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Context Engineer

Owns what the model knows: knowledge pipelines, memory, and context that fits and matters.

Designs how information reaches the model, document ingestion, knowledge modeling, chunking, memory systems, and context-window strategy, so answers are grounded in your truth.

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knowledge · sync
$ ingest --sources wiki,pdf,tickets
✓ 12,408 chunks · deduped · tagged
✓ freshness sync: hourly
retrieval0.92
context tokens −41% · answers ↑
# the model finally knows your business

WHAT THE MODEL KNOWS, BY DESIGN

WHAT THEY OWN

Concrete deliverables, not job-description poetry.

01

Knowledge ingestion pipelines

Messy PDFs, wikis, tickets, and databases turned into clean, queryable knowledge.

02

Context-window strategy

What goes in the prompt, in what order, at what cost, by design, not accident.

03

Memory architectures

Session, user, and org-level memory that makes assistants feel competent.

04

Domain knowledge modeling

Taxonomies and metadata that make retrieval precise, not lucky.

05

Freshness & sync pipelines

Knowledge that updates when your business does.

06

Context evals

Measures for 'did the model see what it needed?', before users find out.

TYPICAL STACKPythonUnstructured / Doclingpgvector / QdrantNeo4jElasticsearchClaude / GPT APIsAirflowRedis

PRICING

Pick the level, keep the senior oversight.

Junior

$2,100 /month

or $13/hr on Time & Material

AI-native from day one

Executes scoped work inside AI-accelerated workflows
Every line reviewed by a Devlyn senior before merge
Ideal for well-defined backlogs and support capacity
Start with Junior

Mid-Level

MOST HIRED

$3,100 /month

or $19/hr on Time & Material

Independent feature ownership

Owns features end to end with light oversight
Comfortable making reversible decisions alone
Ideal for steady delivery on an established codebase
Start with Mid-Level

Senior

$4,200 /month

or $26/hr on Time & Material

Architecture & judgment

Owns architecture, tradeoffs, and production readiness
Mentors your team and raises the local bar
Ideal for greenfield systems and high-stakes paths
Start with Senior

Dedicated engineers are billed monthly; Time & Material is billed hourly on tracked actuals. The free trial week applies to every dedicated hire.

YOU NEED THIS ROLE IF

Your assistant doesn't know things your company definitely knows

Answers cite stale documents with total confidence

Context windows are stuffed, expensive, and still missing the point

BY END OF WEEK ONE

01

Audited what your model actually sees per request

02

Fixed the worst ingestion or chunking failure

03

Cut context tokens while raising answer quality

04

Proposed a knowledge freshness pipeline

OUTCOMES YOU CAN MEASURE

Assistants that know your business cold

Smaller prompts, better answers, lower cost

Knowledge that stays current automatically

Retrieval precision you can measure

PAIRS WELL WITH

Most teams add a second seat once the first proves out.

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Bring your stack, your failure cases, and your constraints. We'll shortlist within 24 hours, and you don't pay until the trial week convinces you.

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