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REAL LLMS.
REAL GPUS.
REAL ENGINEERS.

True LLM development is not prompt engineering. It is pre-training, large-scale fine-tuning, quantization, inference optimization and the GPU clusters to do it. We build foundation models for banks, governments, telecoms and large fintechs who can't rent their AI.

VIEW ENGAGEMENTS
1B–70B+
PARAMETERS
H100 · H200
GPU CLUSTERS
SOVEREIGN
SELF-HOSTED
3–9 MONTHS
TIMELINE
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PRE-TRAINING
FINE-TUNING
QUANTIZATION
INFERENCE OPT
GPU CLUSTERS
DATA CURATION
ALIGNMENT / RLHF
SELF-HOSTED
+ THE REALITY

EVERYONE CLAIMS
LLM DEV.
FEW ACTUALLY DO IT.

Walk into ten AI agencies and nine will sell you "LLM development" — but the work is prompt engineering, light fine-tuning or RAG over GPT-4. That's fine for chatbots. It is not LLM development.

WHAT MOST AGENCIES DO
  • × Prompt engineering on GPT-4 / Claude
  • × Light LoRA fine-tuning on OpenAI
  • × RAG on top of someone else's model
WHAT TRUE LLM DEV REQUIRES
  • Large multi-node GPU clusters (H100 / H200)
  • Senior ML engineers, not prompt writers
  • Massive curated datasets — tokens, not prompts
  • Pre-training, alignment and full evaluation pipelines
+ INCLUDES

EVERY LAYER
OF THE STACK.

Pre-Training

From-scratch or continued pre-training on trillions of tokens. Custom tokenizers, curated corpora, distributed training over multi-node GPU clusters.

Fine-Tuning

Supervised fine-tuning, instruction tuning, DPO, ORPO and GRPO alignment on your domain data with proper evaluation harnesses.

Quantization

INT8, INT4, AWQ, GPTQ and SmoothQuant. Shrink 70B models to fit a single GPU without losing the accuracy that matters.

Inference Optimization

vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang and llama.cpp tuning. Continuous batching, paged attention, speculative decoding — production throughput and latency.

Self-Hosted AI Infrastructure

On-prem or sovereign-cloud GPU clusters, InfiniBand fabric, Kubernetes, observability and air-gapped deployment for regulated environments.

Dataset Engineering

Web-scale crawling, deduplication, quality filtering, PII removal, multilingual balancing and synthetic data generation pipelines.

+ TARGET CLIENTS

BUILT FOR
INSTITUTIONS.

Banks

Sovereign credit models, internal copilots over confidential filings, fraud and compliance LLMs that never leave the bank's perimeter.

Governments

Multilingual, sovereign-AI models trained on national corpora — defence, public-services, judiciary, fully air-gapped deployment.

Telecom Operators

Network-ops copilots, carrier-grade customer-care LLMs and CDR-aware analytical models trained on subscriber-scale data.

Large Fintech Companies

Proprietary LLMs for risk, KYC, trading research and partner copilots — fine-tuned on years of in-house transactional and document data.

+ STACK

SERIOUS TOOLS.
SERIOUS SCALE.

GPU Clusters

H100 / H200 / B200 multi-node clusters connected over InfiniBand 400G. On-prem or sovereign-cloud (CoreWeave, Lambda, Crusoe, OCI).

PyTorch + DeepSpeed

Distributed pre-training with ZeRO-3, FSDP, tensor and pipeline parallelism. Megatron-LM for trillion-token runs.

Megatron-LM / FSDP

Industrial-strength training stacks for 7B–70B+ models. Activation checkpointing, sequence parallelism, communication overlap.

vLLM / TensorRT-LLM

Production inference — continuous batching, paged attention, FP8 and INT4 kernels for sub-50ms latency at scale.

Data Pipelines

Datatrove, dolma, fineweb-style pipelines: crawl, dedupe, filter, tokenize. PII scrubbing and multilingual balancing built in.

Evaluation & Safety

MMLU, GSM8K, HumanEval, BBH plus custom domain harnesses. Red-teaming, jailbreak resistance and policy alignment.

+ HOW IT WORKS

FROM CORPUS TO
PRODUCTION LLM.

01

Scope & Architecture

Model size, languages, target tasks, compliance constraints and infrastructure plan. Cluster sizing and budgeting before a single GPU spins up.

02

Data & Pre-Training

Curate trillions of tokens, build the tokenizer, run distributed pre-training across multi-node H100 / H200 clusters with full observability.

03

Alignment & Eval

Instruction tuning, DPO/ORPO, red-teaming and full evaluation against MMLU, domain benchmarks and your acceptance criteria.

04

Quantize, Serve, Operate

Quantize, optimize inference with vLLM / TensorRT-LLM, deploy self-hosted, set up monitoring, retraining and incident response.

+ WHY IT CORNER

ML ENGINEERS,
NOT PROMPTERS.

Real Cluster Experience

We've trained and operated multi-node H100 clusters end-to-end — not Colab notebooks. Distributed bugs are our day job, not a surprise.

Sovereign & Air-Gapped

Self-hosted by default. Models, weights, datasets and training pipelines never leave your jurisdiction or your firewall.

Regulated-Industry Ready

We work the way banks and governments require — change control, audit logs, secure SDLC, dual control over model releases.

Honest Evaluation

We tell you when fine-tuning is the right answer instead of pre-training. We don't bill GPU hours that don't move the metric.

Multilingual by Design

Local language and script support is a first-class concern from tokenizer through eval — not a translation layer bolted on at the end.

Continuous Operation

We don't disappear after handover. Continued pre-training, alignment refreshes and incident response under SLA.

+ ENGAGEMENTS

LLM PROGRAMMES.
NOT WEEKEND PROJECTS.

Continued Pre-Training

$150K+

Take an open-weight base model and continue pre-training on your domain corpus, then align and deploy.

  • 1B–13B parameter open base model
  • Continued pre-training on your corpus
  • Instruction tuning + DPO alignment
  • Quantization + vLLM deployment
  • Self-hosted inference cluster
  • 6-month optimization retainer
SCOPE PROJECT
★ RECOMMENDED

Foundation Model

$1M+

Build a foundation model from scratch — your tokenizer, your data, your weights, your moat.

  • Custom 7B–34B parameter model
  • From-scratch pre-training
  • Multi-node H100 / H200 cluster
  • Full alignment + safety pipeline
  • Sovereign / air-gapped deployment
  • Dedicated ML engineering team
  • 12-month operation SLA
MOST POPULAR

Sovereign AI Programme

Custom

Multi-model, multi-year programme for governments, central banks and tier-1 institutions.

  • Multiple foundation models
  • 70B+ parameter scale
  • On-prem GPU cluster build-out
  • Multilingual / multi-script corpus
  • Embedded ML engineering team
  • Security, audit & compliance
  • Long-term operation under SLA
TALK TO LEADERSHIP
+ FAQ

QUESTIONS ABOUT
LLM DEVELOPMENT.

What is LLM development?

LLM development means creating or heavily modifying foundation models — pre-training new models from scratch, performing large-scale fine-tuning, quantizing and optimizing them for inference, and operating the GPU clusters required to do it. It is not the same as prompt engineering or building RAG on top of GPT-4.

Who is real LLM development for?

Banks, governments, telecom operators and large fintech companies that need sovereign, regulated or domain-specialized models — not generic SaaS APIs. Anyone with compliance, data-residency or scale requirements that rule out public AI providers.

How is this different from fine-tuning or RAG?

Most agencies claim 'LLM development' but only do prompt engineering, light fine-tuning or RAG on top of someone else's model. True LLM development requires large GPU clusters, ML engineers, massive datasets and full ownership of the training pipeline — that is what we deliver.

What does the infrastructure look like?

Multi-node H100 or H200 GPU clusters connected over InfiniBand, distributed training with DeepSpeed, FSDP or Megatron-LM, and self-hosted inference using vLLM or TensorRT-LLM behind your firewall.

How long does it take to build a foundation model?

Specialized models in the 1B–13B parameter range typically take 3–9 months end-to-end including data curation, pre-training, instruction tuning, alignment and evaluation. Continued pre-training of existing open-weight models is faster — usually 6–14 weeks.

Do we keep the model weights?

Yes. Weights, tokenizer, training code and dataset pipelines are all delivered to you. Sovereign AI means sovereign — no vendor lock-in, no remote kill switch.

+ READY WHEN YOU ARE

Start your LLM DEVELOPMENT company today.

Tell us where you want to incorporate and which package fits. We'll come back with a checklist and a timeline — usually within the same business day.