Punch — AI & Software Engineering Company | Florida

Before it's obvious, it's Punch.

Production ML before the wave. The League before Match Group. Marie Kondo’s brand before the empire. Being early is the whole business — bring us what’s next.

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ON LOCATION Punch Lahore
THE EXITS — PUNCH-BUILT The League Slice KonMari MedCerts The League → Match Group. Instore → Slice. KonMari → Rakuten. MedCerts → Stride. All built end-to-end by Punch.
THE BELL, TWICE 2 IPOs 1-Page rang the bell on the ASX, RedCloud on the Nasdaq — both on engineering we built.
THE FOLLOW-ON $250M+ Raised by TurnTide and Skipify on foundations we laid.
THE HEAD START 2018 Our first ML system hit production with Numin — years before the wave.

What Punch is.

An AI and software engineering company — raw data to production.

We're engineers.

We make AI work in the real world.

Ex-Google leadership. Forty-one engineers. Four offices. Shipping since 2014. Bring us drone footage, market data, film — or just the problem — and we’ll bring back working software.

IN PRODUCTION ACROSS — ENERGY · FINANCE · MEDIA · HEALTHCARE · COMMERCE

Four offices. One bench.

The people you'd actually work with — where they sit.

World map Verdi Ergün +2 Verdi Ergün FLORIDA · FOUNDER & CEO Joshua Eseigbe Joshua Eseigbe LONDON · ML ENGINEER Sheharyar Asif +5 Sheharyar Asif LAHORE · MANAGING DIRECTOR Joseph Edet +30 Lagos ENGINEERING & THE LABELING FLOOR
FLORIDA UTC−5 · LONDON UTC+0 · LAGOS UTC+1 · LAHORE UTC+5 +28 MEET THE WHOLE BENCH → SEE THE OFFICES FILM →

Recent AI projects.

Real systems, running in production today.

Every tile below is live for a client right now — grading power lines from the sky, forecasting markets, interviewing candidates, reading film cuts. Hover a tile to watch the real product run, and click through for how we built it.

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Firmatek

Every pole, inspected from the sky.

We built the computer vision that grades utility-pole rot from drone photos — and routes crews to the worst ones first.

How we did it
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IT REMEMBERED +30D PATTERN B-7 · SEEN 212× BEFORE
Numin

Teaching the chart to remember.

We built the forecasting engine that mines 8 TB of market history for patterns that repeat — in production since 2016.

How we did it
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Pilotly

It watched your cut. It has notes.

We built the AI that watches a film cut and tells editors which scenes land — and which to fix.

How we did it
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Zwilt

The interview that interviews back.

We built the voice AI that gives every applicant a real interview — then scores it, with the transcript as receipts.

How we did it
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RedCloud

Wave the phone. The shelf uploads itself.

We built the computer vision that catalogs a whole store shelf from one wave of a phone.

How we did it
200+
CLIENTS ENGINEERED · SINCE 2014

The proof goes back a decade.

The League. KonMari. Two IPOs. TurnTide. Before they were obvious.

See the archive

In their words.

Don't take ours for it.

"The detector flagged rot our own inspectors had walked past. It paid for itself on the first inspection cycle."

Firmatek OPERATIONS LEAD · FIRMATEK

"The only vendor that ever told us a model wasn't good enough to ship yet. That honesty is why they've lasted years here."

Numin FOUNDING TEAM · NUMIN
IN PRODUCTION FOR
FirmatekCASE STUDY ↗ NetflixCASE STUDY ↗ Google RedCloudCASE STUDY ↗ NuminCASE STUDY ↗ RecoveryTrekCASE STUDY ↗ ZwiltCASE STUDY ↗ PilotlyCASE STUDY ↗ TurnTide SkipifyCASE STUDY ↗ FinStrat Management Pro-Forma StretchLab CCTV Camera Pros Pocket GemsCASE STUDY ↗ KonMariCASE STUDY ↗ Vantage RoboticsCASE STUDY ↗ Slice Arts at Michigan Platphorm Ematic Scopely The LeagueCASE STUDY ↗ SoChatCASE STUDY ↗ InstoreCASE STUDY ↗ Foundersuite MedCertsCASE STUDY ↗ ChewyCASE STUDY ↗ CraftCASE STUDY ↗ DispatchrCASE STUDY ↗ 1-Page 2020 OnsiteCASE STUDY ↗ TwiceCASE STUDY ↗ WODCast Comcast Foghorn CapeCASE STUDY ↗ InsiktCASE STUDY ↗ Andy OS

Talk to AI Verdi.

Our founder, fine-tuned.

We build conversational AI for a living — so we built one of ourselves. Ask it what working with Punch is like, what something costs, or whether your idea is feasible. The real Verdi reads every transcript.

AI Verdi AI Verdi ONLINE · BUILT ON PUNCH'S OWN VOICE-AI STACK
Hi — I'm the model, Verdi's the human. Ask me anything about working with Punch: cost, timelines, whether your data is enough. I'll be straight with you; he taught me that.
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The work is only half the story.

What makes Punch different.

Our own labeling floor.

Teaching machines to understand, by hand.

A model is only as honest as its labels, so we run our own annotation floor — trained annotators in Lagos, working in your taxonomy, with QC on every batch. No gig marketplaces. No mystery labels. This is the floor that built Firmatek’s 31,000-image and RecoveryTrek’s 50,000+-image datasets.

31,000IMAGES · ONE PROJECT 24TRAINED ANNOTATORS 0.96LABEL QC (SAMPLE)
Inside the labeling operation
REAL SESSION · UNSTAGED
DRAWING THE VECTOR SPACE Each traced region maps its RGB pixels into a labeled vector space — the geometry the model trains on.
TRACE → LABEL → VECTOR SPACE → TRAINED RGB PIXEL RECOGNITION

Models, pipelines, people.

01 — MODELS
We build the intelligence.

Computer vision, LLM systems & RAG, custom embeddings, forecasting — original models when off-the-shelf falls short.

PROOF → FIRMATEK · PILOTLY
02 — PIPELINES
We make it production-grade.

MLOps, evaluation gates, labeling operations, deployment engineering. Only gated models ship.

PROOF → 5-STEP GATED PIPELINE
03 — PEOPLE
We make it stick.

Embedded ML teams, AI strategy, organizational change — so your org sees it early too.

PROOF → THE SHIFT · THE LAB

Our models train on hardware we own.

No rented cloud, no running meter.

Most shops rent compute and watch the meter. We own ours — 400+ logical cores and two terabytes of RAM down the hall — so experiments end when the data says stop, not when the bill does.

THE ACTUAL MACHINE · BUILT IN-HOUSE
MID-CONSTRUCTION · 1 TB RAM AT THIS STAGE Later expanded to 8 slots of 8-channel RAM — 192 logical cores running linear-regression and gradient-boosting workloads.
400+
COMPUTE CORES
2 TB+
SYSTEM MEMORY
24/7
TRAINING UPTIME
THE SCRATCH ARRAY · 8 TB NVME, BY THE HANDFUL

Two ways to make it work.

If upfront fees aren't the right fit.

PUNCH FINANCING Build now, pay over time. 20% down, the rest amortized over up to 36 months — the loan product banks wouldn't build, so we did. 20% 80% · UP TO 36 MONTHS DOWN AT KICKOFFCOMPETITIVE RATESMONTH 36 How financing works PUNCH FOR STARTUPS Discounted fees, for equity. Pre-seed to Series A — a senior team at startup pricing, aligned because we only win when you do. DISCOUNTED FEES + EQUITY YOU PAY LESS TODAYWE WIN WHEN YOU DO Apply as a startup

Ready when you are.

Start something. Fix something. Scale something.

Whichever door fits, an engineer reads your note — we'd love to work with you.

Verdi Ergün + Brandon Tendler · CEO, Looking To Hire & Space Transfers VERDI ERGÜN + BRANDON TENDLER · CEO, LOOKING TO HIRE & SPACE TRANSFERS 01 · START

Start with Punch.

A new build — raw data to production software, with an honest go/no-go on the way.

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Sergei Vandalov, Michael Kelly, and Verdi Ergün — Entrecore SERGEI VANDALOV + MICHAEL KELLY + VERDI ERGÜN · ENTRECORE 02 · SWITCH

Switch to Punch.

A demo that never shipped? We take over half-built AI — audit it, finish it, or call it honestly.

Get a second opinion
Antoine Woods, Chick-fil-A, with Verdi Ergün ANTOINE WOODS · CHICK-FIL-A + VERDI ERGÜN 03 · SCALE

Scale with Punch.

An embedded senior team shipping inside your org, month over month — knowledge that stays.

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