# k3ld — Own Your Intelligence

> k3ld is the AI platform and services team: we take your data from governed source to a model — trained from scratch, fine-tuned, or post-trained, then aligned, deployed, and monitored — on your terms, and you own the result.

**Tagline:** Own your intelligence. Not rent it.

## Hero

The model at the center of your product should be **yours**.

k3ld is the AI platform and services team: we take your data from governed source to a model — trained from scratch, fine-tuned, or post-trained, then aligned, deployed, and monitored — on your terms, and you own the result.

### Headline stats

- **1d** — from data to a live model
- **0** — per-token markup
- **100%** — you own the result

A fine-tune run shows a live estimate before you commit — e.g. a 3B LoRA fine-tune on ml.g5.2xlarge (spot) with the cost shown before we start. (Illustrative example, not a quote or guarantee.)

## Manifesto

> "Most AI vendors are in the same business: renting you back your own intelligence, token by token. k3ld exists to make ownership the easy choice — your weights are yours to keep, your data trains your model, and the result is yours."

Every closed model you rent is a model you don't control — the capability ceiling, the pricing, the data terms, and the renewal are all someone else's. k3ld takes on the work that made owning a model impractical: data prep, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring.

## Services — six capabilities, one tenant

1. **Data catalog & governance** — Catalog, lineage, glossary, and data-quality checks — so models are built on data you trust and can defend.
2. **Connect & pipelines** — Managed ingestion and ELT with run history and live cost tracking on every job.
3. **Custom model training** — The heart of what we do: docs become instruction data automatically, then we fine-tune (LoRA) or align (DPO/GRPO) a model for your behavior.
4. **Evaluation** — Built-in benchmarks and eval runs that rank your checkpoints with evidence before you ship.
5. **Ship & serve** — One click from a completed run to a real-time endpoint, batch, serverless, agent, or model-catalog bake.
6. **Monitor & govern** — Production is where models decay: latency, drift, usage, and alerts — with retraining one click away.

## How we work — six steps, zero glue code

Each step is handled by the platform — the parts most teams hand-write are the parts we automate.

1. **Connect** — We connect your data from S3, databases, and warehouses.
2. **Prepare** — `llm_format` turns docs into instruction/chat training data.
3. **Train** — We fine-tune and align on the right GPU; spot saves 60–80%.
4. **Evaluate** — Benchmarks and eval runs rank the checkpoints we produce.
5. **Ship** — We ship to endpoints, agents, or the model catalog.
6. **Monitor** — We watch latency, drift, usage — and retrain for you.

We took a support team's 12,847 conversations to a live, monitored assistant in a single engagement.

## Cost & control

**Know the price before you train.** Every engagement shows a live cost estimate — projected while it runs, exact when it finishes. No per-token markup, no surprise invoices, no meter running in the background.

- **$0** per-token markup
- Live estimates per run
- Spot-first GPU
- Exportable weights

## Contact

- **Free consultation** — your use case, our team
- **Pilot project** — we run your first fine-tune together
- **Security & legal pack** — DPA, security docs, exit plan

Contact form at https://k3ld.com/#contact — we reply within one business day.

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