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Production grade AI Engineering

Softmax Data is a Vancouver-based AI engineering consultancy that builds production AI systems for enterprise and mid-market companies. Founded in 2019, we specialize in four areas: document AI pipelines for regulated industries, AI agent development (orchestration, end-to-end agentic systems, context engineering, and context storage), model development and LLM fine-tuning, and data foundations, including Databricks implementation and ETL pipelines.

  • Min project size
    $50,000+
  • Hourly rate
    $200 - $300 / hr
  • Employees
    10 - 49
  • Locations
    Vancouver, Canada
  • Year founded
    Founded 2019

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Jia Chen
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  • Vancouver , Canada

Service Lines
AI Development
35%
AI Agents
30%
AI Consulting
20%
Generative AI
10%
BI & Big Data Consulting & SI
5%
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AI Expertise
Machine Learning
35%
Computer Vision
25%
Chatbots & Conversational AI
15%
Natural Language Processing
15%
AI Recommendation Systems
5%
Voice and Speech Recognition
5%
AI Agent Development Focus
AI Agent Frameworks
50%
AI Agent Platforms & Builders
50%
AI Agent Purpose Focus
Workflow AI Agents
40%
Productivity AI Agents
20%
Business Intelligence AI Agents
15%
Data Analysis AI Agents
15%
Customer Service AI Agents
5%
Research AI Agents
5%
AI Consulting Focus
AI Maturation
45%
AI Deployment
40%
AI Strategy
10%
AI Security Management
5%
AI Platform Integration Focus
Notion AI Integration
40%
Google Workspace AI Integration
30%
Salesforce AI Integration
30%
AI Technologies & Models
Anthropic
50%
Open AI GPT-3
30%
Hugging Face Bloom
20%
BI & Big Data Solutions
Other BI & data solutions
65%
Snowflake
20%
Microsoft BI & data solutions
10%
Hadoop
5%
BI & Big Data Focus
Operations & process improvement
40%
Data Compliance, Fraud & Risk Management
20%
Marketing analytics
20%
Other BI & analytics
20%
Generative AI Focus
AI Text Generation
45%
AI Code Generation
35%
AI Image Generation
10%
AI Speech Generation
10%
Industries
Information technology
60%
Financial services
15%
Real estate
15%
Insurance
5%
Legal
5%
Clients
Midmarket ($10M - $1B)
90%
Small Business (<$10M)
10%

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Min. project size $50,000+
Avg. hourly rate $200 - $300 /hr
Rating for cost 5 /5

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AI Development for Growth Marketing Agency

  • AI Agents AI Development Generative AI
  • AI Agent Frameworks
    +6
  • Confidential
  • Oct. 2025 - Ongoing
5.0
Quality
5.0
Schedule
5.0
Cost
5.0
Willing to Refer
5.0

"They're creating actual AI-native products that are fully production-ready."

Apr 2, 2026
CEO, Flywheel Digital
Michael Steele
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  • Advertising & marketing
  • Vancouver, British Columbia
  • 11-50 Employees
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Softmax Data Inc. has developed an AI data analysis tool for a growth marketing agency. The team has built the product to ingest a wide range of client data and has applied the client's analysis framework.

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Our Story

In 2018, our founder built a deep learning model on a single Nvidia 1080Ti to resolve identities across social networks. The startup didn't survive, but the conviction did: AI solves real business problems that nothing else can. Softmax — named after the activation function that turns raw outputs into possibilities — was founded on three values: fiduciary duty to our clients, honesty about what AI can and can't do, and relentless curiosity to stay ahead of a field that changes weekly. Seven year

Meet the Team

Jia Chen

Jia ChenCEO

25 years building software from end to end; experience as a system architect and product manager; certified by AWS, Databricks, and Google on AI and Machine Learning. MSc. with research topic on distributed computing; MBA from Emory

What Sets Us Apart

150+ production systems shipped

We don't build demos. Every system we deliver runs in production — processing real data, serving real users, under real SLAs. That's 150+ times we've navigated the gap between "works in a Jupyter notebook" and "works in your business."

AI-only since 2019

We're not a mobile/web app shop that added AI to the menu. We've done nothing but AI engineering for seven years — models development, document intelligence, agents, automation, and data foundations. When your project hits an edge case at 2 AM, our team has seen it before.

AI agents engineered, not vibe-coded

We design orchestration, context engineering, human-in-the-loop gates, and swarm structures with guardrails and security. We built Engram — an open-source context database mimicking brain functions — because nothing else solved agent memory decay.

Quick Facts

7 years in business

Commonly Asked Questions

We've never had a failed project. That's by design — we align on clear success metrics with every client before work begins, and our billing structure is tied to delivery. If the project doesn't succeed, we don't bill. That forces both sides to be rigorous about what "done" means from day one. Across 150+ engagements, we've generated over $72M in cumulative business value through automation savings, revenue-generating AI features, and error prevention.

Knowledge transfer isn't a phase at the end — it happens throughout the entire engagement. We check code into your repo regularly, keep README and design documents updated as we build, and our engineers are available in real time via Slack or Teams to walk through how every MCP, API, or model integration works. Biweekly demos mean your team sees the system evolve and can ask questions along the way — not scramble to understand it after we're gone. At project close, we run a formal handoff session to answer remaining questions, sign off on documentation, and certify that all proprietary data and records are destroyed on our end. You own 100% of the code and IP. Our goal is to leave your team fully capable of maintaining and extending what we built — not dependent on us.

We start resource planning the moment we send the SOW, so when you sign, we kick off sprint planning on day one — no 3-week ramp-up. Clients typically see a working demo within 2 weeks and a production deployment within 4 weeks. Our typical engagements run 1–6 months depending on scope, and our fastest contract-to-production delivery was 4 weeks. We move fast because we've done this 150+ times and our team doesn't need to learn the fundamentals on your project.

We take on AI engineering projects that are headed for production — document AI pipelines, AI agent systems, LLM fine-tuning, workflow automation, and data foundations (Databricks, ETL). We don't do prototypes, and we don't do design or mobile/web app development — though we have trusted partners we refer that work to. We work best with teams that have a clear business problem, a commitment to shipping, and the readiness to invest in a production-grade solution. If you're exploring whether AI fits your use case, we're happy to help figure that out in a discovery call.

Full transparency. Every client gets a JIRA board with real-time visibility into what we're working on, and invoices include timestamped hour logs. We run daily standups that clients can join ad-hoc, plus biweekly demo and planning meetings. Between meetings, we're available in real time via Slack or Microsoft Teams. We ask each client to designate a point of contact for system access and questions, but we're equally comfortable embedding with your full engineering team when the project calls for it.

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Business Entity Name Softmax Data Inc.
Source Canada's Business Registries
Jurisdiction of Formation Canada
Date of Formation February 12, 2019
Status Active
Last Updated March 31, 2026
ID Registry ID: BC1197460 Business Number (BN): 711503482

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1200 - 555 West Hastings Street Vancouver, Canada V6B 4N4

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