STU-OS The 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.

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27
AI engineers
9
Research scientists
38
Countries served
6y
Avg. ML tenure
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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.

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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.

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Research as a function

Internal labs evaluate every frontier model release. The bar moves; the work moves with it.

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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.

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Compounding outcomes

We optimize for second-derivative improvements — programs that get better as they run.

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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.
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— 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.

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6 senior operators · shipping now
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Available
AV

Aris Vance

Founder & Principal Engineer

Former ML lead at OpenAI. Shipped retrieval and agentic systems used by 40M+ users.

Agents RAG Eval
London OpenAI · Stripe
/ 02
Available
MK

Mira Köhler

Head of Research

Ex-DeepMind research scientist. NeurIPS and ICML publications on alignment and evaluation.

Alignment LLMs Research
Berlin DeepMind · ETH
/ 03
Available
DO

Daniel Okafor

Head of Solutions

Former Anthropic solutions architect. Embedded inside Fortune 100 deployments worldwide.

Architecture Strategy Delivery
New York Anthropic · Scale
/ 04
Available
YT

Yuki Tanaka

Principal Data Scientist

Built forecasting and pricing engines for global FinTechs. PhD, Statistical Learning.

Forecasting ML Pricing
Singapore Two Sigma · MIT
/ 05
Available
SM

Sofia Marchetti

Head of Generative Search

Architect of the GEO Framework. Eight years across SEO, semantic graphs and retrieval.

GEO Semantic Graphs
London Google · Algolia
/ 06
Available
RC

Rahul Chandra

Head of Platform

MLOps, eval harnesses and on-call ownership across every production system we ship.

MLOps Infra Reliability
Berlin Databricks · Stripe
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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.
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Where to next

Pick a thread to pull.

Case studies
CFO-verified outcomes from recent deployments.
Industries
Nine verticals, one operating model.
Resources
Playbooks, research and field notes from the studio.
Engagement model
How we scope, price and ship work.
Trust center
Security, privacy and AI safety posture.
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30 minutes with a senior engineer.
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.

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Auditing

Ptimz is running a full-spectrum scan across technical SEO, semantic SEO, GEO readiness, entity graphs and six answer engines.

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AUDIT REPORT · · Complete

AI Visibility Report for

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Executive Summary

shows strong technical fundamentals but significant gaps in generative answer engine optimization.

Our scan identified that while traditional search indices cover your primary landing pages, 62% of high-intent enterprise prompts inside ChatGPT and Perplexity fail to cite your domain as a primary authority.

Key Strength
Valid JSON-LD schema & clean canonical structure
Primary Vulnerability
Unmapped entity relationships across 3rd-party corpora
Answer Engine Share of Voice
Benchmark: Category Top 10% Avg 64%

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