Five live deployments across four industries

We built the AI platform
running an active $11.5M federal case.

Custom AI infrastructure that structures your data, learns your industry, and automates the work eating your operation alive — returning typed records, cited answers, and real automation chains. Not a ChatGPT wrapper. Not a framework. Built from scratch and deployed in production across five live clients.

$11.5M Federal Case — Live & Active
2,400+ Documents Indexed
175+ Staff Hours Automated
<4 wks Scoping Call to Live System
Deployed in
Federal Litigation
Functional Medicine
Food Commerce
Manufacturing
Church & Content
Proof, Not Promises

Five case studies. Four industries. One framework.

Five highlighted deployments across four industries — each live, each running in production. Nutrifunction and Blended Functional Medicine are featured separately: independently ported for distinct workflows, and also integrated. That cross-platform capability is itself a proof point.

Live — Active Federal Case
Litigation & Legal

PleaBrain

Builds your case. Drafts your motions. Reconstructs your timeline. Finds what you're missing before opposing counsel does. Running in an active $11.5 million ASBCA federal procurement dispute — not a demo, not a test, real stakes.

  • $11.5M federal case — live, active, real consequences
  • Legal motions written, sourced, submitted — with attorney approval
  • Active case timeline — grows with every new exhibit
  • Conservative: $60K–$200K in billing capacity recaptured per case
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Live — Food Commerce
Health & Food Commerce

Nutrifunction

Dish name → live Shopify product in 15 minutes. USDA-sourced nutrition data, ingredient cost math, suggested pricing, dietary tags, and one-click publish. An independently deployed platform built specifically for food commerce operations.

  • 100+ menu items created — 15 min vs. 2–3 hrs each
  • 175+ staff hours already saved
  • USDA FDC confidence-weighted nutrition — not AI estimates
  • Full Shopify OAuth — one prompt, one click, live product
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Live — Functional Medicine
Clinical & Wellness

Blended Functional Medicine

Lab PDFs and bloodwork → structured biomarker analysis → personalized wellness plans sourced to specific test values. Independently ported from the same infrastructure as Nutrifunction — built for an entirely different workflow. Also integrates with Nutrifunction, surfacing meal products in wellness plans.

  • Lab PDF → structured biomarker extraction → wellness plan
  • Every recommendation sourced to the specific lab value
  • Practitioner reviews and approves before anything reaches patients
  • Cross-integration: BFM plans surface Nutrifunction products
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In Deployment
Manufacturing & Operations

Boost 3D

End-to-end 3D print automation — filament planning, material profiles, slicer variable optimization (temperature, layer height, infill, supports, retraction), queue routing, failure tracking, and operational reporting. Every variable structured. Every decision traceable.

  • Full process automation — intake through output report
  • Filament planning, material profiles, print variable optimization
  • AI reasoning over evolving operational history
  • Same proven stack — third industry, weeks to deploy
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Live
Church & Content

Preacher

An isolated content platform for sermon preparation and church operations. Document ingestion, search, and structured content output purpose-built for faith communities — proving the core stack deploys cleanly into non-obvious verticals.

  • Isolated API — fully decoupled from other deployments
  • Church project and document management
  • Sermon search and content ingestion pipeline
  • Demonstrates cross-industry portability of the stack
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The timeline system changed how we approach the case entirely. Research that used to take a paralegal three to four hours comes back in minutes — with citations already traced to the specific documents in the record.
Lead Attorney  ·  Active $11.5M ASBCA Federal Procurement Dispute
The Problem

Your data exists. It just doesn't work for you.

Most businesses sit on years of valuable information buried in formats that can't be searched, analyzed, or acted on — and the cost shows up every single day in staff hours, errors, and missed decisions.

Critical data locked in PDFs and email

Years of contracts, case files, reports, and intake forms that nobody can find or search across — because nobody built the infrastructure to connect them.

Staff hours lost to manual re-keying

Copy-paste, re-entry, and manual data work consuming skilled people's time every day. For Nutrifunction, that was 2–3 hours per menu item. Now it's 15 minutes.

Answers that should take seconds take hours

For our litigation client, finding a relevant exhibit used to mean manually searching folders. Now the answer — with citations — comes back in under a minute.

Disconnected systems that require manual bridges

Labs, intake forms, menus, Shopify, legal documents — none of them talk to each other by default. We build the infrastructure that connects them.

The Difference

Built around your operation.
Owned by your team.

We turn your highest-value workflows into production-ready AI infrastructure — with a clear scope, measurable outcomes, and a system deployed in your environment. No vendor lock-in. No dependency on us to keep it running.

01
Embed
We learn your operation from the inside
Not a requirements doc — we shadow the actual workflow, find the manual bottlenecks, and map the data sources that matter. Most clients discover three automatable workflows they didn't think to mention.
02
Audit
We scope before we build — ranked opportunity list first
A paid diagnostic: where your data lives, what it's costing you, and what automation can do to it. You get a ranked list with real project quotes before we write a line of code. The audit often pays for itself in week one.
03
Structure
We convert your data into structured, reasoned-over records
Raw documents, emails, PDFs, logs — converted into structured fields the AI can reason over deeply. The system learns your industry vocabulary, your policies, your entity types. More structure = richer context = better answers. And it compounds over time as more data flows in.
04
Deploy
Production system. Days to ship, not quarters.
Not a prototype. Not a demo. Deployed infrastructure with real ingestion pipelines, real retrieval, and real structured output — connected to tools you already use. From scoping call to live system in days to weeks.
What We Build

Seven core capabilities.
Deployed in any industry.

The same infrastructure we built for a federal litigation case powers a health commerce pipeline. The same ingestion system that processes court documents processes lab results. The stack is industry-agnostic. Your domain expertise stays yours.

Document Ingestion

PDF, DOCX, XLSX, email, HTML — anything becomes searchable, structured data.

Hybrid AI Search

BM25 keyword + vector semantic search, fused with RRF ranking and optional reranking.

AI Agent Loops

Multi-step planning agents that self-direct retrieval, reason over evidence, and synthesize cited answers.

E-Commerce Integration

Full Shopify OAuth, product publishing, pricing, and catalog management — connected to your AI workflow.

Operations Automation

Job tracking, output reporting, workflow automation — replacing manual operations logs with live systems.

MCP & API Interfaces

Your system exposed as an AI-consumable API — so Claude, GPT, or your own tools can call into it directly.

Structured Output

Not a chatbot.
A data machine.

Anyone can open ChatGPT and ask a question. The difference is what comes back. Our systems return structured data — real-time results that grow in front of you, connected to full AI reasoning chains, visualizable, exportable, and traced to source.

Unlike a standard chat interface, the output is a record — every answer is a database entry, every inference is sourced, every structured field is a building block for the next query. The system builds context over time. More data in = deeper reasoning possible.

Real-time streaming answers Watch the reasoning process live — sources surface, fields populate, answers build. Not a spinner. A window into the model's work.
Structured records, not prose Every output is a typed, queryable record. Fields, arrays, citations — usable downstream in reports, dashboards, automations, and APIs.
Learns your industry & policies The system ingests your domain vocabulary, compliance rules, internal policies, and entity relationships. It doesn't just answer — it answers within your specific operational context.
Visualization & downstream automation Structured output unlocks dashboards, reports, Shopify listings, legal exhibits, and any downstream system — because the data is already in the right shape.
Nutrifunction — Structured Output
Structured Record
item_name"Salmon & Quinoa Bowl"
calories487 kcal
protein_g42.1 g
omega3_mg2,240 mg
ingredient_cost$4.38
suggested_price$18.99
shopify_status✓ published
Sources (USDA FDC — confidence weighted)
FDC #175167 — Atlantic salmon, 6oz fillet
FDC #168917 — Quinoa, cooked, 0.75 cup
FDC #170148 — Avocado, 0.25 fruit
Automation chain
USDA nutrition resolved
Ingredient cost calculated
Pricing rule applied (3.8× food cost)
Shopify product created & published
BFM wellness plan linked
Why Structure Compounds

The more it ingests,
the deeper it reasons.

This isn't a static knowledge base. Every new document, session, transaction, and policy update flows into the system. The AI reasons over an evolving corpus — which means the questions it can answer get harder and more specific over time. Your data builds your competitive advantage.

Structured output is the reason this is possible. When AI returns prose, it's a dead end — you can read it but you can't act on it downstream. When it returns structured records, every answer feeds the next query, every inference builds the graph, and the system's contextual understanding compounds with every interaction.

See This In Your Industry
Evolving corpusNew documents, sessions, and records continuously ingested — the system never stalls on stale data
7+
Structured output typesRecords, citations, wellness plans, product listings, job reports, dashboards, and exhibits — all from the same pipeline
Industries provenThe same structured reasoning that works in federal court works in food commerce, manufacturing, and content platforms
175+
Staff hours saved for Nutrifunction / BFM in the first 100 menu items alone
15 min
To create a fully costed, nutrition-labeled, live Shopify product — down from 2–3 hours
Active
PleaBrain is running in a real federal procurement case right now — not a demo environment
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Industries deployed: litigation, functional medicine, food commerce, manufacturing
What Gets Automated
100+
Menu items built end-to-end in 15 min each
2,400+
Legal documents indexed and searchable in real time
3D print variables tracked, structured, and reasoned over
<60s
To cited answer from thousands of source documents
Why Vitruvian Labs

Proven infrastructure.
Adapted to the way your business works.

Engineered for the problem at hand.

We design the retrieval, automation, and data pipelines around your workflow instead of forcing your operation into a generic AI product. Every component has a clear purpose and a measurable job to do.

Answers grounded in evidence.

Outputs connect back to the underlying documents, page references, and metadata so your team can verify the work. Traceability is part of the architecture, not an afterthought.

Focused deployments that move quickly.

We start with one valuable workflow and a clearly defined outcome. Because the core infrastructure is already proven, we can spend our time adapting it to your operation and getting it into real use.

Your team stays in control.

AI accelerates the work while review, approval, and correction remain with the people responsible for the outcome. That oversight is built into every workflow, especially where accuracy matters most.

Built for long-term ownership.

Your system runs in an environment you control, using durable, widely supported technologies. You retain control of your data, your infrastructure, and the system your operation depends on.

A proven foundation, tailored to your domain.

The same core capabilities already support litigation, health commerce, and manufacturing workflows. We bring that production experience to your industry, then shape the implementation around your data, terminology, and standards.

Engagement Model

Low-Risk by Design

Every engagement follows the same progression — prove value with your actual data before any major commitment. The audit pays for itself if we find what we usually find.

01

Free Fit Call

20 minutes. We assess your data situation honestly and tell you if we're not the right fit.

Free
02

Readiness Audit

Paid diagnostic. Ranked opportunity list, security review, and 90-day roadmap with real project quote.

$3,500 – $12,000
03

Pilot Build

Scoped proof-of-concept using your real data. Value demonstrated before any large commitment.

$8,000 – $20,000
04

Full Deployment

Production system built to spec. Defined deliverables, timelines, and acceptance criteria.

Project-scoped
05

Ongoing Retainer

Monthly tuning, new automations, expansion. The system compounds in value over time.

From $2,500/mo

Your industry is next.

If you have data that isn't working for you — documents, records, workflows — we can scope what's possible in a single conversation.