Our machine learning development services take you from raw data to production-ready models: built on your data, validated against your accuracy targets, and maintained through the full lifecycle. Senior ML engineers, evals before shipping, and full ownership at handover.
You have a use case, clean enough data, and a deadline from leadership.
The business case is clear: reduce manual review time, improve forecast accuracy, catch issues earlier. But building a model and getting it into production reliably are two very different problems. You need engineers who have solved both.
A production ML model with defined accuracy benchmarks, a deployment pipeline, and monitoring in place from day one.
02Model in production
Your model is live, but accuracy has drifted and the team is flying blind.
The model shipped six months ago, predictions were strong at first, and now something has changed. Data distributions have shifted, edge cases have multiplied, and there is no instrumentation to tell you what is happening. It is time to add the infrastructure the first build skipped.
Drift detection, retraining pipelines, eval dashboards, and a model that stays accurate as your data evolves.
03Scaling ML across the organisation
One model worked. Now the business wants ten more, and the team can't keep up.
The proof of concept was compelling, leadership is pushing to expand, and the current approach, one model, one engineer, one pipeline, will not scale. You need a platform layer that lets multiple teams ship and maintain models without rebuilding from scratch each time.
A shared MLOps platform, reusable feature pipelines, and a model registry that give every team a consistent path from experiment to production.
Make the right call, before you commit to a direction.
Custom ML vs pre-built AI APIs vs AutoML platforms
Every ML project starts with the same question: build a custom model, call a pre-built API, or use an AutoML platform. Each path makes sense for a different situation. Here is the honest trade-off that matters most at production scale.
What matters
Recommended
Custom build
Common alternative
Off-the-shelf SaaS
Other path
Low-code platform
Fit to your data
Trained on your specific data and domain
Generic models, broad coverage
Automated but domain-agnostic
Accuracy ceiling
Optimised for your exact task and distribution
Fixed by vendor model quality
Limited by automated feature engineering
Data ownership
Your data stays in your environment
Data processed by the vendor
Data processed by the platform vendor
Inference cost at scale
Controlled: your infrastructure, your cost model
Per-call pricing grows with volume
Platform pricing tiers apply at scale
Integration depth
Built around your systems and data pipelines
Standard APIs, limited customisation
Platform-dependent integration options
Compliance posture
Full control over data residency and audit trail
Vendor handles processing; you inherit constraints
The platform controls the data path
Long-term maintainability
You own the model, the pipeline, and the evals
Vendor deprecates versions on their schedule
The platform roadmap determines your options
Time to first value
4 to 12 weeks to production
Days for basic integration
Weeks, faster for simple classification
Pick custom when
Your data has domain-specific patterns a generic model will not have encountered.
Per-call API pricing will grow faster than your budget as volume scales.
Compliance or data residency requirements mean data must stay within your environment.
You need accuracy on a specific task that off-the-shelf models are unlikely to achieve reliably.
Machine Learning Development Services for product and data teams
From first model to production platform, we cover the full ML engineering spectrum. Start with the capability your business needs most and build the full stack from there.
Custom ML Model Development
Models designed, trained, and deployed around your data, your targets, and your accuracy requirements.
Domain-specific/End-to-end/Production-ready
We design, train, and deploy machine learning models built around your specific data, your prediction targets, and your accuracy requirements. From feature engineering through model selection, hyperparameter tuning, and production deployment, every model ships with an eval harness, performance benchmarks, and the documentation your team needs to maintain it.
Predictive Analytics and Modelling
Forecasts, risk scores, and demand models that turn historical data into forward-looking signals.
Forecasting/Risk scoring/Demand planning
Structured predictive models that turn your historical data into forward-looking signals: demand forecasts, churn scores, credit risk ratings, maintenance predictions, and lead scoring. Each model is validated on held-out data, calibrated for your decision thresholds, and built to be retrained as your data grows.
Computer Vision Development
Production vision systems for document processing, quality inspection, and object detection.
Object detection/Image classification/OCR
Production computer vision systems for document processing, quality inspection, object detection, and image classification, built on PyTorch or TensorFlow, fine-tuned on your labelled data, and deployed to the cloud, edge, or on-device depending on your latency and connectivity requirements. Accuracy benchmarked per class, per environment.
NLP and NLG Development
Custom language pipelines for classification, extraction, and document generation.
Text classification/Entity extraction/Document generation
Custom natural language processing pipelines for text classification, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, document summarisation, and structured data extraction from unstructured text. Built on transformer-based architectures, fine-tuned on your domain corpus, and evaluated on real production documents before deployment.
MLOps and Model Lifecycle Management
The infrastructure layer that keeps models performing: retraining, registry, drift monitoring.
CI/CD for ML/Model registry/Drift monitoring
The infrastructure layer that keeps your models performing in production: automated retraining pipelines, model versioning and registry, A/B testing frameworks, drift detection, and eval dashboards your team can act on. Built on MLflow, Kubeflow, or Vertex AI depending on your stack, with full observability from training run to live inference.
Anomaly Detection
Statistical and ML anomaly detection for fraud, infrastructure health, and quality control.
Statistical and ML-based anomaly detection systems for fraud, infrastructure health, quality control, and operational monitoring, designed for your data volumes, your latency requirements, and your acceptable false positive rate. Covers both supervised and unsupervised approaches, with explainability outputs your operations team can act on.
Start here
A good ML model starts with the right problem definition.Tell us your use case. We will tell you what is feasible and what it will take.
How we apply ML across different problem categories
Different ML problems need different architectures, different evaluation frameworks, and different production considerations. Here is how we approach each category.
Making confident decisions from structured data.
Binary and multi-class classification
Customer churn, fraud detection, lead scoring, intent classification, and document routing, trained on your labelled data with calibrated probability outputs and defined decision thresholds.
Regression and demand forecasting
Sales forecasting, inventory demand, energy consumption, pricing optimisation, and financial projection models, validated on time-series holdouts with confidence intervals your planning team can use.
Recommendation and ranking systems
Personalisation engines, content ranking, product recommendations, and search relevance models, built on collaborative-filtering, content-based, or hybrid approaches depending on your data volume and cold-start requirements.
Turning unstructured visual and document data into structured outputs.
Document classification and extraction
Invoice processing, contract analysis, medical record extraction, and form digitisation, built to handle real-world document variation, low-quality scans, and multi-language inputs, with structured JSON output.
Visual inspection and quality control
Defect detection, product quality grading, damage assessment, and compliance inspection, trained on your labelled image sets and deployable to factory-floor cameras, mobile devices, or edge hardware.
Video and real-time vision
Object tracking, activity recognition, crowd analytics, and real-time detection pipelines, optimised for your frame rate, latency, and compute constraints, with alert logic your operations team configures directly.
Extracting signal from the text your business already generates.
Text classification and routing
Support ticket triage, email categorisation, regulatory document classification, and content moderation, fine-tuned transformer models evaluated on your specific document types and label taxonomy.
Named entity recognition and information extraction
Structured data extraction from contracts, clinical notes, financial filings, and operational reports, built for your entity types, your domain vocabulary, and your throughput requirements.
Summarisation and structured generation
Automated report generation, meeting summary extraction, document condensation, and structured output from unstructured source material, evaluated for factual accuracy and format consistency on real production documents.
ML for every vertical.
Built for how your industry's data actually looks
FinTech and Banking
Credit scoring, fraud detection, transaction anomaly monitoring, AML screening, and document extraction for KYC and onboarding, built for the data volumes, latency, and RBI and PCI DSS compliance posture that define production FinTech ML.
Insurance
Claims triage automation, underwriting risk modelling, document classification for policy processing, and fraud pattern detection across claims history, built for the mixed-format, high-variance data that makes insurance ML harder than it looks.
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Clinical document extraction, medical imaging classification, prior authorisation automation, adverse event detection, and patient outcome prediction, built HIPAA-aware with explainability outputs regulators and clinicians can rely on.
Logistics and Supply Chain
Demand forecasting, shipment delay prediction, route anomaly detection, supplier risk scoring, and inventory optimisation, built for the time-series sparsity and operational variability that define logistics data at scale.
Manufacturing and Industrial
Visual quality inspection, predictive maintenance, equipment anomaly detection, production yield optimisation, and defect classification, built for edge deployment, constrained hardware, and the millisecond latency production lines require.
Enterprise SaaS and B2B Platforms
Churn prediction, usage-based lead scoring, feature adoption forecasting, support ticket classification, and in-product recommendation engines, built to run inside your existing data stack without a separate ML platform.
FinTech and Banking
Credit scoring, fraud detection, transaction anomaly monitoring, AML screening, and document extraction for KYC and onboarding, built for the data volumes, latency, and RBI and PCI DSS compliance posture that define production FinTech ML.
Insurance
Claims triage automation, underwriting risk modelling, document classification for policy processing, and fraud pattern detection across claims history, built for the mixed-format, high-variance data that makes insurance ML harder than it looks.
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Clinical document extraction, medical imaging classification, prior authorisation automation, adverse event detection, and patient outcome prediction, built HIPAA-aware with explainability outputs regulators and clinicians can rely on.
Logistics and Supply Chain
Demand forecasting, shipment delay prediction, route anomaly detection, supplier risk scoring, and inventory optimisation, built for the time-series sparsity and operational variability that define logistics data at scale.
Manufacturing and Industrial
Visual quality inspection, predictive maintenance, equipment anomaly detection, production yield optimisation, and defect classification, built for edge deployment, constrained hardware, and the millisecond latency production lines require.
Enterprise SaaS and B2B Platforms
Churn prediction, usage-based lead scoring, feature adoption forecasting, support ticket classification, and in-product recommendation engines, built to run inside your existing data stack without a separate ML platform.
How we build, every model the right way.
How we approach every ML engineering engagement
Rigorous methodology, production-first thinking, and models that earn their place in your stack. Here is what that looks like in practice.
Every engagement starts with your data: its volume, quality, label coverage, feature completeness, and the class imbalances or distribution shifts that will affect performance. We scope the model only after we understand the data, so the accuracy targets we set are grounded in what your data can actually support.
Data profiling
Feature analysis
Label quality review
Fewer surprises at deployment
Experiment-first, not architecture-first
We run structured experiments across multiple model families, baselines first, then progressively complex approaches, so the final model earns its complexity. Every training run is tracked in MLflow with reproducible configs, so you always know what was tried and why the winning approach was selected.
Baseline comparison
Experiment tracking
Reproducible configs
Architecture grounded in evidence
Evaluation beyond accuracy
Models are evaluated on the metrics that matter for your task: precision, recall, AUC-ROC, calibration error, latency at P99, and cost of error per class. We set eval thresholds before training begins and only ship models that clear every bar, with full benchmark documentation at handover.
Task-specific metrics
Calibration
Latency benchmarks
Every model clears defined thresholds before shipping
Production engineering, not notebook delivery
The final deliverable is a production service: containerised, versioned, observable, and connected to your data pipeline. Inference endpoints, feature stores, model registries, and monitoring dashboards are part of every engagement, not optional extras. Models go to production the same way software does.
Containerised inference
Feature store
Monitoring built in
Production-ready at handover, every time
Every model is evaluated on your data before deployment. Accuracy benchmarks are set at the start of each engagement and documented in the handover report. We do not ship models that do not clear the agreed evaluation thresholds.
Why teams choose Zethic for ML engineering
ML engineers who have shipped, not just trained
Our engineers have taken models from notebook to production with feature pipelines, inference APIs, monitoring, and retraining logic. When we scope your engagement, we are scoping something we have done before, on data that looks like yours.
Your data, your model, your infrastructure
Every model is trained on your data, deployed to your infrastructure, and handed over with full ownership. We use open-source frameworks (PyTorch, scikit-learn, Hugging Face, MLflow), so there are no licence fees, no vendor lock-in, and no dependency on us to keep things running.
Accuracy targets set before training begins
We agree on evaluation metrics and thresholds at the start of every engagement. If the model falls short of the agreed bar on your data, we surface that finding with a clear explanation before a deployment decision is made. Benchmarks are documented and reproducible.
Full lifecycle, one team
We cover the full ML lifecycle: data preparation, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining. The same team that builds the model operates the pipeline, so nothing gets lost between handoffs.
Selected work Real outcomes.
Featured Work
Selected ML engineering engagements across financial services, healthcare, logistics, and enterprise operations.
“We truly appreciated their dedication, technical expertise, and problem-solving approach.”
Young Onion
Department Head
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“I was blown away by the knowledge the team had about creatives, e-commerce, website design, and optimization.”
Decathlon Sports India
Image Leader
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“They have a good team of designers and project managers who help us with the designs using HTML, Angular, and React.”
Instarama
COO
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“Their creativity stands out. A collaborative team that delivered high-quality solutions working closely with us.”
CodeGama LLP
Business Developer
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“We truly appreciated their dedication, technical expertise, and problem-solving approach.”
Young Onion
Department Head
★★★★★
“I was blown away by the knowledge the team had about creatives, e-commerce, website design, and optimization.”
Decathlon Sports India
Image Leader
★★★★★
“They have a good team of designers and project managers who help us with the designs using HTML, Angular, and React.”
Instarama
COO
★★★★★
“Their creativity stands out. A collaborative team that delivered high-quality solutions working closely with us.”
CodeGama LLP
Business Developer
★★★★★
“The product has become more intuitive and user-friendly. Load times dropped significantly after their work.”
Qoruz
Co-Founder
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“Simply put, the quality of their code is excellent. They integrated third-party software and ensured GDPR compliance.”
VIA IOM
Director
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“What impressed us most was how well they understood our brand and translated it into clean, thoughtful designs.”
GD Farm Fresh
Director
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“The product has become more intuitive and user-friendly. Load times dropped significantly after their work.”
Qoruz
Co-Founder
★★★★★
“Simply put, the quality of their code is excellent. They integrated third-party software and ensured GDPR compliance.”
VIA IOM
Director
★★★★★
“What impressed us most was how well they understood our brand and translated it into clean, thoughtful designs.”
GD Farm Fresh
Director
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How we build your ML system
A structured four-phase ML engineering process, from data assessment to production deployment. Every model ships with evals, documentation, and a monitoring setup your team can operate.
We profile your data volume, quality, label coverage, class distribution, and feature completeness. We define the prediction task precisely, agree on evaluation metrics and minimum accuracy thresholds, and scope the model architecture options viable on your data. You walk away with a clear view of what is achievable and what the build involves.
Data profilingMetric definitionArchitecture options
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Feature engineering and model development
Structured experiments across baseline and advanced model families, tracked in MLflow with full reproducibility. Feature pipelines are built as production code from the start, not notebook scripts cleaned up later. Every training run produces benchmark outputs against the agreed evaluation criteria.
Final model evaluation against the agreed thresholds on held-out test data. Calibration review, latency testing at target inference volume, bias assessment where relevant, and documentation of every benchmark result. Only models that clear every threshold proceed to deployment.
Containerised inference endpoint deployed to your infrastructure, integrated with your data pipeline, with a model registry entry and live dashboards covering accuracy, latency, and data drift. Retraining triggers defined and documented, handed over to your team with a full operational runbook.
Senior ML engineers engaged from day one. Choose the shape that matches your use case, your timeline, and how much internal ML capability you already have.
Defined deliverable
Fixed-Scope ML Build
A scoped ML engagement with a defined use case, evaluation criteria, and deliverable. Fixed price, a clear timeline, and a production model with full documentation at handover.
Fixed price and timeline
Agreed accuracy thresholds before the build begins
A senior ML engineering team embedded in your data and product workflows, building models, maintaining pipelines, and expanding your ML capability across multiple use cases as the programme grows.
Senior ML engineers in your tools and rituals
Covers modelling, MLOps, and production support
Scale the team up or down as the programme evolves
We cover the full range of supervised and unsupervised ML: classification, regression, forecasting, ranking, anomaly detection, NLP, and computer vision. The common thread is that every model ships with defined evaluation criteria, benchmark results on your data, and a production deployment.
A focused single-model engagement, one use case, clean data, and defined labels, typically runs 4 to 8 weeks from data assessment to production deployment. More complex builds with multiple model components, significant data preparation, or custom MLOps infrastructure run 8 to 16 weeks. Timelines are confirmed in scope before any work begins.
The amount and quality of data depend on the task: classification problems typically need thousands of labelled examples per class, while forecasting models depend on the length and consistency of your historical series. The scoping call is where we assess what you have and what the task realistically requires.
You do, fully. The trained model weights, the feature pipeline code, the training scripts, the evaluation results, and all supporting documentation are yours at handover. We build on open-source frameworks (PyTorch, scikit-learn, Hugging Face, MLflow), so there are no licence fees and no dependency on us to run the system.
We agree on evaluation metrics and minimum accuracy thresholds at the start of every engagement, before any training begins, and document them in the project scope. Models are evaluated against these thresholds on held-out test data. If a model falls short of the agreed bar on your data, we surface that finding with a clear explanation before a deployment decision is made.
Every deployment includes monitoring dashboards covering accuracy, latency, and data drift. We document retraining triggers and provide a full operational runbook. For ongoing support, our embedded ML team engagement covers monitoring, retraining, and expansion to new use cases each month. You can also take the system fully in-house.
Yes. We build to integrate with the tools your team already uses: dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Spark, Airflow, and the most common feature store and ML platform options. The scoping call is where we map your existing stack and confirm the integration approach before any build begins.
Yes. If you have models in production but the infrastructure around them, pipelines, monitoring, retraining, versioning, needs strengthening, we scope and build the MLOps layer as a standalone engagement. This typically runs 3 to 8 weeks, depending on the complexity of your existing model estate.
Cost transparency, before the call.
What does an ML development engagement actually cost?
We put numbers on the page. Here is the honest band by engagement type, plus the five variables that move the number once we scope your specific situation.
Tier comparison
One use case, defined scopeSingle Model Build$15K - $45K₹12L - ₹37L
Most chosen
Most chosenFull ML Engagement$45K - $150K₹37L - ₹1.2Cr
Platform infrastructure layerML Platform and MLOps$40K - $120K₹33L - ₹1Cr
Ongoing capacityEmbedded ML Teamfrom $15K / monthfrom ₹12L / month
Clean, labelled, well-structured data is faster to work with. Significant cleaning, label creation, or pipeline work from raw sources adds meaningful scope before any training begins.
02
Number of model components
A single binary classifier and a multi-model system with feature sharing, ensemble logic, and separate inference endpoints are very different engineering problems.
03
Annotation and labelling
Computer vision and NLP models often need labelled training data that does not yet exist. Annotation cost and timeline depend on volume, label complexity, and whether human review queues are needed for ambiguous cases.
04
Inference latency requirements
A model that must respond in under 100ms at 10,000 requests per hour needs a different architecture, infrastructure, and optimisation effort than a batch model running nightly.
05
MLOps infrastructure depth
A basic deployment with monitoring is included in every engagement. A full ML platform with model registry, A/B testing, automated retraining, and multi-team feature store support is a separate scoped engagement.
Bands include ML engineering, data engineering, deployment, documentation, and monitoring setup. Annotation services and cloud infrastructure are billed at cost.
Let's scope your ML build
Tell us the prediction problem you are trying to solve and what data you have available. A senior ML engineer replies within one working day. Direct conversation, no SDR, no qualification ladder.
Step 1 - Tell us the problem
The prediction or detection task you want to solve, and the data you have to work with. We sign an NDA before any specifics.
Step 2 - Speak to an ML engineer
A senior ML engineer joins within two working days to assess your data, your accuracy targets, and the shortest path to a production model.
Step 3 - Get a real plan
A recommended approach, agreed accuracy thresholds, a deployment path, and a cost band you can plan against.
Let's scope your ML build
Tell us the prediction problem you are trying to solve and what data you have available. A senior ML engineer replies within one working day. Direct conversation, no SDR, no qualification ladder.