Applied AI — how it runs
From question to evaluated pilot
An AI engagement with us is four stages long and each one can end it. That is deliberate: the cheapest AI project is the one you cancel in week three with evidence, not the one that reaches production and cannot be measured.
Frame the question and the baseline
Before any model, we write down what the system must decide, how often a human does it today, and how long that takes. That number is the baseline every later claim is measured against — without it, "the AI works" is an opinion.
Get the data and the retrieval right
Most disappointing AI projects are retrieval projects that were never done. We index your real corpus, fix the chunking and the permissions, and prove the right passage comes back before a model is asked to reason over it.
Build an evaluated pilot, not a demo
A pilot ships with a graded test set drawn from your own history, a scoring rubric your team agrees with, and results you can read. If it does not beat the baseline, we say so and you have lost weeks, not a year.
Put it in production, then watch it
Cost ceiling, drift alarm, prompt-injection boundary, fallback path and an audit log of every decision the model made. Somebody is on call for it, the same as for any other production service.