AI Research & Strategy Services

Core Service Areas

Six interconnected practice areas designed to cover the complete AI value chain.

AI Strategy & Roadmapping

We help executive teams build a coherent, prioritized AI strategy. Drawing on our proprietary AI Readiness Framework, we identify where AI creates the most value in your specific business context and develop a phased...

Current-state AI capability assessment
Opportunity identification and prioritization
Three-year AI investment roadmap
Build vs. buy vs. partner analysis
Board-ready AI strategy presentation

Applied Research & Development

Our research team actively publishes in top conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) and holds 30+ patents. We bring that frontier expertise to your specific research challenges, whether developing novel model architectures,...

Custom model architecture design
Training pipeline optimization
Domain-specific dataset curation
Benchmark evaluation and comparison
Research publication co-authorship

AI Safety & Ethics

Dr. Yuki Tanaka leads our AI safety practice, drawing on her expertise in alignment research and safety evaluation methodologies. We help organizations build AI systems that are reliable, fair, and accountable —...

Red-teaming and adversarial testing
Fairness audits and bias mitigation
EU AI Act compliance preparation
NIST AI Risk Management Framework alignment
AI ethics policy development

MLOps & Production Deployment

Many AI projects fail not in research but in deployment. We design and implement robust MLOps architectures that take models from development to production reliably — with monitoring, versioning, automated retraining,...

CI/CD pipeline design for ML models
Model serving infrastructure (Kubernetes, TF Serving, TorchServe)
Feature store and data pipeline architecture
Model monitoring and drift detection
Incident response runbooks for AI systems

AI Readiness Assessment

Our flagship assessment product evaluates your organization across five dimensions: data maturity, talent capability, process integration, governance structure, and strategic alignment.

Structured interviews with 15–20 stakeholders
Technical infrastructure review
Five-dimension maturity scoring
Industry benchmark comparison
90-day quick-win action plan

University Partnership Programs

Through AI Theoria's network of 12 university research partners across the US, Europe, and Asia, we create structured collaboration programs that connect your organization with academic expertise, doctoral researchers,...

Sponsored research agreement design
Doctoral fellowship and internship programs
IP licensing and commercialization support
Joint publication and conference participation
Research roadmap alignment workshops

Engagement Models

We work with clients in three flexible engagement structures to match your needs and timeline.

Advisory Retainer

Ongoing strategic counsel with your executive team. Monthly research briefings, strategy check-ins, and on-demand access to our researchers for emerging questions.

Project-Based Engagement

Defined-scope projects with clear deliverables and timelines. From a 30-day AI Readiness Assessment to a six-month model development engagement, our project model provides predictable costs and outcomes.

Embedded Research Teams

Place AI Theoria researchers inside your organization. Our researchers work alongside your engineers and data scientists for a defined period, transferring knowledge and building your internal AI capabilities alongside...

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