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    Frontier-grade models, tiny footprint, fully owned

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    Stop overpaying for frontier models.

    We help replace oversized general-purpose models with smaller, specialized systems engineered around your data, workflows, and infrastructure.

    Picking the right model for the job.

    As AI moves from demos into core products and workflows, the requirements change. Enterprises need models that are economical at scale, predictable in production, deployable inside their infrastructure, and optimized for the work they actually perform.

    That is the layer we build.

    SLMs for enterprise deployment

    Purpose-built capabilities that reduce cost, improve performance, cut latency, and give enterprises greater control over how and where their AI runs.

    Do more with less compute

    Specialized models dramatically reduce the infrastructure required for production AI.

    • Lower inference cost per request
    • Smaller GPU footprint and higher throughput
    • Better economics at enterprise scale
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    Research is our unfair advantage.

    Our research team works across model architecture, training, post-training, evaluation, and inference to build foundation models and production systems that go beyond off-the-shelf capabilities.

    Foundation model research

    Train models, not just prompts.

    We design datasets, tokenization strategies, training objectives and pre-training runs to understand where focused models can match or outperform much larger systems.

    Dataset design · Tokenization · Pre-training · Scaling

    Model architecture

    Question every architectural default.

    We test model structures, routing strategies, objective functions and parameter allocation through controlled experiments and ablations.

    Architecture · Ablations · Routing · Multimodality

    Post-training & evaluation

    Turn model behavior into evidence.

    We build task-specific evaluation suites, run comparative benchmarks and develop post-training methods around the capabilities and failure modes that matter in practice.

    Fine-tuning · Preference optimization · Evals · Reliability

    Inference & systems

    Research does not stop at the checkpoint.

    We study quantization, decoding, batching, caching and serving architectures to improve latency, throughput, memory use and inference cost.

    Quantization · Decoding · Serving · Edge

    Trained, not wrapped

    We build and train models instead of limiting our work to third-party API orchestration.

    Experiment-driven

    Model decisions are supported by comparative runs, ablations and measured results.

    Benchmarked against the best

    Specialist systems are evaluated against credible frontier and open-model baselines.

    Improved in production

    Deployment behavior continuously informs the next research cycle.

    Your next AI system should start with the workload, not the model.

    Start with the AI problem in front of you.

    Cost per outcome

    Replace an oversized model and reduce spends

    Benchmark smaller, specialized models against your real workload. Preserve the quality you need while reducing cost, latency and vendor dependence.

    • Baseline quality, latency and cost
    • Test specialist alternatives
    • De-risk the migration

    What you get

    Benchmark results, a validated model recommendation and a practical migration path.

    Benchmark my workload

    Task success rate

    Fix an underperforming AI stack

    Find where quality, latency, reliability and spend break down across models, retrieval, routing and serving infrastructure.

    • Trace cost and latency
    • Evaluate real failure modes
    • Rank improvements by impact

    What you get

    A measured optimization roadmap ranked by impact, effort and expected payback.

    Audit my AI stack

    Time to production

    Build around the workflow

    Turn a high-value enterprise workflow into a deployable AI system with the right model, evaluation suite and infrastructure.

    • Define the task and success criteria
    • Select, adapt or train the model
    • Deploy, monitor and improve

    What you get

    A production-ready system built and evaluated around your workflow.

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