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Production AI practitioners, embedded

Production AI practitioners, embedded.

Engineers who have shipped AI into defence networks, public-sector platforms, real estate, legal, life sciences and e-commerce — embedded into your team under your delivery model, with our governance behind them.

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18 years·5+ air-gapped deployments·CMMI L5·ISO 27001·US / UK / EU overlap
Why this is different

The bench you embed from is the bench that builds our own AI systems.

Built, not benched

Every engineer has shipped AI into production — into regulated defence networks, public-sector platforms, AI-native SaaS. No bench bodies, no warm CVs.

Production AI, not POC AI

MLOps discipline, evaluation harnesses, observability, fallback paths. The engineering rigour that turns a working notebook into a system the business depends on.

Compliance ready, day one

CMMI L5 process maturity, ISO 27001 information security, DPDPA-aligned data handling. Cleared placements available for on-premise and air-gapped deployments.

Embedded with intent

Practitioners drop into your stand-ups, your repos, your review cycles — under your delivery model. Time-zone overlap with US, UK, and EU engineering hours.

The same engineering bar as our owned products

These are the engineers behind HoloMap, Aedrix, Castle, Bhaasha and NOSTRA. The bench you embed from is the bench that builds our own AI systems.

Capability depth

Six disciplines across the full AI stack — shipped, not theorised.

MLOps · Applied ML

Applied ML & MLOps

Forecasting, classification, ranking, anomaly detection — productionised with reproducible pipelines, drift monitoring, retrain triggers, and SLA-backed inference.

Agents · LLM apps

Agentic systems & LLM apps

Tool-using agents, structured workflows, function-calling orchestration. Built on open-source and frontier models, evaluated end-to-end, hardened against regression.

Data · RAG

Data platforms & RAG

Ingestion, chunking strategies, hybrid retrieval, vector and lexical indexes. Knowledge platforms that retrieve from the right source and cite what they used.

Vision · Multimodal

Computer vision & multimodal

Detection, segmentation, OCR, document understanding, video analytics, vision-language models. Deployed to edge devices, on-premise GPUs, and cloud inference.

Evals · Governance

AI evaluation & governance

Evaluation harnesses, red-teaming, prompt regression suites, bias and safety scoring. Audit trails and review workflows that hold up to procurement scrutiny.

On-prem · Air-gapped

Air-gapped / on-prem AI

Models, vector stores, and inference stacks deployed inside customer networks. No telemetry, no scenario egress — engineered for defence, government, and regulated estates.

Engagements

Engage how you ship — embedded, full-pod, on-site.

Individual practitioners into your team

Embedded engineers

Senior AI engineers placed directly into your existing pod. They work under your tech lead, in your repos, against your standards — with our governance behind them.

  • ·Senior individual contributors
  • ·Your delivery model
  • ·Time-zone overlap available
Lead + engineers + delivery

Full-team pod

A complete AI pod — tech lead, ML engineers, MLOps, evaluation — assembled around a deliverable. Shared accountability, single point of escalation, defined exit.

  • ·Tech lead included
  • ·MLOps + evals built in
  • ·Milestone-shaped scope
Cleared, air-gapped, on-site

On-prem placement

Practitioners cleared and deployed inside your secure estate — defence, public-sector, regulated enterprise. Air-gapped operation, no scenario egress, full audit trail.

  • ·Cleared engineers
  • ·On-site or hybrid
  • ·Air-gapped operation
Industries we’ve shipped into

Practitioners with shipped context — not learning on yours.

Defence & SIGINT

Public Sector & Urban Governance

Real Estate & Construction

Legal

Life Sciences

E-commerce

Tourism & Travel

CMMI L5·ISO 27001·GeM-listed·MEITY-aligned·DPDPA 2023·Air-gapped placements
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