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Discover
We map your workflows and data, and find where AI moves a real metric, before you spend a dollar of runway.
12 models in production · backed by YC & a16z teams
Turn research into intelligenceyour product can ship.
Covariate Labs takes frontier research from paper to production, and embeds with funded teams who have the runway but not the engineers. Not a demo. A system that thinks in real time.
Start a buildTrusted by teams from
Y Combinatora16zSequoiaLightspeedIndex
Core Capabilities
Built for Speed & Quality
Everything you need to go
from research to production
We read the paper, reproduce the result, and turn it into something that runs in production, benchmarked honestly and shipped behind a clean API.
✦Scope the build
Paper to Production
APIs & Infrastructure
Search the library
Research Library
The studio
A small studio of senior engineers who build like FAANG, without the headcount.
Four disciplines, one embedded team. The first engineers you'd hire, for as long as you need them.
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Applied AI
Custom models, RAG, and agents, grounded in the literature, benchmarked honestly, shipped behind a clean API.
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Product Engineering
Full-stack builds around the model: the interface, the infra, and the unglamorous plumbing that makes it reliable.
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Research Implementation
We read the paper, reproduce the result, and turn it into something that runs in production, not a notebook.
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Fractional CTO
Senior technical leadership on the days you need it: architecture, hiring, and the calls that are hard to unmake.
What we believe
We help ambitious founders turn frontier research into products that ship and scale. We build fast, measure honestly, and ship intelligence that works in the real world, not just in a demo.
You're closer than you think, and every step you take makes it clearer.
By the numbers
Proof, not promises. What the last year of shipping adds up to.
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experiments run
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Selected work
From whitepapers to artifacts you can ship.
Research results, taken all the way to systems real users depend on.
Retrieval · ProductionCase 01Read the case
Lumen Context
A retrieval layer that actually remembers. We took a sparse-attention paper and built a long-context memory store that holds a quarter-million tokens of state, and answers from it in under a second.
240k
tokens of context
0.8s
retrieval latency
Interface · AgentsCase 02Read the case
Vectorial UI
An interface that drives itself. A planner-agent that reads the screen, decides the next action, and executes, turning a five-step workflow into a single sentence. Shipped into a Series-A product in six weeks.
5→1
steps collapsed
6 wk
to production
Evaluation · InfraCase 03Read the case
Topology Eval
The eval harness a team trusts. We built a continuous evaluation pipeline that maps a model's failure surface, flags drift the moment it appears, and turns "is it working?" into a number on a dashboard.
98.6%
eval pass rate
24/7
drift monitoring
Why us
We're not your typical AI studio.
No buzzwords, no science projects. Just systems that work in production.
Chase the hypeVague timelinesHidden costsSell what's trendyChase the hypeVague timelinesHidden costsSell what's trendy
Other studios
They overwhelm you with buzzwords, take months to deliver, and leave you with tools you can't run.
Ship what mattersBuilt with youHonest evalsReal productionShip what mattersBuilt with youHonest evalsReal production
Covariate Labs
We use plain language, deliver in weeks, and build systems that run in production from day one.
How we work
We handle everything so you don't have to.
We run the whole build, from discovery to handoff, while you run your company.
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Build
Custom systems designed for how you work, built against real data, with evals baked in from day one.
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Deploy
We ship into your stack with monitoring, guardrails, and fallbacks. It works under load, not just in a demo.
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Optimize
We drive down cost and latency, keep the evals honest, and hand off docs your future hires can read.
The team
Meet our engineers.
K. Bhatta
Founder · Principal Scientist
A. Lekhak
Founding Engineer
Dr. Q. Chang
Advisor · Systems
Dr. M. Waseem
Advisor · Applied ML
Engagements
Engagements that scale with you.
Fixed-fee and scoped to the outcome. You'll know the number before we start.
Sprint
$28k / sprint
A working system against your real data, in weeks.
- Scoped 4–6 week build
- Prototype → production
- Evals & monitoring
- Clean handoff docs
Fractional CTOPopular
$45k / mo
We're your senior AI team until you've hired your own.
- Embedded senior engineers
- Ongoing builds & optimization
- Architecture & hiring support
- Priority response & on-call
Equity Partner
Custom
For the build you'd bet the company on.
- Reduced fee + equity
- Deep, long-term partnership
- Founding-team commitment
Founders we've built with
Trusted to ship, not to stall.
“They didn't overwhelm us with options. They built exactly what we needed, and we saw ROI in under two months.”
Sarah Chen
Founder @ BrightPath
“It felt like hiring three senior engineers overnight, without the six-month search or the burn.”
Daniel Moss
CEO @ Northwind
“The only team that told us where AI wouldn't help. That honesty is exactly why we trusted the rest.”
Aisha Rahman
Founder @ Quill
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Everything worth knowing before the first call.
Let's talk
Let's talk your next big idea.
A 30-minute call to find where AI moves a real number, and where it doesn't.