Boston’s AI development team. Ambition, shipped.

Your idea. Our team. Proven at scale — Hydrow ($200M), Yamaha (6.97M users), Sermo (1.3M doctors). Strategy, design, and engineering from Boston’s senior AI & app team.

2 partner slots open this quarter
Companies we’ve helped ship
—— Services

Six ways to engage.
One team behind all of them.

Whether you’re validating an idea, scaling an AI product, or automating operations — find your path here.

Entry point

AI Audit

— Where should AI fit?

Know where AI actually fits before you spend a dollar building it. Opportunity map, ROI model, and a prioritized roadmap in your hands.

Timeline2–4 weeks
OutcomePrioritized roadmap
Validate

AI Prototype Sprint

— Is it worth betting on?

Three weeks, one working prototype, one clear go / no-go decision with evidence behind it. Kill bad ideas fast, accelerate good ones.

Timeline3 weeks
OutcomePrototype + decision
Ship it

AI-Native Development

— How do we ship it?

From prototype to production: architecture, design, engineering, and launch readiness — with weekly demos and gated checkpoints.

Timeline4–14+ weeks
TiersStarter · Standard · Enterprise
Automate

Intelligent Automation

— What can we streamline?

Take complex manual workflows and make them faster, cheaper, more reliable. Rules engines, document processing, and integration pipelines.

Timeline3–12+ weeks
TiersSingle · Multi · Enterprise
Autonomous

AI Agentic Systems

— What can we make autonomous?

Beyond demos. Production agents that observe, plan, and act on real workflows — with safety, monitoring, and orchestration baked in.

Timeline4–14+ weeks
OutcomeLive, revenue-impacting workflows
Retainer

AI Growth Engine

— How do we win in market, after launch?

Most agencies ship and disappear. We stay on as a retained pod — product, engineering, growth, and data on one weekly drumbeat until the metrics actually move.

CadenceOngoing · weekly
OutcomeCompounding metrics
—— Four paths in

Pick the door that matches your moment.

One studio, one senior team. The starting line just depends on where you are today.

01 04
—— What we do

One team. Every layer of the AI product.

Strategy, design, and engineering under one roof. The same partners who scope your AI product ship it — through GA and beyond.

—— The AI stack

The eight layers between a model and
a product.

RAG

Retrieval-augmented generation

Vector + hybrid search, re-ranking, citations.

AGT

Agentic systems

Tool-use, planning, multi-step orchestration.

FT

Fine-tuning

LoRA, full FT, distillation, custom evals.

MM

Multimodal

Vision, speech, document, structured output.

EDG

On-device AI

Core ML, Gemini Nano, quantization, ANE.

EVL

Evals & guardrails

Golden sets, LLM-as-judge, red teaming.

INF

Inference infra

Routing, caching, batching, cost ceilings.

OPS

AI observability

Tracing, drift, hallucination tracking.

—— Selected work

Live AI products. Measurable outcomes.

See All Projects →
4 projects
—— How we work

Great products aren’t built
overnight. They’re grown.

A typical engagement, plotted week by week. Tasks overlap — strategy doesn’t pause when engineering starts.

CONCEPT
BUILD
LAUNCH & GROW
WEEK 1Jan 05
WEEK 2Jan 12
WEEK 3Jan 19
WEEK 4Jan 26
WEEK 5Feb 02
WEEK 6Feb 09
WEEK 7Feb 16
WEEK 8Feb 23
WEEK 9Mar 02
WEEK 10Mar 09
WEEK 11Mar 16
WEEK 12Mar 23
Discovery· 2 weeksStakeholder interviews, model sandbox, opportunity map.
Prototype· 3 weeksA working prototype behind a clickable surface — no mocks.
Validate· 3 weeksGolden sets, side-by-side judgments, cost & latency budgets.
Build· 5 weeksProduction pipelines, design system, eval harnesses, dashboards.
Launch· 3 weeksSoft launch, monitor, iterate. We stay through GA.
Grow· 2 weeksAcquisition, retention, evals that compound. Quarterly review.
—— Track record

Outcomes, not adjectives.

Four shipped products. Four outcomes worth talking about. What could yours look like?

Hydrow

Hydrow — $200M+ raised after we shipped the app.

Connected fitness

Built the mobile experience that put the live outdoor rowing reality on the kitchen wall — real-time metrics, hardware integration, live streaming. Six months to ship.

$200M+raised
6 moto ship
Yamaha

Yamaha NoteStar — 6.97M users on the platform we built.

Music & publishing

Interactive sheet music app for one of the most photogenic brands on earth. Built once, scaled globally, in active use today.

6.97Musers
Globalrollout
Sermo

Sermo — 1.3M doctors across 150 countries on our redesign.

Healthcare

Clinical insights platform for the world’s largest physician network. Built for the regulated markets where the wrong UX is a compliance failure.

1.3Mphysicians
150countries
AdMeld

AdMeld + Motally — built the SDKs Google & Nokia bought.

Ad tech / mobile

Three ad-tech and analytics SDKs shipped in three months. Motally acquired by Nokia. AdMeld acquired by Google in 2011 for a reported $400M.

2acquisitions
3SDKs in 3 months
—— Field notes

What we’re writing about.

Field notes from the studio — what we’re learning about AI products, agent UX, and the messy reality of shipping software in 2026.

—— Boston AI app development

Mobile app development in Boston — and the AI behind it.

Award-winning iOS and Android app development from a Boston AI development company. iPhone, Android, web, and AI — built by the same senior team.

—— Common questions

Questions about AI app development, ASO, and Boston mobile apps.

The questions buyers ask before booking a call with a Boston AI development company. Honest answers below.

What does an AI app development company in Boston actually do?

An AI app development firm designs and launches AI-native products across iOS, Android, and web platforms with integrated retrieval systems, language model reasoning, autonomous agents, and vision capabilities from project initiation. Rocket Farm Studios has operated since 2008, with clients raising over $1B collectively and 100+ completed products spanning mobile, web, and AI domains.

How much does AI development cost in Boston?

A three-week prototype sprint typically ranges $15–25K. A complete AI-native product build spanning 12–16 weeks across both mobile platforms and AI systems falls between $250–500K. Enterprise consulting and agent development for regulated sectors costs more. Initial discovery discussions are complimentary with estimates provided within 48 hours.

How is AI app development different from regular mobile app development?

AI app development means the app’s core value depends on AI — LLM-driven workflows, RAG search over your data, agentic systems, or computer vision. If removing AI leaves the product functional, it’s merely a feature. Boston AI development teams manage model selection, evaluation frameworks, system monitoring, and expense control — elements traditional mobile development omits.

Do you do iOS app development AND Android app development?

Yes, with iOS development since 2009 and Android development since 2010. Native Swift/SwiftUI for Apple devices, native Kotlin/Jetpack Compose for Android. Cross-platform solutions (React Native or Flutter) when appropriate. Most projects launch both platforms — sometimes together, sometimes sequentially.

What’s RAG and why does my AI product need it?

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) means your AI retrieves real information from your data before answering — instead of relying on the model’s training data and hallucinating. Production RAG development requires vector storage, embedding approaches, evaluation harnesses, and monitoring. Systems we build retrieve correct answers with 95%+ accuracy and sub-second response times.

Can you build AI agents and agentic systems?

Yes — agent development represents a core competency. Multi-step tool-using agents, customized workflows, and orchestration layers that complete actual work rather than simulating capability. Implementations include monitoring, evaluation, audit logging, and human oversight where required.

What is App Store Optimization (ASO) and do you do it?

App Store Optimization improves app ranking and conversion within both Apple and Google storefronts through description optimization, keyword research, screenshot testing, and engagement prompts. ASO integrates throughout our development engagements rather than functioning as a separate outsourced service.

Do you build for healthcare? Is your AI HIPAA-compliant?

Yes. Projects include HIPAA-compliant AI for Sermo (1.3M verified physicians globally) and medical applications like Eyebot (autonomous examination kiosks). Healthcare-focused development operates within HIPAA, and protected health information frameworks.

I built an AI prototype with Cursor / Replit / Claude. Can you harden it?

Yes — a dedicated practice focuses on fortifying prototypes developed with AI coding tools. Services include infrastructure review, security assessment, performance scaling, and production-grade engineering implementation. Teams maintain prototype momentum while adding enterprise-level foundations.

Why Boston for AI app development?

Boston maintains deep roots as a software engineering hub since the 1970s, anchored by MIT, Harvard, local AI research institutions, and consumer/enterprise product ecosystems. Rocket Farm Studios operates from Needham, Massachusetts since 2008 with established connections throughout Boston’s AI consulting, mobile, iOS, and Android development communities while serving global clients.