Services

Six things we do, in the order we usually do them.

You can start at any step. Most teams start at one and stop when the thing works.

01

Discovery & scoping

Before anything gets built.

We shadow the workflow, quantify where the hours go, and write a short document: what to build, what it must beat, and what it will cost to run. Some engagements end here, and that's a fine outcome.

  • Process mapping
  • Feasibility review
  • Success metrics
  • Build-vs-buy call
02

Custom AI development

Models, agents, and the plumbing around them.

Retrieval systems, extraction pipelines, classifiers, forecasting, LLM agents with tool access. Written as normal software — typed, tested, reviewable — not a notebook someone is afraid to touch.

  • RAG & retrieval
  • Agents & tool use
  • Predictive models
  • Prompt & eval harness
03

Data engineering

Most AI problems are data problems.

Ingestion, cleaning, deduplication, schema design, and pipelines that fail loudly instead of quietly. Where the data isn't good enough yet, we say so early rather than papering over it.

  • Pipelines
  • Warehouse modelling
  • Quality checks
  • Access control
04

Evaluation & governance

Knowing when it's wrong.

Test sets built from your real edge cases, regression suites that run on every change, audit trails, and human review lanes for the decisions that warrant one.

  • Eval datasets
  • Regression gates
  • Audit logging
  • Human-in-the-loop
05

Integration & deployment

Into your stack, not beside it.

APIs, queues, internal tools, and CI/CD in the cloud you already pay for. We work inside your conventions and leave infrastructure your team can read.

  • API design
  • Cloud deployment
  • CI/CD
  • Observability
06

Run & improve

For as long as you want us.

Cost and latency monitoring, model upgrades as the landscape shifts, and periodic reviews against the metrics we agreed in scoping. Retainer, not lock-in.

  • Monitoring
  • Cost tuning
  • Model upgrades
  • Quarterly review

COMMON STARTING POINTS

Start with the workflow, not the technology.

The same underlying tools can solve very different problems. We define the job, the people affected, and the acceptable margin for error before choosing an approach.

Knowledge and search

Make internal knowledge easier to find without flattening permissions or presenting guesses as facts.

  • Cited answers across documents
  • Permission-aware search
  • Expert review queues

Document operations

Turn incoming documents into structured, reviewable work that can move through the rest of your business.

  • Classification and extraction
  • Validation against business rules
  • Exception handling

Decision support

Give operators a clearer view of priority, risk, or likely outcomes while keeping the final decision visible and accountable.

  • Forecasting and scoring
  • Recommendations with reasons
  • Human approval paths

AI-enabled products

Add useful intelligence to a customer or staff product without making the entire experience depend on a chat window.

  • Guided workflows
  • Contextual assistants
  • Task-specific automation

WHAT PRODUCTION-READY MEANS

More than a convincing demonstration.

Connected

Works with your data, permissions, and existing systems through clear interfaces.

Observable

Shows what happened, what it cost, and where a person needs to step in.

Evaluated

Runs against known examples so changes can be measured rather than judged by feel.

Recoverable

Handles missing data, provider failures, and uncertain outputs without failing silently.

ENGAGEMENT MODELS

Three ways to start, priced so you can stop.

Every model begins with a written scope and ends with something you own. None of them require a long-term commitment beyond the cycle you are currently in.

Step one

Discovery sprint

A fixed-scope review of one workflow: what it costs today, whether AI helps, and what a first version should do. You keep the document whatever you decide next.

Typical length
2–3 weeks
Best when
The problem is fuzzy
  • Process mapping sessions
  • Data and feasibility review
  • Written recommendation
  • Costed build plan

Step two

Build engagement

A dedicated team taking one workflow from prototype to a system your people use daily, in two-week cycles with a working demo at the end of each.

Typical length
8–16 weeks
Best when
Scope is agreed
  • Prototype on real data
  • Evaluation and guardrails
  • Integration with your systems
  • Handover and documentation

Ongoing

Run and improve

A monthly retainer covering monitoring, cost tuning, model upgrades, and a scheduled review against the measures agreed in scoping. Cancel with a month's notice.

Typical length
Rolling monthly
Best when
Something is live
  • Quality and cost monitoring
  • Model and dependency upgrades
  • Small feature work
  • Quarterly performance review

SECURITY & RESPONSIBILITY

Rules we apply whether or not you ask.

Most of our work touches internal documents, customer records, or decisions with consequences. These practices are part of the build, not an add-on.

Least-privilege access

We ask for the narrowest data access that lets the work proceed, scoped to named systems and removed at handover.

Your environment first

Where the work can run inside your cloud account and your network boundary, it does. Exceptions are agreed in writing before any data moves.

Provider terms checked

Model providers are chosen with data-retention and no-training terms reviewed in advance, and the interface is written so a provider can be swapped later.

Permissions carried through

A retrieval system must never show someone a document they could not open directly. Access rules are enforced at query time, not filtered afterwards.

Traceable decisions

Automated outputs are logged with their inputs, sources, and model version, so a decision can be reconstructed months later.

Human escalation by design

Every system has a defined confidence threshold and a route to a person. Uncertainty is shown rather than smoothed over.

GLOSSARY

The terms we will use, in plain language.

Retrieval (RAG)

Finding the right passages from your own documents and giving them to a model as context, so the answer cites real sources instead of recalling them from training.

Evaluation set

A fixed collection of real examples with known good answers, used to measure whether a change improved the system or merely felt better.

Guardrail

A check around the model — schema validation, allowed-value lists, confidence thresholds — that catches bad output before it reaches a user or another system.

Agent

A model given a defined set of tools it can call, with strict limits on what those tools may do and a log of every call it makes.

Fine-tuning

Adapting an existing model to your data or format. Useful for consistency and cost, rarely a fix for missing knowledge.

Human in the loop

A deliberate review step for cases the system flags as uncertain or high-consequence, with the reviewer's decision fed back into evaluation.

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