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(NSP® / 01)Applied AI infrastructure

Applied AI systems
for operating teams.

Your operation runs on rules, exceptions and deadlines. We build the layer underneath that decides, checks and moves the work.

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(NSP® / 02)Our read on AI
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Most AI holds up in a demo and falls over in a real operation. We build systems that keep working when the data is late, the process bends, and people improvise.

We do not start with a model. We start with how a decision gets made, where the handoff breaks, and what the system should do when nobody is watching.

Mara DelacroixPrincipal systems architect

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(NSP® / 03)What we take on

Our
Capabilities

Four core capabilities we use to design, deploy, and run AI systems inside working operations.

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001.Workflow audit

Operational Mapping

We trace how the work actually moves, then mark every point where a system could decide, check, or remove a step.

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What we analyse
  • 001.Core operating workflows
  • 002.Where the data comes from
  • 003.Decisions still made by hand
  • 004.Tools and integrations
Output: a mapped operation

002.Automation build

Agents And Pipelines

We design and deploy the automation that carries repeating work, cuts handoffs, and keeps throughput steady as volume grows.

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What we analyse
  • 001.Agents for repeating work
  • 002.Data processing on rails
  • 003.Assisted task execution
  • 004.Hooks into existing systems
Output: production automation

003.Bespoke systems

Tools Teams Open Daily

We build the interfaces and decision surfaces your people use every morning, tailored to the way your operation already thinks.

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What we analyse
  • 001.Assistants aimed at one job each
  • 002.Consoles built for your vocabulary
  • 003.Answers drawn from your own archive
  • 004.Screens people open before coffee
Output: a system people use

004.System operations

Reliability After Launch

We stay on after the launch, watching performance, tuning models, and adjusting automation as the operation shifts underneath it.

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What we analyse
  • 001.Alerts that fire before a customer does
  • 002.Monthly checks on how well it still decides
  • 003.What the people using it keep saying
  • 004.Steady tuning as the operation shifts
Output: a system that stays up
(NSP® / 04)Selected work

Selected builds

Whether you are testing a first idea or scaling the tooling you already run.

Calderwood2025

Calderwood Freight

We rebuilt the freight planning loop and shipped systems that schedule routes, capacity, and delivery windows without a planner sitting in the middle.

Industry
Logistics and supply chain
Work delivered
Operational mapping, automation build
Challenge
Planning slowed as shipment volume grew
Stack we use
Freight planning wired into routing

They did not sell us more software. They rebuilt the way the work moves, and the system now carries what used to take a room of people.

Head of network operationsPriya RamanathanHead of network operations

41 %Faster planning cycles8420 +Calls handled by the system9 xRoute scenarios tested
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8420+Calls handled by the system+31%+49%
Boring systems
win the quarter.

Steady beats heroic, every single week.

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BenchmarkSystem
Recovery
22%Quicker return to normal
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(NSP® / 06)Process

The Build
Sequence

Four passes. Each one ends with something you can read, argue with, and sign off before the next begins.

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001.Discovery

Constraint
Discovery

Before anyone writes code we sit with the work: who decides what, on which evidence, and what happens when the evidence is late.

What we analyse
  • 001.Who signs off, and on what evidence
  • 002.Which numbers people actually trust
  • 003.The judgement calls made from memory
  • 004.What already works and must survive
Stack we use
Output: a system audit report

002.Automation

Automation Design
And Agents

We turn audit findings into an automation architecture: what runs on its own, what escalates, and where a person stays in the loop.

What we analyse
  • 001.Work repeated often enough to encode
  • 002.What the system refuses to decide alone
  • 003.Where it reaches into your services
  • 004.The stop button, and who holds it
Stack we use
Output: an automation architecture

003.Architecture

Strategy And
System Blueprint

We define the long horizon: what to build, what to buy, what to retire, and how the whole thing scales without a rewrite.

What we analyse
  • 001.The one number this is meant to move
  • 002.How far your current data can carry
  • 003.What to write, what to rent, what to skip
  • 004.Who answers when a regulator asks
Stack we use
Output: a phased roadmap

004.Infrastructure

Data Infrastructure
And Foundations

Scattered records become one layer the system can lean on, with ownership, freshness and access written down beside it.

What we analyse
  • 001.Every feed the system will read
  • 002.The records that disagree with each other
  • 003.How fast a lookup has to come back
  • 004.Who may see which row, and why
Stack we use
Output: an AI ready data layer
(NSP® / 07)What lands

What a finished engagement leaves behind, from the first whiteboard through to the thing running on Monday.

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Operations First, Always

We build for operations that already carry rules, exceptions, and deadlines.

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Systems That Ship

Production tooling built against the stack you already run.

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We Own The Whole Build

We design it, we build it, and we keep it running afterwards.

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A Number To Point At

Every build targets one measure: throughput, reliability, or the quality of a call.

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No Black Boxes

Plain updates, visible progress, and a system you can read at any stage.

(NSP® / 08)How we got here

Turning complex operations into systems that run themselves

From small automation scripts to production AI used by companies that cannot afford downtime.

2016 / 2018

Two Desks
And A Script

We started as two engineers writing automation for other people’s back offices.

2018 / 2021

First Client
Builds

Early client work: rules engines, queue routing, and the first models in production.

2021 / 2024

Systems
Expansion

The work grew into whole operating systems and the data layer beneath them.

2024 / Now

Operational
Systems Practice

Today we run production systems for companies across several industries.

Helping teams turn repeating work into systems

From the first exploration to AI that supports a real operational workflow.

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(NSP® / 09)Our team

The
Workshop

A compact group of engineers and researchers shipping systems that run every day.

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The Engineering Bench

A compact group of engineers and researchers keeping production systems honest.

Imani Zuberi

Builds AI architectures that stay reliable inside live systems.

  • 001.Deploys systems into live workflows
  • 002.Designs architecture for decision automation
  • 003.Connects models to real operating data
Building AI systems for real operations
(NSP® / 10)Ways to work together

Ways to start

Three ways in, sized to whether you are testing a first idea or hardening something already carrying load.

Nullspace gave our AI roadmap a shape, then built the part that actually had to work.

Director of platform engineeringDavid OyelaranDirector of platform engineering

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Discovery And Strategy

Two to three weeks spent finding the handful of places where this actually pays for itself.

From $8,000

$6,000/project

Timeframe: typically 2 to 3 weeks

Output: a mapped operation
What is included:
  • Review of current processes
  • Map of high value AI opportunities
  • Audit of data structure
  • Architecture written down
  • Data pipeline design
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Architecture And Design

How the thing is shaped: components, model choices, and the plumbing that feeds them.

From $11,000

$9,000/project

Timeframe: typically 3 to 5 weeks

Output: a complete architecture
What is included:
  • Review of current processes
  • Map of high value AI opportunities
  • Audit of data structure
  • Architecture written down
  • Data pipeline design
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Build And Integration

We write it, wire it into what you already run, and stay until it survives a full month.

From $18,000

$14,000/project

Timeframe: typically 4 to 8 weeks

Output: a deployed system
What is included:
  • Review of current processes
  • Map of high value AI opportunities
  • Audit of data structure
  • Architecture written down
  • Data pipeline design
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Deliberate Architecture
Deliberate AI architecture
(NSP® / 11)Notes from the bench

Field notes

Working notes: arguments we lost, calls we would make again, and whatever broke in week three.

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(NSP® / 13)Questions we get

The Short
Answers

The questions operators actually ask us, answered here so nobody has to sit through a call for them.

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No. A general model is one component among several, and usually the least interesting one. The work is in the retrieval over your own records, the guardrails, and the logic that decides what happens next. Swap the model out in a year and the system should barely notice.

Most teams see a measurable change inside the first quarter. Removing repeat work or shortening a decision shows up in cost and capacity long before it shows up on a slide.

Yes, and that is usually the cheap part. We connect through whatever you already expose: a service endpoint, a read replica, a message queue, even an overnight file drop. The system lands inside the current workflow rather than beside it.

Security is a design constraint here, not a review at the end. Processing stays isolated, storage stays encrypted, access is scoped per role, and nothing leaves the boundary you set on day one.

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(NSP® / 14)Reach the studio

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Bring a system, a workflow, or a rough idea on a napkin. We will give you the honest shape of building it and keeping it alive.

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(NSP® / 15)What we hold to

House Rules

Five rules we will not trade away, even when a client asks nicely.

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Every system we hand over has to earn its place. If a team cannot point at what got simpler, faster or cheaper, we built the wrong thing.

Automating everything is not the goal. The goal is a system a human can read, question and switch off at three in the morning without phoning us.

Principle: the system must earn its place