[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":750},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-article-en-ai-prototype-to-production":3,"blog-related-en-ai-prototype-to-production":535},{"_path":4,"_dir":5,"_draft":6,"_partial":6,"_locale":7,"title":8,"description":9,"seoTitle":10,"locale":7,"translationSlug":11,"date":12,"image":13,"author":14,"tags":17,"takeaways":22,"faq":28,"body":44,"_type":529,"_id":530,"_source":531,"_file":532,"_stem":533,"_extension":534},"/blog/ai-prototype-to-production","blog",false,"en","Your Team Built an AI Prototype. What It Takes to Get to Production","More and more teams build applications with ChatGPT, Codex or Claude Code. What changes when that software has to be secure, reliable and able to scale to production.","AI Prototype to Production: What Is Missing","prototipo-feito-com-ia-em-producao","2026-09-05","/images/blog/ai-prototype-to-production.jpg",{"name":15,"role":16},"Pedro Santos","Principal Software Architect",[18,19,20,21],"Custom Software","Artificial Intelligence","Compliance","Costs & Decision",[23,24,25,26,27],"A prototype built with AI has already solved the hardest part of a project: it proved the process can be digitised and showed, in working software, what the system has to do.","What is missing is almost never code. It is authentication, permissions, where the data and the credentials live, what happens when it fails, and who can maintain it six months from now.","Starting over from scratch is rarely worth it. In most cases the data model, the screens and the business rules are kept, and the access, integration and infrastructure layers get rebuilt.","The biggest risk is not technical, it is silent: prototypes that end up carrying real work without anyone having decided they became company systems.","With a contained scope, taking a prototype to production typically costs between €7,500 and €20,000 and takes 6 to 12 weeks, less than building the same thing from nothing.",[29,32,35,38,41],{"q":30,"a":31},"Is it worth keeping an application built with ChatGPT, Codex or Claude Code?","In most cases, yes. The most valuable work in a prototype is not the code, it is the knowledge of the process that ended up inside it: the data structure, the screens people have already validated, and the exceptions that surfaced with real use. You keep that foundation and rebuild the security, integration and infrastructure layers.",{"q":33,"a":34},"What is a prototype missing before it can be used across the company?","Typically six things: authentication with individual accounts and role-based permissions, data hosted somewhere other than the computer of whoever built it, credentials and API keys out of the code, a record of what happens and who did what, tested backups, and error handling so the system does not fail silently.",{"q":36,"a":37},"The prototype works with five people. Will it hold fifty?","Rarely without work, and the problem usually sits in specific places: database access, heavy tasks running in the same process that serves the screens, and the absence of usage limits. These are known and solvable issues, but they need solving before the volume grows, not after.",{"q":39,"a":40},"Does having a prototype handle client data create a GDPR problem?","It can, and it is worth checking early. The usual points are where the data is hosted, access control, usage logging, and the contractual guarantee that the information does not feed the training of public models. We do not give legal advice, but we handle these decisions during solution design, where they cost little.",{"q":42,"a":43},"How much does it cost to professionalise an application built with AI?","For a contained scope, between €7,500 and €20,000, with 6 to 12 weeks to production. The exact figure is fixed after a one to two week audit of what already exists, which is also what makes it possible to say what can be reused and what has to be rebuilt.",{"type":45,"children":46,"toc":504},"root",[47,55,60,65,72,85,97,106,111,117,122,127,182,187,193,200,205,211,216,221,227,232,238,243,249,254,260,265,308,314,324,334,344,350,356,361,367,372,378,383,389,394,400,405,411,430,435,440,446,451,479,484],{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":50,"children":51},"element","p",{},[52],{"type":53,"value":54},"text","It is happening more and more in Portugal, and almost always the same way.\nSomeone in the company, often from outside the IT department, opens ChatGPT,\nCodex, Claude Code or Gemini and, after a few afternoons, has a working\napplication. Time tracking, request management, a portal where clients can check\ntheir orders, a dashboard that finally pulls together numbers that lived in four\ndifferent spreadsheets. It works. People use it. And a process that had been on\nthe waiting list for two years is no longer on it.",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":56,"children":57},{},[58],{"type":53,"value":59},"Our position on this is simple: whoever built it did the right thing. For a long\ntime, the distance between a good business idea and being able to show it working\nwas wide enough to kill the idea along the way. That is no longer true today.\nBringing a decision maker a prototype that already runs, with visible results and\na concrete sense of what it does, is a real advantage. It is worth more than any\nthirty-page document describing the same thing.",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":61,"children":62},{},[63],{"type":53,"value":64},"What follows is not a list of reasons to distrust what your team built. It is the\nlist of what changes when that application starts serving the business for real.",{"type":48,"tag":66,"props":67,"children":69},"h2",{"id":68},"the-short-answer-the-prototype-is-not-wrong-it-is-incomplete",[70],{"type":53,"value":71},"The short answer: the prototype is not wrong, it is incomplete",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":73,"children":74},{},[75,77,83],{"type":53,"value":76},"A prototype answers one question very well: ",{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":79,"children":80},"strong",{},[81],{"type":53,"value":82},"does this make sense?",{"type":53,"value":84}," It answers\nby showing the flow, the screens, the fields that matter and what people think\nonce they finally have the thing in front of them.",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":86,"children":87},{},[88,90,95],{"type":53,"value":89},"There is another question it does not answer, because it was never built to:\n",{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":91,"children":92},{},[93],{"type":53,"value":94},"can this carry the company's work?",{"type":53,"value":96}," This is where issues appear that stay\ninvisible while the only user is one person who knows the system from the inside\nand knows what not to touch.",{"type":48,"tag":98,"props":99,"children":100},"blockquote",{},[101],{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":102,"children":103},{},[104],{"type":53,"value":105},"The question stops being \"does this work?\" and becomes a different one: what\nhappens when it fails on a Thursday afternoon, with fifteen people depending on\nit and the person who built it nowhere to be found?",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":107,"children":108},{},[109],{"type":53,"value":110},"Professionalising a prototype means answering that second question without losing\nwhat the first one already proved.",{"type":48,"tag":66,"props":112,"children":114},{"id":113},"what-the-prototype-has-already-proved-and-it-is-worth-money",[115],{"type":53,"value":116},"What the prototype has already proved, and it is worth money",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":118,"children":119},{},[120],{"type":53,"value":121},"In a conventional software project, the longest and riskiest phase is not writing\ncode. It is discovery: understanding how the process actually works, which\nexceptions exist and what people will really do once the system is in front of\nthem. That is where weeks disappear into meetings, and where the\nmisunderstandings that only surface at the end are born.",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":123,"children":124},{},[125],{"type":53,"value":126},"When a working prototype exists, much of that work is done, and done in the best\nway possible: in software, with real usage. Concretely, you already know that:",{"type":48,"tag":128,"props":129,"children":130},"ul",{},[131,142,152,162,172],{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":133,"children":134},"li",{},[135,140],{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":136,"children":137},{},[138],{"type":53,"value":139},"the process is real and there are people who want it",{"type":53,"value":141},", because they used it\nwithout anyone making them;",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":143,"children":144},{},[145,150],{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":146,"children":147},{},[148],{"type":53,"value":149},"the data structure is sketched out",{"type":53,"value":151},", with the entities and fields the\noperation actually uses, and not the ones someone imagined in a meeting;",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":153,"children":154},{},[155,160],{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":156,"children":157},{},[158],{"type":53,"value":159},"the rules and the exceptions have surfaced",{"type":53,"value":161},", because a prototype in use\nfinds in two weeks the odd cases a specification takes months to anticipate;",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":163,"children":164},{},[165,170],{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":166,"children":167},{},[168],{"type":53,"value":169},"the screens have been validated",{"type":53,"value":171}," by the people who work in the process,\nwhich is the only validation that counts;",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":173,"children":174},{},[175,180],{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":176,"children":177},{},[178],{"type":53,"value":179},"there is a demonstrable business case",{"type":53,"value":181},", with a before and after that you can\nexplain to whoever decides.",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":183,"children":184},{},[185],{"type":53,"value":186},"That is why we almost never recommend starting over. The code can change\ncompletely and the value stays, because the value sits in the knowledge of the\nprocess that ended up inside it.",{"type":48,"tag":66,"props":188,"children":190},{"id":189},"what-changes-when-the-prototype-becomes-a-company-system",[191],{"type":53,"value":192},"What changes when the prototype becomes a company system",{"type":48,"tag":194,"props":195,"children":197},"h3",{"id":196},"who-gets-in-and-what-each-person-can-see",[198],{"type":53,"value":199},"Who gets in and what each person can see",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":201,"children":202},{},[203],{"type":53,"value":204},"In a prototype it is normal to have no individual accounts, or a shared password,\nor access controlled by an address that \"nobody outside knows\". As soon as the\napplication handles client data, financial figures or personnel information, that\nhas to change: individual accounts, role-based permissions, and the guarantee\nthat a user cannot see what does not belong to them just by changing a number in\nthe address.",{"type":48,"tag":194,"props":206,"children":208},{"id":207},"where-the-data-and-the-credentials-live",[209],{"type":53,"value":210},"Where the data and the credentials live",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":212,"children":213},{},[214],{"type":53,"value":215},"Two things almost always show up together in the first audit. The first is where\nthe data sits: a database on the computer of whoever built the application, or on\na personal service, with no tested backups. The second is access keys written\ninside the code, which means anyone holding the code holds everything, including\nthe billing account for the AI model.",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":217,"children":218},{},[219],{"type":53,"value":220},"The fix is well known and not dramatic: data on infrastructure controlled by the\ncompany and hosted in the European Union, credentials in a secrets manager,\nbackups with a tested restore, and separate permissions for development and\nproduction.",{"type":48,"tag":194,"props":222,"children":224},{"id":223},"what-happens-when-it-fails",[225],{"type":53,"value":226},"What happens when it fails",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":228,"children":229},{},[230],{"type":53,"value":231},"A prototype fails silently, and whoever built it notices only because they happen\nto be watching. A system in production needs error handling, a record of what\nwent wrong, and someone being alerted when a process did not finish. The problem\nis not the failure itself, it is the time that passes before anyone notices and\nthe work of reconstructing afterwards whatever was left half done.",{"type":48,"tag":194,"props":233,"children":235},{"id":234},"who-can-work-on-this-six-months-from-now",[236],{"type":53,"value":237},"Who can work on this six months from now",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":239,"children":240},{},[241],{"type":53,"value":242},"This is the point that worries management most, and with good reason. A prototype\ntends to have a single author, no tests to confirm that a change does not break\nthe rest, no organised version history and nothing written down about the\ndecisions that were taken. It works well as long as that person is available and\nremembers everything. It stops working the day they move to another role, take\nholiday during a closing week, or simply no longer remember why that particular\nrule is there.",{"type":48,"tag":194,"props":244,"children":246},{"id":245},"what-it-costs-to-run",[247],{"type":53,"value":248},"What it costs to run",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":250,"children":251},{},[252],{"type":53,"value":253},"Applications that use AI models carry a cost per use. In a prototype with three\nusers, that cost goes unnoticed. With fifty, and with no consumption limits or\ncontrol over who calls what, the monthly bill becomes a surprise. Setting limits,\nstoring repeated results and choosing the right model for each task usually cuts\nthat cost significantly, and makes it predictable, which is what matters to\nwhoever approves budgets.",{"type":48,"tag":66,"props":255,"children":257},{"id":256},"signs-the-prototype-has-reached-its-limit",[258],{"type":53,"value":259},"Signs the prototype has reached its limit",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":261,"children":262},{},[263],{"type":53,"value":264},"It is worth going through this list honestly. Two or three of these points are\nnormal. Five or more mean the application is already a company system, but is not\nyet being treated as one:",{"type":48,"tag":128,"props":266,"children":267},{},[268,273,278,283,288,293,298,303],{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":269,"children":270},{},[271],{"type":53,"value":272},"there are people who depend on it to get their daily work done;",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":274,"children":275},{},[276],{"type":53,"value":277},"if the application stops for a day, someone has to go back to Excel;",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":279,"children":280},{},[281],{"type":53,"value":282},"only one person knows how it works inside;",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":284,"children":285},{},[286],{"type":53,"value":287},"there is no backup that has ever been successfully restored;",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":289,"children":290},{},[291],{"type":53,"value":292},"the data includes client, employee or financial information;",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":294,"children":295},{},[296],{"type":53,"value":297},"external clients or suppliers are using the application;",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":299,"children":300},{},[301],{"type":53,"value":302},"nobody can say what it costs per month to keep running;",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":304,"children":305},{},[306],{"type":53,"value":307},"a change has already broken something that used to work.",{"type":48,"tag":66,"props":309,"children":311},{"id":310},"three-wrong-answers-to-this-problem",[312],{"type":53,"value":313},"Three wrong answers to this problem",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":315,"children":316},{},[317,322],{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":318,"children":319},{},[320],{"type":53,"value":321},"Throw it away and start from scratch.",{"type":53,"value":323}," This is the most common reaction from\nsomeone who looks at the code and does not like what they see. It is also the\nmost expensive, because it discards discovery work that has already been paid for\nand puts the company back into requirement meetings, months behind.",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":325,"children":326},{},[327,332],{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":328,"children":329},{},[330],{"type":53,"value":331},"Leave it as it is and wait.",{"type":53,"value":333}," This happens too, almost always for lack of time,\nand it is the option that ends worst. An informal system grows: more users, more\ndata, more dependence. The moment when the fix is cheapest is now, not after an\nincident.",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":335,"children":336},{},[337,342],{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":338,"children":339},{},[340],{"type":53,"value":341},"Hand maintenance to whoever built it, on top of their day job.",{"type":53,"value":343}," It is unfair\nto that person and fragile for the company. Whoever built the prototype is\nusually the one who understands the process best, and that is the contribution\nworth keeping. Being responsible for security, availability and integrations as\nwell, on top of the work they already have, is something else entirely.",{"type":48,"tag":66,"props":345,"children":347},{"id":346},"how-a-prototype-gets-to-production",[348],{"type":53,"value":349},"How a prototype gets to production",{"type":48,"tag":194,"props":351,"children":353},{"id":352},"_1-audit-of-what-exists",[354],{"type":53,"value":355},"1. Audit of what exists",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":357,"children":358},{},[359],{"type":53,"value":360},"One to two weeks looking at the code, at the data and at how the application is\nactually being used. By the end, three things are clear: what can be reused, what\nhas to be rebuilt and what is urgent for security or compliance reasons. This\nphase starts with a free diagnosis, and it needs no decision from you to happen.",{"type":48,"tag":194,"props":362,"children":364},{"id":363},"_2-agreeing-the-scope-with-whoever-built-it",[365],{"type":53,"value":366},"2. Agreeing the scope with whoever built it",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":368,"children":369},{},[370],{"type":53,"value":371},"We sit down with the person or the team who built the prototype. It is the most\nproductive conversation in the whole project, because it is where the intent\nbehind each decision becomes clear, and where deliberate choices get separated\nfrom shortcuts taken to get the idea across. The plan, the timeline and the\ninvestment come out of this.",{"type":48,"tag":194,"props":373,"children":375},{"id":374},"_3-hardening-the-foundations",[376],{"type":53,"value":377},"3. 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This is where the ERP, the CRM, invoicing or email get connected,\nso the application stops being an island and becomes part of the process.",{"type":48,"tag":194,"props":395,"children":397},{"id":396},"_5-production-handover-and-continuity",[398],{"type":53,"value":399},"5. Production, handover and continuity",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":401,"children":402},{},[403],{"type":53,"value":404},"Go-live with real users, close support through the first weeks and a formal\nhandover: code, infrastructure, documentation and training. The system belongs to\nthe company, with no dependence on licences from us to keep running.",{"type":48,"tag":66,"props":406,"children":408},{"id":407},"what-it-costs-and-how-long-it-takes",[409],{"type":53,"value":410},"What it costs and how long it takes",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":412,"children":413},{},[414,416,421,423,428],{"type":53,"value":415},"For a prototype with a contained scope, one process, one type of user and one or\ntwo integrations, the investment typically sits ",{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":417,"children":418},{},[419],{"type":53,"value":420},"between €7,500 and €20,000",{"type":53,"value":422},",\nwith ",{"type":48,"tag":78,"props":424,"children":425},{},[426],{"type":53,"value":427},"6 to 12 weeks",{"type":53,"value":429}," to production. When the application spans several areas of\nthe company, has external users or needs connections to systems without a usable\nAPI, the scope goes up and the timeline follows.",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":431,"children":432},{},[433],{"type":53,"value":434},"Two things move the figure more than anything else. The first is the quality of\nthe prototype's data structure: if the entities and relationships are well\nthought out, almost everything can be reused; if the data is scattered with no\nstructure, there is migration work. The second is the number of external systems\nto integrate, and whether those systems have a documented way of getting at the\ndata.",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":436,"children":437},{},[438],{"type":53,"value":439},"As a rule, professionalising comes out cheaper than building the same system from\nnothing, because the definition phase is already done and validated against real\nusage.",{"type":48,"tag":66,"props":441,"children":443},{"id":442},"what-to-decide-before-moving-forward",[444],{"type":53,"value":445},"What to decide before moving forward",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":447,"children":448},{},[449],{"type":53,"value":450},"Before talking about technology, it is worth answering five questions:",{"type":48,"tag":128,"props":452,"children":453},{},[454,459,464,469,474],{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":455,"children":456},{},[457],{"type":53,"value":458},"How many people depend on this application to do their work today?",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":460,"children":461},{},[462],{"type":53,"value":463},"What sensitive information does it store or handle?",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":465,"children":466},{},[467],{"type":53,"value":468},"If it stops tomorrow, what is the real impact on the operation?",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":470,"children":471},{},[472],{"type":53,"value":473},"Which systems should it be reading from and still is not?",{"type":48,"tag":132,"props":475,"children":476},{},[477],{"type":53,"value":478},"Who, inside the company, has the authority to decide the scope?",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":480,"children":481},{},[482],{"type":53,"value":483},"Anyone who can answer these already has half a specification, and it makes for a\nvery different conversation from one that starts with a blank page.",{"type":48,"tag":49,"props":485,"children":486},{},[487,494,496,502],{"type":48,"tag":488,"props":489,"children":491},"a",{"href":490},"/en/solucoes/aplicacoes-feitas-com-ia-em-producao",[492],{"type":53,"value":493},"AI-built applications taken to\nproduction",{"type":53,"value":495}," are exactly this\nwork: taking what your team built, making it safe for internal use and preparing\nit to grow with the operation. 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