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Applied AI

AI Systems

We build AI systems, not demos. From retrieval-grounded assistants and autonomous agents to ML-powered product features, we engineer applied AI with the evaluation, observability, and human-in-the-loop controls it takes to trust it in production — and we operate it once it's live.

Engineered to production standard · fully owned

The problem

Most “AI” ships as a demo that impresses in a meeting and breaks in production — ungrounded, unevaluated, and impossible to trust with real decisions.

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Our approach

We build AI as a system: grounded in your data, wrapped in guardrails and evals, observable in production, and operated long after launch.

Not a demo. A system that runs.

Every part is engineered to production standard — measured, monitored, and owned.

TargetProduction uptime
99.9%
TargetManual work removed
−60%
TargetMedian inference
40ms
TargetFaster decisions
3×

Figures are targets we engineer to on a typical engagement — not averaged client results.

From raw data to production

  1. Ingest
  2. Train
  3. Evaluate
  4. Deploy
  5. Monitor
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Our own product

QBISA

A next-generation ERP for companies of up to 10,000 employees

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Who this is for

  1. SaaS teams shipping AI features

    Ship in-product AI your customers actually trust — grounded, evaluated, and monitored, not a demo bolted onto the roadmap.

  2. Ops-heavy businesses

    Deflect repetitive support and back-office volume with a copilot that knows your data, freeing the team for the work that needs a human.

  3. Regulated & enterprise teams

    Get the audit trails, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls that let AI touch real decisions without risking compliance.

Where teams put it to work

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  1. Support copilot

    Deflect repetitive tickets with an assistant grounded in your docs and history.

  2. Internal agent

    Automate multi-step back-office workflows with tool-using agents.

  3. In-product AI

    Ship AI features — summarize, generate, classify — inside your product.

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Why this, why now

Every category is being rebuilt around AI. Ship it well, or watch a competitor do it first.

The gap isn't between companies that use AI and companies that don't — it's between systems that are grounded, evaluated, and trusted, and demos that impress once and get quietly shelved.

Typical timelines

Ballpark, for a focused first version — not a guarantee, a starting point for scoping.

  • Support copilot grounded in your docs4–6 weeks
  • Retrieval-grounded internal assistant6–8 weeks
  • ML-powered in-product feature6–10 weeks
  • Autonomous / multi-step agent8–12 weeks
  • Full AI platform, multiple features12–16+ weeks

How we build AI Systems

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  1. Ground

    Connect your data with retrieval, so answers are based on truth — not the model's imagination.

  2. Constrain

    Guardrails, tool-use boundaries, and human-in-the-loop for the decisions that matter.

  3. Evaluate

    Automated eval suites and tracing, so quality is measured every release — not guessed.

  4. Operate

    Monitoring, cost controls, and feedback loops once it's live in front of users.

What we ship

  • Retrieval-grounded assistants & copilots
  • Autonomous & semi-autonomous agents
  • ML-backed product features
  • Eval, tracing & observability pipeline
  • Guardrails & human-in-the-loop controls
  • Provider-agnostic architecture

Typical stack

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Anthropic
  • Google Gemini
  • LangChain
  • Hugging Face
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
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Questions, answered

  • No. Your data stays yours. We use retrieval and private deployments, and never train shared models on it without explicit agreement.

  • We stay provider-agnostic — OpenAI, Anthropic, open models — and architect so you can switch without a rewrite.

  • Grounding in your data, strict tool boundaries, evals that catch regressions, and human review on high-stakes actions.

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Tell us about your AI Systems project

Let's turn it into something that earns its place in production.

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A specialist reads every message personally — usually within one business day.

Have an AI problem worth solving?

Book a strategy call. We'll discuss your goals, the architecture, and how we'd build it.