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Sovereign AI systems. Research engineering for ambitious teams.

We help mid-sized organizations put private AI to work and collaborate with research teams on demanding machine-learning systems.

Private by designKeep models and sensitive data under deliberate control.

Evidence-ledMeasure progress against reproducible technical criteria.

Built to transferOwn the resulting system, documentation, and decisions.

Control Reproducibility

Local systems
to institutional scale

Research ideas
to reproducible evidence

Two practices

A focused partner for systems and research.

The common thread is engineering discipline: clear constraints, testable claims, and systems that remain useful after the engagement ends.

01 For organizations

Sovereign AI systems

Private AI infrastructure designed around your data, operational constraints, and path from pilot to production.

  • — Enterprise architecture
  • — On-prem model pilots
  • — Inference and AI gateways
  • — Desktop-to-cloud scaling
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02 For labs and institutions

Research engineering

Reproducible ML systems and focused engineering collaboration for teams working beyond standard model recipes.

  • — Research pipelines
  • — Benchmark reproduction
  • — Custom model components
  • — Institutional compute
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Technical experience

Specific tools. Broader judgment.

We select technologies for the operating environment and research question—not for novelty alone.

Private inference

Tune and operate local models with vLLM, llama.cpp, SGLang, and fit-for-purpose serving layers.

Enterprise integration

Connect models to useful applications through Model Context Protocol, AI gateways, and deliberate cloud on-ramps.

Research systems

Build reproducible MLflow pipelines, evaluation harnesses, custom CUDA kernels, and PyTorch model components.

Compute at scale

Move workloads from a local workstation to H200, GH200, and Blackwell systems with practical SLURM support.

Representative research domain

Protein language models

Protein modeling is one example of our research engineering practice: technically specialized work conducted in service of a collaborator’s scientific question.

From wet-lab context to model. Data preparation, PEFT, custom loss functions, and training implementations.

Interpretation. t-SNE, UMAP, attention heat maps, and gradient-weighted attention rollout.

Model families. Experience spanning AntiBERTy, AntiBinder, ESM-2, MINT, and protein–protein interaction tasks.

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How we work

From uncertainty to a transferable result.

  1. 01

    Define the evidence

    Agree on the decision, benchmark, or operational outcome the work must support.

  2. 02

    Build the smallest proof

    Test assumptions in a bounded pilot with visible tradeoffs, risks, and measurements.

  3. 03

    Transfer the capability

    Deliver documented systems your team can operate, reproduce, and extend.

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Bring the problem, the constraints, and what you need to prove.

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