HR onboarding bot, ops scheduler, sales enablement assistant.
Embed AI in your existing product. Conversational search, smart recommendations, AI copilots.
Multi-step agents that take a task end-to-end (research, draft, review, submit).
Replace off-the-shelf SaaS with custom AI — CRM with AI, helpdesk AI, recruiting AI.
Versus traditional approaches — off-the-shelf SaaS, AI development agencies, and in-house builds.
| Factor | Off-the-shelf SaaS | Custom build (agency) | Clarista platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first working app | Agency: 4-9 months | In-house: 9-18 months | 3-7 days |
| Year 1 cost (mid-market) | $500K-$1M agency | $1.5M-$3M in-house | $50K-$250K |
| Number of apps possible | 1-2 per agency engagement | Limited by team capacity | Unlimited |
| Code ownership | Yours (usually) | Yours | Yours, exported to your repo |
20-minute demo. Bring your stalled AI project — we'll show you what the platform builds in real time.
Book a demo →Software that uses AI (typically LLMs, sometimes custom ML models) to solve a specific problem at your company, tuned to your data and workflow. Distinct from off-the-shelf AI SaaS, which is generic.
Through an agency or consultancy: $400K-$1M per project. In-house build: $1.5M-$3M Year 1 for a 5-person team. Platform-built on Clarista: $50K-$250K/year covering unlimited apps.
Agency: defined project, fixed price, you don't keep the team. Platform: unlimited apps, ongoing capability, your team learns to build. Most cost-effective at >2 use cases.
Yes. Platform includes security scanning, audit logs, deploy infrastructure, monitoring — the production-readiness layers that account for most of the cost in traditional builds. Apps are SOC 2-ready by construction.
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