Engagements

Narrow sprints for route-fit decisions, disputed AI outcomes, compute claims, and technical work that needs to become a decision.

Async Workload Test
$9,500 fixed · one workload · current route vs one candidate route · one week

For high-volume async AI workflows where premium compute may be doing work a cheaper route can handle. We compare cost per item, quality delta, failure modes, and route limits, then issue one route-fit verdict: move, keep premium, split route, test more, instrument first, or walk away.

Test one workload →

Invoice Troubleshooting
Start with a disputed bill · no production integration · first-pass decision packet

For outcome-priced AI workflows where a buyer or seller needs to decide whether a claimed outcome counted. The first wedge is verified support resolution: bill, credit, hold, exclude, reserve, or instrument each charge.

Run the sample first. If the pattern matches your dispute, book a reviewed sprint.

Troubleshoot an invoice →

Compute and Kernel Contracts

Diagnostic
Two-week engagement · written attribution report

We deploy the Ashiba verification harness against your training fleet, instrument your workload, emit trace records across specified operations, and deliver a written attribution report. Includes observed divergence events, per-event attribution across implementation version, contract specification, and silicon identity, severity assessment against declared tolerances, recommended remediation, and one hour of Q&A.

Suitable for organizations evaluating whether cross-silicon verification materially changes a workload decision before committing to a longer engagement.

Retainer
Annual engagement · embedded harness · named technical lead

Ongoing deployment of the harness inside your cluster. Continuous monitoring. 48-hour turnaround on numerical anomalies. Quarterly reviews. Custom contract-class development for your workload patterns. Named technical lead, priority response on production incidents, and participation in a contract-class library tailored to your domain.

Suitable for frontier training operators, sovereign compute operators, and enterprise AI teams running production workloads on heterogeneous silicon.

Substrate conformance
Per-engagement · independent attestation · written report

Third-party conformance validation for silicon vendors. Ashiba produces an independent attestation that your silicon conforms to declared numerical tolerances against reference implementations across a specified workload. Deliverable is a written report your business development team can share with customers.

Suitable for ASIC vendors, photonic compute vendors, analog inference vendors, and specialized accelerator companies who need independent correctness validation for enterprise sales.

All engagements scoped and priced by inquiry. Contact →

Other engagement tracks

Ashiba's operational-data and LADDER-cleared licensing work has its own engagement page: Ashiba Deep Tech. That covers data asset assessment, rights mapping, cleanroom packaging, pilot design, and buyer strategy for operational expertise as AI training data.

Other lab programs — ProbSpec (brownfield industrial interop ontology), Ashiba Alignment (heterogeneous-substrate alignment research), DeepTechTools (operator hub for deep-tech founders) — are described on the lab page. Inquiries on those lines also via cv@ashibaresearch.com.