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Applied AI consultingSan Francisco / Dubai

AI moves every week. Keeping up with it is our job, not yours.

We help businesses and researchers choose AI tools, train their teams, and build working systems. Our team brings experience in applied research, engineering, and technical strategy.

01 · The problem

Most organizations know AI matters.
They don't know what to do about it.

The hard part isn't the hype. It's knowing which tools matter to you, which to ignore, what to do first, and how to do it well.

We help you make those decisions and put them into practice. We can train your team, work through a plan with you, or build the systems you need.

02 · What we offer

AI training, strategy, and implementation.

Educate

Practical AI training built around your team's work.

Who it's for
  • TeamsTeams
  • SchoolsSchools
  • Research groupsResearchers
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Strategize

A roadmap for where AI fits, what to prioritize, and how to proceed.

Who it's for
  • FoundersFounders
  • Small businessesSmall biz
  • CTOs & ops VPsCTOs
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Implement

AI workflows, agents, and local deployments, with testing and handover.

Who it's for
  • Ops teamsOps teams
  • Solo operatorsSolo ops
  • Sensitive-data orgsSensitive data
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Who's taken part

People from these institutions have joined our workshops and webinars.

  • Harvard University
  • Columbia University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • University of Michigan
  • Duke University
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • New York University
  • Boston University
  • University of Washington
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • University College London
  • University of Toronto
  • McGill University
  • and others
03 · Why us

A team with experience in applied AI and production systems.

Applied, not theoretical.

We're a team of working practitioners with experience across San Francisco tech companies. Our perspective on AI is grounded in what we've actually built, used, and tested, not in slide decks.

Current because it has to be.

We're always evaluating AI models and tools. We assess new releases for the work our clients need and update our recommendations as the tools change.

Independent recommendations.

We don't resell anyone's platform. We compare tools against the task, data constraints, and operating costs, and explain the tradeoffs behind our recommendations.

04 · Client engagements

Selected work

Educate

AI upskilling for research practitioners.

Workshops and webinars on AI for research, analysis, and writing. Attended by 300+ practitioners from 60+ institutions across 17 countries.

300+ practitioners Read case
Implement

A growth team's ad audit agent.

Specialized AI agents audit an ad account and draft an optimization plan. A separate validator checks outputs against defined rules.

Checks at every hand-off Read case
05 · How it works

From the first conversation to handover.

STEP 01

Discovery

A free 30-minute call to discuss what you're working on and whether we can help.

STEP 02

Scope

A written proposal with deliverables, timeline, and price. You approve it before any work starts.

STEP 03

Deliver

We deliver the agreed work and review progress with you at each milestone.

STEP 04

Handover

We provide the agreed materials and handover. Any ongoing support is scoped with you.

The stack we work with

Models, tools, and infrastructure used in AI work.

See the full AI landscape
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic Anthropic
  • Google Google
  • xAI
  • Meta Meta
  • Cohere
  • Mistral AI Mistral AI
  • DeepSeek DeepSeek
  • QWen Qwen
  • Moonshot AI Moonshot AI
  • Z.ai Z.ai
  • TII TII
  • Microsoft
  • Perplexity Perplexity
  • Cursor Cursor
  • Notion Notion
  • OpenClaw OpenClaw
  • Cognition
  • Manus Manus
  • Replit Replit
  • Lovable
  • Midjourney logo Midjourney
  • Runway Runway
  • ByteDance ByteDance
  • Black Forest Labs Black Forest Labs
  • ElevenLabs ElevenLabs
  • HeyGen
  • Higgsfield
  • Kling AI
  • MiniMax MiniMax
  • Luma AI
  • Suno Suno
  • n8n n8n
  • Zapier Zapier
  • Make Make
  • LangChain LangChain
  • LlamaIndex LlamaIndex
  • CrewAI CrewAI
  • Pydantic Pydantic AI
  • NVIDIA NVIDIA
  • AWS
  • Hugging Face Hugging Face
  • OpenRouter OpenRouter
  • Groq Groq
  • Cerebras Cerebras
  • together.ai Together AI
  • Replicate Replicate
  • Vercel Vercel
  • Ollama Ollama
  • LM Studio LM Studio
Get in touch

If you're not sure what to do about AI, start here.

Book a discovery call. Thirty minutes, no charge, to discuss what you're working on and whether we can help.

Book a discovery call