Consultancy
We help individuals and businesses build AI that works — and that they still own afterwards. No retainers for slide decks, no black boxes you can't run without us.
Who We Work With
The technical work overlaps more than you'd think. What differs is the constraint you're optimising against — time and confidence on one side, risk and cost on the other.
Students, researchers & solo builders
You've got the idea and enough skill to start, but the gap between a working notebook and a system you'd let someone else use is wider than it looked. That's the gap we work in.
Teams, startups & institutions
Someone has asked you to "add AI" and the honest first question is whether you should. We'll tell you when the answer is no, and build it properly when the answer is yes.
What We Actually Do
Retrieval & RAG
Document pipelines, hybrid search, reranking, and evaluation that separates retrieval failures from generation failures.
Fine-Tuning
Dataset construction, LoRA and QLoRA training, and honest evaluation — including telling you when prompting would have been enough.
Agents & Tooling
Tool interfaces, routing between models, budgets and guardrails, and trace logging so you can see what the thing actually did.
Private Deployment
On-prem and air-gapped serving, hardware sizing, quantization trade-offs, and benchmarking against what the vendor promised.
How We Work
Fixed scope, written deliverables, and an exit at every stage. If the honest answer is that you don't need us, you'll hear it in step one.
Scoping Call — Free
Thirty minutes on what you're trying to do. You leave with a straight answer on feasibility whether or not we work together.
Written Proposal
Scope, deliverables, timeline, and cost in writing before anything starts. Fixed price where the work is well defined.
Build in the Open
You get repo access from day one and a written update every week. No reveal at the end — you watch it get built.
Handover
Documentation, a runbook, and a walkthrough with whoever maintains it next. The goal is that you don't need us again.
Start a Conversation
Tell us what you're building and what's currently in the way. The more concrete the problem, the more useful the first reply — hardware you have, data you can't move, deadlines that are real.