Stage 01
01
2–3 weeks
Problem Framing & Data Audit
Decision frame, success metric, cost-of-error model, deployment envelope, and a data audit covering availability, quality, lineage, leakage, and fairness.
Stage 02
02
4–8 weeks
Proof of Concept
A candidate model, or a small portfolio of candidates, built on actual client data within the actual client environment, evaluated against the agreed success metric and an honest live hold-out.
Stage 03
03
8–16 weeks
Production Build
Full-stack engineering: feature pipelines, training pipelines, model registry, inference service, monitoring hooks, governance registration, and handover.
Stage 04
04
Continuous
Operate & Evolve
Managed MLOps, drift response, retraining cadence, champion-challenger evaluation, and capability extension as new model families, architectures, and foundation models mature.