Prove your AI concept on your data,
before you bet the budget.

We build scoped AI proof-of-concepts, LLM apps, RAG assistants, predictive models, vision and speech, evaluated against success metrics you sign off before a line of code is written. What passes gets hardened into an MVP real users touch; what fails gets an honest kill recommendation, in writing.

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AI PoCs and MVPs evaluated on real client data

5 wks

median from kickoff to a measured verdict

1 in 4

PoCs we recommend killing, honesty included

Churn model

v3 · xgboost

LIVE

TRAINrows: 1.2M · features: 84 · retrain: weekly · drift: none

94.2%

ROC-AUC

+6.1

pts vs v2

38 ms

p95 latency

Teams who validated AI with Encloud

Stratoshelix&co✚CaremontBLUESUMMITVANTAGE

AI PoC & MVP Development

Challenges Why Encloud Services Process Outcomes Stack

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Most AI pilots die between
the demo and production.

Four failure modes kill the majority of AI initiatives before real users ever touch them. Our PoC method exists to close each one in the first fortnight, not month six.

01DEMO

The vendor demo that never survives your data

It dazzled on cherry-picked samples, then fell apart on your abbreviations, half-filled fields and twelve years of PDF scans. A PoC that never ran against messy production records proved nothing, except that a demo can be staged.

02VIBES

Nobody agreed what "works" means

Without accuracy thresholds, cost ceilings and a baseline measured up front, the readout meeting is theater: one stakeholder loved the demo, another saw it hallucinate once, and the project dies in a tie. Success has to be a number, agreed before the build.

03THROWAWAY

A notebook prototype with no path to production

The PoC 'succeeds', then the estimate to productionize it lands at 5x the pilot budget, because it was a notebook with hardcoded keys and no auth, logging or API. Success that has to be rebuilt from zero is just a slower failure.

04STALL

Pilot purgatory

The model works but the pilot never reaches real users, because security review, data access and system integration were postponed to "phase two." The blockers that kill AI projects are organizational, and they must be surfaced in week one.

Our fix: run a PoC as an experiment, not a show.

A PoC is a bet with defined stakes: a metric to beat, real data to beat it on, and a decision at the end, ship, pivot or kill. We engineer the experiment so the verdict is trustworthy either way, and the code survives a "yes."

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Success metrics before code

Week zero produces a metric spec: the number the PoC must beat, the baseline it is measured against, the cost-per-request ceiling, and the kill criteria that end the experiment early. Everyone signs it before the build starts.

Metric specMeasured baselineKill criteria

Your real data, not curated samples

We evaluate on an eval set drawn from your actual records, the misspelled names, the scanned faxes, the sarcastic support tickets. Data access runs under NDA with privacy controls agreed with your security team in week one, not month six.

Real-data eval setEdge-case coverageNDA & privacy plan

Evaluation harness before demo theater

Before you see a demo, an automated harness scores every build against the golden dataset, accuracy, latency, cost per request, failure modes. You watch the score move week over week instead of judging one lucky screen recording.

Eval harnessGolden datasetWeekly scorecards

Production-shaped from day one

The PoC is built as a small service, API-first, containerized, config out of code, on the same architecture the MVP will harden. If the verdict is 'ship,' nothing gets thrown away; the MVP adds auth, monitoring and real users, not a rewrite.

API-first buildContainerized deployZero-rewrite path

From AI idea to shipped MVP

All AI & data services

Feasibility Sprint & PoC Scoping

Use-case triageMetric specFixed-price scope

LLM Application PoCs

Prompt pipelinesGuardrailsCost-per-request model

RAG Prototypes & Knowledge Assistants

Chunking strategyRetrieval evalsGrounded citations

Predictive Model PoCs

Churn & lead scoringDemand forecastingBaseline comparison

Vision & Speech PoCs

Whisper & AssemblyAIDocument extractionAccuracy benchmarks

Evaluation Harness & Benchmarking

Golden datasetAutomated evalsRegression runs

MVP Hardening & Launch

Auth & rolesMonitoring & alertsStaged user rollout

PoC-to-Production Handoff

Scaling planDocs & runbooksFull IP transfer

How a PoC earns its verdict

Five stages, each with named deliverables. Hover a stage to see what you get.

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Frame

01Frame the bet

One workshop turns the idea into an experiment: the use case, the metric it must beat, the measured baseline, the cost ceiling and the kill criteria, all fixed-price and signed before the build.

Metric specKill criteriaFixed-price scope

02Get the real data in

Access, privacy and security review handled in week one, under NDA. We build the golden eval set from your messiest production records, because that is what the system will face after launch.

Data-access & privacy planGolden eval setBaseline report

03Build against the harness

The PoC ships as a small, production-shaped service, scored by the eval harness on every iteration. You get the scorecard and a working build weekly, evidence, not slideware.

Working PoCWeekly eval scorecardsCost-per-request model

04Call it: ship, pivot or kill

A written readout against the metric spec: what the numbers say, what production would cost to run, and our recommendation, including "kill it" when the data says so. No sunk-cost salesmanship.

Results readoutProduction cost projectionGo/no-go recommendation

05Harden into an MVP

The passing PoC gains auth, monitoring, rate limits and an interface real users touch, rolled out to a pilot group with the eval harness still watching quality in production.

Production MVPLive eval monitoringRollout plan

PoCs that earned their verdict

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RAG support assistant deflects 46% of tier-1 tickets

B2B SaaSRAG Prototype → MVP

Stratos

46%of tier-1 tickets deflected

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“The eval harness convinced our skeptics before the demo did. We watched grounding accuracy climb week by week, then shipped the exact same service to production.”

Priya Raman

VP Product, Stratos

ETA prediction PoC cut late-delivery calls by 31%

LogisticsPredictive Model PoC

helix&co

-31%fewer "where is my order" calls

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“Two vendors showed us demos. Encloud showed us our own lanes, our own delays, and a model beating our dispatcher heuristic by a margin we could verify.”

Tomas Lindqvist

Head of Operations, Helix Logistics

Whisper intake pilot: clinical notes drafted in minutes

HealthcareSpeech PoC → MVP

✚Caremont

71%less time on intake documentation

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“Privacy review happened in week one, not as an afterthought. The pilot ran on real consultations, and clinicians asked to keep it, that never happens.”

Dr. Elena Vasquez

Clinical Director, Caremont Health

The PoC we told them not to ship

Financial ServicesLLM Extraction PoC

BLUESUMMIT

$210Ksaved by killing it in week five

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“Extraction accuracy plateaued below our compliance threshold, and they said so, with the numbers. Then they scoped the narrower use case that actually worked.”

Owen Castellano

Head of Lending Ops, BlueSummit

Lead-qualification MVP live with agents in nine weeks

Real EstateLLM App PoC → MVP

VANTAGE

2.4xmore qualified viewings per agent

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“From first workshop to agents using it daily in nine weeks. The PoC code did not get thrown away, it got promoted.”

Farah El-Amin

Sales Director, Vantage Properties

Put a senior AI pod on the experiment, not a pitch deck.

ML engineer, product engineer and delivery lead from the first workshop through MVP launch. The pod that ran your PoC is the pod that hardens it, no handoff, no re-learning your data.

40+

AI PoCs and MVPs evaluated on real data

5 wks

Median from kickoff to a measured verdict

PoCs shipped without an agreed success metric

The stack a verdict is built on

Foundation models where they win, classical ML where it wins, measured, containerized and ready to harden.

LLMs & foundation models

RAG & orchestration

ML, vision & speech

MVP delivery & evals

Frontier and open-weight models selected per use case, with the eval numbers to justify the choice.

Claude

OpenAI

LLlama

Hugging Face

Scope a PoC, not a slide deck.

:45 minutes with an AI engineer, not a sales rep. Bring the use case and a sample of the data; leave with a feasibility read, a draft success metric and a fixed price for the experiment.

✓NDA signed before you share a single record

✓Honest feasibility read, including "don't build this"

✓Fixed price and timeline for the PoC, in writing

✓You own all code, prompts, evals and models

4.9 / 5average across 40+ AI engagements

“They were the first vendor to tell us what would NOT work. That candor is why the thing we did build is still running.”

Owen Castellano

Head of Lending Ops, BlueSummit

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Frequently asked questions

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What's the difference between an AI PoC and an MVP?+

A proof of concept answers one question, does this work on our data, to an agreed metric?, in about four to six weeks. An MVP is the passing PoC hardened for real users: auth, monitoring, an interface, a rollout plan. Because we build PoCs production-shaped from day one, the step from one to the other is weeks of hardening, not a rewrite.

How long does an AI proof of concept take, and what does it cost?+

Most PoCs run four to six weeks from kickoff to a measured verdict; MVP hardening typically adds four to eight more depending on integrations. The PoC is fixed-price, scoped and quoted after a one-week feasibility sprint, so the experiment has a known cost before you commit. No time-and-materials drift.

How do you measure whether the PoC succeeded?+

Against a metric spec signed before the build: the accuracy or quality threshold to beat, the baseline it is compared to, latency and cost-per-request ceilings, and kill criteria. An automated evaluation harness scores every build on a golden dataset drawn from your real records, so the verdict is a number, not a demo impression.

Whose data does the PoC run on, and how is it protected?+

Yours, that is the point. Cherry-picked samples prove nothing. We work under NDA with a data-access and privacy plan agreed with your security team in week one: minimum-necessary datasets, PII redaction where required, your cloud tenancy where preferred, and no client data used to train shared models. Ever.

How does the PoC become a production system?+

Without a rewrite. The PoC ships as a containerized, API-first service on the same architecture the MVP hardens, we add authentication, roles, monitoring, rate limits and a real interface, then roll it out to a pilot group with the eval harness still scoring live traffic. From there, our MLOps and infrastructure services take it to full scale.

What happens if the PoC fails?+

You get a written readout explaining what the numbers showed, why the approach fell short, and what, if anything, is worth trying instead. Roughly one in four of our PoCs ends in a kill or pivot recommendation, and we consider those successes: a five-week experiment that prevents a five-hundred-thousand-dollar mistake did its job.

Who owns the IP, the code, prompts, models and data?+

You do, in full. Code, prompts, evaluation datasets, fine-tuned weights and documentation transfer to you at every milestone, not just at the end. Your data never trains anything we reuse elsewhere. If you take the system in-house after the MVP, we hand over runbooks and support the transition.