Applied AI for Technical & Regulated Industries

Your data.
Your operations.
Actual answers.

If your teams can't find answers in your own data, that's the problem we solve.

We build production-grade AI systems — retrieval, agents, and workflow automation — grounded in your private data and operational reality. Engineered for environments where accuracy, traceability, and data control aren't optional.

Built by a PhD chemical engineer and former Silicon Valley CEO with operating experience in energy, industrials, and regulated environments.

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<200ms
Median query latency
99%+
Retrieval precision targets
Any LLM
OpenAI · Anthropic · Local
On-Prem
Cloud or air-gapped
The Problem

Your knowledge exists.
Your teams can't reach it.

Most enterprise knowledge is locked in documents, databases, and email threads that no search engine can meaningfully connect. The cost is measured in hours per analyst, per day.

Contract review takes three days. Junior associates keyword-search hundreds of PDFs. Senior counsel re-reads documents they've seen before.
Ask the question in plain language. Get the relevant clauses, obligations, and conflicts in seconds — with source citations.
Analyst time goes to finding information, not analyzing it. Earnings transcripts, deal memos, and research reports live in disconnected folders.
Query across structured and unstructured data in a single interface. The answer includes the source — so analysts can verify, not just accept.
Field engineers call the office to find the right P&ID or maintenance procedure. Institutional knowledge walks out the door when experienced staff retire.
Ground LLMs in engineering specs, maintenance logs, and safety procedures. The right answer for the right asset, available in the field.

RAG is not the right solution for every problem. We'll tell you that upfront — and tell you what is. The goal is a working system, not a sold engagement.

LLMs are smart.
They don't know your business.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation grounds a language model in your documents, databases, and institutional knowledge — in real time. The result is accurate, traceable, hallucination-resistant responses drawn from sources you own and control.

We build the full pipeline: ingestion, chunking strategy, embedding, vector storage, retrieval, reranking, and generation — tuned for your latency and accuracy requirements.

Query
User question→ Embed→ Vector search
Retrieve
Top-k chunksRerankerMetadata filter
Augment
Context windowSource citations
Generate
Grounded answerTraceableAccurate

Services

What we build

End-to-end AI systems — from architecture through production deployment.

01 /
Document Intelligence
Answer questions across thousands of documents — with citations.

Ingest PDFs, contracts, manuals, reports, and internal wikis into a queryable knowledge base. Natural language Q&A with citation-level traceability back to the source.

PDF · DOCX · HTML Chunking strategy Hybrid search
02 /
Structured Data RAG
Ask business questions. Get answers from live data — not static reports.

Text-to-SQL pipelines and semantic layers over relational databases, data warehouses, and APIs. No waiting for the next reporting cycle.

SQL generation Schema routing Multi-table joins
03 /
Agentic Systems
Multi-step reasoning across multiple sources, APIs, and tools.

Multi-step systems that retrieve, reason, and act — coordinating across knowledge sources, APIs, and tools to complete real tasks, not just answer questions. For workflows too complex for a single retrieval pass.

Tool use Multi-hop retrieval Planning loops
04 /
Internal Copilots
Embedded assistants built to your access control requirements.

For ops, finance, legal, and engineering teams. Slack bots, web apps, or API services — with role-based access control and SSO integration from day one.

RBAC / permissions Slack · Teams · Web SSO integration
05 /
Evaluation & Optimization
Identify and fix accuracy gaps in systems already in production.

RAG system audits, retrieval benchmarking, hallucination testing, and reranker tuning. We measure against agreed criteria and report honestly on what we find.

RAGAS metrics Latency profiling A/B chunking
06 /
Private / Air-Gapped Deployments
Zero data leaves your infrastructure. Built for regulated industries.

Full on-premises RAG stacks with local LLMs (Llama, Mistral), local embeddings, and self-hosted vector stores. HIPAA, SOC 2, and export-controlled environments.

On-prem / VPC Ollama · vLLM HIPAA / SOC2
07 /
Workflow Automation
Replace manual review queues with monitored, exception-flagging pipelines.

AI-driven automation for document-heavy and compliance-bound processes — classification, extraction, routing, and monitoring. Replace manual review queues with systems that flag exceptions and keep humans in the loop where it counts.

Document pipelines Compliance & monitoring Human-in-the-loop
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Data & Knowledge Engineering
The data groundwork that makes every AI system above work.

Source connectors, document parsing, chunking strategy, embedding pipelines, and vector-store design — built for your data's structure, scale, and refresh cadence.

Ingestion pipelines Embedding & indexing Eval harness

Use Cases

Where it gets deployed

RAG systems deliver ROI wherever institutional knowledge is siloed, hard to search, or locked in documents.

Energy & Industrials
Technical Documentation & Ops Support

Ground LLMs in P&IDs, engineering specs, maintenance logs, and safety procedures. Reduce expert search time and surface the right answer for field and office teams alike. Institutional knowledge that walks out the door when experienced staff retire — captured and queryable.

Sustainability & Organics
Regulatory Compliance & Reporting Intelligence

Query evolving state and federal regulatory requirements, producer documentation, and compliance records in plain language. Eliminate manual cross-referencing across disconnected systems. Built for organizations operating under SB 1383, LCFS, and similar frameworks.

Legal & Compliance
Contract Analysis & Policy Q&A

Query hundreds of contracts, regulations, and internal policies in plain language. Identify clause conflicts, extract obligations, and surface relevant precedents in seconds.

Finance & Investment
Research Intelligence & Portfolio Q&A

Ingest earnings transcripts, analyst reports, deal memos, and financial models. Ask complex questions across structured and unstructured data in a unified interface.

Case Studies

Case Study 01

17 years of institutional knowledge — 42,800 emails, 1,400 attachments — made searchable by meaning, not keywords.

The global biochar research community had accumulated over 17 years of irreplaceable knowledge across five email list subgroups. The archive was effectively inaccessible: keyword search couldn't synthesize answers across hundreds of threads, PDF attachments, microscope images, and field reports.

We built a production multimodal RAG system that ingests the full 4.5 GB MBOX archive — email threads, PDFs, and images — into a unified 238,988-vector FAISS index. A custom two-pass retrieval strategy ensures image and PDF results surface alongside text matches. The system handles multilingual queries and runs at $21/month on GCP.

View live system → biocharai.org

Access password: coolplanet

FAISS · MBOX ingestion Gemini Embedding 2 Multimodal retrieval GCP · FastAPI · Streamlit Multilingual queries
238,988
Vectors in production
42,800+
Emails ingested
4–16s
Query latency
$21/mo
Infrastructure cost
1,400+
Attachments ingested
768d
Vector dimensions
Case Study 02

Regulatory compliance reporting across 100+ customer accounts — automated end-to-end, audit-ready on demand.

California's SB 1383 requires jurisdictions to document organic waste disposition with validated invoices and third-party lab data. Manual reconciliation across multiple producers is labor-intensive and audit-vulnerable — each report requires cross-referencing data from four disconnected systems.

We built an automation pipeline that connects Sage ERP, SharePoint, DocuSign, and lab analytics systems into a single workflow. Invoices are extracted, jurisdiction-validated, and matched to analytical files using producer-keyed date-range logic. DSP agreements are auto-routed for signature where required. Output: audit-ready, jurisdiction-specific reporting folders — zero manual cross-referencing.

Python · Azure Power Apps SharePoint API DocuSign API Sage ERP PDF extraction
100+
Customer accounts
4
Systems connected
0
Manual cross-referencing
SB 1383
Compliance framework
Audit
Ready output
Auto
DSP agreement routing

Process

How we engage

Scoped engagements from discovery to production. No shelfware.

01
Discovery & Scoping

Audit data sources, query patterns, access control requirements, latency targets, and infrastructure constraints. Deliver an architecture recommendation and fixed-price SOW.

02
Pipeline Build

Ingestion, chunking, embedding, vector store setup, retrieval logic, reranker selection, and prompt engineering — built against your actual data, not synthetic benchmarks.

03
Evaluation & Tuning

Measure retrieval precision, answer faithfulness, and latency against agreed success criteria. Iterate until targets are met — or explain exactly why they can't be.

04
Deploy & Handoff

Production deployment, monitoring setup, and complete documentation. Optional retainer for ongoing tuning as your data evolves. You own everything built.

Technology

Stack-agnostic.
Opinionated where it matters.

We work with your existing infrastructure — or recommend the right components for your requirements. No vendor lock-in.

LLMs
Claude GPT-4o Llama 3 Mistral Gemini Command R+
Vector Stores
Pinecone Weaviate Qdrant pgvector ChromaDB Milvus FAISS
Frameworks
LangChain LlamaIndex Haystack DSPy FastAPI GCP · AWS · Azure
Rick Wilson
Founder — Rick Wilson Ventures

I build AI systems for the industries I've spent a career operating in — energy, industrials, regulated environments, and enterprise finance. That means I understand the data environments and organizational constraints that determine whether a system actually gets used.

A PhD in chemical engineering and an MBA in finance from Chicago Booth gives me an unusual vantage point: I can sit in the architecture review and the board meeting. The institutional knowledge problem RAG solves isn't abstract to me — I've managed the people whose expertise walks out the door, and the document repositories nobody can search.

The systems I build are production-grade because I'm not interested in shelfware. Fixed-price SOWs, documented handoffs, you own everything built.

Consulting
SAF carbon intensity, 45Q/45Z tax credits, NMTC capital structuring
CSO
Sustainable organics management — advancing SB 1383 compliance infrastructure
VP
Major integrated oil company — refinery research, engineering & supply chain
CEO
Venture-backed biotech startups — biochemicals & soil amendments, Silicon Valley
Chairman
Food & ag technology portfolio company
SVP
Growth equity portfolio company — business development

AI Projects

01 /
ARIMA Time-Series Forecasting — Regional Energy Demand

Regional energy consumption is highly cyclical and seasonally structured — standard forecasting approaches miss the autocorrelation patterns that drive accurate demand prediction.

Built an end-to-end ARIMA forecasting pipeline on hourly power utility data spanning multiple years. Applied ADF stationarity testing and ACF/PACF analysis for parameter selection. Fit models at weekly and monthly resolutions, identifying seasonal cyclicality including summer demand peaks driven by cooling load.

Python ARIMA · statsmodels ADF stationarity testing ACF / PACF analysis Energy demand forecasting U Chicago ML for Finance
02 /
Geospatial Eligibility Validation API

Address-specific coupon eligibility rules tied to municipal vs. unincorporated jurisdiction boundaries — manual lookup slow and error-prone at scale.

FastAPI service embedded directly in an e-commerce checkout flow — validating customer eligibility against jurisdiction boundary data in real time at the point of purchase. Replaced a peak-staffing manual lookup operation with a single API call returning results in milliseconds. Deployed on Google Cloud Run.

FastAPI Google Cloud Run Geocoding API District boundary mapping Python
03 /
AI-Augmented SAF Scenario Simulation

First-of-kind SAF pathway with hundreds of input variables — feedstock pricing, carbon intensity, five stacked policy credits, and co-location economics — too complex to navigate manually across the scenario space.

Used Cursor AI to simulate hundreds of scenario combinations across feedstock costs, §45Z policy outcomes, carbon intensity pathways, and co-location value drivers — identifying optimal capital structure and sensitivity boundaries across a 20-year horizon.

AI-assisted simulation Cursor 45Z · 45Q · LCFS · RIN Carbon intensity modeling Scenario space exploration NMTC structuring

Ready to build?

Tell us about your data and your problem. We'll tell you if RAG is the right solution — and what it would take to build it.

Not sure if RAG is the right fit? Tell us the problem and we'll give you an honest answer — including if the answer is no.

We're not the right fit for proof-of-concept projects or teams that need a large vendor with enterprise SLAs. We're the right fit for organizations that want something built correctly, once, and handed over.

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