Searching for an AI development company in Houston to build and optimize tools that improve operations and customer experience? From Midtown to River Oaks, we've examined the top AI companies to curate this list of providers, considering their portfolios and client feedback. Browse our directory and refine your search by budget, services, or team size to find the ideal partner in your local area.

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  • Designli

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    Build software people actually pay for.

    Designli delivers exceptional results as an AI development company, assembling dedicated teams of designers, engineers, and strategists to accelerate your vision. Mastery in custom software, advanced prototyping, and seamless deployment differentiates our team from the competition...

    Top Services:

    • Mobile App Development
    • Software Development
    • AI Development
    • Web Development
    • Web Design
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $85/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    17 Projects Listed

    Designli Services

    • Mobile App Development
    • Software Development
    • AI Development
    • Web Development
    • Web Design
    • UI/UX Design
    • Software Testing
    • Cloud Consulting
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    • Goodwill
    • Earthlink
    • Rotary
    • State of South Carolina
    • Secur.Space
    • Grappos
    • Michelin
    • Accel Entertainment
    • Millennium Parking Garages
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    Designli Reviews & Testimonials

    • John Laporte
      John Laporte Founder at Vets on Point
      5.0★

      Mobile App Development Review from John Laporte

      Designli helped us define the requirements, features, and user experience for an app for our motorcycle organization. They produced technical documentation and a clickable prototype covering navigation, member tools, and safety features. They were responsive, delivered on time every time, and turned our broad concepts into something people could actually click through. The prototype got our stakeholders aligned, earned internal approval, and set us up for engineering, and working out design questions early should save us rework later.

    • Brandi Heffner
      Brandi Heffner Founder at BuckHub
      5.0★

      Mobile App Development Review from Brandi Heffner

      Designli built our SaaS product from scratch, using AI to speed up development, with AWS and Cloudflare in the stack, and they also handle our hosting and maintenance. We had a working MVP in just 30 days and have kept adding features since. In the first 60 days they went beyond what we expected, largely because they took the time to really learn our business and our market. Coordination through Basecamp and Google Meet has kept everything organized.

    • Thomas Simmons
      Thomas Simmons CEO at Simmons Driving School
      5.0★

      Mobile App Development Review from Thomas Simmons

      Designli took over app development and marketing for our driving school, with the goal of building a product we could eventually offer to other schools. Within two and a half months, the app was up and running in our own school. Their project management is excellent, and they push back constructively, thinking through what we actually need instead of building every request as-is.

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  • ANML

    VerifiedVerified by the DesignRush team for authenticity and credibility.Award WinnerRecipient of a Best Design Award for outstanding work.

    We Create Result Driven Apps, Websites, and Brands

    Senior-led B2B design agency for AI, enterprise software and emerging technology companies. Digital product design, enterprise UX/UI, design systems, IoT and connected-device interfaces, and brand systems. ServiceNow, NetApp, Palo Alto Networks, Zoom, Ford, CNN...

    Top Services:

    • Web Design
    • Branding
    • Mobile App Development
    • Product Design
    • UI/UX Design
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Portfolios Count
    20 Projects Listed

    ANML Services

    • Web Design
    • Branding
    • Mobile App Development
    • Product Design
    • UI/UX Design
    • Web Development
    • Digital Strategy
    • Creative Services
    • AI Development
    • IoT
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    • Logitech
    • World Central Kitchen
    • KitchenAid
    • NextNav
    • Citrix
    • Ford Motor Company
    • Sitecore
    • Level Access
    • Zoom
    • NetApp
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    ANML Reviews & Testimonials

    • Manuel Colom
      Manuel Colom UX Director at Yummly
      5.0★

      Product Design Review from Manuel Colom

      Working with ANML on the Yummly app experience and the Yummly Smart Thermometer (IoT) was an outstanding collaboration. Yummly combined personalized recipe discovery, meal planning, and guided cooking into a highly curated food experience, while the Smart Thermometer extended that ecosystem into connected cooking with real-time temperature tracking and assisted preparation workflows. As Director of UX at Yummly, I worked closely with ANML throughout both initiatives, and they operated almost as a seamless extension of our internal design team. Their work consistently demonstrated excellent design craft, strong product thinking, and a highly collaborative mindset. Beyond delivering high-quality UX and visual design, their contribution helped sharpen and strengthen the overall value proposition of the products by making complex cooking experiences feel approachable, premium, and intuitive for users.

    • Nathan Thornburgh
      Nathan Thornburgh CEO at Roads and Kingdoms
      5.0★

      Web Design Review from Nathan Thornburgh

      As Anthony Bourdain's partners, we were approached by CNN to create an immersive digital site that would provide a beautiful home for each destination covered by Bourdain's show Parts Unknown. It was a huge task not least because there were already close to 100 destinations to integrate into a usable global site. But also because the site was meant to live up to the beauty and aesthetic of the television program. And it needed to be done in a way that satisfied both our mainstream luxury advertisers (like LandRover, ANA, and more) but also the famously high standards of Bourdain himself. ANML engaged in this 18-month design and build process with outstanding workmanship and creative decision-making. They navigated wildly different and demanding stakeholders. And in the end they built a site that still looks fresh even nearly a decade later. If you want to make lasting work, there is no one else I could recommend more.

    • Alex Lacerda
      Alex Lacerda Art Director at Ernie Ball / Music Man
      5.0★

      Web Design Review from Alex Lacerda

      We partnered with ANML to evolve our digital experience in a way that stayed true to our brand while modernizing how we present our products and story. As a company with a long history in music, it was important to find a partner who could respect that legacy while helping us move forward.ANML took the time to understand our brand, our audience, and the role our products play for musicians. They built on our existing foundation and translated it into a more cohesive and intuitive experience that better reflects who we are today.Their team brought strong thinking across UX and design, helping us improve how content is structured, how products are presented, and how users navigate the experience. The collaboration was smooth and highly responsive throughout.The end result is a more polished and modern experience that still feels authentic to our brand. ANML was a thoughtful and reliable partner, and we would highly recommend them.

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  • Offshore Development Center: Your Gateway to Global Talent

    Offshore Development Center provides AI and ML development through dedicated offshore teams covering machine learning algorithms, AI chatbots, neural programming, predictive analytics, and data science. Backed by 14+ years of experience, it has delivered 65+ projects globally...

    Top Services:

    • Software Development
    • AI Development
    • Mobile App Development
    • Blockchain
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    250 - 499
    Average Hourly Rate
    $50/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
    Portfolios Count
    8 Projects Listed
  • FUELING DISRUPTION

    With 23+ years of engineering experience, EffectiveSoft creates product-centric, industry-focused agentic AI systems, generative AI products, NLP solutions, computer vision, and AI-assisted legacy modernization. Trusted by Nissin and Maersk Broker, it specializes in healthcare, finance, and SaaS brands...

    Top Services:

    • Software Development
    • Mobile App Development
    • Big Data Analytics
    • AI Development
    • ERP Consulting
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    250 - 499
    Average Hourly Rate
    $50/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $25,000 - $50,000
    Portfolios Count
    29 Projects Listed
  • Your Custom Product Lab

    We are a leading app design and development company headquartered in Texas, with a dedicated development center in India. With over 75 talented employees, we have successfully delivered 100+ projects across various industries...

    Top Services:

    • Mobile App Development
    • Software Development
    • AI Development
    • Blockchain
    • IoT
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    100 - 249
    Average Hourly Rate
    $25/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $25,000 - $50,000
    Portfolios Count
    13 Projects Listed
  • Your AI-Powered Engineering Partner

    Liquid Technologies automates enterprise operations using AI, custom software, and data engineering. We work with healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, and regulated industries to replace manual workflows with intelligent automation...

    Top Services:

    • AI Development
    • Software Development
    • IoT
    • Mobile App Development
    • Software Testing
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    100 - 249
    Average Hourly Rate
    $50/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
    Portfolios Count
    19 Projects Listed
  • Attitude. Altitude. Gratitude. Repeat

    Softude is a top AI agent development company in the USA, delivering intelligent AI systems and enterprise software solutions to businesses globally. CMMI Level 5 appraised. 20 plus years of experience...

    Top Services:

    • Software Development
    • Mobile App Development
    • AI Development
    • Web Development
    • Cybersecurity
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    250 - 499
    Average Hourly Rate
    $25/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    20 Projects Listed
  • Award-Winning AI Consultancy & Custom Software Development Company In UK & USA

    Geeks Ltd is an award-winning AI consultancy and custom software development company. With 18+ years of experience and 1,500+ projects delivered, we help business leaders in Transport & Logistics, Construction, Manufacturing, Energy, Education, and Government harness AI to improve efficiency...

    Top Services:

    • Software Development
    • AI Development
    • Mobile App Development
    • Software Testing
    • ERP Consulting
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $90/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    12 Projects Listed
  • Your Reliable Software Development Agency

    Stack360 is a software development company with its team in Lahore, Pakistan. Since 2019 we have built software and placed dedicated developers for US and UK companies. Engineers are shortlisted within 2 days after four checks, a founder joins your first call, and clients own all the code...

    Top Services:

    • Software Development
    • Staff Augmentation
    • Web Development
    • Mobile App Development
    • AI Development
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $35/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
    Portfolios Count
    38 Projects Listed
  • Bring your vision to life with our full-service AI and creative studio.

    ThinkDiffusion Studio is an AI-driven creative agency and consultancy delivering custom AI solutions for businesses, educators, and creative professionals. We blend artificial intelligence with design and marketing expertise to transform ideas into innovative, data-driven creative outcomes...

    Top Services:

    • AI Development
    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $100/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
  • Lets Grow Online

    Strive Enterprise is the ultimate solution for impactful web design, custom digital marketing solutions, and professional SEO services...

    Top Services:

    • Web Design
    • SEO
    • Digital Marketing
    • Web Development
    • WordPress Website Design
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $150/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
    Portfolios Count
    10 Projects Listed
  • Building Smarter Tomorrows With AI Today

    Vision Tact is a leading AI and Data Science company that empowers organizations to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Data Intelligence. We help businesses innovate faster, optimize operations, and make smarter decisions through next-generation technology solutions...

    Top Services:

    • AI Development
    • Software Development
    • IT Services
    • Business Consulting
    • Mobile App Development
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $60/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
    Portfolios Count
    1 Project Listed
  • Your Vision, Our Experts with Portal & Mobile Framework, Powerful Results!

    Why build from scratch! Our Portal, Mobile and AI framework provides 30-40% increased time to market. Built with Enterprise Security/Compliance for Azure/AWS clouds. ContentActive (Houston) provides Strategy, UI/UX, Web/Mobile/AI/Automation/IoT & DevOps. Your Vision, Our Experts, Powerful Results!...

    Top Services:

    • Software Development
    • Mobile App Development
    • AI Development
    • DevOps Consulting
    • Web Development
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $25,000 - $50,000
    Portfolios Count
    4 Projects Listed
  • Reimagina What Is Possible.

    HPE is a global, edge-to-cloud Platform-as-a-Service company built to transform your business. How? By helping you connect, protect, analyze, and act on all your data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so you can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s...

    Top Services:

    • AI Development
    • IT Services
    • Cloud Consulting
    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    1000 & Up
  • Customers Trust Us To Accelerate Growth

    Dextra Labs is a specialist AI Consulting and AI advisory firm (technical due diligence) serving enterprises, tech startups, SMEs for AI led services & Venture Capitalists (VCs), PE firms, M&A Teams, Strategic Investors, Deal aggregators, looking for wise Investment decisions. We serve in Singapore, USA...

    Top Services:

    • AI Development
    • Software Development
    • DevOps Consulting
    • Business Consulting
    • IT Services
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $50/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
  • CloudBotics Consultancy is a Houston-based AI automation and cloud solutions company focused on helping businesses deploy intelligent AI systems, chatbots, workflow automations, and customer experience platforms. The company provides AI-powered solutions across industries including healthcare, finance...

    Top Services:

    • AI Development
    • Cloud Consulting
    • IT Services
    • Software Development
    • eCommerce Development
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $100/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
  • We Scale Your Business By Enhancing productivity

    EB DevTech LLC is a Houston-based technology and AI-automation consultancy that helps small and mid-sized businesses turn paper and chaos into clean, reliable systems. By combining cloud infrastructure, custom software, and intelligent automation, EB DevTech streamlines operations, enhances efficiency, and...

    Top Services:

    • AI Development
    • CRM Consulting
    • ERP Consulting
    • Mobile App Development
    • Software Development
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $125/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
  • Build Your Vision With Us

    ZTABS is an AI-first software development company helping startups and growing businesses build AI agents, SaaS platforms, ecommerce experiences, and web and mobile products. Founded in 2015, our distributed team has delivered 500+ projects for 300+ clients, combining product thinking, dependable engineering...

    Top Services:

    • AI Development
    • Software Development
    • Mobile App Development
    • eCommerce Development
    • Web Development
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $250/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
  • Innovating Smart Connected Future

    Metaviz is your trusted tech partner, delivering smart and scalable solutions in Brilliant Directories, AI-powered automation, app development, full-stack development, and third-party integrations...

    Top Services:

    • AI Development
    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $20/hr
    Minimal Budget
    Under $1,000
  • Meticulous Innovative Development

    At Meticul Solutions, we know how to help you define where you are going, and give you the tools to get there. We do this with a simple philosophy: We just don't design & develop applications for your requirements but rather make sure to understand your business to give you an end to end digital...

    Top Services:

    • Software Development
    • Mobile App Development
    • AI Development
    • eCommerce Development
    • UI/UX Design
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $36/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
  • AI Visibility Engineering Systems

    Texas businesses dominate search. We engineer that! We don't sell beautiful websites that never get seen. We don't chase keywords or blue links. We don't outsource or cookie cut your strategy. It's 2026 - we get our clients Cited by the Engines that matter right now with 3-5x higher conversion rates...

    Top Services:

    • SEO
    • Social Media Marketing
    • CRO
    • Web Design
    • AI Development
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $197/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
  • Turn Your Investments Into Branded Assets

    eCommerce Arena offers premium services to help you start your journey in the $5.2 trillion eCommerce industry...

    Top Services:

    • Business Consulting
    • IT Services
    • eCommerce
    • Web Design
    • eCommerce Development
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $45/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
  • A performance-driven digital marketing and lead acquisition agency built to scale B2B & B2C brands.

    Digitalboxes is an agency that provides full suite of digital marketing services to B2C and B2B customers of every size. Established in 2017, it has been tailoring your marketing goals with excellence. Now growing business organically and setting a digital footprint for a long run is not a challenge any more...

    Top Services:

    • Digital Marketing
    • AEO
    • SEO
    • Web Development
    • Social Media Marketing
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $25/hr
    Minimal Budget
    Under $1,000
  • We Design Websites That Turn Clicks Into Clients

    Nimbus Media isn't your average Webflow agency. Since 2019, we've been obsessed with one thing: shipping websites to make people say "Wow." We deliver slick, high-performance sites that don't just look good- they convert. No fluff, no filler-just results...

    Top Services:

    • Web Design
    • Web Development
    • UI/UX Design
    • eCommerce Development
    • SEO
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
  • Intentionally human. Powerfully AI.

    Level Up is a US-based, AI-native marketing agency built for established service businesses that want measurable results, not busywork. Senior US strategists lead every engagement, backed by an AI-accelerated workflow that moves faster without cutting corners. We specialize in SEO and content that rank in...

    Top Services:

    • SEO
    • PPC
    • Digital Marketing
    • Content Marketing
    • Social Media Marketing
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    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $100/hr
  • Empowering True Business Growth

    Softway is a digital agency in the business of transformation...

    Top Services:

    • UI/UX Design
    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    100 - 249
    Average Hourly Rate
    $199/hr
  • Empowering Your Vision With Cutting-Edge Technology and Exceptional Service

    Decotechs is a full-stack software agency helping startups and enterprises bring their product ideas to life. We specialize in MVP development, web and mobile app development, and team augmentation. From healthcare to logistics and e-commerce, our team delivers scalable, high-performance solutions with speed...

    Top Services:

    • Graphic Design
    • Web Development
    • Mobile App Development
    • Software Development
    • UI/UX Design
    • Show more
    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $30/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
    Portfolios Count
    1 Project Listed

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