Company
Small, senior, and allergic to the pilot graveyard.
Xelec's AI venture. Few engagements at a time, staffed by people who have shipped this class of system.
Principles
Four commitments we make in writing.
A production gate before the work starts
We agree in writing what 'this works' means — accuracy, latency, cost — before the first sprint.
Senior people, no pyramid
The engineers on your call are the engineers writing the code.
Your data trains nothing of ours
No shared training, no derived-model reuse. You own the work product.
We will tell you not to build it
Roughly one in four discovery calls ends with us recommending a cheaper non-AI fix.
Delivery model
Built for US and European buyers specifically.
Time zones, procurement, residency and regulation — designed around all four.
Overlapping hours
Daily overlap with US Central and Central European hours.
Procurement-ready
DPA, security questionnaires, sub-processor list and insurance on request.
Regional delivery
Deployment in your region, with named engineers accountable.
Regulatory literacy
EU AI Act and GDPR treated as design inputs, not paperwork.
Engagements
Four ways to work together.
Discovery sprint
2 weeks
Fixed fee
Use-case scoring, data reality check, costed sequence. Credited against a pilot.
Paid pilot
4–8 weeks
Fixed scope, fixed fee
One use case to a written production gate, with the evaluation harness you keep.
Build partnership
Quarterly
Embedded team
A senior team against a roadmap: production systems, runbooks, capability transfer.
Managed operation
Annual
SLA-based
We run what we built — drift, cost, guardrails, upgrades — against an agreed SLA.
Assurance
The answers procurement asks for.
Next step
Start with a conversation, not a contract.
Thirty minutes with an engineer who has shipped this before. If there is no fit, we will say so on the call.