When the Problem
Doesn’t Fit a Product Yet.
Strudel AI Labs embeds engineers inside your team to learn a specific, high-cost workflow in detail, then builds a custom AI-plus-human-in-the-loop solution on Strudel’s proprietary small-model architecture, deployed inside your existing tools and data.
How it works
Three steps. One workflow fully automated.
We do not start with a product and try to fit your problem into it. We start with your problem and build around it.
We learn your workflow
Our engineers spend time inside how your team actually solves the problem today. Not a questionnaire. Not a discovery call. Real time studying the work, the edge cases, and the judgment calls that make your workflow hard to automate.
We build AI agents that mimic it, with a human in the loop
Automation absorbs the manual and repetitive parts. Your people stay in the loop for judgment calls and the moments that need a human touch. The system is designed around where your team actually needs to stay involved.
It runs on your data, in your tools, and keeps improving
Built on Strudel’s proprietary small models rather than a general-purpose LLM, so it is dramatically cheaper to run and gets more accurate over time from your team’s feedback. No black box. No usage-based billing surprises.
Why this instead of building it yourself
The honest build-vs-buy comparison.
Most AI vendors sell you a general-purpose model and leave the hard part to you. Most internal builds take longer and cost more than anyone planned. AI Labs is a third option.
Cost that scales down, not up
Proprietary small models run at roughly 1/100th to 1/1,000th the cost of standard LLM calls. Flat annual rate for ongoing service instead of unpredictable consumption-based pricing. You know what it costs before you commit.
Accuracy built on your actual work
Built on your workflow and your data rather than generic internet-scale training. It starts more accurate than a general-purpose model and keeps improving through feedback loops from your own team, not from the internet.
Speed without standing up an AI function
An embedded team that already knows how to do this ships faster than building an internal AI capability from scratch. No hiring, no ramp time, no pulling your own engineers off the roadmap to make it work.
What’s included
Everything needed to go from workflow to working agent.
AI Labs is a full engagement, not a tool license. Here is what comes with it.
Embedded engineering time to study and map the workflow
Our engineers work alongside your team to understand the target workflow in detail before a single line of code is written. We document the edge cases, the judgment calls, and the places where automation breaks down.
A custom-built AI agent running on Strudel’s proprietary model architecture
Deployed inside your existing tools and data. Not a wrapper around a public LLM. A purpose-built model trained on your workflow, running in your environment, integrated with the systems your team already uses.
A human-in-the-loop review layer
Designed around where your team actually needs to stay involved. The system flags the cases that need a human, routes them to the right person, and learns from their decisions over time.
Ongoing tuning at a flat annual rate
Continuous improvement through feedback from your own team. No usage-based billing. No surprise costs as volume grows. A predictable engagement that gets better the longer it runs.
Who this is for
Built for leaders who need AI to actually work.
AI Labs is not for teams exploring AI. It is for teams with a specific, expensive problem that no packaged tool quite solves.
CEOs and CXOs
Under pressure to show a real AI strategy without betting the company on a generic LLM rollout. AI Labs delivers a working system with measurable outcomes, not a pilot that never ships.
COOs and Heads of CX
Sitting on one specific, expensive, unglamorous workflow that no packaged tool quite solves. AI Labs is built for exactly that problem. The one that’s been on the roadmap for two years and never had the right solution.
CTOs
Who want AI leverage without pulling their own engineering team off the roadmap to build it. AI Labs is the embedded team that handles the build so your engineers keep shipping.
Let’s talk about your workflow.
Book a discovery call with our AI Labs team. We will tell you within the first conversation whether we can help and what it would take.
Talk to our AI Labs team