Private AI & Inference Advisory

No, that is the point of Advise. You bring a use case and your constraints; we narrow the field to a shortlist and a sensible approach before you spend on hardware or build.

Sometimes an API is the right answer, and we will say so. Advice is model-vendor and hardware-vendor independent, and the recommendation can be to self-host, use an API or mix both, based on your data handling, privacy, residency and cost.

Yes. An Advise day can focus on adopting them: where they fit your teams and workflows, managing context efficiently, using agents and skills well, using them efficiently across your organisation, whether they can run against your own models and hardware, and the governance around them, including what stays local versus what goes to a cloud API. A full organisation-wide rollout is quoted separately. We are independent of these vendors too, so the advice follows your needs.

Yes on the advice, by discussion on the delivery. The Advise add-ons tell you whether fine-tuning is worth it for your use cases and how to approach it. Delivering fine-tuning work is a conversation, scoped separately, so we agree what is realistic before anyone commits.

One use case or decision: a half-day discovery session, then a half-day recommendation and walkthrough with a written proposal and a recommended next step. More use cases, a broader investigation or an organisation-wide programme are quoted separately. Next is often Discover, to turn the direction into an architecture and hardware plan, or Validate or Optimise if you already own GPUs. Your Advise fee is credited in full against any of them if you go ahead within 90 days of the walkthrough. Each stage is independently purchasable, so you can also stop at the advice.