AI & data engineering consulting

From raw data to intelligent systems.

StratumMeta designs, builds and modernizes the full technology stack: data platforms and pipelines, distributed processing at petabyte scale, cloud architecture on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and the AI agents and LLM systems on top. We bring decades of engineering leadership, and we stay hands-on from first prototype to production.

Core sampleWhere we work
Agents & LLM workflowsagentic automation · review queues
L5
Semantic layerembeddings · RAG · dedup · matching
L4
Distributed processingSpark · EMR · clustering · graphs
L3
Storage & servingS3 · DynamoDB · Lambda · APIs
L2
Raw sourcesweb · sensor probes · partner feeds
L1
Most AI projects stall in layers 1–3. We build the whole column.
$2M

a year in infrastructure savings from a legacy-to-cloud migration

70%

of a manual review workload automated with LLMs

$30–40K

a month cut from cloud spend by re-architecting data pipelines

Petabyte

scale data platforms processing billions of records

What we do

Four engagements we take on, from a scoped build to ongoing leadership. Each one ends with a working system your team can own.

AI agents & LLM automation

Replace manual review and rule-based processes with LLM workflows that are measured, monitored and cheap to run. We start with the step where people spend the most time.

  • agentic workflows
  • RAG
  • web extraction
  • evaluation

Data platform architecture

Design or rebuild the pipelines that feed your models and products, sized for the data you will have in two years.

  • Spark / EMR
  • streaming
  • AWS · GCP
  • APIs

Cloud migration & cost reduction

Move legacy on-prem systems to cloud-native architecture, then tune them: spot capacity, right-sized processing units, job prioritization and restart.

  • Hadoop → AWS
  • serverless
  • FinOps

Fractional AI engineering leadership

Senior leadership for a team that needs direction: roadmap, architecture reviews, hiring and mentoring, and a clear path from proof of concept to production.

  • Head of AI
  • roadmaps
  • team building

How an engagement runs

Short cycles, real data from the first week, and a handoff plan from the start.

Assess

Map the process, the data and the costs. Pick the one change with the clearest payoff.

Prototype

A working proof of concept on your data in weeks, with an agreed measure of success.

Build

Develop the full solution in short sprints: data pipelines, models and agents, APIs and integrations, with a working demo every two weeks.

Productionize

Deploy and harden it: scale, monitoring, cost controls, security and failure recovery.

Hand off

Documentation, training and pairing so your engineers run it without us.

Problems we solve

Drawn from programs our founders have led in data-intensive industries.

AI agents · automation

Manual review work, handed to AI agents

Find the repetitive verification, research and triage work your team does by hand, and build AI agents that take it over, with people approving the edge cases. Each agent is measured against your team's accuracy before it goes live.

AI agents · LLM workflows · human-in-the-loop

Enterprise knowledge · RAG

Your documents and data, answerable in plain language

Connect LLMs to your internal documents, databases and systems with retrieval-augmented generation. Teams get grounded answers with sources, instead of searching across a dozen tools.

RAG · semantic search · embeddings

Data quality · LLMs

From hand-maintained rules to an AI-powered pipeline

Transition from manual rule-based systems to intelligent, automated data processing pipelines, unified data structures, and continuous quality control. Modernize ingestion frameworks to process complex, multi-source enterprise data, driving significant expansions in coverage while optimizing operational efficiency.

LLMs · semantic embeddings · agents

Cloud modernization

Legacy on-prem to cloud-native, at a fraction of the cost

Migrate high-volume legacy infrastructure to modern, cloud-native architectures. Re-engineer data pipelines with dynamic resource allocation, automated fault tolerance, and scalable capacity, substantially reducing operational run costs while ensuring system reliability and continuity. The result is an AI-ready data foundation for your models and agents.

Spark · serverless · cost controls · AI-ready data

Large-scale analytics

Turning billions of raw events into product improvements

Architect high-throughput distributed architectures to process high-velocity data streams across diverse operational touchpoints. Apply machine learning models to detect system anomalies and refine data quality in real time, delivering actionable intelligence across core business applications.

machine learning · clustering · geospatial · distributed processing

Commerce & finance

Platforms where transactions and decisions can't fail

Build mission-critical digital platforms, transactional systems, ML-driven recommendations and AI-automated enterprise workflows. Engineered for high-concurrency environments, zero-downtime reliability, and adherence to strict regulatory standards.

ML recommendations · payments · AI workflow automation

About the founders

We lead it. We build it. We teach it.

  • Experience15+ years architecting petabyte-scale data and AI platforms, including cloud migrations that cut operating costs by $2M+ a year
  • EducatorsUniversity faculty and industry mentors who train teams in data engineering, AI agent architecture and distributed systems design
  • IndustriesRetail & e-commerce, financial services, geospatial & mapping, healthcare technology
  • AIProduction LLM systems, AI agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, semantic search and embeddings, recommendation systems, predictive ML models
  • Distributed computingApache Spark (PySpark, Spark SQL), EMR, Hadoop, MapReduce, real-time event streaming
  • CloudMulti-cloud architecture on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, built for scale and cost efficiency
  • LanguagesPython, Scala, Java, SQL

StratumMeta's founders are engineering leaders and patent-holding technologists. They have run global engineering organizations, delivered multi-million-dollar cloud savings, and teach data engineering and AI at the university level.

They combine strategic leadership with deep technical work in cloud, data and AI. They set the roadmap, upskill your team and write production code alongside your developers, taking a project from first prototype to enterprise scale.

The senior leaders who design your solution are the ones who deploy it.

Have a system that should be smarter, faster or cheaper?

Tell us what you are working on. We reply within one business day and can usually scope a first step in a single call.