Pilot from $1,500 · Eval-first · You own the weights

A model that speaks your domain.

When your AI answers need your terminology, your tone, and your judgment — not a generic assistant's — fine-tuning teaches an open model how your domain talks. Every build starts with an eval harness: your held-out test set, base model vs. tuned model, scored side by side. See proposed pricing →

Demo · eval harness walkthrough

Fine-tuning, proven or not, on your data

A walkthrough of an eval harness on a sample support corpus: the same held-out questions scored on the base model and the tuned model, so the improvement — if any — is measured, not claimed. If the tuned model doesn't win honestly, we tell you to skip training.

Sample corpus; your build uses your data and your eval questions.

Packages

Proposed pricing — these anchors are proposed, not final. Your fixed quote is confirmed before any work starts.

PackageWhat you getDeliveryPrice
PilotLoRA/QLoRA adapter on one open-weight model for one domain corpus, with a base-vs-tuned eval on your held-out set.2 weeks$1,500
StandardEverything in Pilot, plus training-data curation help, quantization-aware tuning for cheaper inference, and a written eval report.4 weeks$3,500
ScaleEverything in Standard, plus multi-domain training, a re-tuning cadence as your data grows, and deployment into your inference setup.6 weeks$7,500

What's included

Honest notes, before you spend: quality eval data is the whole game — fine-tuning on messy data teaches the model mess, and we'll tell you if your data isn't ready. Not every problem needs fine-tuning: prompting and RAG are cheaper when they work, and the free assessment finds the cheapest lever that clears your bar. You own the tuned weights — delivered to you, runnable without us.
Care plan: $99/mo — drift monitoring, periodic re-evals, and re-tuning when your data shifts. Defects against the agreed scope are covered by our 14-day defect window.

Before we start, we'll ask for

Frequently asked questions

How much training data do I need?

Enough to fill a meaningful held-out test set — typically hundreds to a few thousand quality examples for a LoRA adapter. If your data isn't there yet, we'll say so and tell you what to fix first.

Which models do you fine-tune?

Open-weight models (the Llama family, Mistral, Qwen, and similar) so you own the result. We pick the smallest model that passes your eval — smaller models cost less to run.

What if fine-tuning isn't the right answer?

Then we say so. If prompting or RAG clears your eval bar for less money, that's what we recommend. The assessment exists to answer this before you spend anything.

Who owns the tuned weights?

You do. The adapter weights and the full training recipe are delivered to you — no lock-in, no license back to us.