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Most AI projects die in pilot.

The model works in a notebook and never reaches a user. We've shipped AI systems that operate in production — including the AI engine behind Microvest, which analyzes real-time Bitcoin market data and sentiment signals to power data-backed investment intelligence and surface personalized portfolio insights to users. We've also embedded LLMs directly into the Clust GPU cloud platform's production data pipelines for automated classification, structuring, and anomaly detection. RAG pipelines, AI agents, fine-tuning, and vector database integrations — engineered to deploy, monitor, and scale, with shipped track record across fintech and data infrastructure.

— The Problem

The patterns we see kill projects before they ship.

“Your AI demo wowed the board. It's been six months. It's still a demo.”

Pilot purgatory is structural, not technical. The work that takes a notebook to a production system — evaluation harnesses, prompt versioning, cost controls, fallback behaviour — is the work most teams skip and then can't recover from.

“Your LLM hallucinates citations. Your legal team isn't laughing.”

Hallucinations in regulated contexts aren't just embarrassing — they're liability. Solving them requires retrieval architecture, output validation, and human-in-the-loop patterns engineered with the same care as a financial system.

“Your RAG pipeline returns wrong results 30% of the time.”

Retrieval quality is almost always upstream of the model — chunking, embedding choice, hybrid search, re-ranking. Tuning the LLM rarely fixes a retrieval problem.

— Our Approach

How we engage, scope, and ship.

Step 01

Use-Case Triage

Distinguish what AI actually solves from what looks AI-shaped. Not every problem needs a model — some need a query.

Step 02

System Design

Retrieval, model, evaluation, monitoring, and cost design — the full system, not just the prompt.

Step 03

Production Build

Engineered like the rest of our infrastructure: testable, observable, deployable. Eval harnesses from day one.

Step 04

Operate & Iterate

Monitoring, drift detection, cost dashboards, and ongoing prompt / model evolution as your product evolves.

— What We Deliver

The full stack for this lane — engineered to live in production.

RAG & Retrieval

  • Document ingestion and chunking strategy
  • Embedding model selection and benchmarking
  • Hybrid search (vector + BM25) and re-ranking
  • Vector databases: Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, pgvector
  • Multi-tenant retrieval with permission-aware search

LLM Engineering

  • Fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, full fine-tune)
  • Prompt engineering and versioning
  • Function-calling and structured output
  • Multi-model routing and fallback
  • Self-hosted and privacy-first deployments

AI Agents & Autonomous Systems

  • Agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, custom)
  • Tool-use and function-calling integration
  • Memory architecture (short-term, long-term, episodic)
  • Multi-agent coordination patterns
  • Production-safe autonomous decision systems

MLOps & Evaluation

  • Eval harness design (LLM-as-judge, human eval, golden datasets)
  • Cost monitoring and per-feature attribution
  • Drift detection and re-training triggers
  • A/B testing for prompts and models
  • Output safety, content filtering, hallucination guards
— The Proof

AI systems shipped in production fintech and data infrastructure.

Microvest — AI Bitcoin investment platform. Production engineering for the AI engine that analyzes real-time Bitcoin market data and sentiment signals to power data-backed investment intelligence and personalized portfolio insights. Paired with full custodian management and BTC transaction infrastructure.

Clust GPU cloud platform. Production LLM-embedded data pipelines — automated classification, semantic enrichment, structuring, and anomaly detection at platform volume.

We apply the same engineering discipline to AI that powers our blockchain and cloud work. The difference between a notebook prototype and a production AI system is operational rigour — eval harnesses, monitoring, fallback behaviour, and cost controls — and that's where most teams stall.

Read the case studies →
  • Microvest AI engine — real-time Bitcoin market data and sentiment analysis, data-backed investment intelligence, personalized portfolio insights for users.
  • Clust LLM-embedded pipelines — production classification, semantic enrichment, structuring, and anomaly detection at platform volume.
  • Privacy-first AI architectures available for clients with strong legal and infrastructure boundaries.
  • Eval harnesses and cost monitoring built in from day one — not bolted on after launch.
  • Same operational discipline that runs production blockchain and data infrastructure — applied to AI.
Drawn from twelve years of named and confidential engagements; the AI work named here is a sample.
— Engagement Models

Three ways to bring AlgoCoder into your build.

AI Strategy Call

Single-session strategy engagement to triage your AI ideas and recommend what's worth building. Best as a first conversation.

Pilot-to-Production

Take an existing notebook prototype to a production-grade system. Scoped, priced, delivered with eval harness and monitoring built in.

Dedicated AI Team

Senior AI engineers and ML practitioners focused on ongoing platform AI work over multiple quarters.

— Honest Answers

The questions enterprise buyers actually ask.

Have you shipped LLM products to production?
Yes. The Microvest AI Bitcoin investment engine and the Clust LLM-embedded data pipelines are both live production AI systems. We apply the same engineering discipline from blockchain and cloud delivery to AI work.
How do you handle data privacy?
Privacy-first architecture. Self-hosted models when needed, no data leaves your environment, contractual privacy enforcement at engineer level. We've built systems for clients with strong legal and infrastructure boundaries.
Do you work with OpenAI / Anthropic / open-source models?
All three. Model selection is driven by use case, privacy requirements, latency, and cost — not vendor preference. Most production systems benefit from multi-model routing with fallback.
Can you fine-tune a model for my domain?
Yes — LoRA, QLoRA, full fine-tunes. But fine-tuning is rarely the first answer. Most teams should exhaust prompt engineering and RAG before fine-tuning.
How do you evaluate AI systems?
Eval harnesses with golden datasets, LLM-as-judge for scaled evaluation, human review for high-stakes outputs. Built from day one, not bolted on after launch.
What's the cost of running production AI?
Highly variable — and managing it is half the engineering job. We build cost monitoring and per-feature attribution into every production system so the bill never surprises you.

Ship AI that survives first contact with users.

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