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AI Strategy & Roadmapping
From opportunity mapping to a prioritised, ROI-aware roadmap. We help leadership identify where AI creates durable advantage — and where it doesn't.
Vaer AI — Strategic AI consultancy
AI strategy
that compounds.
We help ambitious teams design, ship, and scale AI systems that deliver measurable business impact — not demos. From frontier model evaluation to production deployment, end to end.
— Trusted by teams across fintech, SaaS, and frontier research —
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What we do
Six disciplines, one engagement.
We work as a single integrated team across strategy, product, and engineering — because the seams between them are where AI projects usually fail.
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Product & Agent Design
Designing AI-native products and agentic workflows. Evals, UX patterns, and guardrails baked in from day one — not bolted on after launch.
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Model & RAG Engineering
Frontier model selection, retrieval pipelines, fine-tuning, and evaluation infrastructure. Built on the assumption that the stack will keep moving.
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Production & Scale
Taking pilots into reliable, observable, cost-controlled production. Cache strategy, latency budgets, incident response, the unglamorous parts.
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Org & Capability Building
Embedding alongside your team. Hiring profiles, internal playbooks, evaluation culture — so you can run without us when we're done.
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Fractional AI Leadership
Acting CTO / Head of AI engagements for teams who need senior judgement on tap, without the full-time commitment.
How we work
A deliberate, five-step engagement.
No 18-month roadmaps. Most engagements run 6 to 16 weeks with a clear hand-off plan from the first day.
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Discover
A short, intense diagnostic. We meet your team, audit existing systems, and surface where AI moves the needle — and where it's a distraction.
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Frame
A prioritised, costed roadmap. Each initiative ranked by value, feasibility, and risk — with eval criteria defined before a line of code is written.
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Build
We embed and ship. Tight feedback loops, weekly reviews against the eval set, and continuous reassessment of model and architecture choices.
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Harden
Production readiness: observability, cost controls, fall-back paths, and incident runbooks. The stuff that turns demos into infrastructure.
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Hand off
We're done when your team can run it. Playbooks, hiring profiles, and a quarter of light-touch advisory to bridge the transition.
Selected work
Outcomes,
not artefacts.
A small selection from recent engagements. Names withheld under NDA — full case briefs available on request.
Fintech
Cut underwriting review time by 71% with a retrieval-augmented agent
Designed and shipped a document-grounded analyst agent for a mid-market lender. Replaced a 90-minute manual review with a 25-minute supervised flow — with a tighter eval set than the human baseline.
−71%
Review time
B2B SaaS
Took an AI feature from prototype to 40k+ daily users in 9 weeks
Rebuilt a stalled in-product copilot. New retrieval architecture, latency budget, and eval harness. Shipped behind a phased rollout that held quality above 92% throughout.
9 wks
Prototype to GA
Frontier research
Stood up a custom evaluation platform for a research lab
Built a bespoke harness for ranking model variants across 14 domains. Cut iteration cycle from days to hours and now powers all model-release decisions internally.
12×
Faster iteration
— Engagements open Q3 2026 —
Let's build something worth shipping.
We take on a small number of engagements each quarter. If you're serious about AI and want senior judgement embedded in your team, let's talk.
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Start a
conversation.
Tell us briefly what you're trying to build. If we're a fit, we'll suggest a 30-minute call.
EMAIL hello@vaer.ai
BASE Berlin / Remote