Applied intelligence

AI & Machine Learning

The useful AI projects share a trait: they replace a specific, expensive, repetitive human task and they are measured against what that task used to cost. We start there, and we will tell you when conventional software would solve your problem more cheaply.

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The distance between an impressive demo and a system your staff trust on a Monday morning is where most AI budgets disappear. Accuracy on a curated sample means little; what matters is behaviour on messy real inputs, a sensible answer when the model is unsure, and a human review path for the cases that carry risk.

We build AI features into working software — retrieval systems grounded in your own documents, extraction pipelines for the paperwork your team retypes, forecasting models with honest error bars, and evaluation harnesses that catch regressions before your users do.

Capabilities

What AI & Machine Learning covers

AI applied to a measurable problem, not a press release.

LLM applications & assistants

Internal copilots and customer-facing assistants built on Claude, GPT or open models, with the guardrails and escalation paths a business needs.

RAG knowledge systems

Retrieval-augmented systems that answer from your own policies, manuals and records, with citations so answers can be verified.

Document intelligence

Invoice, contract, claim and identity document processing that extracts structured data, flags anomalies and routes exceptions to a human.

Computer vision

Quality inspection, counting, defect detection and safety monitoring from camera feeds, deployable on edge hardware where bandwidth is limited.

Predictive analytics

Demand forecasting, churn prediction, credit scoring and maintenance prediction with the confidence intervals that make the output actionable.

MLOps & evaluation

Versioned models, automated evaluation suites, drift monitoring and retraining pipelines so accuracy does not quietly decay.

Why it works

What you get that you might not expect.

These are the commitments clients tell us mattered most once the project was underway.

Measured against a baseline

We record what the task costs in time and error rate today, so the improvement is a number rather than an impression.

Humans kept in the loop

Confidence thresholds, review queues and audit trails for every decision that carries financial or regulatory weight.

Your data stays yours

Clear data handling agreements, regional processing where required, and self-hosted open models when policy demands it.

Cost engineered

Model choice, caching, batching and prompt design tuned so inference cost per transaction is sustainable at full volume.

How we deliver

Our ai & ml process

Every stage produces something you can look at, use or disagree with. Nothing is invisible until the end.

  1. 1

    Use-case triage

    A shortlist of candidate problems scored on value, data readiness and risk. Some come back with a recommendation to use ordinary automation instead.

  2. 2

    Data assessment

    What data exists, its quality, its labelling state and whether it can legally and practically be used for the intended purpose.

  3. 3

    Prototype & evaluate

    A working prototype on your real data with an evaluation set and accuracy targets agreed before we build further.

  4. 4

    Productionise

    Integration into your systems, monitoring, fallback behaviour, cost controls and rate limiting.

  5. 5

    Monitor & improve

    Ongoing evaluation against fresh data, drift alerts and scheduled retraining or prompt revision.

Technologies we use for this

Chosen per project rather than by house policy. We will explain the trade-off in plain terms before anything is decided.

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Questions

AI & Machine Learning — your questions

Not covered here?

Ask us directly

For classical models, often less than people assume — hundreds of well-labelled examples can be enough for a narrow task. For language and document tasks, modern models frequently need no training data at all, only good retrieval and evaluation. The data assessment answers this in about a week.

Not under the configurations we deploy. We use enterprise API terms that exclude training on your data, and for sensitive workloads we deploy open models in your own environment.

Ground it in your own content with citations, constrain what it is allowed to answer, set confidence thresholds that route uncertain cases to a person, and run an automated evaluation suite on every change.

We model inference cost per transaction during the prototype and design around it. For most document and assistant workloads it is a few cents per operation, and caching and model routing usually reduce that substantially.

That is the recommended path. A four-to-six week evaluated prototype on one use case tells you far more than a lengthy strategy exercise, and costs less.

Thinking about ai & machine learning?

Tell us the problem. You will get a rough cost, a rough timeline and an honest view on whether it is worth building — before anyone talks about a contract.