LangChain

LangChain

LLM orchestration & chains

2 case studies
15 specialists
9 specialists
Agents Dev Framework

What it's used for

LangChain is used to build applications that chain together LLM calls, tool use, and retrieval steps into coherent workflows. Developers use it to create chatbots with memory, RAG pipelines, agents that call APIs, and multi-step reasoning systems without writing all the glue code from scratch.

Getting started

Install via pip with `pip install langchain langchain-openai` or whichever provider package you need. Set your LLM provider API key as an environment variable (e.g., OPENAI_API_KEY). Start by creating a simple chain or prompt template and build up to agents and retrieval pipelines.

$ pip install langchain langchain-openai` or whichever provider package you need

Case studies

Real LangChain projects

61% ticket reduction Enterprise Software

Enterprise Knowledge Base — 2M Daily Queries

10,000-employee technology company

Challenge

The company had knowledge siloed across Confluence, Slack, Jira, and 12 internal wikis. Employees spent 40+ minutes per day searching for answers, generating 3,000 support tickets per month.

Solution

Built a 500-node LangChain pipeline ingesting 2TB of internal docs with real-time sync. Used LangChain's document loaders, recursive text splitters, and a custom retrieval chain with re-ranking to surface the most relevant answers.

Results

Internal support tickets dropped 61%. Three FTE equivalents were redeployed to strategic work. The system now handles 2M+ daily queries with sub-300ms response time.

97% time savings Legal Tech

Legal Contract Analysis at 10k Docs/Day

AmLaw 200 law firm

Challenge

Associates were spending 4 hours per contract extracting obligations, renewal dates, and liability clauses — a bottleneck preventing the firm from scaling its contract practice.

Solution

Built a LangChain extraction pipeline with structured output parsing and a custom contract-aware chunking strategy. Chained GPT-4 for extraction with Claude for validation to achieve dual-model accuracy.

Results

Contract review time dropped from 4 hours to 8 minutes. Clause extraction accuracy reached 99.2%. The pipeline processes 10k contracts per day in production.

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For hire

LangChain specialists

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Greg Kamradt

AI Educator & Consultant @ Data Independent

Runs Data Independent, an AI education and consulting practice. One of the most recognized LangChain educators with tutorials that have millions of views. Created the 'Needle in a Haystack' long-context evaluation methodology that became an industry-standard benchmark.

LangChainLLM ApplicationsRAG Systems +1
LangChainOpenAI
Available 23 projects San Francisco
$200/hr
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Dave Ebbelaar

AI Engineer & Content Creator @ Datalumina

Runs Datalumina and is a popular AI engineering content creator on YouTube. Known for practical, project-based tutorials on building AI agents with CrewAI and LangChain. Has helped popularize CrewAI in the developer community.

Multi-Agent SystemsAI AgentsLLM Applications +1
CrewAILangChain
Available 24 projects Netherlands
$150/hr
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Hamel Husain

Independent AI Consultant & Educator @ Parlance Labs

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Independent ML engineer with 20+ years of experience, formerly at Airbnb and GitHub where he did early LLM research used by OpenAI for code understanding. Co-teaches 'AI Evals for Engineers and PMs' with 3,000+ students from 500+ companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Expert on LLM fine-tuning and evaluation systems for production AI products.

LLM Fine-TuningAI EvaluationsML Engineering +1
OpenAIAnthropic ClaudeHugging FaceWeights & BiasesLangChain
Available 81 projects San Francisco
$3,750/session
HS

Harpreet Sahota

AI/ML Engineer & Community Leader @ Voxel51 (Hacker-in-Residence)

Hacker-in-Residence at Voxel51 building prototypes, open-source tools, and educational content. Host of 'The Artists of Data Science' podcast with 300+ interviews. Mentored 2,500+ aspiring data scientists. Experience at Deci AI, Pachyderm, Bold Commerce. Teaches on LinkedIn Learning and 365 Data Science.

Computer VisionLLMsGenerative AI +1
OpenAIHugging FaceLangChain
Available 38 projects Canada
$150/hr
DS

Dave Shapiro

AI Researcher & Author @ Independent

Independent AI researcher and author focused on autonomous AI agents, cognitive architectures, and AI alignment. Creates in-depth YouTube content on building AI agent systems, RAG pipelines, and autonomous reasoning. Author exploring the philosophical and practical implications of advanced AI.

AI AgentsAutonomous AIAI Ethics +1
OpenAIAnthropic ClaudeLangChainCrewAI
Available 46 projects United States
$175/hr
SW

Sam Witteveen

AI Developer & Google Developer Expert @ Red Dragon AI

Co-founder of Red Dragon AI and Google Developer Expert for Machine Learning. Creates in-depth YouTube tutorials on building with Google Gemini, LangChain, and other AI frameworks. One of the earliest and most thorough educators on Google's AI tools, from PaLM to Gemini.

LLM ApplicationsGoogle GeminiRAG Systems +1
Google GeminiLangChainGoogle Vertex AIOpenAI
Available 44 projects Singapore
$175/hr
JR

Juan Luis Ruiz-Tagle

AI Engineer @ Independent ()

AI engineer specializing in LLMs and machine learning with extensive experience in healthcare, finance, spatial analytics, and advertising. -vetted freelancer. Built robust clinical note generation pipelines, automated LLM evaluation testing on AWS Batch, and fine-tuned models for domain-specific tasks.

LLM Fine-TuningAI AgentsHealthcare AI +1
OpenAIHugging FaceAWS SageMakerLangChain
Available 35 projects Barcelona
$175/hr
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Volodymyr Korol

AI/ML Developer @ Independent ( Top 1%)

Top 1% AI Developer with 13+ years in tech, delivering 50+ AI projects across Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, and predictive analytics. Specializes in building AI-driven multi-tenant SaaS systems and RAG applications.

Machine LearningNLPComputer Vision +2
OpenAILangChainHugging FacePinecone
Available 50 projects Lviv
$100/hr
HK

Hiren Kavad

Generative AI Developer @ Independent ()

Artificial Intelligence & Generative AI Developer on with 12+ years of experience. Specializes in GPT-4, OpenAI, RAG systems, and building AI-powered applications. Delivers end-to-end AI solutions from prototyping to production deployment.

Generative AIGPT-4RAG Systems +2
OpenAILangChainPineconeAnthropic Claude
Available 45 projects Ahmedabad
$60/hr
IZ

Ivan Zidov

Expert-Vetted AI (LLM) Engineer @ Independent

6+ years delivering value with NLP, LLM, and chatbot technology. Started using Large Language Models when HuggingFace was still called 'pytorch-pretrained-bert'. Featured in industry fireside chat series as an Expert NLP Engineer.

LangChainLlamaIndexHuggingFace +2
LangChainLlamaIndexHuggingFaceGPT-4oClaude +1
Available 37 projects Prelog
$125/hr
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Tom Kresal

Full-Stack Machine Learning Engineer @ Independent

Full-stack ML engineer working on projects driven by smart algorithms and data. Designed ML systems for accounting document recognition using deep learning. Doubled accuracy of an AI corrosion detection model. Builds highly scalable backend services with Python, FastAPI, Celery, Redis, and MongoDB.

PythonOpenAIAnthropic +2
OpenAIAnthropicLangChainChatGPT
Available 33 projects Rosice
$100/hr
AM

Abhik Mukherjee

AI Consultant | RAG Chatbot & Voice Agent Specialist @ Independent

Earned $50,000+ on long-term AI consultancy projects helping clients implement LLM-powered systems and intelligent chatbots. 1000+ hours of consultation for optimizing conversational AI workflows. Expertise spans LLMs, vector search, voice cloning, custom voice model training, and real-time voice transformation using ElevenLabs.

OpenAI GPTLlama 3Claude +2
OpenAI GPTLlama 3ClaudeLangChainHugging Face +1
Available 26 projects Kharagpur
$100/hr
MA

Malik Ahmed

Expert AI Engineer | OpenAI, RAG, LangChain | AI Agents & Agentic AI | MCP @ Independent

Expert AI Engineer specializing in OpenAI, RAG, and LangChain with AI Agents and Agentic AI. Experienced with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for building connected AI systems.

OpenAIRAGLangChain +2
OpenAILangChain
Available 29 projects Pakistan
$100/hr
YS

Yuvraj Singh

IIT-trained AI/ML Developer | LLM Agents | RAG Systems @ Independent

IIT-trained AI/ML Developer with 8+ years of experience in GenAI, LLM Agents, and RAG Systems. AWS Certified. Available for full-time freelance work (40-50 hrs/week).

LLM AgentsRAG SystemsGenAI +2
LangChainAWS
Available 42 projects Noida
$150/hr
ZR

Zen van Riel

Senior AI Engineer @ Independent

Former Senior AI Engineer at GitHub and Microsoft. Now independent consultant and educator with 22k+ YouTube following teaching practical AI engineering. Publishes rate guides and strategy content for AI freelancers. Built career from intern to Senior Engineer in 4 years.

AI EngineeringLLM ApplicationsProduction AI Systems +1
OpenAIAnthropic ClaudeLangChain
Available 25 projects Netherlands
$200/hr

Thought leaders

AI leaders using LangChain

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Harrison Chase

LangChain

CEO and co-founder of LangChain, the most widely-used framework for building LLM-powered applications. Legendary for his deep presence in the developer community, paying close attention to developer problems and shipping solutions rapidly. Built the orchestration layer that powers thousands of AI applications in production.

LangChainLangGraphOpenAIAnthropic Claude
San Francisco Leader
JB

James Briggs

Aurelio AI

Founder of Aurelio AI and ex-Pinecone developer advocate. One of the most prominent AI educators on YouTube, known for breaking down complex AI concepts with practical code walkthroughs. Co-authored the LangChain AI Handbook and created the comprehensive 5-hour LangChain Mastery course covering agentic systems, LangSmith, and LCEL.

LangChainPineconeLlamaIndexLangGraph
London Leader
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Swyx (Shawn Wang)

Latent Space / Smol AI

Editor of Latent Space, the leading AI engineering newsletter and podcast. Popularized the term 'AI Engineer.' Previously led developer tooling at AWS, Two Sigma, and three devtool unicorns (Netlify, Temporal, Airbyte). Former currency options trader. Curates the AI Engineer Summit, the top conference for AI Engineers. Founded Smol AI for LLM data pipelines.

Anthropic ClaudeOpenAILangChainVercel AI SDK
San Francisco Leader
JM

João Moura

CrewAI

Co-founder and CEO of CrewAI, the open-source framework for building and orchestrating multi-agent systems. What began as a side project in late 2023 grew into one of the most widely used agent platforms, powering 475M+ automations per month across nearly half of Fortune 500 companies. Teaches multi-agent systems courses on DeepLearning.AI.

CrewAILangChainOpenAI
San Francisco Leader
AN

Andrew Ng

DeepLearning.AI / Coursera / AI Fund

One of the most influential AI educators in the world. Co-founded Coursera and Google Brain. Former VP at Baidu leading 1,300-person AI Group. Founded DeepLearning.AI which offers courses on LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, and more. His machine learning course has been taken by millions worldwide.

LangChainLlamaIndexCrewAIOpenAI
Stanford Leader
LK

Logan Kilpatrick

Google AI Studio

Leading product initiatives at Google AI Studio, advancing AI technologies and fostering developer engagement. Previously held a prominent role at OpenAI. Known fan of both LangChain and LangSmith. Bridges the gap between AI research and developer experience.

Google GeminiOpenAILangChain
San Francisco Leader
RA

Rama Akkiraju

NVIDIA

VP of AI/ML for IT at NVIDIA, leading enterprise agentic AI initiatives and adaptive systems. Deep expertise in building and deploying AI platforms at scale within one of the world's most important AI companies.

NVIDIA AI PlatformOpenAILangChain
United States Leader
BD

Balaji Dhamodharan

AMD

Global Software Analytics Leader at AMD, working on agent architecture, LLM coordination, and digital transformation. Deep expertise in how AI hardware and software work together for enterprise-scale agent deployments.

NVIDIA AI PlatformOpenAILangChain
United States Leader
LM

Lance Martin

LangChain

Developer Relations Lead at LangChain creating educational content, tutorials, and reference architectures. Known for deep technical walkthroughs on RAG, agents, and LangGraph multi-agent patterns. Previously worked in quantitative research.

LangChainLangGraph
San Francisco Leader

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