How the work runs, and what it costs
How engagements run, how they are quoted, and where
the line sits on work that will be assessed.
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We build across applied AI and machine learning, data engineering, cybersecurity, cloud and full-stack development, IoT, blockchain, computer vision and NLP. Engagements fall into three kinds: commercial development for companies, research infrastructure for university groups, and declared co-development on academic work — where what we build and what the student builds is agreed in writing before anything starts.
We work through the requirement for technical feasibility, agree the scope and the timeline, and — on academic engagements — write down which components we build and which you build. Nothing starts until that scope is agreed, and on academic work until your department has the declaration.
It depends on complexity, the feature set, documentation and testing. A small build can land in a few weeks; research infrastructure and production systems need longer, and we would rather cut scope than compress testing. You get the estimate before the engagement starts, and you hear about slippage while there is still time to act on it.
Yes. For commercial and research work we take the concept through architecture, implementation and documentation, and hand over a running system. Where the work will be submitted for academic assessment, the same engineering happens against a scope that names which components are ours and which are yours — and that scope goes to your department.
Structured development practice: version control with reviewed history, code review before anything lands, tests on the paths that matter, and documentation written from the implementation. Every build is original work — we do not resell a previous engagement, and on academic work the declared split is what keeps originality verifiable rather than merely asserted.
Yes. Deployment assistance, technical clarification, issue resolution and any maintenance in the agreed scope. A system nobody can run once we step away was not delivered, so handover support is part of the engagement rather than an upsell.