AI Research & Engineering For Early Stage Startups
Integrate an elite AI team as a hands-on strategic partner. Ship AI products with confidence.
About Us
We are a small applied AI research group that integrates with your team as a hands-on strategic partner. Our background spans Google (built Gemini) and founding teams at venture-backed startups (leading ML infrastructure, engineering, and full stack development).
Our Team
Heinrich Jiang
Founder/Principal
Heinrich worked at Google Research for 8 years. His contributions include building the first production fact-checker within Gemini, RAG systems for Google Cloud's Vertex AI enterprise help centers, and a pre-training technique for LLMs leading to ~40% savings in compute. Heinrich has published over 30 papers at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and CVPR and has over 3000 citations. Heinrich holds a bachelors degree in mathematics from Princeton University.
Henning Jiang
Engineering Lead
Henning was the first employee and Head of Engineering at Grantscout Inc., a San Francisco based VC-backed startup, where he led a team of 4 engineers doing full stack development.
Our Services
We own your AI engineering efforts, including feasibility, implementation, productionization and monitoring. We integrate with your team, and we quickly turn business objectives into results without you needing to hire full time talent.
Our Deliverable Guarantee
Within the first 15 business days of working with us, you will receive one of the following, depending on your needs:
- A fully documented initial version of a new AI feature or application ready for handoff.
- A feasibility report for a new AI initiative, including detailed literature review and architecture design with clear and actionable steps.
- A concrete initial experiment to give clarity on a whether a specific approach is worth investing in for your problem.
If not, the first month working with us is free.
Pricing
Full Service AI Engagement
Starting from$32,000/month
Month-to-month. Cancel anytime.
AI Research Ownership
AI Engineering Ownership
Feasibility Study
Product Implementation
Productionization
Monitoring
15 Business Day Deliverable Guarantee
Hiring Blueprint
Our Testimonials
Henning was a trusted partner who led many of the engineering initiatives for our AI powered
products. The semantic search for government contracts he architected led to a 30%+
improvement in ranking quality compared to the legacy system, and it directly drove a 2.5x
increase in qualified sales call bookings.
In addition, he also built our RAG-based
proposal writer and management systems, which cut the time to write proposals by 80% for our in-house
proposal writers. I cannot recommend Henning highly enough for any startup with ambitious AI plans.
Felicia Chen
Founder & CEO at 
Arwin
Backed by HF0 & Abstract Ventures
We’ve worked with Gradient Craft since our inception. Early on, they delivered a critical demo
with just one day's notice that helped close our seed round.
Now, we are partnering with them to build an ambitious foundation model for CAD, scaling it to 30B+
parameters with advanced post-training techniques. They have been instrumental in both the technical
direction and implementation of our AI strategy.
Jennifer Jang
Founder & CEO at 
StoryGold
Backed by HF0 & Abstract Ventures
Contact Us
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