MLOps Company · Production Machine Learning Since 2013

MLOps Consulting & Development Services

The MLOps consultancy that has operated machine learning in production since 2013. We deliver MLOps consulting, platform implementation (MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, Seldon), managed services and governance for enterprise AI teams. Multi-cloud, on-prem and air-gapped engagements.

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Tell us about your MLOps audit, platform implementation, managed-services need or LLMOps rollout, and we'll tailor an approach. Typically two to four weeks from first call to kick-off.

2013
Operating machine learning in production since 2013, one of the longest-running MLOps practices.
100x+
return on investment from the MLOps and AI engagement we delivered for Tractable.AI.
4×
cloud-agnostic delivery: AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem Kubernetes, including air-gapped environments.
5+
regulated and enterprise industries with delivered MLOps systems: finance, insurance, technology, manufacturing and energy.
What you get

What an MLOps consultancy actually delivers

An MLOps consultancy turns experimental machine learning into reliable production AI. That means deployment pipelines, model monitoring, governance, retraining, observability and the operational guardrails that regulated industries demand. Winder.AI delivers end-to-end MLOps consulting and development as one engagement, audit, platform implementation (MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, Seldon), MLOps managed services and LLMOps, by the same senior engineers who shipped production AI for Tractable, Interos, NewDay and BlueMotor Finance. No strategy decks without code behind them.

2026 update. Model monitoring is now the single biggest source of MLOps incidents we are called in to fix. The pattern is familiar: a model ships, drift creeps in over weeks, a downstream metric quietly degrades, and nobody finds out until a customer complains or a regulator asks. The fix is rarely a new platform, it is instrumenting drift, data-quality and performance monitoring at deploy time, wiring alerts into the existing on-call rota, and rehearsing the retraining path before you need it. We bake monitoring into every MLOps engagement rather than selling it as a separate phase.

How we compare

How MLOps consulting companies compare

Provider typeWhat they deliverBest forMain weakness
Big-4 / global IT consultancyStrategy decks, roadmaps, large delivery teamsMulti-year transformation programmesHands-on MLOps engineering offshored or thinly staffed
Cloud vendor professional servicesReference implementations on the vendor's stack (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML)Adopting a single chosen cloud platformLock-in by design, weak on multi-cloud or on-prem
Generalist AI agencyBroad AI capability with MLOps as one offeringBundled vendor relationshipsShallow MLOps bench, weak on governance and regulated environments
MLOps platform vendor (with services)Their platform, plus implementation services around itStandardising on a single MLOps toolConflict of interest, every problem looks like their platform
In-house build (your team)An MLOps platform assembled by your existing ML and platform engineersLong-term ownership when you already have a senior platform team with spare capacity and production ML experienceLearning curve on monitoring, retraining, lineage and governance delays first production model by 9 to 18 months
Specialist MLOps consultancy (Winder.AI)MLOps audit, platform implementation, managed services and LLMOps, delivered by senior MLOps engineersEnterprises that need production MLOps, multi-cloud, in regulated industriesBoutique scale, not designed for 100-seat staff augmentation
From strategy to production

MLOps consulting, development services and managed MLOps

Winder.AI is the MLOps consulting partner for organisations that need machine learning to run in production, not in a notebook. Our MLOps consulting services span audit and roadmap, MLOps development services and platform implementation, and ongoing MLOps managed services, the full lifecycle, by senior engineers who have operated ML at scale since 2013.

MLOps Consulting

MLOps audit, maturity assessment, platform selection and roadmap. We isolate the bottlenecks in your ML lifecycle, prioritise opportunities and recommend the right MLOps platform, MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI or Seldon, for your scale and cloud strategy. Delivered for clients such as Tractable and BlueMotor Finance. Part of our broader AI consulting practice.

MLOps Development Services

Hands-on MLOps engineering: deployment pipelines, model registries, monitoring, retraining, infrastructure-as-code. We have scaled MLOps across MLflow, Seldon, SageMaker and Vertex AI for clients like Interos. We are engineers first, which means production code, not just architecture diagrams.

MLOps Managed Services & LLMOps

Offload the operational burden of your ML and LLM infrastructure. Managed MLOps covers monitoring, pipeline maintenance, model retraining, incident response and ongoing governance. Extends naturally into LLMOps for production language models.
Hunter Powers logo

I would recommend Winder.AI because they are experts with real-world experience, led by Phil Winder, who is well-respected in the industry. They are quick to respond, quick to scale up and they deliver when you need them to.

Hunter Powers
VP of Machine Learning
Why hire an MLOps consultancy

The MLOps consulting partner enterprises choose

Twelve years of production MLOps across regulated industries, multi-cloud delivery and a senior engineering bench, not a sales layer.

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12 Years of Production MLOps

Operating machine learning in production since 2013, one of the longest-running MLOps practices in industry. We know which MLOps approaches survive contact with production and which collapse on first incident.
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Multi-Cloud and Regulated by Default

MLOps engagements delivered across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem Kubernetes, including air-gapped environments. SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA and EU AI Act-aware engagements as standard, the regulated default, not a premium add-on.
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Senior MLOps 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 MLOps engagement is the team that builds it.
Trusted Worldwide

Trusted by global organisations for MLOps

Production MLOps delivered across finance, insurance, technology, manufacturing and energy.

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MLOps Solutions

MLOps solutions and machine learning operations services

Production MLOps is the difference between an experimental model and a reliable business system. Winder.AI delivers MLOps solutions as discrete service lines, from audit and platform implementation through to managed services and LLMOps, so you can engage at any point in your MLOps maturity:

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MLOps Audit & Maturity Assessment

A focused 2-to-4-week MLOps audit that benchmarks your current operations, prioritises pain points and delivers a roadmap. Effective change starts with a proactive maturity assessment, as we delivered for BlueMotor Finance.
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MLOps Platform Implementation

End-to-end MLOps platform implementation on MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI or Seldon. We unify experimentation, deployment, monitoring and governance into one operational backbone, as we did for Interos.
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MLOps Managed Services

Offload pipelines, monitoring, retraining and incident response to senior MLOps engineers. Monthly retainer, named team, transparent SLAs. Your data scientists get to do data science instead of operations.
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LLMOps for Production Language Models

Prompt versioning, evaluation harnesses, RAG pipelines, inference-cost optimisation and retraining for production LLMs. LLMOps is MLOps for the language-model era, with new operational concerns that traditional MLOps platforms do not cover. See our LLM consulting services.
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MLOps Governance & Compliance

Audit trails, model lineage, sign-off workflows and regulatory evidence. We build the governance layer that lets risk and compliance functions trust your production AI, especially for finance, insurance and healthcare.
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MLOps Infrastructure Consulting

Cloud architecture, Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD for ML. We design and deliver the underlying infrastructure that makes everything else, monitoring, deployment, retraining, actually work in production.
MLOps Technical Capabilities

MLOps expertise, end to end

We cover the full MLOps stack across the major platforms, MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI and Seldon, and the operational disciplines that turn machine learning into reliable production AI:

Model Deployment & Serving

Package models, auto-deploy to production, serve over REST, gRPC and MCP, scale to meet demand or scale down to save cost. The deployment layer that turns a model artefact into a live service.

Model Monitoring & Alerting

Drift detection, performance monitoring, data-quality monitoring and alerting. We instrument production AI so you find out about problems before your customers do, with full integration into your existing observability stack.

Experiment Tracking & Model Registry

Parallelise experimentation, compare runs, time-travel and unify across teams. MLflow, Weights & Biases, Vertex AI Experiments or platform-native solutions, picked for fit, not familiarity.

Scalable Training Pipelines

Scale data ingestion and training pipelines to your demand. Train massive models, parallelise across GPU clusters, hybrid-cloud, on-prem or air-gapped, with reproducibility built in.

MLOps Governance & Audit

Model lineage, provenance, sign-off workflows and audit trails. The MLOps backbone that regulated industries and the EU AI Act demand, delivered as part of the operational layer rather than bolted on later.

LLMOps & Generative AI Operations

Prompt management, RAG observability, evaluation pipelines and inference-cost optimisation. The new operational concerns that come with large language models in production.

Infrastructure as Code & GitOps

Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD and CI/CD pipelines tailored for ML. We treat the ML platform as a product, with the same engineering discipline as any other production system.

MLOps for Regulated Environments

SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, EU AI Act, on-prem and air-gapped delivery. Production MLOps that passes security and compliance review on the first attempt.
Your MLOps stack questions, answered Platform-agnostic by design, we fit your existing stack or recommend the best one for the problem.
Which MLOps platform should we use?

Platform-agnostic by design

We pick the platform that fits your scale, cloud and team, or build a thin layer over the right open-source primitives. No vendor lock-in by design.
MLflowKubeflowSageMakerVertex AISeldonDatabricksWeights & BiasesCustom
Where will the platform run?

Deployment, your way

Production MLOps on your cloud, hybrid or fully air-gapped on-prem. Regulated and sovereign environments fully supported.
AWSAzureGCPOn-premKubernetesDockerAir-gapped
How does this fit our existing data stack?

Plug into your data stack

We connect MLOps pipelines to your warehouses, lakes and event streams. No “send us a CSV”, we integrate with your real systems.
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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, model lineage 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 Apartment List Eliminate Data Drift and Scale MLOps Automation

Case study

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.

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.

MLOps in Insurance

Case study

MLOps in Insurance

Tractable.AI is a leading insure-tech company based in the UK and has made significant strides in the motor vehicle insurance sector by leveraging AI technologies. Their innovative approach has allowed them to automate various aspects of the insurance lifecycle, including the complex process of loss adjustment. This AI-driven strategy has not only increased their operational efficiency but also enhanced their service delivery, making them a preferred choice for many customers.

Recent MLOps Articles

Find more articles in our blog.
A Comparison of Machine Learning Model Monitoring Tools and Products

MLOps

A Comparison of Machine Learning Model Monitoring Tools and Products

Machine learning (ML) model monitoring is a crucial part of the MLOps lifecycle. It ensures that your models are performing as expected and that they are not degrading over time. There are many tools available to help you monitor your models, from open-source frameworks to proprietary SaaS solutions. In this article, I’ll compare some of the best open-source and proprietary machine learning model monitoring tools available today.

Scaling StableAudio.com Generative Models Globally with NVIDIA Triton & Sagemaker

MLOps

Scaling StableAudio.com Generative Models Globally with NVIDIA Triton & Sagemaker

In an insightful session presented by Enrico Rotundo, we explore the innovative approach to scaling StableAudio globally. This presentation sheds light on the synergy between NVIDIA Triton and AWS SageMaker.

MLOps Presentation: When do You Need an MLOps Platform Team?

MLOps

MLOps Presentation: When do You Need an MLOps Platform Team?

Dr. Phil Winder shares experiences of Winder.AI’s MLOps consulting experience at a variety of large and small organizations.

Abstract

In this talk he presents industry observations of MLOps team size and structure for a range of business sizes and domains. Learn more about how others structure their MLOps teams. Discover which problems you need to solve first.

About This Series

Welcome to Winder.AI talks. A series of free interactive webinars hosted by Dr Phil Winder, CEO of Winder.AI, Author of O’Reilly’s Reinforcement Learning and one of the founders of the MLOps Community, covering a range of topics about the use of machine learning operations (MLOps), reinforcement learning (RL), and machine learning (ML) in industry today.

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.

Buying & engagement

MLOps consulting decides what operational practice you need, the maturity assessment, platform selection, governance model and roadmap. MLOps development services are the engineering work to build, integrate and operate the pipelines, monitoring and deployment infrastructure. Most production MLOps engagements 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 MLOps projects stall.
For enterprise MLOps you want a consultancy with a long production track record across multiple cloud platforms, not a single-platform reseller. Winder.AI has been operating machine learning in production since 2013, has shipped MLOps systems for Tractable, Interos, BlueMotor Finance and others, and works across MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI and Seldon. We are a specialist MLOps consultancy, not a cloud-vendor implementation team.
Most MLOps providers fall into four categories: Big-4 IT consultancies (strategy-heavy, thin on engineering), cloud-vendor professional services (lock-in by design), generalist AI agencies (shallow MLOps bench) and specialist MLOps consultancies. Winder.AI is in the specialist category, with end-to-end MLOps and LLMOps engagements covering audit, platform implementation, managed services and governance, delivered by senior engineers. See our LLM consulting services for the dedicated LLMOps offering.
Yes. MLOps managed services are a core offering. We take operational ownership of your pipelines, monitoring, retraining and incident response so your internal team can focus on modelling and product. Managed engagements run on a monthly retainer with named senior engineers, transparent SLAs and scoped scope-of-work, not a faceless ticket queue.
A typical MLOps audit is 2 to 4 weeks. Platform implementations vary depending on scope and existing infrastructure. Managed MLOps services run on monthly retainers sized to your fleet of models and services. See our pricing page for engagement models.
Start by writing down the outcome you want, the data and models you have, 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

A typical MLOps audit takes 2 to 4 weeks. It covers a maturity assessment against an operational reference model, evaluation of your training pipelines, deployment process, monitoring setup and team workflows, and produces a prioritised roadmap with effort estimates. Most clients move from audit straight into implementation.
Yes. We are platform-agnostic by design and have delivered production MLOps on all of the major platforms. If you have already standardised on a platform we fit into that. If you are still selecting, we recommend the right platform for your scale, cloud strategy and team structure, and we say no to platforms that fit your problem poorly even when the vendor pays us nothing for the answer.
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. 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.
Yes. A substantial part of our MLOps work is for regulated clients, including UK financial services. We run engagements compatible with SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, the EU AI Act and on-prem or air-gapped deployments, with full audit trails and data-residency controls.
Yes. LLMOps is an extension of MLOps and a first-class offering. We deliver end-to-end LLMOps engagements covering prompt versioning, evaluation harnesses, inference-cost optimisation, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, monitoring and retraining. See our LLM consulting and development services for the full picture.

MLOps, explained

Machine learning operations (MLOps) is the combination of processes and systems that lets organisations run machine learning reliably in production. It covers authentication and authorisation, logging, evaluation, explanation, operational maintenance, support, disaster recovery, monitoring and alerting, automated testing of both data and model, auditing, schema management, provenance, scalability, model artefact lineage, metadata and governance. In short, MLOps is what turns a working model into a working business system.
An MLOps consultant assesses your current machine learning operations maturity, identifies bottlenecks in your ML lifecycle, and designs a roadmap to improve automation, governance and scalability. That includes evaluating training pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring setup and team workflows. The goal is to reduce time-to-production for models while improving reliability and compliance.
An MLOps platform is the set of tools and infrastructure that supports the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, from experiment tracking and model training through to deployment, monitoring and governance. The major MLOps platforms include MLflow, Kubeflow, Amazon SageMaker, Google Vertex AI and Seldon. The right platform depends on your scale, cloud environment, team structure and regulatory requirements.
MLOps covers operational practices for all machine learning models, including training pipelines, model versioning, deployment and monitoring. LLMOps is a specialisation of MLOps focused on large language models, adding prompt versioning, evaluation of generative outputs, inference-cost optimisation and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. Both disciplines share core principles, but LLMOps addresses the unique challenges of deploying and managing LLMs in production.
Governance lets organisations manage and control risk across the ML development lifecycle. Audit trails evidence that a model has been signed off for production deployment. Banks are good at this because regulation forces them to be, but the same techniques reduce risk for any organisation running ML in production. MLOps provides the operational backbone, logging, lineage, audit, that governance frameworks sit on top of.
Provenance is the ability to trace a deployable model artefact back to the data and code it was built from. Beyond compliance, provenance enforces repeatable pipelines, promotes GitOps-style operational patterns, and forces uniformity across teams, which is what lets MLOps practice scale beyond a single squad.
Operational automation reduces the toil of running ML in production. What you automate and how depends on team size and service criticality, but the benefits are universal, automating dangerous or tedious steps reduces mistakes, enforces compliance and lifts the operational burden off engineers and data scientists so they can build new models instead of babysitting old ones.
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Whether you need an MLOps audit, a platform implementation on MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker or Vertex AI, ongoing managed MLOps services or LLMOps for production language models, talk to the team that has been operating machine learning in production since 2013.

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  • Typical MLOps audit: 2 to 4 weeks
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