LLM / GenAI
Large language models & agents
RAG, tool use, evaluation harnesses, guardrails, latency/cost tuning, and production prompts—not brittle prototypes.
Capabilities
Whether you are shipping a customer-facing copilot, hardening an internal automation, or scaling a model-backed service, we place people who have done it before—across modern AI and the platform work that makes it dependable. AI is our focus, but most engagements also need excellent backend, full-stack, and design craft. We cover that stack too.
What we ship
Each card below is a body of work we have shipped multiple times. Engagements usually combine two or three of them—rarely just one in isolation.
LLM / GenAI
RAG, tool use, evaluation harnesses, guardrails, latency/cost tuning, and production prompts—not brittle prototypes.
MLOps
Training and serving pipelines, observability, feature stores, drift monitoring, and safe release practices for models in the wild.
Data
Warehouse/lake design, streaming ingestion, dbt-style transformations, and metrics layers that AI products can trust.
Vision
Detection, segmentation, OCR, embeddings, and multimodal retrieval for product features and operations automation.
NLP
Classification, NER, summarization, semantic search, and document AI integrated into your workflows.
R&D
Feasibility spikes, benchmarking, and pragmatic roadmaps that turn research questions into shippable milestones.
Platform
APIs, event-driven services, cloud-native infra, and security-minded foundations for AI-heavy applications.
Product
Full-stack squads that pair UX clarity with model behavior—so features feel intentional, not experimental.
Build & design
Modern UIs, APIs, services, and systems design—so AI ships inside real products. We place senior engineers and designers who own delivery end-to-end, not only model code.
Engagement shapes
Most projects we take on resolve to one of these patterns or a combination of them. The shape sets the team mix, the timeline, and what production-ready means.
01
Chat, search, or assistive UX backed by retrieval, evaluation, and cost-aware orchestration—designed to live in your product, not as a side demo.
02
Workflow agents that handle real operations work—triage, classification, drafting—with audit trails and human review where it matters.
03
Ingestion, chunking, hybrid search, and freshness pipelines tuned for your corpus—plus the evaluation that proves it actually answers the question.
04
Offline and online evaluation suites, regression gates, safety filters, and red-team batteries that catch quality drops before users do.
05
Training and serving stacks, model registry, feature store, observability—the foundations that turn one-off models into reliable releases.
06
Streaming ingest, warehouse and lake design, semantic and metrics layers—the backbone modern ML systems quietly depend on.
Quality bars
Capabilities are table stakes. The bar that separates serious AI work from theatre is the posture engineers bring to every release. These four are non-negotiable on our side.
Eval-first
Every release ships with offline metrics and online signal. Regressions surface in CI, not in user complaints.
Observability from day one
Traces, token costs, p95 latencies, and eval drift are wired in alongside the first prototype—not added after launch.
Cost & latency budgets
Explicit per-request token, dollar, and millisecond targets. Models earn their price tag or they don't ship.
Security & compliance posture
Least-privilege data access, PII handling, audit logging, and patterns that hold up to SOC 2 / GDPR review.
Where we draw the line
The fastest way to a bad engagement is to pretend everything is in scope. Saying no early is part of the service.
PoCs with no production path
We focus on work that intends to reach users. Pure experiments without a path to ship are better served by a research consultancy.
"AI everywhere" without a business case
We will help you find one—but we won't manufacture it. Capability without a problem to solve is theatre.
Black-box deliverables
Code lives in your repository. Decisions live in writing. We don't lock you into our stack or our tooling.
Junior-only staffing
Every engagement has senior accountability. We do not pad proposals with juniors carrying titles they have not earned.
Have a shape that doesn't fit cleanly into any of these? Tell us the problem and the constraints—we will tell you honestly whether we are the right team for it.
Talk to us about scope