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Lockmere AI Labs

01 — Capability

AI systems that are measured, not demonstrated.

A convincing demo and a dependable system are different artefacts. We build the second kind: retrieval that cites its sources, agents whose permissions are explicit, and an evaluation suite that has to pass before anything ships.

Approach

How an engagement actually runs.

01

Scope against a baseline

Before any model work, we establish how the task is done today and what "correct" means numerically. Without that number, every later claim of improvement is a guess.

02

Retrieval before fine-tuning

Most failures attributed to the model are retrieval failures. We build the corpus pipeline — chunking, embedding, ranking, citation — and measure it independently.

03

Bounded agents

When a system takes actions, each tool gets an explicit permission scope and an audit record. Irreversible operations require confirmation by construction, not by prompt.

04

Evaluation as a gate

A regression suite runs on every change. Prompt edits are code changes and are reviewed as such. Nothing reaches production on a demo alone.

What we build with

The layers we own in a delivery.

Model access
Hosted APIs, self-hosted open weights, or both behind one routing layer
Retrieval
Vector and hybrid search over private corpora, with citation back to source
Orchestration
Tool-calling agents with typed interfaces and bounded permissions
Evaluation
Golden sets, LLM-as-judge with human calibration, regression gating in CI
Observability
Traced calls, token accounting, latency and failure budgets
Isolation
Per-tenant data boundaries and configurable retention

Where data sensitivity rules out third-party inference, the same architecture runs against self-hosted open-weight models on your own hardware. That decision is made at design time, not after the fact.

Have a task you think a model could take over?

Send us the workflow and what happens when it goes wrong. If the honest answer is that it is not an AI problem, we will say that instead of building something.