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You:I feel like I'm surfing a tsunami of bullshit while stakeholders demand backflips. Us:We'll help you cut through it, get oriented, and build what you really need.

>> There's a lot going on, isn't there?

The velocity, noise and hype in the AI industry is overwhelming. The technical complexity is deep, it is difficult to know exactly what you need or how to get it (if anything at all).

All of this while you're under intense pressure to just "do something" to realise AI value. It's a tough situation to find yourself in, enough to give you vertigo.

>> Headaches are common, sadly.

AI projects suffer from a high failure rate. As many as 95% fail to achieve ROI^*. Many don't even start due to legitimate concerns around safety and regulatory compliance.

We see three barriers to success: skills, control and governance.

skills

Getting an AI app spec'd, built and deployed requires a collection of technical skills: AI, software engineering, DevOps. These are hard to source.

control

Business logic is implemented by prompt, just asking nicely. In order to trust your software you need to be sure rules are followed.

governance

How sure can you be that customer data is flowing to the right place? Do you have visibility into what took place? Are you at risk of a GDPR breach?

These all manifest in what wraps the model: what's coming to be known as the harness. This is the focus of our thought and product design.

>> Why Yera Labs?

We've been there and know it's tough, so we're creating the product we wished existed to build upon. Alongside this, in order to fund its initial development, we're offering our deep technical expertise as a service as well.

Specifically, PhD-level expertise in AI and complex data science analyses, years of experience building software in this space in a sensitive, regulated industry (Finance). Check out bio for more information.

>> How can we help?

We can assist in a few different ways

consulting

We'll turn down the noise and help you get better oriented. We can advise on what sorts solutions to apply in your situation and get you to a confident position.

contracting

We'll embed in your team and build it properly. Our data science analyses will be rigourous and presented with clarity.

training

We'll get your team up to speed on AI or data science with practical instruction they can use in their day to day.

>> Ethics

It's important to us that we are honest and data-driven about what we recommend. It is wrong to sell someone an unperformant, AI-driven square peg for a round hole. We are allergic to hype and slop, and this all leads to our general position on AI.

Ultimately, it's all just software and models are a commodity. It is subject to the same hard-won lessons the industry has been learning for decades and it works best when it's augmenting people rather than replacing them.

>> Get in touch

Let's have a chat. Book a call without commitment below

>> Where next?

Have a read of our blog. Here's a couple of choice entries that show how we think:

Brother John and Anti-LLMs
Slow down and eat your vegetables
Why centaurs win

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*(link to the MIT study)