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From raw tables to a deployed model in two weeks

What a typical onboarding looks like, from data selection to a model in production.

A new pipeline used to mean a quarter of work. Here’s how a typical Lua onboarding goes from raw tables to a deployed model in about two weeks.

Week one — connect and train

  1. We sit with your team to select the data that matters.
  2. We connect to it where it lives, inside your environment.
  3. Lua trains a single foundation model on it.

Week two — fine-tune and ship

  1. Fine-tune the model for your first use case.
  2. Validate against your own evaluation harness.
  3. Ship to production, with monitoring in place.

From there, each additional use case is a fine-tune away — not a new project.