AI system consulting for teams that care about reliability.

Helping organisations build and operate machine learning an AI systems that are measurable, maintainable, and ready for production — with specialisation in search, ranking, and recommendation.

UK-based • remote-friendly Search • Retrieval • Relevance Ranking • Recommendation Production ML/AI systems Evaluation • Metrics • Monitoring Language-model-based components

Clarity

From problem framing to success metrics — early.

Reliability

Evaluation, supervision, and monitoring built into delivery.

Momentum

Fast progress on the decisions that unblock teams.

Services

Search, ranking & recommendation

Retrieval pipelines, ranking strategies, evaluation, relevance metrics, and deployment patterns that hold up in production.

Production ML/AI engineering

Data pipelines, training and evaluation, serving, monitoring, and operational practices focused on reliability and maintainability.

Language-model-based components

Prompt design, structured output patterns, supervision/evaluation workflows, and integration with guardrails and observability.

Approach

1) Frame the problem

Align on objectives, constraints, data reality, and what “good” means. Define success metrics early.

2) Make it measurable

Build evaluation and supervision into the system: test sets, offline metrics, human review points, monitoring.

3) Deliver & operationalise

Incremental delivery, documentation, and handover: interfaces, dashboards, and maintenance routines.

4) Improve continuously

Feedback loops from production signals; prioritised iteration based on impact.

Typical engagements

Architecture & evaluation review

Review an existing ML/AI system: data, metrics, modelling approach, failure modes, and a prioritised improvement plan.

Technical due diligence

Independent assessment of ML/AI capability and risk for leadership decisions, partnerships, procurement, or investment contexts.

Hands-on delivery support

Short, high-impact work alongside your team to unblock delivery and improve reliability, evaluation, and monitoring.

Ongoing senior advisory

Regular check-ins and reviews to keep ML/AI efforts aligned, measurable, and production-ready.

About

mect IT Consulting Ltd is led by a senior applied ML/AI practitioner with a PhD background and extensive experience across research-to-production work. The approach is pragmatic and engineering-focused: define success metrics, deliver incrementally, and build systems that teams can operate long-term.

Contact

Ready to ship production AI? Let's discuss your challenges and build a concrete plan.