AI engineering · LLM · ML · agents · RAG · multimodal

We build AI systems. Not AI demos.

From LLM applications and RAG systems to AI agents, model fine-tuning, multimodal AI and private model deployment — we engineer AI systems around real business requirements.

  1. Business problem
  2. Data
  3. Retrieval
  4. Model
  5. Tools
  6. Business action

AI is moving beyond chat.

Systems can now understand documents, search internal knowledge, reason over business data, use tools, execute workflows, process images and audio, and interact through voice. We build those systems.

  1. Chat

    AI answers questions. Useful, and where most companies stop.

  2. Build

    AI becomes part of the software, the product and the workflow itself.

  3. Operate

    AI retrieves information, calls tools, executes actions, monitors processes and takes part in operations.

Our goal isn't to make your company use AI. It's to make AI useful inside your company.

What we actually build.

  • LLM applications

    Custom applications powered by foundation models, not a chat box bolted on the side.

  • RAG systems

    Responses grounded in your own knowledge, documents and databases, with citations.

  • AI agents

    Reasoning, tool calling, retrieval and workflow execution under real constraints.

  • Multimodal AI

    Text, image, audio, video and documents handled in one system.

  • Model customisation

    Fine-tuning, adapters, quantization and domain specialisation where it earns its cost.

  • Private AI

    Open-weight models deployed inside infrastructure you control.

  • Machine learning

    Prediction, classification, recommendation, forecasting and optimisation.

  • AI automation

    AI wired into the software and workflows your business already runs on.

The stack underneath a working AI system.

A demo is one call to one model. Production is eight layers that have to hold together. Select a layer to see what sits in it.

Data

Documents, databases, APIs, tickets, contracts, catalogues — whatever you already hold.

PDF parsing, OCR, connectors, metadata extraction

AI is bigger than Silicon Valley.

Serious AI engineering means knowing the whole model landscape. Chinese labs in particular are shipping increasingly capable models across reasoning, coding, multimodal work, long-context workloads and open-weight deployment. We evaluate on workload, not on brand.

Frontier

Hosted commercial models, accessed through a provider API.

  • OpenAI · GPT family

    General-purpose reasoning, coding and multimodal work through a hosted API.

  • Anthropic · Claude family

    Long-context reasoning and code work, with strong instruction following.

  • Google Gemini · Google DeepMind

    Multimodal input across text, image, audio and video with large context.

  • xAI · Grok family

    Hosted reasoning and coding models.

  • Mistral · Mistral AI

    Hosted and open-weight European models, several small enough to self-host.

  • Cohere · Cohere

    Retrieval and enterprise search oriented models, including rerankers.

Open weights

Models you can download, quantize and run on your own infrastructure.

  • Meta Llama · Meta

    Widely deployed open weights with a large tooling and fine-tuning ecosystem.

  • Gemma · Google

    Small open models suited to edge and latency-sensitive deployment.

  • Mixtral · Mistral AI

    Mixture-of-experts open weights balancing quality against inference cost.

  • Phi · Microsoft

    Small models for constrained hardware and on-device inference.

Chinese ecosystem

Labs producing increasingly capable open and hosted models.

  • Qwen · Alibaba

    Broad family covering language, coding, reasoning and vision-language work.

  • DeepSeek · DeepSeek

    Reasoning and coding oriented open weights.

  • GLM · Zhipu AI

    ChatGLM lineage, with open and hosted options.

  • Kimi · Moonshot AI

    Long-context and language workloads.

  • MiniMax · MiniMax

    Multimodal, language and voice oriented ecosystem.

  • Baichuan · Baichuan AI

    Chinese foundation-model family.

  • Yi · 01.AI

    Bilingual open-weight family.

We are model-agnostic on purpose. Problem, then data, then model, then infrastructure, then cost, security and scale — in that order.

There is no universal best model.

Pick what your workload actually demands and see which families are worth evaluating. This narrows the shortlist — it does not rank anything.

Filter model families by capability

17 model families

  • Frontier

    OpenAI

    GPT family

    General-purpose reasoning, coding and multimodal work through a hosted API.

  • Frontier

    Anthropic

    Claude family

    Long-context reasoning and code work, with strong instruction following.

  • Frontier

    Google Gemini

    Google DeepMind

    Multimodal input across text, image, audio and video with large context.

  • Frontier

    xAI

    Grok family

    Hosted reasoning and coding models.

  • Frontier

    Mistral

    Mistral AI

    Hosted and open-weight European models, several small enough to self-host.

  • Frontier

    Cohere

    Cohere

    Retrieval and enterprise search oriented models, including rerankers.

  • Open weights

    Meta Llama

    Meta

    Widely deployed open weights with a large tooling and fine-tuning ecosystem.

  • Open weights

    Gemma

    Google

    Small open models suited to edge and latency-sensitive deployment.

  • Open weights

    Mixtral

    Mistral AI

    Mixture-of-experts open weights balancing quality against inference cost.

  • Open weights

    Phi

    Microsoft

    Small models for constrained hardware and on-device inference.

  • Chinese ecosystem

    Qwen

    Alibaba

    Broad family covering language, coding, reasoning and vision-language work.

  • Chinese ecosystem

    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek

    Reasoning and coding oriented open weights.

  • Chinese ecosystem

    GLM

    Zhipu AI

    ChatGLM lineage, with open and hosted options.

  • Chinese ecosystem

    Kimi

    Moonshot AI

    Long-context and language workloads.

  • Chinese ecosystem

    MiniMax

    MiniMax

    Multimodal, language and voice oriented ecosystem.

  • Chinese ecosystem

    Baichuan

    Baichuan AI

    Chinese foundation-model family.

  • Chinese ecosystem

    Yi

    01.AI

    Bilingual open-weight family.

Selection depends on task, quality, latency, cost, context length, privacy, hardware, language and deployment model. We are model-agnostic on purpose.

Your data. Your knowledge. Your AI.

A vector store gives a model memory: it retrieves the semantically relevant passages out of a very large collection, so answers are grounded in your manuals, contracts, policies and support history rather than invented.

  1. Data sources
  2. Ingestion
  3. Parser / OCR
  4. Chunking
  5. Embedding
  6. Vector + keyword index
  7. Hybrid retrieval
  8. Reranker
  9. LLM
  10. Grounded response

Retrieval engineering

  • Document ingestion
  • PDF parsing
  • OCR
  • Chunking
  • Metadata extraction
  • Embeddings
  • Hybrid search
  • Semantic search
  • Keyword search
  • Reranking
  • Contextual retrieval
  • Query rewriting
  • Multi-query retrieval
  • Citation generation
  • Access control
  • Document-level permissions
  • Retrieval evaluation
  • Hallucination reduction

Vector and search stores

  • pgvector
  • Qdrant
  • Milvus
  • Weaviate
  • Pinecone
  • Chroma
  • FAISS
  • Elasticsearch
  • OpenSearch

From answers to actions.

A chatbot

  1. User
  2. Model
  3. Answer

An agentic system

  1. User
  2. Think
  3. Retrieve
  4. Call tool
  5. Check result
  6. Take action
  7. Respond

Not every project needs an agent. We use one when an agent genuinely solves the problem better than a well-built pipeline would.

Agent capabilities

  • Tool calling
  • Function calling
  • Workflow execution
  • Planning
  • Memory
  • Retrieval
  • API execution
  • Database interaction
  • Human approval
  • Multi-agent workflows
  • Task decomposition
  • State management
  • Observability

Framework ecosystem

  • LangGraph
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • AutoGen
  • CrewAI
  • Semantic Kernel
  • OpenAI Agents SDK
  • MCP

Multi-agent workflows

An orchestrator splits the work, specialised agents do their part, and the results are reconciled into one answer — for research, document processing, sales operations, support and internal knowledge work.

  1. Orchestrator
  2. Research agent
  3. Analysis agent
  4. Action agent
  5. Final result

When prompting isn't enough.

Fine-tuning is not the default answer. We work the cheap options first and only train when the earlier steps genuinely run out of road.

  1. Prompting
  2. RAG
  3. Tool use
  4. Fine-tuning
  1. Base model
  2. Domain data
  3. Training
  4. LoRA / QLoRA
  5. Evaluation
  6. Specialised model

Customisation

  • Supervised fine-tuning
  • Instruction tuning
  • LoRA
  • QLoRA
  • PEFT
  • Adapters
  • Domain adaptation
  • Dataset preparation
  • Synthetic data generation
  • Quantization
  • Knowledge distillation
  • Evaluation datasets
  • Benchmark design

Run it your way

Open weights downloaded, quantized, optimised and deployed on infrastructure you control — for private AI, internal copilots, confidential documents, offline and edge.

  • Hugging Face
  • Transformers
  • Ollama
  • vLLM
  • llama.cpp
  • Text Generation Inference
  • ONNX Runtime
  • TensorRT-LLM
  • PyTorch
  • CUDA

AI that sees, hears, reads and speaks.

  • Text
  • Image
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Documents
  • Computer vision
  • OCR
  • Document intelligence
  • Image understanding
  • Image generation
  • Speech-to-text
  • Text-to-speech
  • Video understanding
  • Visual question answering
  • Document extraction

AI that can talk to your customers

  1. Caller
  2. Speech to text
  3. Model / agent
  4. CRM & tools
  5. Text to speech
  6. Customer
  • Speech recognition
  • Speech synthesis
  • Multilingual voice
  • Conversational IVR
  • Voice agents
  • Call routing
  • Call summarisation
  • Transcription
  • Sentiment analysis
  • CRM integration
  • Real-time interaction

Beyond generative AI.

Plenty of business problems are still best solved by a well-specified model on your own numbers, not by a language model. Forecasting, fraud, churn and segmentation usually fall in that bucket.

  • Predictive analytics
  • Classification
  • Regression
  • Recommendation systems
  • Anomaly detection
  • Fraud detection
  • Forecasting
  • Clustering
  • Ranking
  • Computer vision
  • NLP
  • Time-series modelling
  • Optimisation
  • Customer segmentation
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • XGBoost
  • LightGBM
  • Hugging Face
  • ONNX
  • MLflow

A demo can look smart. Production needs proof.

  1. Model
  2. Inference
  3. GPU
  4. Container
  5. Orchestration
  6. Monitoring
  7. Production
  • Infrastructure

    Models need somewhere to run, and inference cost is a design decision, not an invoice.

    • CUDA
    • TensorRT
    • vLLM
    • Ollama
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • AWS
    • Azure
    • Google Cloud
    • Private GPU servers
  • Evaluation

    A demo can look smart. Production AI needs evidence that it is right often enough.

    • Accuracy evaluation
    • Retrieval evaluation
    • Hallucination testing
    • Latency testing
    • Token and cost analysis
    • Model comparison
    • Benchmark datasets
    • Regression testing
    • Safety testing
    • Human evaluation
    • Observability
  • Security

    Private data needs private thinking — especially once a model can call tools.

    • Data isolation
    • Access control
    • Prompt injection defence
    • PII protection
    • Tenant isolation
    • Audit logging
    • Output validation
    • Tool permission boundaries
    • Secure model deployment

Higher-risk systems get security testing folded into the lifecycle. Cybersecurity services

AI should work with your business.

Connected to the systems you already run, not standing beside them as one more isolated tool.

  • CRM
  • ERP
  • E-commerce
  • Accounting
  • HR systems
  • Databases
  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • Webhooks
  • SaaS platforms
  • Internal software
  • Customer operations

    AI support, voice agents, knowledge assistants, ticket automation.

  • Sales

    Lead qualification, sales assistants, CRM intelligence, proposal generation.

  • Operations

    Workflow automation, document processing, data extraction, decision support.

  • Knowledge

    Enterprise search, RAG, internal copilots, document intelligence.

  • Product

    AI-powered SaaS, AI features, in-product assistants, recommendation engines.

  • Management

    Business intelligence, forecasting, decision support, automated reporting.

Building the surrounding systems too? Digital foundation

How AI adoption actually works.

Nobody should say “we'll add AI”. This is the sequence that turns a business problem into something running in production.

  • 01

    Discover

    What the business actually needs, before any model is mentioned.

  • 02

    Identify opportunities

    Where AI creates value — and where it plainly does not.

  • 03

    Audit data

    What data and infrastructure exist, and what state they are in.

  • 04

    Select architecture

    Model, retrieval strategy, deployment shape, cost envelope.

  • 05

    Prototype

    The smallest thing that proves or kills the idea.

  • 06

    Evaluate

    Accuracy, latency, cost and failure modes measured, not assumed.

  • 07

    Build

    The production system, with guardrails and observability from the start.

  • 08

    Deploy

    Into your infrastructure, with the security posture the data requires.

  • 09

    Monitor

    Quality, drift, cost and behaviour watched once real users arrive.

  • 10

    Improve

    Retrieval tuning, routing, prompts, models — an operating loop.

The AI engineering stack.

Models, serving, frameworks, vector stores, classical ML, fine-tuning and the infrastructure underneath.

Showing 40 of 60 technologies

  • OpenAI

    Foundation models

  • Anthropic

    Foundation models

  • Google Gemini

    Foundation models

  • xAI

    Foundation models

  • Mistral

    Foundation models

  • Meta Llama

    Foundation models

  • Qwen

    Foundation models

  • DeepSeek

    Foundation models

  • GLM

    Foundation models

  • Kimi

    Foundation models

  • MiniMax

    Foundation models

  • Baichuan

    Foundation models

  • Yi

    Foundation models

  • Gemma

    Foundation models

  • Phi

    Foundation models

  • Hugging Face

    Model platforms

  • Ollama

    Model platforms

  • vLLM

    Model platforms

  • llama.cpp

    Model platforms

  • TensorRT-LLM

    Model platforms

  • ONNX Runtime

    Model platforms

  • Text Generation Inference

    Model platforms

  • LangChain

    LLM & agents

  • LangGraph

    LLM & agents

  • LlamaIndex

    LLM & agents

  • CrewAI

    LLM & agents

  • AutoGen

    LLM & agents

  • Semantic Kernel

    LLM & agents

  • OpenAI Agents SDK

    LLM & agents

  • MCP

    LLM & agents

  • pgvector

    Vector & search

  • Qdrant

    Vector & search

  • Milvus

    Vector & search

  • Weaviate

    Vector & search

  • Pinecone

    Vector & search

  • Chroma

    Vector & search

  • FAISS

    Vector & search

  • Elasticsearch

    Vector & search

  • OpenSearch

    Vector & search

  • PyTorch

    Machine learning

AI is not a feature. It is a new computing layer.

Tell us what you are trying to automate, predict, build or improve. We'll work out what AI can do, what it shouldn't do, which model fits, what architecture makes sense, and how to take it into production.

  • What you want to automate
  • What data you hold
  • Where it must run
  • What it connects to
  • What accuracy is worth

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