Specialized AI development & consulting
Ship AI that outlasts the model it launched on.
We design, build, and maintain production AI systems for companies that need them to work. Because we don't resell anyone's model or platform, our recommendations are shaped by your problem — not a partnership agreement.
What we do
Engineering first. Advice you can build on.
Every engagement is led by people who ship. Strategy that can't survive contact with production isn't strategy.
Applied AI development
For teams that need a system built
Production systems end to end — document pipelines, agents, retrieval, evaluation harnesses — architected so the model layer can be swapped without a rewrite.
How we build →Strategy & advisory
For teams deciding what to do
Build-versus-buy, vendor selection, roadmaps, and honest feasibility reads — grounded in what we've seen work in production, not in a slide library.
How we advise →Model evaluation & migration
For teams asking "which model?"
Benchmarks on your data, not leaderboards. We measure which model actually serves your workload, then manage the migration when switching pays for itself.
How we evaluate →Ongoing partnership
For systems that must keep working
Monitoring, model updates, cost optimization, and quarterly re-evaluations — because AI systems degrade quietly when nobody is measuring.
How we maintain →Agnostic by principle
We work across the model landscape and hold no reseller or referral agreements with any provider. When we recommend one, it's because it won on your workload.
Your edge stays yours
You've spent years building how you operate. Don't rent it back.
Your data, your workflows, your accumulated judgment about what "good" means — that's the moat. We build AI on top of it without taking a piece of it: no subscription that outlives the work, no vendor holding your process hostage, no trace of your data left behind.
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Zero data retention
When engagements touch third-party model APIs, we run under zero-data-retention, no-training terms by default — your data is processed and gone. It never trains anyone's model, ours included, and we put that in the contract.
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Owned, not rented
We build assets, not subscriptions. No per-seat license, no proprietary vallesAI runtime, no rent that continues after the work ends. When the engagement closes, the system — code, prompts, evals, docs — is yours outright.
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Model-agnostic infrastructure
The model sits behind an interface you own, with an evaluation harness watching it. When a better or cheaper model ships, you switch because the numbers say so — not when a vendor contract permits it.
How we work
Small scope first. Production always in view.
Every engagement follows the same arc, whether it's a four-week prototype or a year-long partnership.
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Discovery
We map the problem, your data, and your constraints — and tell you plainly if AI is the wrong tool. Some of our best advice has been "don't."
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Working prototype
A narrow, honest slice of the real system on your real data, with an evaluation harness from day one so quality is measured, not vibes.
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Production
Hardening, observability, cost controls, and failure handling. The unglamorous work that separates a demo from a system people rely on.
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Handover or partnership
Your team owns everything we build — code, evals, documentation. Stay with us for ongoing engineering, or take the keys. Both are good outcomes.
What you can hold us to
Commitments, not values.
Five clauses we put in writing at the start of every engagement — and expect to be held to.
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Clause 1
You own the work
Code, prompts, evaluation suites, and documentation are yours from day one. No proprietary runtime you're locked into after we leave.
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Clause 2
Measured, not demoed
Every system ships with an evaluation harness. We report accuracy, cost, and latency in numbers — before launch and after.
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Clause 3
No vendor incentives
We take no referral fees, resale margins, or co-marketing money from model providers. Our only revenue is client work.
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Clause 4
Seniors do the work
The people who scope your engagement are the people who build it. No handoff to a delivery team you've never met.
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Clause 5
We'll tell you not to build
If discovery shows AI is the wrong tool for your problem, the engagement ends with that advice — in writing, with our reasoning — not with a system.