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Applied AI engineering · Seattle

AI that holds up
past the demo.

Kuiper designs, builds and operates production AI systems — agents, retrieval, evaluation and the infrastructure under them — for teams whose software can't afford to guess.

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47.6307° N, 122.3725° WBeyond the known system

Trusted by engineering teams at

  • Google
  • Apple
  • Amazon
  • Salesforce

01The gap

The model was never the hard part.

Most AI projects stall somewhere between a convincing pilot and a system people rely on. Not because the model is wrong — because everything around it was never built.

  • Evals nobody runs.
  • Data nobody owns.
  • Agents nobody can debug.
  • Costs nobody forecast.

That second 90% is where Kuiper works.

02Capabilities

Four things, done properly.

We stay narrow on purpose. Each engagement pulls from the same four disciplines.

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Agentic systems

Multi-step agents with tool use, human checkpoints and a full trace of every decision. Built to be audited, not admired.

  • Tool use
  • Human-in-the-loop
  • Tracing
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Retrieval & knowledge

Search and RAG over the documents your business actually runs on — with permissions intact and every answer cited back to source.

  • Hybrid search
  • ACL-aware
  • Citations
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Evaluation & reliability

Eval suites, red-teaming and regression gates wired into CI, so a model upgrade is a reviewed diff instead of a gamble.

  • Eval suites
  • Red-teaming
  • CI gates
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AI infrastructure

Model routing, cost controls, observability and deployment on your own cloud. You own every line and every weight we touch.

  • Routing
  • Cost control
  • Your cloud

03Method

Twelve weeks from scope to production.

  1. Week 0

    Scope

    One workflow, one owner, one number that defines success. We write the eval before the code.

  2. Week 2

    Prototype

    Working software on your real data. Not a slide deck, not a sandbox demo.

  3. Week 6

    Pilot

    Real users, behind an eval gate. Nothing ships unless the suite passes.

  4. Week 12

    Production

    Hardened, monitored and handed over — or operated with you, if you'd rather.

ci / eval-gate
$ kuiper eval run --suite claims-triage

✓ grounded answers      412 / 420
✓ citation accuracy     99.0%
✓ p95 latency           1.84 s
✓ cost / 1k requests    $0.42
✗ policy edge case #17  regressed

deploy blocked — 1 regression vs. main
Illustrative. Every Kuiper system ships with a gate like this one.

04Principles

Evals before vibes.

If we can't measure it, we don't ship it. Every system comes with the tests that prove it works.

You own the code.

Your repos, your cloud, your keys. No platform fee, no black box, no lock-in.

Senior engineers only.

The people who scope your project are the people who build it.

Boring where it matters.

Novel models, proven plumbing. Reliability comes from the parts nobody puts on a slide.

05 — Contact

Past the edge is where we work.

Tell us about the system you need to exist. We reply within one business day.

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