# Winder.AI

> Engineering-led AI and machine learning consulting and development. We build production AI systems for clients including Google, Microsoft and Stability AI. Stable Audio, which we built with Stability AI, was named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2023.

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- Site: https://winder.ai/
- Contact: info@winder.ai

## Services

- [AI Agent Development Services for Enterprise | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/ai-agent-development/): Custom and multi-agent AI systems built for production, not the demo. O'Reilly agent authors, shipping autonomous AI since 2013. Working code, no decks.
- [LLM Consulting & Development Services for Enterprise | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/llm-consulting-development/): LLM consulting services covering RAG, fine-tuning, multimodal LLMs and on-prem deployment, from the engineers behind Stable Audio and Shell's QA platform.
- [AI & ML Consulting & Development Services Since 2013 | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/ai-consulting-development/): Engineering-led AI consulting and development services. We build production AI systems for Google, Microsoft and Stability AI, including Stable Audio.
- [Reinforcement Learning Consulting by the O'Reilly RL Book Authors](https://winder.ai/services/reinforcement-learning-consulting-development/): Reinforcement learning consulting and development from the team that wrote O'Reilly's RL book. Custom environments, RLHF, production RL since 2013.
- [MLOps Consulting Services | Get Your Models Into Production](https://winder.ai/services/mlops-consulting-development/): MLOps consulting for models stuck short of production. Audits, MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker and Vertex AI builds, and managed pipelines, since 2013.
- [AI Product Development Services | Shipped Since 2013](https://winder.ai/services/ai-product-development/): AI product development services from the senior engineers who shipped Stable Audio, Grafana ML and Modzy. Building production AI products since 2013.
- [AI Integration Services | Connect AI To The Systems You Run](https://winder.ai/services/ai-integration-implementation/): AI integration services that connect LLMs, agents and ML pipelines to the ERPs, CRMs, warehouses and identity providers you already run. Since 2013.
- [Custom AI Development Services | Bespoke AI Solutions | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/custom-ai-development/): Bespoke custom AI development for companies that off-the-shelf tools don't fit. We design and build tailored LLM, agent and ML systems for your business, by senior engineers shipping commercial AI since 2013. Trusted by Stability AI, Lightning AI and Modzy.
- [Generative AI Consulting & Development Services | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/generative-ai-consulting-development/): Generative AI consulting and development services. We design, build and ship production GenAI across text, image, audio and code. Trusted by Stability AI, Google and Microsoft. O'Reilly authors. Since 2013.
- [Data Science Consulting Services Since 2013 | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/data-science-consulting/): Data science consulting services from a UK-registered consultancy founded in 2013. Predictive analytics, forecasting and anomaly detection in production.
- [AI Readiness Assessment | 7-Pillar Scorecard & Roadmap | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/ai-readiness-assessment/): Structured AI readiness assessment by senior AI engineers. Seven pillars scored, prioritised roadmap, optional pilot path. Trusted by Google, Microsoft and Shell since 2013.
- [Data Strategy Consulting | Get Your Data Ready for AI](https://winder.ai/services/data-strategy-consulting/): Data strategy consulting for companies whose AI is blocked by scattered, incomplete or drifting data. We fix the data layer, then build on it.
- [AI Business Automation Services & Managed Automation Agency | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/ai-business-automation/): Outsource repetitive business processes to a managed AI automation agency. We audit, build and run AI for invoice processing, data entry, contract review and back-office workflows. Senior engineers since 2013.
- [AI Governance Consulting | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/ai-governance-consulting/): AI governance consulting aligned to EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001. Policy, model risk, audit and assurance, delivered by senior AI engineers.


## Solutions

- [AI Workflow Automation & Document Intelligence Services | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/solutions/ai-workflow-automation/): AI automation services that turn manual workflows into reliable operations. From document processing to contract review — we audit, implement, and run it.
- [Dynamic Pricing Consulting & AI Revenue Management | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/solutions/ai-pricing-optimisation/): Dynamic pricing consulting and bespoke AI pricing systems for capacity-constrained industries. Audited, built and run by the authors of O'Reilly's RL book.
- [Document Automation for Financial Services | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/solutions/ai-document-processing/financial-services/): Custom AI document automation for financial services. Loan packs, KYC, statements, and regulatory filings extracted with full audit trails and FCA, SOX, and GDPR alignment.
- [Conversational AI for Insurance | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/solutions/conversational-ai/insurance/): Custom conversational AI for insurance carriers, MGAs, and brokers. FNOL triage, claims status, policy enquiries, and broker submission triage with audit trails.
- [Document Automation for Underwriting | Custom AI, Audit-Ready | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/solutions/ai-document-processing/underwriting/): Custom AI document automation for underwriters. Submissions, broker packs, loss runs and medical evidence extracted with full audit trails and confidence routing. Bespoke builds you own, not per-seat software.
- [Conversational AI for Retail | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/solutions/conversational-ai/retail/): Custom conversational AI for retailers. Returns, order status, product discovery, and store locator with live stock lookup across web, mobile, and WhatsApp.
- [Insurance Document Automation | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/solutions/ai-document-processing/insurance/): Custom AI document automation for insurance carriers and MGAs. Claims, FNOL, policy schedules, and broker submissions extracted with audit trails.
- [Intelligent Document Processing for Healthcare | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/solutions/ai-document-processing/healthcare/): Custom AI document processing for healthcare providers, payers, and digital health. Clinical letters, referrals, prior auth, and pathology reports extracted with HIPAA-grade audit.
- [Document Automation for Manufacturing | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/solutions/ai-document-processing/manufacturing/): Custom AI document automation for manufacturers. Purchase orders, BOMs, quality certificates, and engineering specs extracted with audit trails and ERP integration.
- [Document Automation for Real Estate | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/solutions/ai-document-processing/real-estate/): Custom AI document automation for real estate. Leases, title deeds, mortgage packs, and property reports extracted with audit trails and conveyancing system integration.


## Industries

- [AI value creation for investors and portfolio companies](https://winder.ai/industries/ai-consulting-venture-capital/): AI value creation for venture capital and private equity investors: find where AI changes each portfolio company's revenue, costs or risk, then build it.
- [Legal Services AI: Bespoke Engineering for Law Firms](https://winder.ai/industries/ai-consulting-legal/): Legal services AI engineered for your firm's clause playbook, your systems, and your data control requirements. Bespoke, not off-the-shelf.
- [AI Consulting for Manufacturing and Process Optimisation](https://winder.ai/industries/manufacturing/): AI consulting for manufacturing: process optimisation from tens of lab runs, reinforcement learning for process control, and AI agents for operations.
- [Custom AI Agents for Finance | FCA, SOX & GDPR Aligned | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/industries/finance/ai-agents/): Custom AI agent development for banks, asset managers and insurers: autonomous agents for research, KYC, operations and reconciliation, built with FCA, SOX and GDPR alignment by senior engineers.
- [Custom AI Agents for Healthcare | HIPAA, GDPR & MHRA Aligned | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/industries/healthcare/ai-agents/): Custom AI agents for healthcare providers, payers and life sciences: autonomous agents for clinical research, prior authorisation, intake and coding, built with HIPAA, GDPR and MHRA alignment by senior engineers.


## Recent writing

- [Harness Engineering: What We Learnt Building AI Agents](https://winder.ai/harness-engineering/): Harness engineering is choosing how much of an AI agent's loop to make deterministic. What we learnt doing it on three of our own agents, and where to start.
- [Copilot Studio vs Azure AI Foundry vs Build: What One Document Costs](https://winder.ai/copilot-studio-vs-azure-ai-foundry-cost/): Copilot Studio vs Azure AI Foundry vs building your own, costed on one real 236-page report: $725 a document against $37, and where the line falls.
- [vLLM vs Ollama vs SGLang: LLM Inference Compared 2026](https://winder.ai/vllm-vs-ollama-vs-sglang-llm-inference-comparison/): vLLM vs Ollama vs SGLang on one H100 with Qwen3.8-27B and Llama 3.1 8B: throughput, latency and cost per million tokens, harness included.
- [How to Build an Automated Pricing Algorithm](https://winder.ai/automated-pricing-algorithm/): How to build an automated pricing algorithm: why fitting a demand curve fails, and a step-by-step build in an open-source simulator, up to RL.
- [DeepSeek Harness vs OpenCode: Which One We Run in 2026](https://winder.ai/deepseek-harness-vs-opencode/): DeepSeek Harness vs OpenCode 2.0, compared from running both in our own fleet: architecture, model support, cost, containment and which one suits a team.
- [A Comparison of AI Agent Harnesses in 2026](https://winder.ai/ai-agent-harness-comparison/): A comparison of AI agent harnesses in 2026: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Qwen Code, DeepSeek Harness, Goose and Zed Agent, plus when you need a framework.
- [AI Agent Evaluation: How to Test an Agent Before You Ship It](https://winder.ai/ai-agent-evaluation-testing-guide/): AI agent evaluation without a vendor selling the answer: which metrics to measure at each layer, how to build an eval suite that runs in CI, and when a platform is worth buying.
- [Why AI Agents Fail in Production, and the Observability That Catches It](https://winder.ai/why-ai-agents-fail-in-production/): The five ways AI agents fail in production, and the AI agent observability and monitoring that catches them: tracing, retries, cost ceilings and approval gates.
- [Top AI Agent Development Companies in 2026: Who Has Actually Shipped One](https://winder.ai/top-ai-agent-development-companies-2026/): AI agent development companies compared for 2026: who publishes a named client, a deployed agent and a measured result, and who does not.
- [Best AI Consulting Firms in 2026: Who Is Still Independent](https://winder.ai/best-ai-consultancy-2026/): The best AI consulting firms in 2026 compared, after Accenture bought Faculty: who still owns themselves, what each tier charges, and which firm fits your problem.
- [Top MLOps Consulting Companies in 2026, Compared](https://winder.ai/top-mlops-consulting-companies-2026/): A 2026 comparison of MLOps consulting companies worldwide: Winder.AI, phData, Datatonic, Data Reply and Quantiphi, on named evidence and published pricing.
- [Top Reinforcement Learning Consulting Firms in 2026, Compared](https://winder.ai/top-reinforcement-learning-consulting-firms-2026/): A 2026 comparison of reinforcement learning consulting firms: Winder.AI, DataWorks, OptRL and Neurality on production delivery, simulation and pricing.
- [How to Build an AI Agent in 2026: Frameworks and Working Code](https://winder.ai/how-to-build-ai-agents-2026/): How to build an AI agent in 2026: Pydantic AI vs LangGraph vs build-your-own compared, two worked examples with real code, and the evaluation and memory patterns that survive production.
- [RAG vs Fine-Tuning in 2026: A Decision Framework for LLM Teams](https://winder.ai/rag-vs-fine-tuning-2026-decision-framework/): An opinionated 2026 decision framework for choosing between retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning, and hybrid approaches for LLM applications. Decision tree, comparison table, and named tooling.
- [AI Consulting Costs in 2026: £200-£400/hr, POCs from £15k](https://winder.ai/ai-consulting-costs-2026-hourly-rates-poc-production/): Real 2026 numbers: senior AI consultants charge £200 to £400 per hour, fixed-fee POCs run £15k to £40k, production builds £120k to £400k. What each buys and where budgets blow up.
- [AI for Legal Operations: Where to Automate First](https://winder.ai/ai-for-legal-operations-where-to-automate-first/): Not every legal workflow needs AI. Here's a framework for identifying which ones do, scored by volume, error cost, and integration complexity.
- [How Winder.AI Helped Duetto Evaluate Reinforcement Learning for Hotel Pricing](https://winder.ai/case-study-duetto-reinforcement-learning-hotel-pricing/): Winder.AI partnered with Duetto to evaluate reinforcement learning for hotel pricing, de-risking a complex initiative through rigorous experimentation.
- [What a Custom AI Contract Review Pipeline Looks Like](https://winder.ai/custom-ai-contract-review-pipeline/): A step-by-step look at how bespoke AI contract review pipelines work, from document ingestion to clause extraction, review routing, and system integration.
- [When Off-the-Shelf Legal AI Tools Hit a Ceiling](https://winder.ai/when-off-the-shelf-legal-ai-hits-a-ceiling/): Legal AI products handle the common cases. But integration, data control, and your specific rules need bespoke engineering. Here's where products break down.
- [5 Document Workflows AI Handles Better Than People](https://winder.ai/document-workflows-ai-handles-better-than-people/): Five document workflows where AI outperforms manual processing on speed, accuracy, and cost, from invoice matching to contract review.


## Optional

- [Blog archive](https://winder.ai/blog/): all articles
- [About](https://winder.ai/about/): company background and team
- [Contact](https://winder.ai/contact/): get in touch