CodeWheel AI Overview

Number of Employees: Under 49

Minimal Budget: Inquire

Average Hourly Rate: $175/hr

Year Founded: 2011

CodeWheel AI is a security-first AI consulting practice led by Matt Owens, a fractional AI architect with 15+ years of production engineering experience. We design and build secure, reliable AI platforms for startups, SaaS companies, and engineering teams that need more than a chatbot - they need full-stack AI infrastructure they can trust in production.

Our work spans RAG pipelines, agent workflows, vector search, LLM integration, multi-tenant SaaS systems, and Next.js/Vercel applications. Every system is designed with security, validation, and observability from day one: retrieval checks, action verification, structured function calling, hardened APIs, and tenant isolation. We help teams ship AI features that behave predictably, pass security reviews, and scale without accumulating hidden technical debt.

We also modernize legacy platforms Rails, PHP/Symfony, Drupal/Acquia into secure, cloud-native architectures. This includes migration, refactoring, API redesign, multi-tenant upgrades, and integrating modern AI capabilities into existing products.

Security is central to our process. We provide AI security assessments, penetration testing, threat modeling, and prompt injection defense to ensure systems remain safe across real-world usage. Our deployments include full-stack observability, logging, analytics, and automated regression testing for RAG and agent systems.

Clients work directly with a senior engineer, not a junior team or agency. This means faster iteration, cleaner architecture, fewer communication layers, and a unified approach to AI engineering, security, and platform reliability.

Whether youre launching a new AI product, upgrading an existing platform, or preparing for compliance and security reviews, CodeWheel AI delivers the engineering rigor and architectural clarity needed to ship safely and scale confidently.