Practice · Engineering

Strategy and the build, from the same desk.

Bring us the data, the workflow, or the system that isn't working yet. We'll tell you what we'd build and why, then build it. The people who scope the work are the people who ship it, not a separate team it gets handed to afterward.

AData operations tooling

The software layer under serious data work.

Purpose-built tooling for teams that produce or consume human data: systems a generic labeling platform can't give you, because it wasn't built for your task.

Evaluation harnessesAutomated scoring wired to your release cycle, with human calibration in the loop
Annotation platformsTask-native labeling and review interfaces with adjudication and audit trails
Calibration dashboardsLive agreement rates, rater drift, and gold-task performance
BApplied AI delivery

AI systems shipped in your cloud, instrumented from the first commit.

Retrieval systems, document intelligence, and agentic workflows engineered inside your environment: AWS, Azure, or GCP. Every system leaves our hands with its own test suite: defined success criteria, scored behavior, and the instrumentation to keep measuring after launch.

We won't ship what we can't score. It's a slower first week and a much better sixth month.

SystemsRetrieval, document intelligence, agentic workflows
ResidencyYour cloud, your identity and access model
HandoverCode, tests, and runbooks, with no dependency on us
CIndependent assurance

An evaluation from a firm with no stake in the build.

Structured, repeatable testing of AI systems before they carry real weight: whether you built them, or a vendor did. Expert-graded against criteria drawn from your actual workflow, with adversarial probing where the risk warrants it.

Because we didn't write the system and don't need the remediation contract, the findings are worth taking to a board, a risk committee, or the vendor who shipped it.

FitsPre-deployment sign-off, vendor acceptance, periodic review
MethodWorkflow-derived criteria, expert grading, reproducible findings
OutputA written verdict with severity-ranked failures and fixes
Why both practices

The two practices sharpen each other. The data work funds the judgment; the judgment disciplines the build.

Engineers who spend part of their week scoring model outputs write different software: testable behavior, honest failure modes, instrumentation nobody has to retrofit. And data operations run better on tooling built by people who have personally sat in the rater's seat.

Start small

The lowest-friction way in: a two-week agent evaluation sprint.

One AI workflow you've deployed, or are about to. We derive scoring criteria from how the work is actually judged in your organization, run a structured expert evaluation, and hand you a severity-ranked account of where it holds and where it breaks.

You provideAccess to the system and the people who judge its output
We deliverScoring criteria, a scored evaluation, a prioritized fix list
DurationTwo weeks, one workflow
TermsFixed fee, the criteria and findings are yours to keep
Scope a sprint →
Correspondence

Bring the system, built, half-built, or still an argument.

We'll tell you what we'd build, what we'd test, and what a fixed-scope first step looks like.