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Learning Consulting

Looking to develop a tech support agent? Training a deep learning model on proprietary EMR data to forecast patient readmission? No matter the challenge, our consultants are ready to help you understand exactly how to evolve the business to leverage the emerging AI capabilities.

How can ML consulting help your business?

According to the 2025 MIT NANDA report, 95% of AI pilots fail to produce rapid revenue acceleration. Our job as a machine learning consultancy is to ensure your project is one of the lucky 5%.

Align your business and AI goals

Vague goals lead to endless PoCs with zero business impact. Our consultants help SMEs align AI with business goals. We start with one primary KPI, baseline it, and define kill criteria. To drive the adoption, we involve process owners in metric design, run user testing, provide training and playbooks.

Evaluate the AI readiness

Biased, sparse, mislabeled, or drifting data is another common reason for failure. Our engineers audit the readiness of your data (profiling, leakage checks, label QA) and existing systems. We provide data contracts, acceptance thresholds, and a remediation plan before modeling.

Design production-ready models

We design for prod on day one to cross the chasm between PoC and functioning AI. This includes API/microservice boundaries, contract tests, CI/CD, IaC, latency/cost budgets, and a deployment path.

Improve compliance & security

Our generative AI consultancy specializes in highly-regulated industries, such as healthcare. Prevent costly regulator-driven reworks/shutdowns with data minimization, de-ID, access controls, audit trails, explainability, and documented risk assessments.

Prevent model decay

Adopt reliable MLOps practices. Our consultants set quality, latency, and unit cost SLOs, monitor drift/performance, automate retraining, and maintain lineage/model cards.

Control costs

Inference, labeling, and frequent pivots often come with unexpected costs. MindK helps businesses control expenses with cost SLOs, model right-sizing, batching, and load simulation before committing.

Our machine learning consulting services

MindK consults SMEs and scale-ups to build cost-effective, scalable, low-risk production‑ready solutions.

Gen AI & ML consulting
success stories

Explore case studies of companies that benefited from our generative AI consulting services.

  • Background for

    USA

    From POC to agentic automation in healthcare

    Healthcare scale-up

    Our consultants helped a healthcare startup accelerate drug testing. We developed an AI algorithm to recognize drug test results using a smartphone camera. The MVP caught the attention of our client’s partners, prompting the development of a full-scale system. It covers 450+ services and automates back-office tasks using agentic AI.  

    • AWS Rekognition-based test result analysis.
    • AI agent that monitors all non-negative cases, assembles artifacts, requests clarifications, and pushes cases through to closure. 
    • Chain-of-custody guardian that validates required steps, blocks submission on missing items, and produces audit-ready trails with agentic AI for edge cases (free-text notes, photo/ID quality coaching).
  • Background for

    USA

    Autonomous AI for executive hiring

    Boutique recruiting agency

    A specialized executive search agency needed to move beyond traditional keyword-based candidate matching to handle unique, high-stakes executive searches. They reached out to MindK in order to create a Slack-integrated AI agent that can analyze unique requirements that don’t fit standard job categories and assist with high-stakes hiring.

    • Multi-modal analysis of structured & unstructured data.
    • Contextual assistance based on info posted in Slack chats.
    • Understanding of the target industry, candidate skills, and experience. 
    • Transparent chain of thought with RAG and ATS integration.
  • Background for

    USA

    Tech support agent for fast-growing SaaS

    B2C SaaS company

    A US-based SaaS platform faced escalating support volumes due to rapid growth. 60% of the tickets involved basic API documentation lookups, integration, and feature guidance, which sapped valuable attention away from the more complex cases. Our consultants designed an AI assistant to tackle the growing support volumes without raising the costs. 

    • Processing of structured and unstructured data into a Pinecone database.
    • Multi-modal inference capabilities (screenshots, API documents, user manuals).
    • Transparent reasoning with attribution of all sources (document references, API examples, code snippets).
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    Assess your AI readiness

    Identify whether AI is the best choice for your specific case. MindK's AI readiness assessment will help you identify opportunities, evaluate risks, and design the best solution to your challenges.

    60-minute interview

    Design a product concept, prepare a project cost estimation and plan the steps we'll take to move ahead with product development and enhancements.
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    Definition of goals and KPI

    Design a product concept, prepare a project cost estimation and plan the steps we'll take to move ahead with product development and enhancements.
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    Software assessment

    Design a product concept, prepare a project cost estimation and plan the steps we'll take to move ahead with product development and enhancements.
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    Data analysis

    Design a product concept, prepare a project cost estimation and plan the steps we'll take to move ahead with product development and enhancements.
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    Action plan presentation

    Design a product concept, prepare a project cost estimation and plan the steps we'll take to move ahead with product development and enhancements.
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    When machine learning is not the answer?

    When companies start experiencing software failures, they also often struggle with operational woes causing costly delays and bugs in production. Our QA automation and DevOps services are great solutions to operational pains.

    Insufficient data

    AI requires enough examples to capture patterns. This data must be representative (cover the full range of cases the model will face in production), accurate and consistent (free of duplicates, errors, and conflicting labels), well-labeled, up-to-date, and accessible (stored in formats that the ML pipeline can easily use). When these conditions aren't met, our consultants usually recommend rule-based automation.

    Low business impact

    If automating a small internal report saves just minutes per week, AI is overkill. To qualify the impact, we assess potential time saved, cost reduction, revenue uplift, risk avoided, or customer experience improvement. Simple scripts or BI dashboards are more sensible if the expected gain is marginal.

    Early-stage startups

    When speed to market is critical, building an MVP with deterministic logic often beats ML experiments. The team can use generative AI, pre-built modules, and low-code solutions to accelerate development. Once you validate traction, it's time to experiment with state-of-the-art algorithms.

    High compliance risk

    Workflows with direct clinical or legal consequences, such as medical diagnosis or drug approval, make black-box models risky. However, AI can be invaluable in supportive roles. Automating documentation, predicting patient no-shows, or optimizing resource allocation involves fewer compliance risks. During the AI readiness assessment, the key is to differentiate high-risk use cases (life-or-death or regulatory decision-making) from low-to-medium-risk ones (workflow efficiency, coding automation).

    What comes next: our ML consulting process

    For AI-ready businesses, our priority is to develop quick proofs of concept, evaluate them rigorously, and scale to production-ready models.

    Data prep and prototyping

    Design a product concept, prepare a project cost estimation and plan the steps we'll take to move ahead with product development and enhancements.
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    Full model deployment

    Design a product concept, prepare a project cost estimation and plan the steps we'll take to move ahead with product development and enhancements.
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    Improvement and support

    Design a product concept, prepare a project cost estimation and plan the steps we'll take to move ahead with product development and enhancements.
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    Tech stack

    Our generative AI consultants work with major open-source + proprietary AI technologies, and have deep expertise in legacy technology integration.
    • TensorFlow TensorFlow
    • PyTorch PyTorch
    • Scikit-learn Scikit-learn
    • Langchain Langchain
    • Llamaindex Llamaindex
    • Snowflake Snowflake
    • BigQuery BigQuery
    • Apache Spark Apache Spark
    • Apache Kafka Apache Kafka
    • RabbitMQ RabbitMQ
    • Kubernetes Kubernetes
    • Docker Docker
    • Terraform Terraform
    • AWS AWS
    • Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure
    • GCP GCP

    What is the cost of an AI project?

    Depending on several factors, the real cost may vary from a few thousand dollars to $200,000+. These include data availability and quality, use case complexity, integrations with existing systems, compliance needs, and the level of ongoing support.

    Consulting and discovery

    $3,000–$10,000 (2–4 weeks

    Custom ML model (PoC)

    $15,000–$30,000 (6–12 weeks)

    Enterprise-level ML solution

    $40k–$150k+ depending on scope and integrations

    LLM fine-tuning

    $20k–$100k

    RAG AI agent

    $20k–$100k+

    Enterprise multi-agent system

    $120k–$250k+

    Ongoing MLOps & support

    $5k+ a month

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    Drop us a few words about your project for a tailored cost estimate.
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    Why MindK?

    We don't just "do AI". We focus on providing measurable value with machine learning consulting services.

    Proven track record

    Since 2009, MindK has consulted over 150 companies, achieving 96% client retention.

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    Risky action prevention

    We implement guardrails to prevent risky autonomous actions and hallucination-based decisions.

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    Compliance by design

    Our machine learning consultants specialize in highly-regulated niches like healthcare.

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    Transparency first

    We explain every decision, from strategy to MLOps. No black-box models

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    What
    our
    clients
    say

    • Alexander Radchenko

      CEO, Radenia AG,
      Switzerland

      Transparency and focus
      on business value

      «I've been working with multiple IT services providers for more than two decades and what sets MindK team apart is transparency, focus on business value and quality of the services provided.»

    • Al Hariri

      Al Hariri

      Co-Founder, Vitagene
      USA

      Al Hariri

      Results-oriented and
      outcome-driven

      «I can tell you confidently that they are different from your regular agency that just wants to charge as much money for their work as they can get away with. MindK is completely results-oriented and outcome-driven.»

    • Ida Groth

      Ida Groth

      Senior Product Manager, Building Materials Company
      Norway

      Ida Groth

      Responsibility
      and proactiveness

      «It’s so comforting to know that they see the whole picture and take full responsibility. It’s made all of the difference. I was most impressed with their proactiveness.»

    • Mark Lange

      Mark Lange

      CMO, Reputation.com
      USA

      Mark Lange

      A client-first approach
      shop

      «It's been refreshing to work with a team that puts us as a client first no matter the circumstances and goes out of their way to ensure that our needs are not only met but exceeded. I have no reservations in recommending MindK to any business looking for a top-tier team.»

    • Zaheer Mohiuddin

      Zaheer Mohiuddin

      Co-Founder, Levels.fyi
      USA

      Zaheer Mohiuddin

      This isn't your typical outsourcing shop

      «The quality of work and the interactions with the team felt akin to anyone that I've worked within the Bay Area in technology. MindK's expertise is for real and the bar is high. This isn't your typical outsourcing shop, MindK has top-notch engineers and PMs.»

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        FAQ

        • Which business problems are a good fit for ML?

          Good fit includes frequent, repetitive decisions with a measurable upside, enough data, moderate-to-high complexity, and realistic latency/cost SLOs. 

          Poor fit cases involve low-impact tasks, deterministic logic, scarce or low-quality data, or high-stakes decisions requiring formal explainability.

           

        • How much will ML consulting cost, and what drives it?

          The cost of AI projects ranges from $3k to $10k for discovery, $15k to $30k for a PoC, and $40k to $150k+ for enterprise–grade systems. The main cost drivers include data quality and labeling, the number and complexity of integrations, compliance (e.g., HIPAA adds 10–25%), latency/SLA targets, and whether new data pipelines are required.

        • What data do we need to start, and what is “high quality”?

          For supervised ML: 10k–50k+ labeled rows (problem-dependent); for time series: 12–24 months; for RAG: an indexed corpus of authoritative docs. 

          High quality means accurate labels, representative samples, low missingness/leakage, and recency. We run a readiness audit with acceptance thresholds.

        • How will you integrate with our stack with minimal disruption?

          Our gen AI consultants use API/SDK boundary with contract tests. We first go for read-only shadow, then perform canary rollout with feature flags, with rollback in seconds. 

        • How do you handle security, privacy, and compliance?

          We employ least-privilege access, encryption in transit/at rest, DLP/redaction, audit trails, and model cards. For high-stakes use, our machine learning consultants add explainability and documented risk assessments, PHI de-identification, and access logs by role.

        • Who owns the IP, models, and code? How do we avoid lock-in?

          By default, you own code, configs, and models trained on your data; third-party licenses apply where relevant. We use portable standards (MLflow/DVC/ONNX), infrastructure-as-code, and provide an exit pack (artifacts and runbooks).

        • When is LLM fine-tuning justified?

          Fine-tuning is only justifiable if it beats a strong baseline on your gold tests (e.g., ≥10–20% accuracy/consistency lift). Our gen AI consulting company enforces unit-cost guardrails and right-size models to keep bills predictable.

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