Services — AI, ML & Software Engineering | Punch
SERVICES

The services, shown by the work.

No capability decks. Every service below is followed by the client work it shipped on — if we can't point to proof, we don't list it.

COMPUTER VISION LLM & RAG VOICE · FORECASTING · MEDIA DATA & INFRASTRUCTURE THE AGENCY DECADE
01 — THE SERVICE

Computer vision & video.

Detection, inspection, recognition — drone imagery to live camera feeds. Annotated on our own floor, trained on our own cluster, gated on honest evaluation before anything ships.

THE PROOF →
Firmatek 31,847 drone images → YOLOv11 pole inspection at 0.84 mAP, flagging faults before the truck rolls. FIRMATEK · IN PRODUCTION RecoveryTrek Real-time video inference monitoring remote drug tests while the camera is still rolling. RECOVERYTREK · REAL-TIME RedCloud Commerce vision across emerging-market trade — engineering that rang the Nasdaq bell. REDCLOUD · NASDAQ
02 — THE SERVICE

LLM systems & RAG.

Assistants and agents grounded in your data — with receipts. Retrieval, custom embeddings, and evaluation harnesses so the model answers from your truth, not its imagination.

THE PROOF →
Pilotly Ask your footage anything — scene understanding and Q&A over raw video: length, lighting, direction. PILOTLY · VIDEO Q&A RedCloud Specialist agents trained on $6.9B of FMCG trade data, deployed across three continents. REDCLOUD · AI AGENTS
03 — THE SERVICE

Voice & conversational AI.

Systems that talk, listen, and score the conversation — our phone line included.

Zwilt Voice AI that interviews candidates and scores every conversation for the hiring team. ZWILT · SCREENING
04 — THE SERVICE

Forecasting & pattern engines.

Time-series models that find what the chart keeps to itself — our oldest discipline.

Numin 8 TB of market history mined for patterns that rhyme — in production since 2018. NUMIN · SINCE 2018
05 — THE SERVICE

Media & generation pipelines.

Personalized video, avatars, and rendering that hold up at audience scale.

Netflix Generation and rendering pipelines built for one of the largest audiences on earth. NETFLIX · AT SCALE
06 — THE SERVICE

Matching, recommendation & personalization.

Ranking and matching engines that learn what each user wants — and beat cold-start.

The League Curated matching that made it a category leader — acquired by Match Group. THE LEAGUE · MATCH GROUP
07 — THE SERVICE

AI agents & automation.

Tool-using agents that take action and run multi-step work — not just answer.

Punch AI The live agent on this site — it scopes your build, shows our work, and books the call. PUNCH AI · LIVE
08 — THE SERVICE

MLOps, evaluation & monitoring.

Honest evaluation gates and drift monitoring — nothing ships on a demo.

RecoveryTrek Real-time inference, monitored live and gated on honest evaluation before it acts. RECOVERYTREK · MONITORED
09 — THE SERVICE

Fine-tuning & custom models.

Custom detectors, embeddings, and forecasts — trained on hardware we own.

Firmatek A custom YOLOv11 detector trained on 31,847 labeled images on our own cluster. FIRMATEK · CUSTOM-TRAINED
06 — THE SERVICE

Data engineering & the machinery.

Everything that feeds the model: pipelines that turn messy history into training-ready truth, our own annotation floor, and our own training cluster — nobody else's meter running.

THE PROOF →
Numin 8 TB of messy market ticks engineered into training-ready truth. NUMIN · DATA ENGINEERING The Labeling Floor Our own annotation team — no gig marketplaces, QC on every batch. 31k images for Firmatek alone. INSIDE → THE FLOOR The Cluster 400 cores and 2 TB of RAM in our own racks — training never waits on a cloud bill. INSIDE → THE CLUSTER
2014–2024 · THE SAME MUSCLES, EARLIER ERA

The agency decade built the habits.

Two hundred clients of product, design, and platform work — the engineering discipline every AI system above stands on. Still available when the project calls for it.

Four shapes to hire it in.

ALL PROGRAMS →
The Audit Two–three weeks. Your data reviewed, opportunities ranked, a roadmap with honest effort estimates. FIXED FEE · THE FRONT DOOR The Sprint Six–eight weeks. One use case from data to working model — ends with a go/no-go you can trust. PROOF BEFORE COMMITMENT The Lab Ongoing. A senior Punch team shipping inside your org, month over month. EMBEDDED TEAM Punch for Startups Pre-seed to Series A — discounted fees for a small equity stake. We build like co-founders. PROGRAM → STARTUPS

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.

Start the conversation
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.

Meet your team
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER

Start small, scale when it works.

Most teams start with a fixed-fee Audit, then move into a build once the scope is clear. Every engagement is scoped to your project — you get the exact number on a quick call, and financing is available.

01 · FIXED FEE

Audit

A short, fixed-fee engagement: we pressure-test the idea, map the architecture, and hand you a concrete build plan, timeline, and cost — yours to keep, whether or not you build with us.

02 · BUILD

MVP

The first working version in front of real users, fast — the smallest thing that proves the idea, built by the senior engineers who’d take it to production.

03 · SCALE

Production

Harden it, scale it, and ship the real system — the data, the models, the product, and the design, end to end and built to last.

04 · ONGOING

Embedded

A senior Punch pod embedded with your team on a rolling basis — AI, software, and design capacity that flexes with the roadmap.

Get your exact number on a call See financing options →

EVERY ENGAGEMENT SCOPED TO YOUR PROJECT · EXACT QUOTE ON THE CALL