I map the unmappable
latent space
of your model.
Independent latent space cartographer. I find where your embeddings cluster, where they collapse, and where the meaning quietly leaks out. Six years inside the high-dimensional fog so your team doesn't have to be.
Three things, done extremely well. Everything else is a referral.
Embedding Audits
Your vector store is hiding things. I run a 2-week structural sweep — clustering analysis, dimensional collapse detection, semantic leakage between supposedly orthogonal categories. You get a 40-page atlas and a remediation plan.
Drift Cartography
When a fine-tuned model starts giving subtly worse answers and nobody can say why — that's drift, and it has a shape. I chart the trajectory across checkpoints, identify the inflection points, and tell you which training batch broke things.
Concept Triangulation
You have a fuzzy idea — "tone of voice," "brand-safe," "on-strategy" — and you need it to live in a model. I locate it in latent space, give it coordinates, build the probes that detect it, and document what it actually means in vector terms.
A working survey.
Every engagement runs the same four phases. No discovery calls disguised as discovery calls. No deliverables you can't open without a license.
Intake
One call. I need the model, the use case, and a sample of the data. I tell you within 48 hours whether I can help and what the survey will find. If I can't, I name someone who can.
Survey
Quiet weeks. I work in your environment or a sandboxed copy. Daily written updates, no standups. You'll see the maps as they form, not at the end.
Atlas
You receive: the maps, the methodology, the raw notebooks, the failure modes I found, and a prioritized fix list. Everything in formats your team can actually edit.
Handoff
Two weeks of async support while your team implements. Then I disappear. I'm a cartographer, not a tenant — the territory is yours.
"Marlow found a three-degree rotation in our embedding space we'd been chasing for nine months. He drew it. He named it. Then he made it go away."
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I take on roughly six engagements per year. The intake form below filters seriously — answer it carefully and you'll hear back within two days.