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A model grounded in your actual content, with citations, so staff stop searching a shared drive for a policy written in 2019.
Chat, retrieval and automation built on language models, with the evaluations and guardrails that make them safe to ship. A demo takes a weekend. Something you can put in front of a customer takes rather more, and that difference is the work.
Anyone can wire a model to a prompt and get something impressive. What makes it shippable is the cycle around it: a graded evaluation set, a measured pass rate, and a defined behaviour for the cases it fails. Without that loop you have a party trick with a billing account.
A model grounded in your actual content, with citations, so staff stop searching a shared drive for a policy written in 2019.
Classifying, summarising and routing the things that arrive all day, with a human in the loop where the cost of being wrong is high.
An assistant inside your software that can actually do things, scoped tightly enough that it does not do the wrong ones.
Models change every few months, so we build so that swapping one costs a day rather than a rewrite. The evaluation set is the asset, not the prompt.
AI work is bought under any of the three engagements, though a forward deployed engineer is usually right because the scope moves as you learn.
Almost never, and you should be suspicious of anyone who suggests it for a normal business problem. Fine-tuning has a place. Training a foundation model does not, unless you have a research budget and a reason nobody else can serve.
Yes. Local or self-hosted inference is a normal request and we staff for it. It costs more in engineering time and usually less in tokens, and that trade should be made explicitly.
Then the first two weeks are finding out, and that is a legitimate use of the time. What we will not do is build a feature nobody can name a metric for.
Grounding, constrained output, and a verification pass that checks claims against the source before anything is shown. You cannot eliminate it; you can make the system prefer saying nothing to inventing something, and make the gap visible.
Thirty minutes on what you are trying to automate, and an honest answer about whether a model is the right tool for it.
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