Midpoint Solutions builds systems that answer questions from an organization’s own documents, with citations you can check, and does technical and literature research that starts from primary sources.
Retrieval-augmented systems built on an organization’s own documents, so people can ask questions of a specialized collection and get answers grounded in it.
Current work includes a retrieval-augmented system over a specialized scholarly corpus for a university research center.
Technical and literature research, worked from primary sources and written up so you can follow the reasoning and check it.
Custom software for research and document work, from data pipelines and evaluation tooling to native Mac and iPad apps, built to do one job well and to be maintained.
Work starts with a defined question and a modest scope, and grows only when that’s useful.
The person you talk to is the person doing the work, from the first conversation to the handover.
Claims are traced to where they came from and linked, so you can check them yourself.
You’ll hear what’s established, what’s likely, and what’s unknown, including when something won’t work.
Midpoint Solutions, LLC, is the independent practice of Jack Koch. Jack studied applied mathematics and computer science at Yale, did early empirical machine-learning research on goal misgeneralization, and writes on LessWrong. Today he builds AI knowledge systems for research organizations and provides research and editorial support to authors.
More about Jack at jbkjr.me.
For consulting, a few sentences on what you’re working on and what you need is a good start.