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Forward-deployed AI engineering

We embed with your team and ship AI that survives contact with the real work.

Ridgeview Labs embeds with your team to audit workflows, build custom agentic systems, and train your staff. From consumer brands to HIPAA and FINRA-regulated industries, we deploy AI that survives contact with real operations.

Audit first
Before a line is written
Embedded
In your tools, on your standups
Regulated
HIPAA, FINRA, SOC 2
Workflow audit·Eval scorecards·Retrieval & tool use·Human review loops·Data privacy & compliance·Training & enablement·

01 — What we do

Three ways to work with us. Every engagement starts narrow and only expands once something is live and measured.

FDE

Forward-deployed engineering

An engineer inside your team, in your tools, on your standups. We build and integrate custom AI directly into your repos and the tools your staff use every day — not against a sanitized spec.

  • Embedded 1–3 days a week
  • Ships to your repos and infra
  • Handover docs and enablement
AGENTS

Agent systems & data integration

Retrieval, evals, guardrails and human review loops, on data pipelines that unify what your business already knows. Built for accuracy and auditability — not demos that fall over in week three.

  • Eval harness before launch
  • Escalation and audit trails
  • Cost and latency budgets
TRAINING

Training & enablement

Custom workshops built around the tool stack you already run, so your team keeps shipping after we leave. Every session comes with one-page concept guides, structured slide decks, and follow-up support.

  • One-off workshops, your stack
  • 1-pagers and slide decks included
  • Ongoing follow-up support

02 — The FDE loop

Audit, build, evaluate, deploy, observe, improve and then the loop runs again. Each pass is shorter than the last, because the map and the scorecard already exist.

Start here

The audit is usually the highest-value thing we do all year. Picking the right first project and ruling out the three that would have failed is worth more than any single build.

01

Audit

Two weeks inside the work: shadowing the people doing it, following the exceptions, and pricing where time, accuracy and risk actually leak. You leave with a ranked map — including what not to build.

Written map · baseline numbers · ranked candidates
02

Build

One workflow, one owner, one number to move. Built against your real data in your stack, with weekly demos to the people who will actually use it.

Narrow scope · your repos · demos every week
03

Evaluate

A scorecard of real cases from your history, graded on dimensions your business cares about, with thresholds agreed in advance. Nothing ships past a gate it fails.

Graded case set · agreed gates · rerun on every change
04

Deploy

Into the tools staff already open, inside your change control, with an escalation path, an owner, and an off switch. Adoption is the deliverable, not the demo.

Change control · training · runbook
05

Observe

Production tells the truth. We watch acceptance, escalation and drift against the same scorecard, and surface what the model gets wrong before your users have to report it.

Live scorecard · drift alerts · usage review
06

Improve

What we learn in production becomes new eval cases and the next candidate on the map. Then the loop starts again, on a narrower target.

New cases · retune · next candidate
LOOP REPEATS

The scorecard

Illustrative — every engagement gets its own dimensions and thresholds
240 graded cases · rerun weekly
DimensionScoreGate
Extraction & retrieval accuracy0.96
Data privacy & compliance boundary1.00
Human review / escalation rate0.85
Task completion time saved0.64
User acceptance rate0.78

A number nobody agreed to in advance is a number nobody trusts. We set the gates together, in plain language, before the build.

Weekly
rerun cadence
Yours
kept at handover

03 — The work

One engagement, shown in detail. We would rather walk you through a system that is actually running than pad this page with logos.

knowledge agent · data flow
CRM & sales records
ERP & finance systems
Docs, wikis & drives
Tickets & shared inboxes
↓  pipelines · cleaning · access rules
Governed, vector-indexed knowledge base
every record keeps its source and its permissions
↓  retrieval-augmented agent
Answers where your team already works
Slack · Teams · cited to the source system
Fragmented systems feed one governed index; the agent answers with citations and never reaches outside its access rules.
Representative engagement · data unification

Multi-system data unification & an internal knowledge agent

The problem is one almost every SMB recognizes: operations teams spending hours a day cross-referencing data isolated across disparate software, databases and unorganized documents. Every answer exists somewhere. Nobody can say exactly where, and the person who could is on vacation.

We unify the fragments into one governed, vector-indexed knowledge base and put a retrieval-augmented agent on top of it, inside the chat tools the team already uses. Strict data-boundary rules are set during the audit, so the same build holds up in a HIPAA or FINRA shop as well as it does in a consumer brand.

Note Not every problem worth solving needs AI. The audit is what tells you which one you have.
Audit

Shadowed staff through their real workflows to map exactly where data access bottlenecks — which lookups burn hours, which answers get guessed. Strict data-boundary rules were established up front, built to HIPAA and FINRA standards where they apply.

Build

Pipelines for structured and unstructured data — databases, documents, tickets, drives — feeding clean, vector-indexed data into custom retrieval-augmented agent workflows.

Eval

The scorecard is tested against hundreds of real business queries the client chose, graded for factual accuracy, data access controls and latency, with thresholds agreed before go-live.

Deploy & train

Integrated directly into the team's daily communication channels — Slack and Teams — and launched with a company-wide workshop and reference guides, so adoption starts on day one.

Observe

Continuous logging of unanswered and escalated queries, reviewed against the same scorecard the system shipped with. Production tells you where the index disagrees with the questions people actually ask.

Improve

Escalations become new scored cases, and retrieval paths are retuned weekly against them. Each pass sharpens the index and shrinks the escalation rate.

Outcome measures, query volumes and client names are shared on request, with their permission. Ask us about this engagement on a call

04 — Practices

We work across industries and understand the importance of safety and security.

Cross-industry AI & automation

Consumer brands, e-commerce, logistics and professional services looking to streamline operations and unify their data. The same audit-first discipline, minus the compliance overhead you don't need.

E-commerce & retail Logistics & operations Professional services Consumer brands

Regulated environments

Deep expertise where the rules are strict: HIPAA-covered healthcare, FINRA-governed finance, SOC 2 environments and air-gapped deployments — including security review of the AI system itself: prompt injection, data egress, key access, logging. Compliance is a design constraint here, not a closing slide.

HIPAA / BAA FINRA SOC 2 / NIST AI RMF Air-gapped deploys

The method is industry-agnostic: audit the workflow, score it honestly, embed the winner. Regulated industries are simply where the discipline was forged.

05 — Who you're working with

Ridgeview Labs was founded on a simple rule: the person who ran the audit stays on the build.

The founding team has spent a career inside regulated environments: clinical and revenue-cycle systems, integration work, and the security reviews that come with both. That's the lens the whole team works through: assume the data is sensitive, assume someone will audit this, assume the staff have watched three tools fail before yours.

We take on a small number of engagements at a time so that the people in your standups are the same people writing the code. If an engagement needs more than we can staff properly, we say so before it starts.

Regulated industries Security review Integration engineering Evals & measurement
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Bring us the workflow everyone complains about.

Forty-five minutes, one workflow, no deck. We'll walk it end to end and give you an honest read on whether it's worth building — including when the answer is no.

  • 01You describe the workflow and who suffers under it.
  • 02We ask the questions that usually break these projects later.
  • 03You get a one-page summary within a few business days — yours whether we work together or not.

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