About Retrieva Labs
We close the gap between AI demos and AI in production.
Retrieva Labs is a founder-led enterprise AI engineering agency. We design, build and ship RAG platforms, AI agents, document AI and automation for teams that need AI to work with real data, real users and real compliance requirements.
- shipping production AI
- 4+ years
- shipping production AI
- client engagements
- 27
- client engagements
- average from 16 reviews
- 5.0★
- average from 16 reviews
- Job Success on Upwork
- 100%
- Job Success on Upwork
Founder & CEO
Muhammad Mubashir
AI/ML engineer and full-stack architect who takes AI systems from prototype to production.
Muhammad is an AI/ML engineer and full-stack developer with a track record of taking AI systems past the demo stage and into real use. He architected Datagreffe Justice, an enterprise legal AI platform that indexes more than 50,000 French-language court decisions, anonymizes personal data with 98% detection accuracy and meets 100% of its data-protection and OHADA compliance requirements. The client re-engaged him twice to extend it.
He designed a national-scale political RAG assistant for a West African organization, built for more than 10,000 queries a day, and AI SaaS backends where prompt caching cut LLM input costs by about 90%. His work spans agentic platforms on LangGraph and the Model Context Protocol, conversational cloud agents on Amazon Bedrock, document AI pipelines, voice agents and medical imaging models.
Before founding Retrieva Labs he worked as an AI/ML engineer at ItecExperts and Giant Tech Solutions, contributed code to Deep Ivy's machine-learning frameworks, and became Top Rated on Upwork with a 100% Job Success score and a 5.0-star average across 27 client engagements. He holds a BS in Computer Science with a data science focus from UET Peshawar and is an IBM-certified data scientist.
“Most AI projects stall between the demo and production. We exist to close that gap with real engineering: measurable evaluations, compliance by design, and systems your team can own.”
Credentials
BS Computer Science (Data Science)
University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar · 2019 – 2023
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
IBM · Coursera · 2022
Generative AI Skill Certification
Upwork · 2024
Top Rated · 100% Job Success
Upwork · Current
Expertise
- Retrieval-augmented generation
- Agentic AI & MCP
- Document AI & anonymization
- LLM evaluation
- AI SaaS architecture
- Machine learning
English · Urdu · Hindi · French (conversational) · Spanish (conversational)
Journey
From research to enterprise delivery.
Today
Founder & CEO · Retrieva Labs
Leads architecture and delivery for enterprise RAG, agent, document AI and automation engagements.
2023 – Present
AI/ML Engineer & Full-Stack Developer · Independent · Upwork Top Rated
27 client engagements across legal-tech, government, healthcare, fintech, cloud and SaaS, with repeat clients and a 5.0★ record.
Oct 2023 – Feb 2024
AI/ML Engineer · ItecExperts
Core AI engineering team building and evaluating deep-learning and data-science models.
Jul 2023 – Oct 2023
Artificial Intelligence Engineer · Giant Tech Solutions LLC
AI/ML applications with statistical analysis and deep learning, including forecasting and conversational AI.
2023
Code Contributor · Deep Ivy (Ivy & Unify)
Paid contributor to Deep Ivy's machine-learning framework codebases.
2019 – 2023
BS Computer Science · UET Peshawar
Data science focus. IBM Data Science Professional Certificate in 2022.
In his words
Watch: RAG and AI Agent Engineer.
Recent engagements
- LLM system handover audit and written report
- Technical QA for a production AI chatbot
- AI pull-request review for a consulting firm
- Full-stack engineering for an AI tech startup
- Custom GPT and AI assistant build
- Anonymization, multi-jurisdiction and triple-search architecture
- Backend enhancement of a legal document-search system
- NLP for legal document indexing and generation
Why Retrieva Labs
Senior engineering. Measurable results.
Enterprise teams choose us when the AI has to work in production, with real data, real users and real compliance requirements.
Founder-led, senior-only delivery
Every engagement is architected and led by our founder, not handed to juniors. You keep one senior point of contact from discovery to launch.
Production-first engineering
Evaluations, guardrails, monitoring and documentation are part of the build. We ship systems that survive real users, not demos.
Compliance by design
PII anonymization, role-based access and audit trails, proven at 98% detection and 100% compliance on 50,000+ legal decisions.
Model-agnostic and cost-aware
Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama or Mistral, chosen on your data. Our prompt caching has cut LLM input costs by about 90%.
Transparent, milestone-based delivery
Fixed-scope milestones, weekly demos and a shared repository from day one. You always know exactly where your project stands.
You own everything
Code, prompts, evaluation datasets and documentation are yours. We sign an NDA before discovery whenever you need one.
Client feedback
Trusted on complex, time-sensitive work.
16 reviews · 100% Job Success
Verify on Upwork“It has been a real pleasure working with Mubashir on this highly technical and time-sensitive legal-tech project. From the outset, he demonstrated strong professionalism and deep technical knowledge.”
Client, Datagreffe Justice
Legal-tech document search platform · 2025 · Verified on Upwork
“Collaborating with Mubashir, an exceptional AI engineer, has been truly inspiring. He consistently delivers top-notch results without compromising on deadlines or quality. His exceptional communication skills make complex AI concepts easy to understand.”
“Muhammad was great, he went above and beyond the scope of work and truly cares about giving his clients the best experience — he is also an AI expert.”
“Muhammad consistently demonstrated exceptional availability and support throughout the design and study phases of my project, which involved creating a chatbot. His expertise in this area is evident and invaluable.”
“He is extremely knowledgeable and professional. I recommend him 100%.”
Taking on new projects
Let’sbuild.
Have an AI project in mind? Let’s make it real.
Book a free 30-minute strategy call with our founder. You’ll leave with a clear view of the right architecture, timeline and next step, whether or not we work together.
- Reply within 24 hours
- NDA before you share anything confidential
- You own the code, prompts and documentation
- Hours overlap with US, UK, EU and Gulf teams