01 / 06
AV
Aris Vance
Founder & Principal Engineer
Former ML lead at OpenAI. Shipped retrieval and agentic systems used by 40M+ users.
AgentsRAGEval
LondonOpenAI · Stripe
STU-OSThe Studio
Engineers, not consultants.
Ptimz is a research-led AI engineering studio. Our team has shipped production intelligence at OpenAI, Stripe, Anthropic, DeepMind and Scale — and now does it for the world's most ambitious enterprises.
Engagement signals
Live
27
AI engineers
9
Research scientists
38
Countries served
6y
Avg. ML tenure
Operating principles
Six principles. One way of working.
These are the non-negotiables that show up in how we scope, ship and hand over every engagement.
PR-01
Engineers, not consultants
Every engagement is led by a shipping engineer. No slide-only deliverables, ever.
PR-02
Production or it didn't happen
Every project lands telemetry, eval harnesses and on-call ownership — not just demos.
PR-03
Research as a function
Internal labs evaluate every frontier model release. The bar moves; the work moves with it.
PR-04
Customer co-ownership
We embed inside your teams, transfer knowledge, and leave behind systems your engineers can extend.
PR-05
Compliance as a first-class citizen
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and EU AI Act controls live in the architecture, not in a binder.
PR-06
Compounding outcomes
We optimize for second-derivative improvements — programs that get better as they run.
The team
Built for production AI.
3
Founders
Prior leadership at OpenAI, Stripe and Anthropic.
27
AI engineers
Median 6 years shipping production ML.
9
Research scientists
Publications at NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP.
8
Solutions architects
Embedded leads inside every engagement.
— Senior bench
Meet the engineers behind the work.
Every engagement is led by a named senior engineer or researcher — the same people you'll meet on the intro call are the ones who ship.
02 / 06
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Mira Köhler
Head of Research
Ex-DeepMind research scientist. NeurIPS and ICML publications on alignment and evaluation.
AlignmentLLMsResearch
BerlinDeepMind · ETH
03 / 06
DO
Daniel Okafor
Head of Solutions
Former Anthropic solutions architect. Embedded inside Fortune 100 deployments worldwide.
ArchitectureStrategyDelivery
New YorkAnthropic · Scale
04 / 06
YT
Yuki Tanaka
Principal Data Scientist
Built forecasting and pricing engines for global FinTechs. PhD, Statistical Learning.
ForecastingMLPricing
SingaporeTwo Sigma · MIT
05 / 06
SM
Sofia Marchetti
Head of Generative Search
Architect of the GEO Framework. Eight years across SEO, semantic graphs and retrieval.
GEOSemanticGraphs
LondonGoogle · Algolia
06 / 06
RC
Rahul Chandra
Head of Platform
MLOps, eval harnesses and on-call ownership across every production system we ship.
MLOpsInfraReliability
BerlinDatabricks · Stripe
Milestones
A short, deliberate story.
2022
Studio founded
Three operators set out to build AI as a craft, not a deck.
2023
First Fortune 100
Shipped the first multi-agent system inside a global FinTech.
2024
GEO Framework
Released the Generative Engine Optimization framework with eight design partners.
2025
Global team
Expanded across London, New York, Berlin and Singapore.
2026
Twenty-seven
Active engagements across nine industries and thirty-eight countries.
Where to next
Pick a thread to pull.
Engagement
Talk to the team.
A 30-minute working session with a senior engineer. No slides, no sales — a working conversation about your highest-leverage AI surface.