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Applied AI

AI that runs inside real operations, on real data, with accountable humans in the loop.

A model in a demo is not a capability. A capability is a model that a team trusts, uses every day and can explain to an auditor.

Forward deployed engineers work inside your team
Embedded
Forward deployed engineers work inside your team
Start with a single decision that matters
One use case
Start with a single decision that matters
Named owners approve what agents act on
Human in the loop
Named owners approve what agents act on
Your team runs it after we leave
Handed over
Your team runs it after we leave

01Overview

What we do

Most AI projects stall between the notebook and the workflow. The model works on a sample file, then meets live data, missing fields, slow approvals and a team that was never asked what it needed. We work in that gap. Our engineers sit with the people who make the decision today, and we build the AI around that decision rather than around a model.

We pick use cases by looking for a repeated decision with real cost: which loan application needs a second look, which shipment will miss its window, which patient record is incomplete, which invoice is out of pattern. Each one is built as a small system with data in, a recommendation or action out, a named person who owns the outcome, and a record of what happened.

We stay until the system is measured, trusted and owned by your team. That means test sets built from your own data, monitoring that tells you when quality drifts, and runbooks written for your operators, not ours. Where it fits, the AI acts on the Boltcliq ontology so that every agent shares one definition of a customer, an asset or a case. Where it does not, we build on the stack you already have.

02

From notebook to the working day

Applied AI is not a product we install. It is a way of working. In the first weeks we sit beside the analysts, officers and operators who make the decision, watch how they do it and write down every exception. That list of exceptions is the real specification.

Then we build in small steps and put each step in front of the same people. A recommendation that arrives inside the tool they already use, with the evidence beside it, gets used. A score on a separate screen does not.

  • Decisions chosen with the people who own them
  • Evidence shown beside every recommendation
  • Feedback from users feeds the next release

03What you get

Capabilities

Decision systems

We build models and rules that recommend, rank and flag on live operational data. Each system is scoped to one decision, such as credit review, claim triage, stock replenishment or case prioritisation. Output arrives with the inputs that drove it, so a reviewer can agree or overrule in seconds.

  • Scoring, ranking and anomaly flags
  • Evidence and reasons shown to the reviewer
  • Overrides captured as training signal

A recommendation people can check is a recommendation people use.

Agent workflows

Agents handle multi-step work such as gathering documents, drafting a reply, reconciling two records or preparing a file for approval. Each agent runs with its own identity, a short list of permitted actions and a human approval step wherever money, health or rights are affected. Agents stop and ask when they are unsure.

  • Scoped permissions per agent
  • Approval gates and escalation paths
  • Full trace of every step taken

Autonomy is earned in steps, with limits you can see.

Document and language intelligence

Many African organizations run on scanned forms, handwritten registers, WhatsApp messages and mixed-language text. We build extraction and understanding pipelines for those formats, and test them on the real documents and languages your customers use. Quality is measured per field, not as one headline number.

  • OCR and layout parsing for scanned records
  • Support for local and mixed-language text
  • Field-level accuracy reports

The data that matters is often not in a database yet.

Evaluation and governance

We write the tests before the system goes live. That includes accuracy on your own labelled cases, behaviour on hard and adversarial inputs, bias checks across the groups you serve and cost per decision. After launch, monitoring tracks drift and routes failures to a person.

  • Test sets built from your data
  • Bias and safety checks
  • Drift alerts and rollback plans

AI that cannot be tested cannot be signed off.

Human-in-the-loop design

We design the screens, queues and escalation rules that connect people and AI. That covers who sees what, how long they have, what happens when nobody responds and how a correction flows back to the system. The goal is a team that feels more capable, not more watched.

  • Review queues with service levels
  • Clear ownership for every outcome
  • Correction loops built in

Adoption is a design problem as much as a model problem.

Operations and handover

We write runbooks, train the operators and leave dashboards that show quality, cost and usage. Your engineers take over deployments, evaluations and retraining. We stay on call for a defined period and then step back.

  • Runbooks for operators and engineers
  • Dashboards for quality, cost and usage
  • A defined support window

The real test is the month after we leave.

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04African sectors

Where it applies

01

Situation

Credit officers review loan files that mix formal statements, mobile money history and handwritten notes from field agents. Reviews are slow and uneven.

02

What it does

A decision system assembles the file, extracts figures from scans, flags gaps and proposes a risk band with the evidence behind it.

03

Human decides

The credit officer approves, declines or asks for more information, and records the reason.

06

What we do and do not do

Does

  • Build decision systems and agents for one use case at a time
  • Test on your data before go-live and after
  • Design approval gates and escalation paths
  • Train your operators and engineers
  • Work on your stack or on Boltcliq products

Does not

  • Promise accuracy before we have tested on your data
  • Let an agent act without permissions and a record
  • Replace a regulated professional decision
  • Take your data to train models for other customers
  • Leave you dependent on us to operate the system

07FAQ

Questions we hear

  • We look for a repeated decision with a clear cost, available data and a willing owner. We usually shortlist three and pick one after a short discovery. A small first win teaches more than a large first plan.

Experience you can lean on

Our team of consultants and experts brings a combined 35 years of industry experience.

Immersed in technology and across many different verticals, so the people on your project have done this before.

Applied AI

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Tell us the problem. An engineer, not a salesperson, answers.

  • Free 30 minute briefing
  • Embedded engineers, working on your real systems
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AI that runs inside real operations, on real data, with accountable humans in the loop.