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Fine-tuning models for company needs

Learn when fine-tuning and LoRA add value beyond prompts and RAG, how to prepare datasets and measure model quality before and after deployment.

Our clients

Clients and partners

Capital Group
FSK Group
SMLT
Tochno
Dogma
Sber City
FM Logistic
Danone
Relief Center
Pandora
Saint-Gobain
Askona
FIX PRICE
Snezhnaia Koroleva
Muztorg
TVOE
Greenway
Polaris
Campari
Yandex
Lenta
International perfume and cosmetics brand
Fine-Tuning LLMs with Company Data
RAEC
EKF
L'Etoile
Inventive Retail Group

How we choose the method: prompt -> RAG -> fine-tuning

Use the cheaper method first, and fine-tune only when its limits are proven

Lower-cost methods

Prompt and rulesdays
RAG on your documentsknowledge base with source links

Verification

Evals on real tasksquality metrics on a validation set

If the limit is proven

LoRA fine-tuning for an open modeldataset from your data
Fine-tuning is used only where lower-cost methods have hit a quality ceiling on domain data, so we do not reinvent the wheel

When fine-tuning is justified, and when it is not

When it is justified

  • The model should speak in your domain's terminology and style: legal phrasing, technical regulations, industry jargon.
  • Classification, extraction, and labeling on your data, where prompts and RAG consistently fail to reach the required accuracy.
  • You need a stable response format for integration: the model must answer strictly by schema, not however it turns out.
  • The model runs locally in a closed environment, and it is important to squeeze quality out of a compact open model.

When it is not needed

  • Knowledge changes every week, so fresh facts are a RAG task, not a model weights task.
  • If there are too few real examples, fine-tuning on dozens of input-to-answer pairs will not measurably improve quality.
  • The task can be solved with a prompt or a few in-context examples, so the cheaper method has not been exhausted yet.
  • If you need a universal chat without a measurable quality metric, there is no basis for defining an acceptance criterion.

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What we do: datasets, LoRA adapters, metrics

  1. 01

    Process breakdown and evals

    We define the task and build a validation set of real examples. We measure the baseline quality of the prompt and RAG, which becomes the starting point.

  2. 02

    dataset from operational data

    We collect and clean input-to-reference-answer pairs from documents, conversations, and business systems. Personal data is anonymized before being passed to the model.

  3. 03

    LoRA fine-tuning for an open model

    Adapters instead of full fine-tuning: faster and cheaper, the process is reproducible, and the dataset and weights remain the company's property.

  4. 04

    Measure before and after

    The same metric on the same validation set. Improvement on evals is the acceptance criterion, not a subjective "it looks better."

  5. 05

    Production handoff

    The model is deployed in your environment, and your team gets a process for updating the dataset and retraining it again - without depending on us.

Where the model lives: your environment and Federal Law 152

Your own environment

An open model with a LoRA adapter runs on your infrastructure, so data never leaves the company perimeter.

LLM gateway for GDPR

If part of the traffic goes to external models, LLM gateway anonymizes personal data before it reaches the model and returns the real values in the response.

RAG alongside, not instead

Fine-tuning handles style, format, and domain skills; fresh facts are retrieved by RAG knowledge base with a source link.

Cases

AI implementation cases

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Process-by-process AI automation

One process - one price - payment after delivery

Fine-tuning is also an AI implementation process: we define the acceptance criterion before launch as quality metrics on a validation set, and payment is due after the process is accepted. See the pricing reference on the page pricing and payment models; calculate the economics for your volumes in AI implementation calculator.

  • Acceptance criterion defined before launch
  • Payment after acceptance
  • The dataset and weights are yours
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