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AI & Machine Learning Studio

Machine learning that actually ships.

We're a small studio that builds working ML systems: prototypes you can put in front of users, data pipelines that don't fall over, and models deployed where your product needs them. And if a spreadsheet or a plain heuristic would solve your problem better, we'll say so.

Raw data messy, real Pipeline cleaned, tested Evaluation honest metrics Model running in your product

Four things, done properly

We keep our scope narrow on purpose. These are the areas where we can genuinely help, and we stay out of the rest.

Illustration of vague AI ideas being funnelled into four focused services: ML prototypes, data pipelines, vision and NLP, and deployment

ML prototypes

A working proof of concept in weeks, not quarters. We build the smallest version of your idea that can be tested against real data, so you find out early whether the approach holds up.

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Data pipelines

Most ML projects fail on data, not models. We build the ingestion, cleaning, and validation layers that make everything downstream trustworthy — and boring, in the best way.

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Computer vision & NLP

Document extraction, image classification, text search and summarisation. We usually start from strong open models and fine-tune, rather than training from scratch when there's no need to.

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Deployment & monitoring

A model in a notebook helps nobody. We wrap models in APIs, set up monitoring for drift and cost, and hand over documentation your own engineers can actually maintain.

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What a project looks like

Every engagement is a little different, but the shape is usually the same. No surprises, no black boxes.

Illustration of our three project steps: reviewing your data, working in scoped milestones, and handing everything over

1. We look at your data first

Before quoting anything, we ask to see a sample of your actual data. Half the time the honest answer is "this needs cleanup before ML makes sense" — and it's better to know that in week one.

2. Small scoped milestones

We work in short cycles with something demoable at the end of each one. If a direction isn't working, we change course early instead of burning your budget defending a bad plan.

3. Handover you can live with

Code, evaluation reports, and plain-English docs go to your team. We're happy to stay on for maintenance, but nothing we build is designed to lock you in.

Right-sized hardware, not maximum hardware

GPU bills sink more ML budgets than bad models do. We benchmark every workload before renting anything — a lot of useful work runs on plain CPUs, and when a job genuinely needs NVIDIA GPUs, we size them from measurements and put the invoice in your name.

CPU first

Pipelines, tabular models, and forecasting baselines rarely need a GPU. We'll say so, even when a bigger invoice would suit us better.

GPUs when they earn it

Fine-tunes and vision or NLP serving run on NVIDIA hardware — rented by the hour, in your cloud account, or on a box in your server room.

Measured, then documented

Every sizing decision comes with the benchmark that justified it, so your team can re-check the maths after we're gone.

Questions we hear a lot

Straight answers about scope, timelines, and what ML can and can't do.

Less than most people assume, but it depends on the problem. Fine-tuning an existing model can work with a few hundred good examples. Training something from scratch needs far more. Send us a sample and we'll give you a straight answer before any money changes hands.
Most prototypes land somewhere between three and eight weeks, depending on how ready your data is. The first week is usually spent understanding the data; that part can't be rushed without paying for it later.
No, and anyone who promises that is selling you something. ML systems make mistakes. Our job is to measure the error rate honestly, put numbers on it, and design your workflow so mistakes are cheap to catch and correct.
You do. On final payment, all project code, trained weights, and documentation are yours. We may reuse general techniques and internal tooling, but never your data or anything trained on it.

Got a problem that might need ML?

Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll tell you whether machine learning is the right tool — and if it isn't, we'll say that too. The first conversation costs nothing.

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