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Applied research for problems without an off-the-shelf answer.

Custom-model research and development for enterprises with novel computer vision, perception, classification or detection problems. Methodology written to a peer-reviewable standard; weights and IP transfer to the client.

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What does an applied-research engagement actually deliver?
A written technical report covering: the research question (framed so it can be falsified), the architectural choices and why they were chosen, the evaluation methodology, held-out results against the methodology, and a runbook for re-training. The report is the artefact your team — or an inheriting team — uses to rebuild the model from scratch.
What does "peer-reviewable methodology" mean in practice?
The evaluation harness is delivered as code a third party can re-run. The training configuration is reproducible from the report. Held-out splits, metrics, baselines and ablations are documented to a standard a journal reviewer would expect. If the methodology depends on a benchmark we built, we publish the benchmark; if it depends on a benchmark you own, your team can re-run it whenever.
How is research different from a prototyping engagement?
Prototyping answers "is this tractable on our data, in our timeframe, on our budget" — output is a go / no-go memo and a baseline notebook. Research answers "what is the right method for this class of problem" — output is a methodology written to a standard another group could replicate. The two pillars often overlap: a research engagement may include feasibility work, and a prototyping engagement may surface a research question worth investigating in depth.
How do you choose the model architecture?
Architecture follows the task, the data and the deployment constraint. We start with the smallest baseline that could plausibly work, evaluate against a domain-relevant benchmark, and only escalate complexity when the data justifies it. Where parameter-efficient fine-tuning over a strong pretrained backbone clears the bar, we use it. Where the problem requires a custom architecture, we design one — and write up why.
Do you publish your research?
Methods that generalise are written up at a peer-reviewable standard — preprints, technical notes, position papers on evaluation methodology. Results that depend on a client's confidential data, domain or deployment stay with the client. We share the methodology; the client owns the trained weights and the commercial application.

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