We want AI coding help for our auditors, but the code we review belongs to clients and cannot leave our control. A good solution runs self-hosted or in a private deployment, never trains on our data, and has clear retention rules. Licensing must suit a small expert team, not large enterprise seat minimums. We are ready to trial now.
Healthtech · Medtech & Devices · 50–200 · North America #b031_21
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We sell pocket sized wireless imaging scanners with phone apps and cloud features, and we ship machine learning assistance to clinicians.
- Industry
- Healthtech · Medtech & Devices
- Size
- 50–200 employees
- Region
- North America
- Tools budget
- $1K–5K per month
- Needs
- LLM evaluation & testing. Retraining and evaluating our imaging models is a manual process, and regressions are found too late.Today: machine learning engineers evaluating models with in-house scripts as part of production releases · Urgency: nowInternal developer platform. Research models move to production through ad hoc container setups instead of a shared machine learning platform.Today: a research-focused contract role automating retraining and monitoring for imaging models · Urgency: this year
- Who decides
- cto · team trial
- Expects from suppliers
- Model evaluation tracking tied to regulated releases; Works across more than one cloud provider; Reasonable pricing for a mid sized team
- Not a fit
- Platforms requiring data to leave our control; Generic chatbot products
- Stack
- multi-cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipeline in place
- Buying triggers
- AI adoption push, new market or product launch
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