# Winder.AI

> Engineering-led AI and machine learning consulting and development. We build production AI systems for clients including Google, Microsoft and Stability AI. PhD engineers, not slide decks.

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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/): Enterprise LLM consulting and development services. RAG, fine-tuning, multimodal LLMs and on-prem deployment from engineers who built Stable Audio, Shell QA and BlueMotor LLM Finance. Since 2013.
- [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. PhD engineers, not slide decks.
- [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 for SaaS & AI Companies | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/ai-product-development/): AI product development services from engineers trusted by Stability AI, Grafana and Lightning AI. End-to-end build, ship and operate AI features in your SaaS product. Since 2013.
- [AI Integration & Implementation Services | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/ai-integration-implementation/): Enterprise AI integration and implementation services. We fit LLMs, agents and ML systems into your existing stack with the observability, SSO and audit that production demands. Trusted by Google, Microsoft and Shell. 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 & Development Services | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/data-science-consulting/): Data science consulting and development services from PhD engineers. Predictive analytics, forecasting, anomaly detection, data lake architecture and production ML for enterprise. Trusted by Google, Shell and Grafana since 2013.
- [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 Services | Winder.AI](https://winder.ai/services/data-strategy-consulting/): Data strategy consulting services from senior AI engineers. Five-pillar audit, target-state architecture, 12-month roadmap and board-ready business case. Engineering-led, vendor-honest.
- [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

- [A New Wave of Venture Interest in AI](https://winder.ai/industries/ai-consulting-venture-capital/): AI in legal: Empower your business with innovative strategies and data-driven insights for success. Award-winning, dedicated AI Consultancy.
- [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.
- [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

- [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.
- [AI Document Processing vs Traditional OCR: What Actually Changed](https://winder.ai/ai-document-processing-vs-traditional-ocr/): Traditional OCR reads characters. AI document processing understands meaning. Here's what changed, why it matters, and when to upgrade from basic scanning.
- [What Is Document Intelligence? A Complete Guide for 2026](https://winder.ai/what-is-document-intelligence/): Document intelligence uses AI to read, classify, and extract data from unstructured documents. Learn how it works, where it's used, and how it compares to OCR.
- [How to Migrate a Codebase from Python to Go Using an AI Coding Assistant](https://winder.ai/python-to-go-migration-with-claude-code/): A practical methodology for using Claude Code to migrate a production Python codebase to Go, including what worked, what failed, and what the human still needs to own.
- [AI Confidence: Evaluating AI Models with Synthetic Data](https://winder.ai/evaluating-ai-models-synthetic-data/): A webinar about evaluating LLM-powered applications and synthetic data generation.
- [How Winder.AI Helped Apartment List Eliminate Data Drift and Scale MLOps Automation](https://winder.ai/case-study-apartment-list-mlops-platform/): How Winder.AI partnered with Apartment List to build a unified, automated MLOps platform that eliminated data drift, accelerated deployment, and empowered data scientists with self-service model delivery.
- [Leading with AI: A Strategic Playbook for CEOs and CTOs and Building Sustainable and Secure GenAI Systems](https://winder.ai/strategy-genai-cto-ceo/): A talk that provides strategic level advice on how to acheive success with GenAI projects.


## 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