Opulence.
AI Consulting & Automation

Data Engineering & MLOps

Pipelines, feature stores, model deployment and monitoring so AI keeps working after launch.

AI systems are only as reliable as the data feeding them and the operations around them. We build the pipelines that deliver clean, timely data, the infrastructure that deploys models repeatably and the monitoring that shows when quality drifts. It is unglamorous work and it is the reason production systems survive.

The same foundation serves analytics, so the investment pays off beyond the AI programme.

How we're different
  • We treat prompts and evaluation sets as code, versioned and tested like any other release.
  • Data quality checks run in the pipeline, so bad data is stopped before it reaches a model.
  • The platform is built with our IT and DevOps practice, so it fits your wider infrastructure.
Who this is for
  • A group whose AI programme has stalled because every model needs its own data extract.
  • A bank or retailer with models in production that nobody monitors for drift.
  • A company standardising analytics and AI on one platform after years of departmental tools.
Signals you need this now
  • Each proof of concept starts with weeks of manual data preparation.
  • A model degraded for months before anyone noticed.
  • Prompts and evaluation sets live in documents rather than in version control.
  • Data quality problems are found by the model's users.
Scope of work

What is included.

  1. 01

    Data platform

    Warehouse or lakehouse with ingestion, modelling and quality checks.

  2. 02

    Pipelines

    Batch and streaming pipelines with orchestration, testing and lineage.

  3. 03

    Feature and vector stores

    Reusable features and embeddings managed with versioning.

  4. 04

    Model deployment

    CI/CD for models and prompts, with staged rollout and rollback.

  5. 05

    Monitoring

    Data quality, model performance, drift and cost tracked with alerts.

Method

Four steps, no surprises.

  1. 01

    Assess

    Current data, tooling and operational gaps reviewed.

  2. 02

    Design

    Platform architecture, pipeline patterns and operating model.

  3. 03

    Build

    Pipelines, stores and deployment automation delivered in increments.

  4. 04

    Operate

    Monitoring live, team trained and hand-over or ongoing support.

How the engagement runs

From first meeting to steady state.

  1. 01Weeks 1 to 2

    Assess

    Current data, tooling and operational gaps reviewed with your data and platform teams.

  2. 02Weeks 3 to 4

    Design

    Platform architecture, pipeline patterns and operating model agreed.

  3. 03Weeks 5 to 14

    Build

    Pipelines, stores and deployment automation delivered in increments alongside live use cases.

  4. 04Week 15 onwards

    Operate

    Monitoring live, team trained and either hand-over or an embedded team.

What we measure
  • Time from a new data source to a modelled, tested table.
  • Pipeline failure rate and time to detect.
  • Time from a model or prompt change to a monitored deployment.
  • Drift and quality incidents caught by monitoring before users report them.
Who is on the engagement
  • Data platform architect
  • Data engineers
  • MLOps engineer
  • Analytics engineer
Deliverables
  • Data platform and modelled tables.
  • Orchestrated pipelines with tests.
  • Model and prompt CI/CD.
  • Observability dashboards and alerts.
  • Documentation and runbooks.
Engagement terms

Platform work is fixed scope after a two-week assessment and typically runs eight to sixteen weeks for a foundation. Ongoing pipeline development and operations run on a retainer or as an embedded team for larger programmes.

FAQ

Data Engineering & MLOps, in plain terms.

dbt, Airflow or Dagster, Databricks or BigQuery, MLflow, Langfuse and the cloud services around them. We choose for fit with your team and existing stack.

Some of it. The discovery workshop identifies the minimum data work needed for the first use case, and the platform grows from there.

Yes. Many engagements are a mix of our engineers and yours, with the goal of your team owning the platform.

Tracing of every request, automated quality scoring on samples, cost tracking and alerts when performance moves outside agreed bounds.

Next step

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