Custom ML models that turn your data into predictions you can act on.

We build and ship machine-learning models trained on your own data - forecasting, scoring, recommendation, classification and computer vision - to power a feature in your product or a decision in your business. Where our agents and copilots reason and act, these models predict and decide. Built to run in production, monitored and governed, not left in a notebook.

Forecasting & scoringComputer visionMonitored in production
Built & shippedto production
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Validated data foundation under every model
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Model families - forecast · score · recommend · see
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Lifecycle stages, framing to monitoring
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Drift-monitored in production, no one in the loop
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Why it matters

Most models never make it out of the notebook.

A model that scores well on a data scientist's laptop isn't a model that's making decisions in your product. Getting ML into production - trained on your real data, integrated into your systems, watched for drift, and trusted enough to act on - is where most efforts stall. And a generic, off-the-shelf model rarely fits your data or your problem.

Stuck in a notebook

A model that scores well in an experiment but never gets integrated, deployed or actually used.

Doesn't fit your data

Off-the-shelf or generic models that miss the patterns specific to your business and your data.

Drifts in production

Accuracy quietly degrades as the world changes - and no one is watching for it.

Can't be trusted to decide

No monitoring, no explainability, and nothing to justify a prediction when it actually matters.

What we build

Models that predict, score, recommend and see.

Four families of model, one discipline - trained on your own data, validated beyond a leaderboard score, and built to run in production.

Prediction & forecasting

Models that forecast demand, revenue, churn, risk or failure from your historical data - so you act ahead of what's coming.

Scoring & classification

Models that score and classify - risk, fraud, lead quality, defect, case triage - turning raw data into a decision.

Recommendation & personalization

Recommendation and ranking models that personalize what each user sees, buys or does next.

Computer vision

Vision models that read images and video - classification, detection, OCR, and quality or defect inspection.

How it works

From your data to a model in production.

Every model follows the same disciplined path - frame it, ground it in real data, train and validate it honestly, ship it, then keep it accurate. Tap through each stage, or let it play.

  • We call build-vs-buy honestly before anyone trains anything.
  • Validated for accuracy, robustness and bias - not just a leaderboard score.
  • Monitored for drift and retrained as the world changes.
A model, from data to production
Five stages · the same lifecycle whether it powers a product feature or a back-office decision
Frame the problemStage 01

We define the decision the model serves and the metric that matters - and call build-vs-buy honestly before anyone trains anything.

Reference pipeline

What a model in production actually looks like.

A generic view of how we take a model from your data to a decision in production - the shape holds whatever the problem. Data flows in two ways: a batch from your warehouse, or live signals from your systems. A feature pipeline engineers the signal, a validated model is trained and registered, and predictions go out two ways - streamed live, or scored in batch. Governance, explainability and drift monitoring wrap the whole thing.

Governance & explainability
batchYour datawarehouse · lake · history
streamingLive signalsevents · logs · sensors
Model factorytrain · validate · register
Feature pipeline → trainingengineered features, validated models
Forecastingpredict ahead
Scoringclassify
Rankingrecommend
Visionsee
Anomalyflag
XGBoost / LightGBMPyTorchscikit-learnMLflow registryfeature store

Validated for accuracy, robustness and bias before it ever serves a real decision.

real timeLive predictionsan API · streamed into your product
scheduledBatch scores & digestsruns on a schedule, no one asking
Retrains - monitoring feeds drift back into training
Monitoring & drift

Two ways out, one system - a prediction served live, or a batch scored on a schedule, with a retraining loop underneath.

The loop is the point. The same model serves a prediction in real time and scores in batch - while a monitoring loop watches for drift and retrains it as the world changes. That's what separates a model that ships from one that dies in a notebook.

Built on a real foundation

A model is only as good as the data under it.

The hardest part of ML usually isn't the model - it's the data: clean, joined, engineered and flowing reliably. We build models on a real data foundation, not a one-off extract from a spreadsheet. Where the foundation needs work first, our Data Engineering practice and our Databricks partnership get it ready, so the model has something solid to learn from.

The foundation: Data Engineering
The stack

The ML and MLOps stack we build on.

The tools we use across the lifecycle - from data and features through training and vision to serving and monitoring - with the strong alternatives at each layer, shown together. We pick per problem rather than forcing one house style.

Data & pipelines

DbDatabricksSfSnowflakeSkSparkdbtdbtAfAirflowKfKafka

Feature engineering

pdpandasPlPolarsNpNumPyFeFeastFtFeaturetoolsTcTecton

Classic ML & training

sklscikit-learnXGBXGBoostLGBLightGBMCBCatBoostsmstatsmodelsMLSpark MLlib

Deep learning & vision

PTPyTorchTFTensorFlowKsKerasHFHugging FaceCVOpenCVYlYOLO

Experiment tracking & tuning

MLfMLflowWBWeights & BiasesOpOptunaRayRay TuneDVCDVC

Deployment & serving

DkDockerK8sKubernetesFAFastAPIBeBentoMLTrTritonOXONNX

Monitoring & drift

EvEvidentlyAzArizeWLWhyLabsPrPrometheusGfGrafanaFdFiddler

Cloud & MLOps platforms

SMSageMakerAZAzure MLVxVertex AIKflKubeflowMfMetaflowTfTerraform

The standard ML/MLOps toolchain, anchored by our Databricks and Snowflake partnerships - a representative set. We pick per problem rather than forcing one house style.

Why Focaloid for ML

Models that ship.

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We ship to production

The gap most ML dies in is the one between a working model and a deployed one - and that gap is engineering, which is what we do.

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Built on a real data foundation

A Databricks partnership and proper data engineering, so models run on engineered data - not a one-off extract.

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Models you can trust

Validation beyond a leaderboard score - robustness, bias and explainability - plus monitoring for drift once it's live.

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The whole lifecycle, one team

Framing the problem, the data, the model, the deployment and the monitoring - from one team, not handed off piece by piece.

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Enterprise-grade by default

ISO 27001 processes and a partner stack to match - Claude Partner Network, Snowflake and Databricks - for the data-and-AI foundation underneath.

Partners & certifications
Member of the Claude Partner NetworkSnowflake PartnerDatabricks PartnerISO 27001 Certified
Who it's for

Built for teams with a decision a model could make better - in a product or across the business.

“We have a prediction or scoring problem we keep solving by hand or by gut.”
“We want a model feature in our product - recommendations, scoring, forecasting.”
“We have a lot of data and a decision that should be data-driven, but isn't yet.”
“We tried an off-the-shelf model and it didn't fit our data.”
“We have images or video we need a model to read.”

Usually a CTO, VP of Engineering, Head of Data, Data Science or AI, a product leader, or an operations leader.

Trust & governance

A model that makes decisions has to be explainable and fair.

When a model scores, flags or shapes a decision, you have to be able to explain it, show it isn't biased, and prove it's controlled - for US frameworks like the NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, and your customers' reviews, wherever you operate. We validate for robustness and bias, build in explainability, and monitor for drift - so the model is one you can actually stand behind.

More on this: AI Governance
Where this leads

Models, the data under them, and the run that keeps them alive.

A model rarely stands alone. It needs a data foundation underneath, monitoring and retraining to stay accurate, and it often sits inside a product feature or an agent that acts on what it predicts. Most ML work starts with one high-value decision and grows from there.

Common questions

Before you book.

How is this different from your agentic and copilot work?

Agents and copilots reason and act using LLMs. ML Development builds models trained on your data to predict, score, classify or see - the model behind a specific decision. They often work together: a model scores, an agent acts.

Do we need a data foundation first?

Models run on data. If yours isn't ready, our Data Engineering practice and Databricks partnership get it ready as part of the work - the model needs something solid to learn from.

When should we not build a model?

Often. We'll tell you when an off-the-shelf model or an API is the right call, and when your problem genuinely needs a custom one trained on your data.

How do you keep a model accurate over time?

Monitoring for drift and retraining as the world changes. That ongoing run is covered under ML/LLM Ops.

What about explainability and bias?

Part of how we validate and govern every decisioning model - see AI Governance.

How do you handle our data?

An NDA up front, ISO 27001 controls throughout, and your data and any models built on it stay yours.

What kinds of models do you build?

Forecasting, scoring and classification, recommendation and ranking, and computer vision - trained on your own data.

Let's build

Put your data to work on a real decision.

Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll find the highest-value decision a model could make better - and build one that ships.