How we work
Business problem to production system, in seven stages.
The same shape applies whether the system is an AI pipeline, a piece of custom software, or the integration layer between them.
01/The process
Seven stages, and a real chance of being told no in week one.
01
Understand
Week 1We sit with the people doing the work and measure what it actually costs — before anyone mentions a solution.
We map the real process, exceptions included, and measure volume and time-per-step. If it's not worth solving with engineering, we say so here.
You get
A measured baseline and a go / no-go recommendation in writing.
02/Where it runs
On your hardware, in a cloud, or a deliberate mix.
Nothing leaves the building
Inference, embeddings and storage run on hardware you own — no vendor egress, no data-residency question to answer.
Best for
- Regulated sectors and confidential documents
- High, steady volume where per-token pricing stops making sense
- Sites with poor connectivity or hard latency budgets
03/Engineering & principles
Built by the people who scope it, on a real stack.
Software & platforms
The application layer everything else is built on.
- TypeScript
- Python
- React
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- Postgres
Models & training
What we train, fine-tune and serve.
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face
- LoRA / QLoRA
- YOLO
- Whisper
- ONNX
- TensorRT
- vLLM
On-Prem & private inference
For when data cannot leave the building.
- Ollama
- llama.cpp
- vLLM
- Qdrant
- pgvector
- NVIDIA Jetson
- On-prem GPU
Agents & orchestration
How models get access to real systems, safely.
- MCP
- LangGraph
- Structured outputs
- Eval harnesses
- OpenTelemetry
Automation & integration
The pipelines that carry the work.
- n8n
- Redis
- Celery
- OAuth / OIDC
- Webhooks
Delivery & operations
How it stays up after we leave.
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions
- MLflow
- Prometheus
- Grafana
How we work
- You choose where it runs
- On-prem, cloud, or a deliberate mix, decided per component. We build all three, so the recommendation isn't just whatever matches our own stack.
- Boring problems pay better
- Invoice entry, inbox triage, internal tooling — high volume, low glamour, measurable within a quarter. We'd rather build that than a demo.
- Measured, not asserted
- A result is a number on your data, or it's marketing. Every engagement ends with a measurement against the baseline — even when the honest answer is that we didn't beat it.
- Humans on the exceptions
- Full automation of an ambiguous task just automates the mistakes. We route genuine ambiguity to a person, with an interface built to make reviewing fast.
- No lock-in
- You own the code, the weights, the datasets and the documentation — built so your team can change a rule without calling us.
- We will talk you out of things
- Some of what gets asked for isn't worth building. Saying so in week one is cheaper for everyone than discovering it in month four.
Ready to start with stage one?
The first conversation is scoping, not a pitch — replies within one business day.