Shippington builds and ships production AI — systems that have to be right in front of the people paying you. A funded team with a stalled AI project hires the engineer, starting with a free audit. A small business that needs its questions answered switches on the assistant in about a minute.
Founded by Vince Greenfield · Arlington, Virginia · working with clients across the US.
A rendered demo, not a customer screenshot — but the sixteen-check report is real, and every assistant earns one before going live.
One is an engineer you bring onto a problem; the other is a product you can switch on this afternoon.
Services
An engineer embeds with your team, learns how the business actually runs, and builds the system against your real data. It ships into your environment with the evals to prove it behaves, and hands over cleanly so your own engineers can own it.
Product
Paste your website. It reads your own published pages, builds an assistant that answers your customers around the clock, and gets attacked sixteen ways before you see it. One line of code puts it on your site.
Every company can buy the same frontier intelligence. What separates a demo from something you can leave switched on is where you point it, which steps you keep as ordinary software, and whether anyone has tried to break it before your customers do.
Every build walks this line; nothing goes live without surviving stage four.
Getting a language model to do something impressive takes an afternoon. Getting it to be reliably correct in front of a paying customer is a different job, and it is where most of these projects stall.
Generic capability is worthless if it invents your prices, your hours, or a service you do not offer. That means grounding it in what is actually true, and refusing to answer when it does not know.
Real customers ask leading questions, push for discounts, and demand commitments. If nobody has tested those cases deliberately, your customers will find them first.
Rate limits, cost ceilings, monitoring, and a kill switch. The unglamorous parts are what let you leave it switched on.
A system nobody on your team can change is a liability with a countdown on it. Handoff is part of the build, not an afterthought.
Shippington is new. Rather than describe capabilities in the abstract, here is the work itself.
Shippington's extraction pipeline ran against 91 real small business sites, and the result is published: 85 produced a publishable brief on the first attempt, 93.4%, at about eleven cents a site. The six that failed are itemised, along with two bugs in Shippington's own code that the study exposed.
Prices it invented. Appointments it cannot confirm. Technicians it cannot dispatch. Every assistant Shippington builds is tested against these before anyone sees it, with probes written from that business's own facts.
Engineering delivered for the World Bank, the United Nations, SiriusXM, Discovery Education, DC Water and others, through the agencies founder Vince Greenfield worked at. Career references rather than Shippington clients — a line this site will always draw.
An assistant that cannot reach the calendar, the CRM, or the phone system is a demo. The plumbing is part of the practice.
Assistants and agents that answer, book, remind and follow up. Retrieval over your own documents. Structured extraction from messy inputs. Evals and guardrails around all of it.
Full-stack applications, customer portals, internal tools and APIs. Google Cloud and Firebase, Node and TypeScript, Vue and React.
Pipelines, warehousing on BigQuery, engagement analytics, and reporting that non-technical people can actually use.
Phone systems, CRMs, calendars, payments and whatever else the business already runs on. The work is usually in the seams.
Forty-five minutes, no charge, no deck — then a free one-week audit that says what is worth building, in writing, whether or not it goes further.