Enterprise AI Consultancy · Since 2013

AI Consulting & Development Services

Engineering-led AI consulting and development services since 2013. Google, Microsoft and Stability AI hire Winder.AI to design, build and ship production AI systems, not slide decks.

Start your AI consulting project now

Talk to the engineers who'll build it

Tell us about your project and we'll tailor an approach to your goals, usually two to four weeks from first call to kick-off.

2013
Incorporated in 2013, one of the world's oldest dedicated AI consultancies.
100x+
return on investment delivered to Tractable.AI through our AI consulting.
2 wk
to payback on a NewDay reinforcement learning project, before scaling to 50x annual ROI.
TIME Best Inventions 2023
TIME Best Invention winner: Stable Audio, built with Winder.AI.
What you get

What you actually get when you hire us

AI consulting and development services combine two things buyers usually have to source separately: the strategy to decide what AI to build, and the engineering to build, deploy and operate it in production. Winder.AI delivers both in one engagement. The AI consultants designing your roadmap are the same PhD engineers shipping your code, which removes the handover gap where most AI projects stall.

How we compare

How specialist AI consulting and development firms compare

Provider typeWhat they deliverBest forMain weakness
Big-4 / strategy-only AI consulting firmRoadmaps, board decks, vendor selectionAligning the executive teamNo working AI system at the end
Generalist IT or dev agencyMixed engineering teams, AI as one capabilityBundled vendor relationshipsShallow ML and MLOps expertise
Offshore AI development services shopCode built to a written specYou already know exactly what to buildWrong solution, built fast
Specialist AI consultancy (Winder.AI)Strategy plus production AI engineering, by the same peopleComplex AI projects that need both judgement and codeBoutique scale, not designed for 100-seat staff augmentation
Strategy to production

From AI strategy to production deployment

Winder.AI is the AI development partner for organisations that want to ship, not just plan. Our engineering-led AI consulting services cover the full path from first idea to production system, drawing on a decade of work for enterprises like Google, Shell and Microsoft and pioneering startups including Stability AI, Protocol Labs and Lightning AI. Hire us when you need an AI consultancy that codes.

AI Development Services

Tailored AI software development services covering large language models, autonomous AI agents, generative AI, reinforcement learning and bespoke custom AI builds. We are engineers first, which means working code, not just architecture diagrams.

AI Consulting and Strategy

Pragmatic, ROI-driven AI consulting and development advice. Our AI engineering consultants help you choose the right opportunities, sequence the roadmap, manage risk and avoid the common failure modes that sink most AI projects.

AI Engineering and Deployment

AI deployment consulting, integration consulting and MLOps. We take models out of notebooks and into production, integrated with your existing systems and operated reliably at scale. See our data science consulting and MLOps services for the full picture.
Ruari Shephard logo

The major benefit for us was winning TIME’s Best Invention of 2023! Without Winder.AI’s innovative AI consulting, this success would not have been possible. It resulted in over 500k generations in its first two months.

Ruari Shephard
Head of Stable Audio, Stability AI
AI Consulting Expertise

Our sweet spot

We specialize in developing production-ready AI-powered applications.

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Dedicated AI Company

Unlike larger, more general purpose IT agencies, we specialize in AI software development. We’re more flexible, more pragmatic, and better suited to your AI project.
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Experienced AI Consultants

Incorporated in 2013, Winder.AI is one of the oldest dedicated AI consultancies in the world. As a specialist AI agency, we’re still going strong because our customers love our work.
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Collaborative AI Development Services

We exist to help companies like yours develop their AI systems. Our size enables us to provide you with an exemplary service and adapt to your ways of working.
Trusted Worldwide

Trusted by the world's foremost AI development companies

Our collaboration extends to hundreds of respected firms worldwide.

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AI Innovation Solutions

Responsible AI for value realization

Vast swathes of business value remains untapped in most enterprises. Our AI consultants help you automate processes and unlock your potential in the AI era:

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Enterprise Application AI

Identify artificial intelligence opportunities within common enterprise applications to optimize processes, improve decision-making and drive AI business automation across your organization. Our AI consulting helps you prioritize the highest-impact use cases first.
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Generative AI (like ChatGPT)

Our generative AI consulting and development covers ChatGPT business use cases, exemplified by our product StableAudio for Stability AI.
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Conversational AI

Implement artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, search and virtual assistants to improve customer relationships and empower your workforce.
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AI Engineering and Operations

Operate your artificial intelligence at scale with our comprehensive MLOps services.
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AI Integrations

Our AI integration and implementation services use industry-standard APIs to enhance and embed artificial intelligence into your existing systems and processes.
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AI Strategy & Transformation

Navigate your AI transformation with confidence. Our AI strategy consulting helps you build a roadmap from initial assessment to full-scale deployment, ensuring every initiative aligns with your business goals and delivers measurable ROI.
AI Technologies

Tailored, robust, and scalable

As a dedicated AI consulting company, Winder.AI stands out with its flexible, decentralized approach, delivering a vast range of AI/ML solutions:

Large language models

For advanced text-based applications, including QA systems like the enterprise AI platform for Shell.

GenAI

Pioneering in generative AI across media types for creative industries, exemplified by StableAudio for Stability AI.

Text/NLP

Highly experienced in Natural Language Processing (NLP), e.g. we built Google’s BERT implementations in Vertex AI.

Image/Computer Vision

Delivering cutting-edge image analysis solutions, from retail safety compliance to industrial monitoring.

Structured Data and Predictive Analytics

Transforming data into predictive AI insights to drive strategic decisions.

Deep Learning and Traditional Methods

Winder.AI has been delivering machine learning consulting for over a decade and used hundreds of model architectures. Historically, we’ve even trained thousands of engineers in machine learning.

Time-Series/DSP

Unmatched expertise in complex time-series analysis and digital signal processing.

Audio

Extensive experience in high-dimensional streaming audio detection and recognition, e.g. detection, tracking and monitoring algorithms for Focus Sensors, OptaSense, and Frauscher.
Your stack questions, answered Vendor-neutral by design, we fit your stack, or recommend the best one.
Where will this run? Cloud, on-prem or hybrid?

Deployment, your way

Production AI on your cloud, ours, or fully air-gapped on-prem. No vendor lock-in by design.
AWSAzureGCPOn-premKubernetesDockerAir-gapped
Where does your data live?

Plug into your data stack

We connect to your warehouses, lakes and event streams. No “send us a CSV”, we build production pipelines against your real systems.
SnowflakeDatabricksBigQueryS3PostgresKafkaAirflowdbt
How does it fit our existing stack?

Integration & MLOps

REST, gRPC and MCP into your services. Versioned, observable and reproducible from day one.
RESTgRPCMCPWebhooksMLflowKubeflowTerraformPrometheus
Will this pass security and legal review?

Security & compliance ready

Built for regulated environments. SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA-ready engagements with full audit trails and data residency controls.
SOC 2GDPRHIPAAEU AI ActData residencyAudit logsSSO

Selected Case Studies

Some of our most recent work for our clients. You can find more in our portfolio.
How Winder.AI Helped Duetto Evaluate Reinforcement Learning for Hotel Pricing

Case study

How Winder.AI Helped Duetto Evaluate Reinforcement Learning for Hotel Pricing

Winder.AI helped Duetto evaluate offline reinforcement learning for dynamic hotel pricing. Over five months, the engagement progressed from behavioural cloning baselines through Implicit Q-Learning experiments on real booking data, revealing where RL outperforms simpler approaches, what data quality prerequisites exist, and how to evaluate pricing agents when ground truth is unavailable.

How Winder.AI Helped Apartment List Eliminate Data Drift and Scale MLOps Automation

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How Winder.AI Helped Apartment List Eliminate Data Drift and Scale MLOps Automation

Winder.AI helped Apartment List modernize its machine learning operations by unifying data pipelines, automating Kubeflow workflows, and introducing enterprise-grade governance. The outcome: consistent training and inference data, faster deployment cycles, and self-service capabilities that enabled Apartment List’s data science team to scale model delivery with confidence.

AI in Aviation Case Study: Flight Scheduling Using Digital Twins and Reinforcement Learning

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AI in Aviation Case Study: Flight Scheduling Using Digital Twins and Reinforcement Learning

Using digital twin data to build flight traffic simulators and train reinforcement learning AI agents. A leading aerospace business and Winder.AI opened new horizons for dynamic, data-driven scheduling solutions that integrate with our client’s advanced flight planning technology.

AI in Aviation Case Study: Predicting Taxi Times

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AI in Aviation Case Study: Predicting Taxi Times

Leveraging predictive analytics and a stand-to-runway modelling approach, Winder.AI and our aviation client improved taxi time predictions to reduced ground delays and improve fuel efficiency.

Transforming Legal Research with AI Legal Text Analysis

Case study

Transforming Legal Research with AI Legal Text Analysis

Legal AI assistant improves legal coding efficiency by automating data analysis, reducing workload, and accelerating research.

MLOps in Supply Chain Management

Case study

MLOps in Supply Chain Management

Interos, a leading supply chain management company, partnered with Winder.AI to enhance their machine learning operations (MLOps). Together, we developed advanced MLOps technologies, including a scalable annotation system, a model deployment suite, AI templates, and a monitoring suite. This collaboration, facilitated by open-source software and Kubernetes deployments, significantly improved Interos’ AI maturity and operational efficiency.

Recent Articles

Find more articles in our blog.
AI for Legal Operations: Where to Automate First

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AI for Legal Operations: Where to Automate First

Adoption of legal services AI has gone mainstream. Litify’s 2025 State of AI in Legal Report found that 78% of legal professionals already use AI in some form, up from 23% in 2023. But what workflow should you automate first?

Getting this wrong means months of effort on a low-impact problem. Getting it right means a quick win that funds the next step. The difference between a successful AI initiative and a stalled pilot usually comes down to picking the right starting point.

What a Custom AI Contract Review Pipeline Looks Like

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What a Custom AI Contract Review Pipeline Looks Like

“AI contract review” is a popular keyword to compete for. Look, I’m doing it right now! A couple of years ago my colleagues and I half-built a contract review service prototype. We decided not to take it any further, but that was a mistake. It’s now very hot.

So hot you can easily find a wall of product pages. Sign up, upload your contracts, get results. The pitch is simple. For straightforward use cases, it works.

But what if your contracts don’t fit their templates? What if your review process has steps a product can’t model? What if your data can’t leave your infrastructure? What if your firm’s clause playbook differs from the vendor’s defaults?

This article walks through what a custom-built contract review pipeline actually involves.

When Off-the-Shelf Legal AI Tools Hit a Ceiling

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When Off-the-Shelf Legal AI Tools Hit a Ceiling

Legal AI adoption has accelerated. Litify’s 2025 State of AI in Legal Report found that 78% of legal professionals now use AI in some form, up from 23% just two years earlier. In Winder.AI’s 13 year history (and counting!) I have observed a similar trend first hand.

On the back of this trend, significant VC funding has attempted to capture a share of this market. $2.4 billion was invested in 2025. A tsunami of products promise to automate contract review, legal research, and document analysis. Many of them work for a while. Then firms hit the ceiling.

This article is about where that ceiling is and what lies beyond it.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

This page provides answers to our most common questions. If you have a query that isn't covered, please get in touch.

Working with Winder.AI

AI consulting helps you decide what to build, the roadmap, business case, technology choices and risks. AI development services are the engineering work to build, deploy and operate the system. Most projects need both. Winder.AI delivers them as one engagement, so the people writing the strategy are the same people writing the production code. That removes the handover gap where most AI projects fail.
We build. Roughly 80% of our work is hands-on AI software development, MLOps and deployment. We do offer pure advisory engagements when the fit is right, but our differentiator is that our AI consultants are PhD-level engineers who ship code. If you need a deck, hire a Big-4 firm. If you need a working AI system in production, talk to us.
From the outset we are pragmatic and honest. We only take on work that we believe in and we’re not here to make a quick buck. We promise that our AI expertise is the best in the business with a flexibility and value that outshines the rest.
As an AI agency, we’re able to deliver full AI-driven products. However, many of our clients leverage our AI and machine learning expertise only.
We typically prefer AI software and model development work, since we like to have a hand in the projects we work on. But we do also offer consulting for projects that have good alignment.
We need to ensure that we are able to deliver an exemplory service to you, which means that we need to make sure your project is a good fit for our skillset. Please fill out the form below to begin that process. We will be in touch to schedule a welcome call.
Engagement type drives the cost. Advisory and time-and-materials AI consulting typically runs £150 to £300 per hour. Specialist work such as reinforcement learning is around £350 per hour with a minimum monthly commitment. Well-scoped fixed-cost builds range from roughly £20k for a focused project to £100k-£250k for a multi-phase production system delivered over several months. See our pricing page for worked examples and contract types.

Scoping & engagement

Start by listing the outcome you want, the data you have and any constraints (cloud, on-prem, regulatory). Then ask candidates for case studies with named clients, sample code or architectures, and the CVs of the engineers who will actually do the work. We recommend avoiding firms that staff projects through a sales layer. To start a conversation with Winder.AI, fill out the form below and we will book a welcome call within 48 hours.
Yes. AI engineering, model deployment and integration with existing systems are core services. We run production AI on AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem Kubernetes, and we cover the full lifecycle from data pipelines through model serving to monitoring. See our MLOps services for the operational side.
Typically two to four weeks from first call to kick-off. Discovery and scoping usually take one to two weeks, contracting another one to two weeks. For urgent engagements we have started inside a week. Get in touch early even if your timeline is flexible, as our calendar fills four to eight weeks ahead.
Most likely, yes. We can’t list everything we work with because the list would be too long! We operate independently from any vendor to make the best technology decisions for the task at hand. But of course if you have already chosen the stack, we will try our best to fit into that.
Look for a consultancy with proven experience in your industry, a strong portfolio of case studies and hands-on engineering capability, not just strategic advice. Winder.AI has been delivering AI consulting since 2013 for clients including Google, Microsoft and Stability AI. We recommend asking for references, reviewing published case studies and ensuring the team has PhD-level expertise.

AI, explained

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a suite of technologies and techniques that aim to automate processes, tasks, decisions and strategies in business.
AI uses information, known as data, to learn patterns. The AI then uses these learnings to automate decisions.
All AI solutions require what’s known as “plumbing.” AI experts leverage APIs to move and transform data to where it is needed, typically by writing code that reliably repeats the process. The exact details depends on what systems you use.
Many business processes or decisions that require speed or scale can benefit from AI. So long as there is an interface between the AI and the process (i.e. access to data).
The number of AI use cases has increase dramatically over the past 10 years. To the point where it’s simplest to say that AI can be used everywhere. So long as you have or can get access to data that represents your task, an AI solution is possible.
An AI consultant assesses your business processes, identifies opportunities where artificial intelligence can deliver measurable value, and designs a strategy to implement those solutions. At Winder.AI, our AI consultants go beyond advice, we are engineers who build, deploy and maintain the AI systems we recommend, ensuring you see real results from strategy through to production.
An AI agency is a specialist company that provides end-to-end artificial intelligence services, from consulting and strategy to development and deployment. Unlike general IT agencies, a dedicated AI agency like Winder.AI focuses exclusively on AI and machine learning, which means deeper expertise and faster delivery for your project.
Yes. AI automation is one of the most impactful outcomes of AI consulting. Our consultants identify repetitive processes, data-intensive workflows and decision points that can be automated using machine learning and intelligent systems. From document processing and customer service to supply-chain optimisation, AI automation can dramatically reduce costs and increase throughput.
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  • You'll talk to PhD-level engineers, never a sales layer
  • Welcome call booked within 48 hours
  • Typically two to four weeks from first call to kick-off
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