OmbuLabs

OmbuLabs is a remote-first consultancy based in Philadelphia that advises on and builds AI and machine learning systems. It sells part-time AI and ML expertise to organisations that have no full-time data scientist, and it also runs training and coaching for small businesses. The firm also works on Ruby and Rails technical debt through its FastRuby.io brand.

The service list starts with discovery, which tests whether a company's data can answer the question it has. A fixed prototype and readiness assessment follows. Other services are fine-tuning and optimising existing models, MLOps pipelines with monitoring, and Ruby and Rails upgrades. The team works with Python, Ruby on Rails, PyTorch, Hugging Face, the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, LangChain, CrewAI, Pinecone, and the AWS, Azure and Databricks platforms.

Published case studies include a regression model and Azure-hosted Python API that forecast project hours for the SaaS firm Parallax. They also include a civic app built for Snap, and Pecas, an in-house ML tool that flags faulty time entries. The team works remotely from several countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia.