AI Demos are Easy
AI Products are Hard
You’ve built something impressive with AI tools like Lovable or Bolt, or you have a strong idea — but turning it into a reliable product that can handle real users, growth, and complexity feels overwhelming.
Prototypes that worked perfectly in the demo suddenly break under real traffic. Technical debt and messy code slow you down. Cloud and AI token costs quickly spiral out of control. Security and compliance risks keep you up at night. And you constantly feel stuck between the desire to move fast and the need for things to actually work properly.
You don’t want to hire a full engineering team yet, but you also don’t want your vision to stall.
Hal9 Turns AI Demos into AI Products
Hal9 builds and scales AI products with trusted AI experts and cost-effective AI agents
1. Prototype
Manifest Your Vision into a Demo
with us to bring your vibe-coded prototype, or start from a blank page, on our platform or yours. We narrow the scope to focus on the core experience, break your product down into clear stages, propose the best technology stack, and build the frontend. All for free.
2. Launch
Turn Your Demo into a Product
Use credits to turn your prototype into a real product: dev, prod, security, and infrastructure that scales to millions of users. Every product runs in its own isolated runtime and supports all major LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, and more). It’s all code, so you own it and can migrate to any platform, anytime.
3. Iterate
Scale Your Product and Revenue
As your startup grows, scale with us, flexing up or down as needed. Purchase additional credits, or enroll in our plans starting around $2K/month, and run in our cloud, another cloud, or your own data centers. Our plans have helped dozens of founders successfully scale their products and are the best option for serious startup teams.
Hal9 Builds and Scales AI Products
AI Chatbots
Hal9 can create custom AI chatbots with secure access to specific knowledge bases and embed them into your website, app or software product. For example, AskCourtCases is an AI-powered legal research tool that transforms how attorneys access federal and state court case information. Unlike PACER’s document-only approach, it provides instant, precise answers to case-specific questions with referenced sources.
AI Agents
Hal9 can create automated workflows leveraging AI where it provides the most value. We've developed agents exposed as APIs that generate advanced reports, audits, and file processing. For example, our case studies with Propio and Greenny explain how Hal9 can automate financial reporting and carbon footprint audits that are performed in seconds and not weeks.
AI Websites
Hal9 can create websites which leverage AI for: content, backoffice processes, recommendations, and so much more. Every existing or new website can use an AI redesign. For example, you can try the Hal9 Roadmap Generator which uses AI built by the Hal9 Platform to deliver an AI roadmap even before we start working together.
AI Apps
Hal9 can create mobile applications that fully leverage AI. It can use AI to access all the hardware sensors from your phone to provide new mobile experiences. For example, Zoo Mobile Guide is a mobile app designed to be used in specific venues, and leverage your location and voice to provide personalized guided experiences.
AI Extensions
Hal9 can create AI APIs that interact with other software products. An example of this is the Reply Chrome Extension that delivers fast, AI-crafted replies to social media messages. Powered by Hal9 Platform, which provides a robust API to the custom-built Chrome Extension.
Hal9 Helped Dozens of Startups
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Jeff N. | Founder |
Marc Gruner | Chief Medical Officer |
Fanny Tavera | Founder |
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Rocco Seyboth | Founder |
Apurva Luty | Founder |
Harrison Rolfes | Founder |
Donna Bower | Founder |
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What We've Learned Building AI Products
The 2025–2026 Evolution of Generative Spatial AI
From text-to-mesh and cinematic video to interactive world models, camera-controllable generation, local pipelines, and AI-native CAD — thirteen months of spatial AI progress.
Lovable Cloud: Expensive and Opaque at Scale
We built a simple TODO app in Lovable, tested it, and ran the numbers. What started as a cheap prototype quickly revealed Lovable Cloud’s hidden costs. Here’s the full breakdown, migration path to Supabase + Vercel, and what this means for founders shipping production AI apps.
Thirteen Founders, One Pattern: What Building AI MVPs in Thirty Days Actually Looks Like
Thirteen named founders shipped AI products with Hal9 in under 30 days. See the consistent pattern — what scope discipline, hybrid builds, and full IP ownership look like in practice.
Why AI MVPs Fail
Michael Seibel's MVP advice is perfect for SaaS but needs one critical addition for AI. Learn the AI MVP validation framework that saves founders $200K+ in rebuilds.
Vibe Coding Tricks Founders Into Thinking They Have a Good MVP
Why your AI prototype built with Lovable or Replit isn't 90% done. The difference between a prototype and a product is the backend.
How to Choose Between No-Code AI Tools, Freelancers, Agencies, and Managed AI Platforms
Every founder building an AI product is choosing among four paths. Here is the honest framework for picking the right one — with structural fits and failure modes for each.
Why Most AI Startups Fail Before They Ship (And the Economics That Could Save Them)
Most AI startups don't fail because the tech doesn't work — they fail because the economics don't. Learn the four paths founders have and why the $2K/month model changes the math.
Hal9 is Priced by Usage
Serious startups budget $2K / month and beyond. Includes everything you’ll need: compute, tokens, storage, website embedding, API support, consulting hours to launch your solution, and autonomous AI processes that lower development costs.
How do I know this will actually work?
Dozens of founders are already scaling their products with Hal9. Plus, you can cancel any month directly from our website. If you’re not satisfied for any reason, we’ll refund your most recent payment.
How can this be so price competitive?
Hal9 is building fully autonomous AI development to handle design, building, iteration, hosting, and scaling. Our goal is for experts to only guide the AI, not code it from scratch. This approach slashes human hours and development time, delivering high-quality, reliable, and scalable AI solutions at a fraction of traditional costs.