In depthLLM fine-tuning services for specialist work
General-purpose models are impressive but generic. Custom LLM training adapts an open-source model to your terminology, document formats and decisions, so it performs like a specialist rather than a well-read generalist. The result is a model you own, can host privately and can keep improving with your own feedback.
Train AI on company data, safely
Training starts with data, and most organisations already have more than they realise: resolved support tickets, approved email replies, contracts, reports and internal guidance. We help you select the most representative examples, clean them and convert them into question-and-answer or instruction pairs. Personal data is removed or pseudonymised before training, and the dataset is versioned so every model can be traced back to exactly what it learned from. Where examples are scarce, we can generate synthetic training data from your documents and have your experts review it before it is used.
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning with LoRA
Rather than retraining every weight in a model, we use parameter-efficient methods such as LoRA and QLoRA, which train small adapter layers on top of a base model such as Llama or Mistral. This needs far less compute and data: meaningful gains are often possible with 1,000 to 5,000 high-quality examples. Adapters are quick to retrain, so the model can be refreshed as your products and policies change. We select the base model by testing several candidates on your tasks, balancing accuracy against size and running cost.
Private LLM deployment you control
Because the model is yours, it can run wherever your data must stay, whether in your own cloud account, a private data centre or a dedicated GPU instance. We quantise trained models to 4-bit or 8-bit precision, which reduces memory needs and allows fast responses on modest hardware. Deployment includes monitoring for accuracy drift, usage and latency, plus a simple process for your team to flag poor answers. Those flags become reviewed examples for the next training round, so the model steadily improves.
Fine-tuning or RAG: choosing the right approach
Fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation solve different problems. RAG is best when answers depend on facts that change often, such as prices, policies or stock levels, because the model reads the latest documents at query time. Fine-tuning is best for teaching behaviour: a specialist vocabulary, a house style, a consistent output format or a classification scheme. Many of the strongest systems combine both, with a fine-tuned model reading retrieved facts. Our discovery phase tests both options on your data before recommending one.