AI
AI & Emerging Tech Integration
Rocket Lab integrates AI into real products: LLM features, agents, automations, voice and vision, built into mobile apps and platforms with security, evaluation and human oversight from day one.
- Founded 2014, Sydney and Melbourne team
- How we build AI agents, used daily, and a person reviews what we ship
AI development and AI automations for mobile apps and platforms.
AI is no longer a buzzword. It is the backbone of how we work and how modern digital products are delivered. We help ambitious teams use AI in development and automation to create real value.
About the service
We work with companies ready to move beyond experimentation, and we bring AI-assisted and AI-led software development to the forefront of our builds. That means faster delivery and well-governed autonomous development. Our core AI areas are AI app and web development and AI automations.
This service is for teams who want to stay ahead, innovate with confidence and ship products that feel one step ahead of the market. We bring the strategy, the engineering and the product thinking to take your AI ambitions from idea to impact.
What we use
We stay ahead of the curve, but grounded in practicality.
AI and ML platforms: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, Cloudflare Workers AI, Model Context Protocol (MCP)
LLM applications: Claude, GPT, Gemini, agents and tool calling, embeddings and fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), context engineering, vector search (Cloudflare Vectorize, Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Vertex AI)
Agents and orchestration: MCP servers we build and run, tool-calling loops, scheduled and long-running agents, agent-to-agent delegation, human-in-the-loop approval, Cloudflare Workflows, Bedrock AgentCore
AI security and governance: Cloudflare AI Gateway and Firewall for AI, Google Cloud Model Armor, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails with AgentCore Identity and Policy, least-privilege tool scopes, prompt-injection defence, audit trails and agent evaluation, OWASP LLM Top 10, ISO/IEC 42001
Voice and vision: Realtime speech-to-speech APIs, on-device text-to-speech, vision-language models for document and form extraction
Edge and on-device: Flutter, ONNX Runtime, in-browser inference, on-device models, Bluetooth and camera integrations
Platform and delivery: Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2, KV; AWS Bedrock, Aurora, S3; React, React Native, TypeScript
Our step-by-step process
Every AI feature earns its place: real problems first, then evidence, then production.
Opportunity discovery
We uncover the real business or user problems where AI can add the most value. No science experiments.
Feasibility assessment
We validate the opportunity from a data, technical and operational standpoint. Can it be built? Will it scale?
Rapid prototyping
We develop functional prototypes to test assumptions quickly with LLMs, predictive models or edge-based features.
Model integration and system design
We connect AI into your core product, through APIs, on-device models or cloud platforms, with scalability and performance in mind.
Testing, ethics and reliability
We test rigorously for accuracy, bias, edge cases and performance, and help you align with ethical and legal standards.
Launch and iterate
We support you through rollout, usage monitoring and iteration. AI systems get smarter with use; we make sure your product does too.
Why Rocket Lab
We don't bolt on AI. We build with it in mind from day one.
- We care deeply about applying AI in meaningful, usable ways.
- We think clearly about how emerging tech fits into your product and business.
- We own the outcome from prototype to launch and beyond.
- We move fast without breaking trust or product integrity.
If you want more than a chatbot, talk to our senior engineers.
Related capabilities
AI agents designed and built for Australian businesses: customer-facing agents, first back-office agents, and existing agents made production-ready.
AI features, agents and automations built into real web and mobile products, beyond a chatbot.
AI-assisted CI/CD, schema and architecture work, validated by engineers, so pipelines ship in days.
AI-generated test coverage across iOS, Android and web, reviewed by engineers before your users find the bugs.
Expert review of code your team writes with Cursor, Claude Code or Copilot, as a one-off or a retainer.
In our clients' words
Founders and long-term partners on what it is like to build with us.
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We have a long standing partnership with Rocket Lab who provide Webjet with critical strategic and development services for our front-end websites.
We partnered with Rocket Lab to reimagine our digital experiences, and they delivered with strategic clarity and engineering excellence.
Over the years Rocket Lab have seamlessly integrated with James Hardie in delivering a number of key projects for the business that to this day continue to be critical to the success and functionality of our operations.
When it comes to out-sourcing and partnering with a technology vendor, Rocket Lab is top of mind. Julien, Jen and the team are incredibly detailed and thorough whenever they’re engaged in a project. And, they do so at velocity.
Rocket Lab’s ability to help define and execute our business through software in a timely fashion, has been a breath of fresh air and a pleasure to work with.
The guys worked together very well with our internal resources and blended into our process seamlessly. We were very impressed with the level of skill from each of the engineers…
Our business has hundreds of suppliers and thousands of customers so we needed a highly robust structure and that’s exactly what was delivered by Julien, Jen and the RL development team.
Julien and his team are a real pleasure to work with. They are well rounded with a solid understanding of design/user experience best practices as well as diving deep under the hood with solid web and app development capabilities.
Their team delivered a site that met our expectations, and they’ve continued to assist us in refining and enhancing it over time. They are dedicated, creative, and technically skilled, helping to ensure our website looks good and functions smoothly.
Tell us what you are building.
A 30-minute call. No pitch deck, no obligation. We will tell you if we are the right fit.
