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A POD is a small, senior, cross-functional AI squad embedded with your team for a fixed sprint. We bring playbooks, accelerators, and our own InsightLake products — you bring the domain. Most PODs deliver a production system in 12 weeks.
PODs replace the slowest parts of enterprise AI delivery — vendor selection, staffing, ramp-up, integration — with a senior squad that already knows the stack.
Discovery to a running system in one quarter. Weekly demos, fortnightly steerco, no death-by-deck.
Every POD is led by a principal engineer or architect with 10+ years in AI, data, or cloud. No bench juniors.
PODs ship with the InsightLake suite — RAG, agents, catalog, prompts, governance — pre-integrated. Months of plumbing, gone.
We deploy in your cloud, behind your IAM, on your data. No data movement, no shadow systems.
Evaluation harnesses, guardrails, observability, and audit trails baked in. AI you can ship to regulated workloads.
Your team co-builds and owns the runbooks. The POD leaves behind a system your engineers can run.
Three flagship PODs, plus custom PODs composed across AI/ML, data, app modernization, security, and BI.
Production copilot, RAG system, or agent platform on your data, in your environment.
Assess, build, migrate, or operate Kafka and Flink at enterprise scale.
Underwriting and claims modernization with AI — LOB-specific accelerators on InsightUW.
Build or modernize the data layer underneath AI — lakehouse, catalog, quality, lineage.
Cloud strategy, migration, and FinOps discipline — ready your environment for AI workloads.
Tell us the outcome. We compose a POD across AI/ML, data, app modernization, security, and BI talent.
A repeatable, four-phase rhythm. Weekly demos. Outcomes — not status decks — at every checkpoint.
One week. We co-define the outcome, success metrics, data access, and POD composition. You get a fixed proposal.
Weeks 2–4. Stand up the platform: environment, data, evaluation harness, and POD ways-of-working with your team.
Weeks 5–10. Weekly demos against the outcome metric. Continuous evals, guardrails, and stakeholder reviews.
Weeks 11–12. Go-live, runbooks, knowledge transfer, optional run-the-system tier for ongoing operation.
Where PODs fit between hiring, staff augmentation, and traditional fixed-bid consulting.
| Innovation POD | Staff augmentation | Fixed-bid consulting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accountable for outcome | Yes — outcome metric | No — hours | Yes — scope |
| Time to first value | 2–4 weeks | 6–12 weeks (ramp) | 3–6 months |
| Seniority of team | Principal-led, senior | Variable | Pyramid (heavy juniors) |
| Built-in accelerators | InsightLake AI products | None | Vendor playbooks |
| Change-order risk | Low — weekly demos | N/A | High |
| Knowledge transfer | Designed in | Incidental | Often weak |
| Best for | New AI capability, in production | Filling a known gap | Well-defined replatform |
Match the commercial model to your stage — from board-approved fixed budgets to flexible always-on credits.
One price for the outcome and the 12-week sprint. Best for board-approved budgets and clear scope.
Pay for the team week by week. Best when scope evolves or you want to extend the POD across multiple use cases.
A pre-purchased pool of POD capacity you draw on across the year. Best for ongoing AI innovation portfolios.
A few engagements where PODs shipped real systems. The full library lives in Case Studies, the blog, and our whitepapers.
A POD is accountable for an outcome — not hours. We bring a senior, pre-formed team, our AI products as accelerators, and weekly demos against a real metric.
Inside your environment — your cloud accounts, your IAM, your data. We deploy our accelerators behind your boundary, so nothing leaves.
Weekly demos surface scope drift early. We re-baseline at the steerco; fixed-outcome PODs include a change-control budget, T&M PODs flex naturally.
Yes. All custom code is yours. Our InsightLake products ship under their own licenses, optionally deployed in your environment.
A one-week discovery POD that ends with a fixed proposal. Most full PODs run 8–14 weeks.
Yes — an optional run-the-system tier provides 24x7 on-call, SLOs, and continuous improvement against your outcome metric.