Machine learning that reaches production, not a slide deck

Most ML initiatives stall on the same two things: the data underneath is not trustworthy, and nobody owns the thing after launch. We assess readiness first, fix the foundation, then build something small enough to actually ship and govern.

In plain terms

What Machine Learning Consulting means in practice

Where teams get stuck

Applied ML and AI that reaches production, built on a data foundation you can trust.

We ran an AI pilot, it worked in the notebook, and it never reached production.

We have no way to tell whether our model or agent is actually performing.

Our data is not clean or complete enough to train or ground anything.

The AI bill is growing and nobody can attribute it to a business outcome.

We shipped something and now nobody owns the evaluation or the monitoring.

What we deliver

Core Machine Learning Consulting

Applied ML assessment

A review of your data readiness, use cases, and existing tooling, with an honest read on which opportunities are real and which need foundation work first.

Data readiness for ML

The feature pipelines, quality checks, and historical depth that any model needs before it can be trusted.

Model and agent development

Build and evaluation of the applied models, LLM features, and agents that fit the use case, with evaluation harnesses rather than vibes.

Deployment and operations

Serving, monitoring, cost control, and the ownership model that keeps the system working after the project ends.

How deep it goes

Capabilities behind the work

The same delivery primitives (context, controls, and review) show up across every engagement.

Applied ML assessment

Working out what is actually buildable before committing budget.

Use case qualificationData readiness reviewBuild versus buy analysisFeasibility and risk assessment

Data readiness

The unglamorous work that decides whether anything downstream works.

Feature pipeline designHistorical data assessmentQuality and drift checksLabelling and ground-truth strategy

Model and agent development

Building the narrow thing that ships.

Classical model developmentLLM feature and RAG implementationAgent design with tool boundariesEvaluation harness design

Deployment and MLOps

Getting it into production and keeping it honest there.

Serving and inference architectureMonitoring and drift alertingCost attribution and controlRetraining and release process

Enablement and governance

Leaving your team able to run and govern it.

Engineer onboardingEvaluation ownership handoverModel review processDocumentation and runbooks

The stack we build with

Tooling our team runs in production

Frameworks, platforms, and infrastructure we implement, integrate, and operate end to end.

Data foundation

SnowflakeBigQueryDatabricksdbt

Modelling and LLM

OpenAIAnthropicBedrockVertex AI

Retrieval and agents

PineconeWeaviateLangGraphMCP

Evaluation and operations

LangfuseBraintrust

What changes

Outcomes you can point to

  • An honest read on which ML and AI use cases are worth pursuing now.
  • A data foundation with the quality checks and history a model needs.
  • A deployed model, LLM feature, or agent with an evaluation harness.
  • Monitoring, cost visibility, and a named owner.
  • Your engineers able to retrain, evaluate, and extend the system.

Common questions

Machine Learning Consulting, straight answers

What does machine learning consulting cost?

Engagements start with a scoped assessment of data readiness and use-case feasibility. That assessment is deliberately cheap relative to a build, because the most common cause of wasted AI budget is starting the build before the data can support it.

We do not have clean data. Can you still help?

Yes, and that is usually the point. Data readiness is the first phase rather than a precondition. We tell you what has to be true before a model can work, and we build the pipelines and checks that get you there.

Do you build models or just advise?

We build, deploy, and hand over. Engagements that only produce a recommendation tend to leave the same gap they found, which is why deployment and evaluation are part of the scope rather than an optional extra.

How do you measure whether an AI feature is working?

Every build includes an evaluation harness before launch, so quality is measured against a defined set rather than judged by impressions. We also wire monitoring and drift alerting so the measurement continues after handover.

Can you work with our data science team?

Yes, and we prefer it. We usually supply the data foundation, deployment, evaluation, and operations layers, and work alongside your team on the modelling where they hold the domain knowledge.

Is this the same as your AI consulting service?

They overlap. AI consulting covers the strategy, vendor, and adoption questions. This engagement is the applied build path: data readiness, model or agent development, deployment, and operations.

How we work

A path from pressure to a working system

01

Qualify

We assess data readiness and use-case feasibility, and tell you which opportunities are real now and which need foundation work first.

02

Build narrow

We ship the smallest useful version with an evaluation harness, so performance is measured from day one instead of argued about.

03

Operate and hand over

We put monitoring, cost visibility, and ownership in place, then hand your engineers the process to retrain and extend it.

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