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RAG & LLM Fine-Tuning

Retrieval pipelines and fine-tuned open-weight models, built on your domain data and deployed in your cloud tenant with a zero-egress architecture for sensitive data. Every fine-tuned model's weights belong to you — model-agnostic delivery, no platform lock-in.

6–12 weeksTypical duration
QLoRA or full fine-tuneMethod by budget
Custom-scopedContact us for a quote

RAG Pipelines

Real-time answers, grounded in your documents.

Retrieval-augmented generation over your product docs, regulatory rulebooks, or knowledge base — with citation trails so every answer is traceable to a source. This is the technique behind our regulatory Q&A and branch-copilot use cases.

LLM Fine-Tuning

A model that speaks your domain, not a generic assistant.

QLoRA (preferred, compute-efficient) or full fine-tuning based on your budget and task. Built on open-weight base models — Llama, Mistral, Phi — selected for commercial-use licensing, not vendor preference.

Delivery Framework

Six phases — from data governance to handoff.

Phase 1

Data Assessment & Governance Setup

Inventory available domain data. Assess quality, volume, and licensing. PHI handling protocol established. Baseline model evaluation.

Phase 2

Base Model Selection & License Review

Select an open-source base model based on task, context window, and confirmed commercial-use license.

Phase 3

Fine-Tuning Run

QLoRA (preferred) or full fine-tune based on compute budget. Hyperparameter configuration. GPU selection and cost estimate agreed upfront.

Phase 4

Evaluation Framework

Domain-specific benchmarks. Human evaluation sample — clinician sign-off required for any clinical use case. Hallucination rate, latency, and task accuracy measured.

Phase 5

Deployment

Model served in your cloud tenant. Zero-egress architecture for PHI and other sensitive data. Inference cost monitoring configured.

Phase 6

Handoff & Knowledge Transfer

Your team trained on prompt engineering, fine-tuning iteration, and model evaluation. IP assignment: all fine-tuned weights belong to you.

IP assignment — standard in every SOW

Upon full payment, we assign to you all rights, title, and interest in the work product created specifically for your use case, including fine-tuned model weights. We retain only our pre-existing methodologies and general know-how — never your data, your model, or your IP.

Ongoing leadership

Someone needs to own this after deployment.

A Fractional AI Partner retainer keeps senior technical judgment in the room as your model estate grows.

See Fractional AI Partner