Most enterprise AI dies in pilot. Ours ships in 12 weeks.
A senior-only AI delivery studio. Not slide decks — production-grade AI agents for Series A+ scale-ups and enterprises, shipped in 8–12 weeks.
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Trusted by leading organisations
Four ways we work
Senior-only. Fixed-scope. Every engagement starts with a senior practitioner who understands the problem before anyone writes a line of code.
Fractional Head of AI
Embedded senior AI leadership, part-time. For teams that need to set technical direction, make build-vs-buy calls, and bridge engineering and the business — without the 12-month hiring process.
- Part-time Head of AI or CTO for Series A–D teams
- Technical due diligence for investors and boards
- Build-vs-buy decisions and vendor evaluation
- Hiring, mentoring, and scaling your AI function
Production Agent Delivery
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. We take a scoped workflow and turn it into a production system — on your data, in your environment, with full handover built in. 8–12 weeks from kick-off to live.
- Agentic document review and report generation
- Multi-step database querying (Text-to-SQL)
- Automated data extraction from unstructured sources
- Full team training and operational handover included
Knowledge & Search Systems
Get the right answer out of your company's data in seconds, not days. Internal search, question answering, and content generation — with evaluation and observability built in from day one.
- RAG systems over complex knowledge bases
- Enterprise search and question answering
- Content generation with quality guardrails
- Evaluation frameworks and LLM benchmarking
AI Strategy & Architecture
A clear path from idea to production — without the consultant deck. We define the roadmap, design the architecture, and help you make the decisions that matter before you spend the budget.
- Roadmap and prioritisation for leadership teams
- Technical architecture and platform design
- MLOps strategy and governance frameworks
- Operating model design and team-building plans
How We Work
Every engagement starts small and proves value before scaling. No multi-year contracts. No lock-in. Just results.
Discovery Call
30 minutes with a senior practitioner. We understand the workflow, the data landscape, and what success looks like. No sales pitch — just an honest assessment of whether this is worth building.
Week 0Proof of Concept
A focused build on your data, in your environment. Senior-led. Claude Code-accelerated. You see a working system — not a slide deck — within 4–8 weeks. Fixed price, defined scope, clear deliverables.
4-8 WeeksPilot & Scale
Expand the PoC into a production-grade system. Integration with your existing tools, team training, and full operational handover. Milestone-based billing — you only pay as we deliver.
2-3 MonthsOngoing Support
Monthly retainer for continued optimisation, monitoring, and new feature development. Your systems keep improving as your business evolves. Exit at any time.
OngoingHow we work in regulated environments
Data never leaves your environment without your sign-off. We deploy into your cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), work within your existing data residency requirements — including UAE Central and KSA cloud regions — and build to UK GDPR, EU AI Act, and PDPL standards where required. Every engagement includes a data handling agreement and clear documentation of what the system touches and why. If your procurement team has specific compliance requirements, we've navigated them before.
What We've Shipped
Real outcomes from real engagements. Every project starts with a clear problem and ends with a number you can put in a board report.
Anglo American
40% reduction in downtime
Designed predictive maintenance platform across 100+ vehicles in a global mining fleet, delivering millions in annual operational savings.
Sky / Comcast
30K to 10M households
Scaled predictive broadband diagnostics from 30K to 10M households, processing 150GB+ daily telemetry data. Reduced customer churn through proactive monitoring.
The Guardian
10M+ articles processed
Built the Data Science function from scratch. Deployed NLP pipelines processing 10M+ articles and 5,000+ daily content pieces. Reduced ML deployment from weeks to hours.
MindsDB
40% performance gain
Architected an enterprise agentic Text-to-SQL platform enabling autonomous multi-step database querying. Built the evaluation framework now used as a core product capability.
UK National Lottery
Adoption programme launched
Led delivery of a portfolio of working proof-of-concepts spanning customer engagement, content generation, and internal operations — moving the organisation from exploration to production.
Langan Engineering
Autonomous report generation
Architected an automated report generation platform assembling complex technical documents from source data, with full production observability.
Currently taking on 2 new client engagements
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Join 11+ organisations already working with us. Every engagement starts with a 30-minute discovery call — no pitch, no pressure.
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What Clients Say
In their words.
The USQRD team were highly valued members of our leading legal AI programme. Super professional and rigorous with excellent presentation skills. They really understand how to convert data science research into usable and scalable production technology. Highly recommended!
Most consultants give you a deck. The USQRD team gave us a working prototype on our own data in under six weeks. That's what got our board to greenlight the full programme.
USQRD built our predictive maintenance platform from the ground up. Within months it was monitoring our entire fleet and delivering real operational savings. The technical depth combined with clear communication to leadership is rare to find.
Who We Are
USQRD is a senior-only AI delivery studio. Founded by Daniel Usvyat in 2017, we help Series A+ scale-ups and enterprises move from AI experiments to production systems that run themselves — shipped in weeks, not quarters.
We run lean. Every engagement is led by senior practitioners — no junior consultants, no offshore handoffs, no pyramid. Our team has led AI and engineering functions at The Guardian, Anglo American, Sky, Capgemini, and multiple YC-backed startups, with hands-on delivery experience across FTSE 100, Fortune 500, and high-growth environments.
We build Claude Code-first. That means faster delivery, higher quality, and less time between problem and production.
Let's Talk
Whether you have a specific manual workflow that's eating your team's week, or you just want to explore what's possible, we're happy to have a no-pressure conversation.
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Based in London & Dubai. Working with organisations globally.