Applied intelligence lab
We take AI out of the demo and into production. Strategy, research, and shipped systems — for teams who need results, not theater.
What we do
Four disciplines, one outcome: deployed
Most AI initiatives die between the slide deck and the server. Our entire practice exists in that gap.
Model strategy
We map your workflows against what frontier and open models can actually do today — and give you a build/buy/wait answer you can defend to a board.
Applied research
Fine-tuning, retrieval architectures, evaluation harnesses. The unglamorous 80% that separates a demo from a dependable system.
Production systems
We ship the software around the model: pipelines, guardrails, observability, fallbacks. Intelligence that survives contact with real traffic.
Team enablement
Embedded residencies that leave your engineers fluent. We measure success by how quickly you stop needing us.
How we work
Six weeks, four phases, zero mystique
Diagnose
Two weeks inside your data and workflows. Out: a ranked map of where intelligence pays.
Prototype
A working system against real data in thirty days, with an eval suite that tells the truth.
Harden
Guardrails, latency budgets, cost curves, failure drills. Boring on purpose.
Hand over
Your team runs it. We stay on a thin retainer for the weird edge cases.
Case metrics
Numbers we let clients audit
“Meridian replaced our nine-step claims triage with a system that clears 84% of cases before a human ever opens the file.”VP Operations · Continental insurer
The lab
Small by design, senior by default
No pyramids, no juniors learning on your dime. Everyone who touches your system has shipped one before.
Dr. Ife Adeyemi
Research leadEx-lab scientist. Believes every claim should come with an eval.
Mara Kovač
Systems principalBuilt trading infrastructure. Treats latency budgets as sacred.
Theo Sandoval
Strategy partnerTranslates model capability into operating margin, fluently.
Rin Nakahara
Enablement directorHas taught 400+ engineers to stop prompt-guessing and start measuring.
Contact
Bring us the problem everyone keeps deferring
One page on what you are trying to do. We reply within two working days with an honest read — including “don’t build this.”
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