Applied AI Engineering
The applied AI arm of AI Socratic — frontier engineers who build production AI with your team.
Anthropic Certified Consulting Partner
Tell us about your project — the lab will match you with the right team.
Meet the lab
Forward Deployed Engineers In Your Team
We automate your processes and train your team and leadership to be an AI champion and to keep your company the most productive it can be.
The applied AI lab of the AI Socratic network
The people who build frontier AI, available to build yours.
AI Socratic Labs draws on a network of top AI engineers, researchers, and architects from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and leading AI startups — working with the lab gives you access to a vast pool of frontier knowledge and dedicated forward deployed engineers.
Our network includes people from
Companies represented in the lab's network and events
Why AI Socratic Labs
Practitioners who ship production AI.
Staffed with the people who build and teach at the frontier — senior engineers, researchers, and architects from the world's leading AI companies.
Lab-speed delivery
We scope in days and ship in weeks. Working software, fast. You get a tight proposal, weekly demos, and production-ready deliverables.
Hands on keyboard
The lab writes code. Every engagement produces working systems — prototypes, pipelines, deployed agents — alongside the strategic layer.
Frontier knowledge
Our network runs monthly technical events with engineers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and leading AI startups. What we learn at the frontier ships in your stack.
Global reach, local presence
Lab engineers in NYC, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Madrid, Milan, Rome, Lisbon, and beyond. On-site when you need it, async when you don't.
What the lab does
End-to-end applied AI, from strategy to production.
We meet you where you are and move you to where you need to be.
AI Strategy
Identify where AI creates real leverage in your business. The lab audits your stack, maps use cases by ROI, and builds a roadmap you can execute in weeks.
Applied Engineering
From prototype to production. We build RAG pipelines, agent systems, fine-tuned models, and custom tooling. Hands on keyboard, shipping code.
Process Automation
We redesign workflows around AI. Document processing, customer support, internal ops — we identify the bottleneck and automate it with the right model and architecture.
AI Safety & Governance
Responsible deployment from day one. We help you set up evaluation frameworks, guardrails, red-teaming pipelines, and compliance documentation.
Team Training & Upskilling
Hands-on workshops for your engineering and product teams. Prompt engineering, agent architectures, eval design, and tool integration — taught by practitioners who build daily.
Technical Due Diligence
For investors and acquirers evaluating AI companies. We assess model quality, infrastructure, team capability, and competitive moats with a practitioner's eye.
How the lab works
From first call to production in weeks.
A lean process built for speed and clarity. Tight scoping, weekly demos, production-ready deliverables.
Discovery call
We listen to your problem, assess fit, and outline a rough scope. Straightforward conversation — we'll tell you honestly if we're the right team.
Scoping & proposal
A tight proposal with deliverables, timeline, and pricing. We scope for outcomes. You know exactly what you're getting.
Execution sprint
Hands-on work with weekly demos. The lab embeds with your team, ships incrementally, and course-corrects in real time.
Handoff & training
Documentation, team training, and a clear path forward. You own everything we build. We're available for ongoing advisory if needed.
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Ready to start?
Let's build something together.
Tell us about your project, timeline, and what you're trying to achieve. The lab will match you with the right engineers and send a proposal within a week.
Or email fed@aisocratic.org