applied ai · every layer of the stack

AI is everywhere.Production is not.

Whether it's the foundations of the data lake, the pipes that feed it, or the agents deployed across your procurement process. We place the people who build it.

deploy — invoice-agent

running

  1. Infra
  2. Data
  3. Platform
  4. Deploy
  5. Prod

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the stack

AI that works in production is built by four kinds of people.

We hire across all four, from the engineers holding it up to the executives who own it. Hiring from Senior to Chief · VP.

01

AI deployment

Ships it into production

02

AI platforms

Serves and runs the models

03

AI data

Feeds it and retrieves from it

04

AI infrastructure

The compute underneath

The gap we close

The AI market is full of people who can talk about use cases. We place the ones who ship them.

What the market sends

  • ai_strategy_v7_FINAL_final.pptx
  • a "transformation committee" that never ships
  • chatbot pilot, paused after the demo
  • another prompt-engineering workshop

What we place

  • invoice-agent v1.4 live in production
  • eval suite green on every release
  • monitoring, fallbacks, on-call runbook
  • board report: payback measured, not promised

Coverage

The people most firms have never met.

AI deployment

01

Senior engineer → Chief AI Officer

Takes the model into the business. Owns what ships, the evals that gate it, and the fallback when it breaks. Sits with the CFO in the morning, ships production code in the afternoon.

TitlesAI Deployment Architect · Forward Deployed Engineer · Head of AI Delivery · Chief AI Officer

AI platforms

02

Senior engineer → VP AI Platform

Makes deployment repeatable. Serving, inference, orchestration, observability. The reason the second model ships faster than the first, and the reason the first one stays up.

TitlesML Platform Engineer · MLOps Lead · Head of ML Platform · VP AI Platform

AI data

03

Senior engineer → VP AI Data

Feeds the model and gets the answer back out. Pipelines, retrieval, context. Decides what the model actually sees, which decides whether anyone trusts it.

TitlesAI Data Engineer · Retrieval Engineer · Head of AI Data · VP Data

AI infrastructure

04

Senior engineer → VP AI Compute

The compute underneath. GPU clusters, scheduling, training fabric, capacity. Building the data centre is someone else's job. Making the GPUs useful is this one.

TitlesGPU Platform Engineer · Cluster Engineer · Head of AI Compute · VP Compute

Hundreds

AI roles closed

Engineer → C-suite

Every level we hire

London → Singapore

And everywhere in between

5 yrs

Building AI teams

If your AI is stuck in pilot, we should talk.

Four layers. One view.

Applied AI talent for the firms taking models out of the pilot and into production - across deployment, platforms, data and the infrastructure underneath.

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