Machine learning

Models built on what you already know

When general-purpose LLMs are not enough, custom machine learning takes over. We train forecasting, classification and vision models on your data, ship them to production and keep them healthy over time — with full governance.

8-14 wks

From the first dataset to a model in production with active monitoring

95%+

Typical accuracy reached on document and image classification use cases

24/7

Prediction observability with automatic alerts on drift and degradation

When you truly need a model built for you

Off-the-shelf models are great at talking, writing and summarising. But when the problem is very specific — forecasting demand for a single SKU, spotting a defect on a production line, flagging fraud or recommending the right product to the right customer — you need a model trained on your data. That is the daily job of our ML engineers.

We start from your data, not from the models

Before training anything we assess data quality, volume and representativeness. If needed we enrich it, label it with AI-assisted workflows and build a robust data pipeline.

MLOps as standard, not luxury

Every model ships with versioning, automated evals, canary releases, rollback and operational dashboards. No mystery models that no one knows how to update.

Private, cloud or on-premise

If your data cannot leave your infrastructure we train and run the models on-prem. Otherwise we use managed GPUs on AWS, Azure or GCP — your call.

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Nightly retraining with drift detection

A small scheduler that every night checks data drift, decides whether the model needs retraining and registers a new tracked version.

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The model families we build

We pick the right technique for the problem without dogma. Combinations of models often beat the single best one.

Forecasting

Demand, sales, consumption

Time-series models (Prophet, N-BEATS, temporal Transformers) to plan production, inventory, energy, shifts and cash flow with declared error margins.

  • Multi-horizon and probabilistic forecasting
  • Seasonality, holidays and campaign handling
  • Rigorous backtesting and production monitoring
Classification

Documents, transactions, intents

We route invoices, emails, tickets and transactions into business categories with custom models or fine-tuned pretrained encoders.

  • Document AI for invoices, contracts, delivery notes
  • Fraud and AML detection
  • Intent detection for bots and automatic routing
Computer vision

Quality, OCR, recognition

We train vision models for in-line quality control, handwriting reading, object tracking and visual compliance.

  • Object detection (YOLO, DETR) and segmentation
  • Layout-aware OCR and extraction
  • Edge deployment to cameras and industrial devices
Recommendation

Products, content, offers

Hybrid recommender engines (collaborative + content + contextual) optimising for conversion, retention or margin — not just clicks.

  • Two-tower and sequence models
  • Embedded A/B tests and contextual bandits
  • Cold-start protection and catalogue management
Anomaly detection

Maintenance, fraud, security

Unsupervised and semi-supervised models that flag out-of-pattern behaviour in real time on sensor, log or transaction data.

  • Predictive maintenance for industrial assets
  • Fraud detection for payments and access
  • Dynamic threshold alerting
Structured NLP

Extraction, entity linking, sentiment

When you need deterministic answers on text — not free-form generation — we build traditional NLP pipelines with predictable performance and low cost.

  • Custom named entity recognition
  • Relation extraction and knowledge graphs
  • Sentiment and aspect mining for voice of customer

Our ML method

We remove the risk of ending up with an interesting model that nobody can use.

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1. Data discovery & feasibility

We inspect the available data, quantify signal vs noise, define the business metric and decide whether ML is the right tool — or whether a simpler approach wins.

Output: versioned dataset, feasibility score, statistical baseline, agreed success metric.

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2. Offline prototype

We build multiple baselines and compare with modern techniques. Together we pick which model is worth pursuing, measuring accuracy plus cost and latency.

Output: reproducible notebooks, model card, bias and limits report, recommendation.

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3. Production and MLOps

We package the model as a robust service, deploy with canary release, monitor for drift and retraining. Then we hand the keys to you — or run it for you with an SLA.

Output: live service, model CI/CD, monitoring dashboard, retraining plan.

Technology stack

We choose stacks that do not lock you to any single vendor and respect your IT constraints.

ML frameworks

PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, JAX

MLOps

MLflow, Weights & Biases, DVC, Feast, Kubeflow, Vertex AI Pipelines

Serving

TorchServe, Triton, BentoML, SageMaker, Azure ML, KServe

Observability

Evidently AI, Arize, Fiddler, custom Grafana dashboards

Data

Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Airflow, dbt, Kafka

Infrastructure

AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, GCP Vertex AI, on-premise GPUs, Kubernetes

Got data? Let us see what it can predict

A free session with one of our ML engineers to understand if your dataset is ready and which models could actually move the needle.

Frequently asked questions

Questions about custom machine learning

When you need a predictive model trained on your data and how we ship it to production.

What problems does custom machine learning solve?
All the ones where traditional rules are too rigid and LLMs too generic: demand forecasting, sales and energy forecasting, document and transaction classification, vision-based quality control, product recommendation, fraud prevention and predictive maintenance.
How much data do we need to train a model?
It depends on complexity. To classify documents 2,000-10,000 labelled samples usually suffice. For forecasting 2-3 years of history is enough. When data is scarce we use transfer learning from pretrained models and data augmentation. During the initial audit we tell you whether your data is enough — before you spend.
Which frameworks and clouds do you use?
PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM. MLflow, Weights & Biases for tracking. Training on AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, GCP Vertex AI or on-premise GPUs. Serving on TorchServe, Triton, BentoML or KServe on Kubernetes.
How do you prevent model drift over time?
With MLOps. Every model has drift monitoring on inputs and predictions, automated quality thresholds, scheduled or drift-triggered retraining, and automatic rollback if a new version worsens metrics.
Who maintains the model after release?
You with our support, or we do it under SLA. We always deliver model cards, operational docs and retraining runbooks, so hand-off is possible anytime.