Generative AI · Production GenAI Since 2013

Generative AI Consulting & Development Services

The specialist generative AI consultancy for enterprises. We design, build and ship production GenAI systems across text, image, audio and code, with the evaluation, guardrails and observability that real operations demand. Trusted by Stability AI, Google and Microsoft since 2013.

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Tell us about your generative AI project, text, image, audio, code, multimodal or RAG-grounded, and we'll tailor an approach. Typically two to four weeks from first call to kick-off.

2013
Building production generative AI systems since 2013, one of the longest-running GenAI practices in industry.
Stability AI
Generative AI engineering for Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion.
Temple University Beasley School of Law
RAG-grounded generative AI for legal research at Temple University.
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multi-cloud delivery: AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem Kubernetes for production generative AI.
What you get

What an enterprise generative AI consultancy actually delivers

Generative AI consulting and development services design and build production GenAI systems across text, image, audio, code and multimodal use cases. That means use-case selection, model and architecture choice, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, guardrails, observability and the fallback workflows that production demands. Winder.AI delivers end-to-end generative AI as one engagement, strategy, build, ship and operate, by the same senior engineers who shipped production GenAI for Stability AI, Temple University, Google and Microsoft. We are model-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Llama, Qwen and Stable Diffusion, and framework-agnostic across LangChain, LangGraph, PyTorch and Hugging Face.

How we compare

How generative AI consultancies compare

Consultancy typeWhat they deliverBest forMain weakness
Big-4 / global strategy firmGenAI strategy decks, transformation roadmaps, large delivery teamsMulti-year transformation programmesHands-on GenAI engineering offshored or thinly staffed, weak on production reliability and evaluation
Generalist AI agencyBroad AI capability with GenAI as one offeringSingle-LLM chatbot prototypesShallow GenAI bench beyond text, weak on image, audio, multimodal, evaluation and guardrails
OpenAI / Anthropic / vendor SI partnerReference implementations on the vendor's modelsAdopting a single model providerLock-in by design, weak on open-source models, image and audio, multi-cloud and on-prem
No-code GenAI platform resellerTheir drag-and-drop GenAI platform plus implementation servicesInternal proofs of concept with simple workflowsHits a ceiling fast on custom models, multimodal pipelines, evaluation and enterprise compliance
Specialist generative AI consultancy (Winder.AI)Generative AI strategy, custom GenAI build across text, image, audio and code, evaluation, guardrails and ongoing operations, delivered by senior AI engineersEnterprises that need production generative AI with monitoring, retries and fallback workflows, multi-cloud, model-agnosticBoutique scale, not designed for 100-seat staff augmentation
From strategy to production

Generative AI consulting, custom development and managed operations

Winder.AI is the generative AI consultancy for enterprises that need GenAI to run in production, not in a notebook. Our generative AI services span strategy and architecture, custom GenAI build across text, image, audio and code, and ongoing operations, the full lifecycle, by senior engineers who have shipped production GenAI since 2013.

Generative AI Consulting & Strategy

Use-case discovery, GenAI architecture, model and framework selection and a delivery roadmap. We isolate where generative AI will actually pay back, prioritise opportunities, and recommend the right stack across LLMs, diffusion models, multimodal pipelines and the wider GenAI ecosystem. Part of our broader AI consulting practice.

Custom Generative AI Development

Hands-on generative AI engineering across text, image, audio and code: fine-tuned models, RAG-grounded generation, evaluation harnesses, guardrails and the monitoring, retries and fallback workflows that production demands. We have shipped GenAI systems for clients including Stability AI and Temple University. We are engineers first, which means working GenAI, not architecture diagrams.

Managed GenAI Operations

End-to-end managed operations for production generative AI: monitoring, evaluation, prompt and config change-management, content moderation, incident response, drift detection and cost control. We take operational ownership so your internal team can focus on the business outcome, delivered as part of our MLOps practice.
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We sought AI engineering experts that could quickly learn our day-to-day scientific legal mapping processes enough to develop a tool to make our work more efficient. Winder.AI dug into our day-to-day workflow to thoroughly understand the value of an AI Assistant for scientific legal mapping, which is a critical process to the field of legal epidemiology.

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Deputy Director, Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University's Beasley School of Law
Why hire a generative AI consultancy

The enterprise generative AI consultancy

A decade-plus of generative AI in production, model and framework-agnostic delivery and a senior engineering bench, not a sales layer.

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Production GenAI Since 2013

We have been building production generative AI systems for over a decade, long before the LLM hype cycle. As authors of the O’Reilly book on industrial autonomous AI, we know which GenAI architectures survive contact with production and which collapse on first incident.
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Across All Modalities

Text, image, audio, code and multimodal. We have shipped LLM applications, fine-tuned diffusion models, audio generation pipelines and code-generation tools across enterprise environments. Multi-cloud delivery across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem Kubernetes, including air-gapped environments.
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Senior AI Engineers, No Sales Layer

You talk to the engineers who will do the work. No offshore handover, no junior squad behind a senior pitch. The team that scopes your generative AI engagement is the team that builds, ships and operates it.
Trusted Worldwide

Trusted by global organisations for generative AI

Production generative AI delivered across legal, finance, technology, manufacturing, energy and regulated public services.

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Generative AI Solutions

Generative AI solutions and GenAI services

Production generative AI is the difference between a flashy demo and a reliable business system. Winder.AI delivers generative AI solutions as discrete service lines, from focused text GenAI through to multimodal generation and custom image and audio models, so you can engage at any stage of your GenAI roadmap:

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Text Generative AI & LLM Applications

Production text-generative AI: drafting, summarisation, classification, extraction, intelligent search-and-Q&A, conversational interfaces and content generation. Built on the major LLMs and grounded in your data through RAG. Deep dive in our LLM consulting and development service.
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Image Generation & Diffusion Models

Custom image generation pipelines using Stable Diffusion, SDXL, FLUX and bespoke diffusion models. Fine-tuning for brand, style or product, prompt engineering, evaluation, content moderation and inference cost optimisation. Built with the team that worked alongside Stability AI.
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RAG-Grounded Generative AI

Retrieval-augmented generation across your proprietary knowledge. Vector stores, hybrid search, re-ranking, evaluation and grounded answers, as we shipped for Temple University’s legal epidemiology research and enterprise knowledge management.
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Audio & Speech GenAI

Production audio generative AI: speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice cloning where ethically and legally appropriate, audio classification and audio understanding. Built on Whisper, open-source TTS and custom diffusion-based audio models.
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Code Generation & Developer Tools

Custom code generation, code review and code-understanding systems for engineering organisations. From IDE assistants to autonomous code agents. See our AI agent development service for deeper agent engineering.
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Multimodal Generative AI

Production multimodal pipelines that span text, image, audio and structured data, for example product description generation from images, document understanding across PDFs and images, and creative pipelines that combine modalities.
Generative AI Technical Capabilities

Generative AI expertise, end to end

We cover the full generative AI stack across modalities (text, image, audio, code, multimodal) and the operational disciplines that turn a GenAI prototype into a reliable production system:

Frontier LLMs: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google

Production deployment of frontier LLMs, with the prompt engineering, structured output schemas, RAG and evaluation that turn a model into a feature. Model-agnostic delivery by default.

Open-Source Models: Llama, Qwen, Mistral

When data residency, cost or vendor independence matters, we deploy open-source generative models on your cloud or on-prem. Fine-tuning, quantisation and inference optimisation included.

Diffusion Models: Stable Diffusion, SDXL, FLUX

Production image generation pipelines with custom fine-tuning for brand, style or product. ControlNet, LoRA, inpainting and the inference optimisation that makes image GenAI commercially viable.

Fine-Tuning & PEFT

Full fine-tuning, LoRA, QLoRA and other parameter-efficient methods, with rigorous evaluation against the base model and deployment on your cloud or on-prem.

RAG & Vector Stores

Production retrieval-augmented generation across pgvector, Weaviate, Pinecone, Qdrant and Elastic. Hybrid search, re-ranking, chunking strategies and evaluation. The substrate for GenAI that grounds output in your data.

Evaluation & Guardrails

Evaluation harnesses, structured output validation, input/output guardrails, content moderation, jailbreak resistance and red-team testing. The engineering layer that turns a flashy GenAI demo into a reliable system.

Observability & Tracing

End-to-end GenAI tracing, prompt versioning, cost and latency monitoring, drift detection and alerting. Production GenAI observability that plugs into your existing stack.

Multi-Cloud & On-Prem Delivery

AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem Kubernetes. vLLM and KServe for self-hosted inference, MLflow for model lineage, Terraform and ArgoCD for infrastructure. Air-gapped delivery available.
Your generative AI stack questions, answered Model and framework-agnostic by design, we fit your existing stack or recommend the best one for the problem.
Which generative AI model should we use?

Model-agnostic by design

Frontier or open-source, hosted or on-prem, single-modality or multimodal. We benchmark candidate models for your task and pick the one that meets your accuracy, cost and data-residency requirements.
OpenAIAnthropicGoogleLlamaQwenMistralStable DiffusionFLUXWhisper
Which generative AI framework should we use?

Framework-agnostic delivery

We pick the framework that fits your workflow and team, or build a thin layer over native APIs when the problem is simple. No vendor lock-in by design.
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How does the GenAI integrate with our systems?

Plug into your real stack

We connect generative AI to your warehouses, SaaS tools, message buses and identity provider. Tool wrappers, least-privilege access and audit logging included.
RESTgRPCMCPSnowflakeBigQueryDatabricksPostgresSalesforceSlackTeams
Will this pass security and compliance review?

Security & compliance ready

Built for regulated environments. SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA-ready engagements with full audit trails, prompt and config lineage, content moderation and data-residency controls.
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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.

Recent llm 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

Generative AI consulting decides what GenAI system you should build, use-case selection, model and architecture choice, evaluation strategy and roadmap. Generative AI development services are the engineering work to build, integrate and operate the GenAI system, fine-tuning, retrieval, guardrails, monitoring and fallback workflows. Most enterprise GenAI projects need both. Winder.AI delivers them as one engagement, so the engineers writing the strategy are the same engineers writing the production code. That removes the handover gap where most GenAI projects stall after the demo.
For enterprise generative AI you want a consultancy with a long GenAI track record across modalities (text, image, audio, code) and clouds, not a single-model reseller or a slide-deck shop. Winder.AI has been shipping production generative AI since 2013, wrote the O’Reilly book on industrial autonomous AI, and has delivered GenAI systems for Stability AI, Temple University, Google, Microsoft and clients in finance, manufacturing and energy. We are a specialist generative AI consultancy, not a generalist agency.
From the outset we are pragmatic and honest. We are model-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Llama, Qwen and Stable Diffusion, and framework-agnostic across LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, PyTorch and Hugging Face. We only take on work we believe in, and our differentiator is that our generative AI consultants are PhD-level engineers who ship production code. If you need a deck, hire a Big-4 firm. If you need a reliable generative AI system in production, talk to us.
Yes. Managed generative AI implementation is a core offering. We take operational ownership of your GenAI pipelines, monitoring, evaluation, retries and incident response, so your internal team can focus on the business workflow. Managed GenAI engagements run on a monthly retainer with named senior engineers, transparent SLAs and a scoped statement of work, not a faceless ticket queue.
Our LLM consulting and development service is focused on large language models specifically, where the input and output are text. Generative AI is the broader category that also covers image, audio, video, code and multimodal generation, plus the diffusion, transformer and other architectures that power them. If your GenAI use case is purely text, the LLM page is the better entry point. If it spans modalities or you are unsure, start here.
A focused generative AI prototype is typically 2 to 4 weeks. Production builds for multimodal, fine-tuned or RAG-grounded GenAI systems vary depending on integrations and reliability requirements. Managed GenAI operations run on monthly retainers sized to the number of pipelines and traffic volume. See our pricing page for engagement models.
Start by writing down the outcome you want, the data and systems the GenAI will touch, and any cloud or compliance constraints. Then ask candidates for case studies with named clients, the CVs of the engineers who will actually do the work, and references. Avoid firms that staff projects through a sales layer. To start a conversation with Winder.AI, fill out the form on this page and we will book a welcome call within 48 hours.

Scoping & delivery

Timelines depend on the complexity of the system and the modalities involved. A focused single-modality prototype (for example a custom text GenAI feature or a fine-tuned image model) can be delivered in two to four weeks and production-ready in six to eight weeks. Multimodal pipelines or GenAI systems requiring custom fine-tuning typically take two to four months. We always start with a focused proof of concept to validate the approach before scaling.
We are model and framework-agnostic and select the best fit for each project. On text we work with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Llama, Qwen and Mistral. On image we work with Stable Diffusion, SDXL, FLUX and custom diffusion models. On audio we work with Whisper, ElevenLabs and open-source TTS. On frameworks we cover LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, PyTorch and Hugging Face. We pick the stack that fits your problem, not the one that fits our preferred toolchain.
Yes. We specialise in GenAI that integrates with your existing infrastructure: APIs, databases, enterprise software, MCP servers, content management systems and creative tools. We design tool interfaces that wrap your existing systems, allowing GenAI to interact with them safely and observably. See our AI integration & implementation service for deeper enterprise integration.
We treat hallucination and unreliable generation as engineering problems, not prompt problems. We constrain outputs with structured schemas where appropriate, ground answers in retrieval (RAG), validate generated artefacts, retry with bounded budgets, fall back to safer behaviours on validation failure, and run evaluation suites in CI. For high-stakes flows we add human-in-the-loop approval. The result is a GenAI system that fails loudly and safely, not silently and confidently.
You own the IP for the GenAI system we build for you. Our standard contracts assign all bespoke code, prompts, fine-tuned models, evaluation harnesses and configuration to the client on payment. We keep ownership of our internal frameworks and patterns, but the system itself is yours.
Typically two to four weeks from first call to kick-off. Discovery and scoping take one to two weeks, contracting another one to two weeks. Urgent engagements can start inside a week. Get in touch early even if your timeline is flexible, as our calendar fills four to eight weeks ahead.

Generative AI, explained

Generative AI is the family of AI systems that produce new content, text, images, audio, video, code, or multimodal output, conditioned on input. It includes large language models (LLMs) for text, diffusion models for images and audio, transformer models for code, and multimodal systems that span modalities. Generative AI is distinct from predictive AI, which classifies or forecasts; GenAI creates.
Large language models (LLMs) are a subset of generative AI focused on text. Generative AI is the broader category that also includes diffusion models for image and audio, transformer-based code generation, and multimodal systems. Most enterprise GenAI projects today are LLM-centric, but image, audio and code use cases are growing fast, and multimodal generation is increasingly common.
Multimodal generative AI is GenAI that handles more than one modality, for example text-to-image, image-to-text, speech-to-speech translation, or systems that reason across text, image and structured data together. Production multimodal pipelines are more complex than single-modality GenAI: they need orchestration, evaluation across modalities and careful guardrails. We build production multimodal systems where the use case justifies the complexity.
Generative AI excels at content and artefact creation tasks: AI-generated drafting and summarisation, intelligent customer support, document automation, marketing and creative content generation, code generation and assistance, synthetic data for ML training, image and video generation for product and marketing, and conversational interfaces over enterprise knowledge. The pattern is consistent: the task involves creating new content from context.
Yes. We have delivered generative AI for legal research at Temple University and similar regulated workflows. Generative AI for regulated industries needs careful grounding (RAG over verified sources), structured output validation, audit logging of prompts and outputs, and human-in-the-loop approval for high-stakes generation. Our finance and legal industry practices have deeper detail.
Enterprise generative AI deployment goes well beyond the model. It involves tool and system integration, identity and least-privilege access, prompt and config versioning, evaluation harnesses, observability and tracing, cost monitoring, retries and fallback workflows, content moderation and safety filters, change-management for prompts, and human-in-the-loop controls for sensitive generation. Our MLOps practice provides the operational backbone.
Yes. We fine-tune open-source GenAI models including Llama, Qwen, Mistral and Stable Diffusion on your data, with rigorous evaluation against the base model, quantisation for inference cost, and deployment on your cloud or on-prem. We also build retrieval-augmented systems where fine-tuning is not the right answer, often the better choice for GenAI that needs to ground output in changing data.
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  • Typical generative AI prototype: 2 to 4 weeks
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