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Engagement modelThe same pipeline. Pointed at your problem.
We fine-tune speech, language, embedding, and multimodal models on your data — and give you weights you can host yourself. The output is a model, not a vendor lock-in.
When to call us
You probably need a custom model if…
General models miss your jargon
Your industry has acronyms, drug names, part numbers, or local names that get garbled by general LLMs and ASR systems. A small fine-tune fixes 80% of those errors.
Your data can't go to the cloud
Healthcare, finance, government, regulated research. We train on your hardware (or in an enclave) and hand back weights you keep.
You speak a language they don't
Tigrigna, Amharic, Afaan Oromoo, Somali, Afar, Sidamo — and the long tail beyond. We've built the data pipelines for under-resourced languages.
Cost-per-call is killing you
Frontier APIs at scale are expensive. A small fine-tuned model running on your own GPU is often 10–100× cheaper per request, and faster to first token.
How an engagement runs
Five steps. No surprises.
Scoping & eval design
We sit with you and your data, define the tasks the model has to do, and write the eval suite first. No "ship it and pray" — the success bar is set before training.
Data curation
Cleaning, deduping, alignment, confidence scoring, gold-set review. We turn whatever you have — transcripts, PDFs, support tickets, audio — into a training manifest you can audit.
Training & iteration
Pick the right base model (Llama, Qwen, Whisper, Piper, your in-house checkpoint), train, evaluate, iterate. You see eval numbers and qualitative samples weekly.
Deployment
Hand-off to your hardware, our managed inference, or both. We package the model in the runtime that fits — vLLM, llama.cpp, Triton, whatever you're already running.
Maintenance & refresh
Quarterly retrains as your data and tasks evolve. We watch the eval suite for regression and re-tune on the deltas instead of starting from scratch every time.
You own the weights
The output of an engagement is a model checkpoint, the eval suite, and the data pipeline that produced them. If you fire us tomorrow, the model still works.
What we tune
Beyond LLMs.
Language
Llama, Qwen, Mistral, Gemma. Continued pretraining and instruction tuning. Domain adaptation. Long-context fine-tuning.
Speech recognition
Whisper-class encoder-decoder, parakeet, conformer-CTC. Domain audio, dialect, accent, and vocabulary adaptation.
Speech synthesis
Piper, VibeVoice, XTTS-class voice models. Multi-speaker, multi-language, and consented voice cloning.
Embeddings
Domain-tuned embedding models that beat off-the-shelf cosine similarity for your retrieval task.
Start a project
Tell us what you're building.
We'll respond within two business days with either a yes-and-here's-how, a no-and-here's-why, or a follow-up question. We don't waste each other's time.
