The deployment method behind every case
Each engagement follows this sequence. We have refined it over 38 projects since 2019.
Week 1: data audit and problem framing
We spend five days inside your existing data infrastructure. No slide decks. We write a single-page brief that names the prediction target, the data gaps, and the integration constraints. If the project is not viable, we say so here and charge only for the audit.
Halved scoping time for a Midlands logistics firmWeeks 2 to 4: rapid model build
Two engineers build the first working model against a frozen snapshot of your data. We test three architectures minimum before choosing one. You see accuracy metrics at the end of week three, not month three.
Week 5: integration dry run
The model connects to your live systems in a shadow mode. It scores real inputs but does not act on them. Your operations team watches outputs alongside their own decisions for five working days.
Caught a labelling error at a healthcare client before go-liveWeek 6 onward: monitored release
We switch the model to live scoring with automated drift alerts. A monthly report lands in your inbox showing accuracy, latency, and data-quality flags. We stay on retainer for retraining cycles or step back entirely once your team is confident.
Selected case studies
Four deployments that illustrate different problem shapes. Each summary links a real constraint to a measurable result.
Parcel routing for a West Midlands distributor
Their manual sorting rules misrouted 9% of parcels. We trained a gradient-boosted classifier on 14 months of scan data. After six weeks in production the misroute rate sat at 2.3%, saving roughly £18,000 per month in re-delivery costs.
9% → 2.3% misroute rate
Readmission risk scoring for an NHS trust
The trust needed to flag patients likely to return within 30 days. We built a logistic regression pipeline over discharge summaries and lab results. The model now runs nightly and feeds the community nursing team's priority list. Readmissions in the pilot cohort dropped 14% in the first quarter.
14% reduction in 30-day readmissionsDemand forecasting for a speciality food retailer
Short shelf life meant every over-order went to waste. We combined weather, event calendar, and two years of EPOS data into a daily forecast model. Waste fell by a fifth within eight weeks. The retailer now runs the model themselves on a scheduled cloud function we set up during handover.
20% waste reduction, fully handed overContract clause extraction for a regional law firm
Junior associates spent hours tagging obligation clauses in lease agreements. We fine-tuned a transformer model on 1,200 annotated paragraphs. The system now highlights clauses with 91% precision, cutting review time from four hours to forty minutes per document.
4 hours → 40 minutes per contractA note on why most AI pilots fail
The usual story: a data-science team builds a notebook demo, the board nods, and then nothing happens for six months because nobody planned the integration. We have watched this pattern at three organisations before they called us.
The fix is not more data scientists. It is a deployment engineer who sits between the model and the production database, writing the glue code, the monitoring hooks, and the fallback logic that keeps the business running when the model is wrong.
We brought Aitrove in after our internal team had a working prototype for eleven months with no path to production. They shipped it in five weeks. Operations director, Midlands logistics group
That quote is typical. The model itself is rarely the bottleneck. The bottleneck is the gap between a Jupyter notebook and a system that scores live data at 2 a.m. without anyone awake.
Capability map
What we build, the tools we use, and where each capability sits in terms of typical project length.
| Capability | Typical tools | Usual timeline | Delivery format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Predictive analytics | XGBoost, LightGBM, scikit-learn | 4 to 6 weeks | Scheduled cloud function + dashboard |
| Natural language processing | Hugging Face transformers, spaCy | 5 to 8 weeks | REST API or batch pipeline |
| Computer vision | PyTorch, YOLO, OpenCV | 6 to 10 weeks | Edge device or cloud endpoint |
| Data engineering | dbt, Airflow, BigQuery | 2 to 4 weeks | Managed pipeline with alerting |
| Model monitoring and retraining | MLflow, Evidently, custom dashboards | Ongoing retainer | Monthly report + automated alerts |
Find your path
Not sure where to start? Pick the description that fits your situation.
We have data but no model
You collect structured data in a warehouse or spreadsheets. You suspect there are patterns worth acting on but have no machine-learning capability in-house. We start with a one-week audit and scope the first model.
Request an audit →We have a model stuck in a notebook
Your data team built something promising months ago. It works on test data. Nobody has connected it to production systems. We specialise in exactly this gap and can usually ship within five weeks.
Talk about deployment →We have a live model that drifts
Accuracy is declining and nobody is sure why. We set up monitoring, diagnose the drift source, and build a retraining schedule. Most monitoring engagements take two weeks to stand up and then run on a monthly retainer.
Discuss monitoring →Readiness check
Four signals that tell us a project will succeed.
A named decision-maker
Someone with budget authority who can approve integration changes within a week, not a quarter.
At least six months of digital records
We can work with messy data, but we need volume. Six months of transaction, sensor, or event logs is the minimum for a useful model.
A clear cost of being wrong
If you can quantify what a bad prediction costs, whether in pounds, hours, or wasted stock, we can measure return on the model from day one.
Willingness to run a shadow period
The model needs to observe live decisions before it makes them. Clients who skip this step regret it. We insist on at least five days of parallel running.
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