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From first principles to production. The science of agentic AI.

Consulting, integration, implementation, and training for companies turning agentic AI from prototype into production — secure, scaled, and built to run.

Two decades guiding companies through technology change. Today, that means AI.

New Haven, USA | Yale

What we do

AI Consulting & Opportunity Mapping

Where AI belongs in your business and where it doesn't. We work with leadership to identify the highest-leverage processes, products, and workflows for agentic AI — then map a build path with real ROI, not a vendor sales deck.

Integration & Implementation

Production-ready agentic systems built into the way your business actually runs. We take AI from prototype to production — secure, scaled, observable — and integrate it with the systems, data, and processes you already depend on.

Meet the engineers behind the build

AI Training & Enablement

Your team, fluent in agentic AI. Hands-on training, internal tooling, and operating models that turn early adopters into a coordinated capability — so the systems we build keep delivering after we step back.

Who we work with

We work with leaders serious about AI — past the demo, into production.

01

Private equity

PE firms turning AI into measurable portfolio value — from diligence to operating-model change.

02

Operators & CEOs

Leaders rewiring their business around agentic AI — process automation, internal tooling, customer-facing intelligence.

03

Founders

Founders building AI-native products who need senior expertise from concept to production deployment.

East Rock Labs

We don’t just build with AI. We build AI.

East Rock Labs is our internal research lab — building the agentic systems that power our client work, so the people advising you are the same people writing the code.

Built on OpenClaw

We maintain our own fork of the OpenClaw agentic framework, tuned for high-precision research workflows — entity extraction, signal verification, and structured evaluation across web, code, and proprietary data.

Autonomous Research

Our agents autonomously gather signal, cross-reference technical evidence, and generate structured outputs — turning weeks of manual research into hours.

Research to Production

Every tool we build in the lab ships to clients. We adopt new models, techniques, and architectures as they emerge — and turn vibe-coded prototypes into systems that hold up in production.

Want agentic AI working in your domain?

We deploy autonomous research and evaluation agents for partners that need real depth at scale — not a wrapper around someone else’s API. See TalentJet for our flagship deployment.

Selected clients

Trusted with production systems, not pilots.

Riviera Partners logo
Insight Partners logo
Yale University logo
Goldsmith logo
Block One logo

New Haven, Connecticut — home to Yale University.

Selected work

Agentic AI in production.

Systems we’ve built and shipped — running in production, sometimes for years.

TalentJet: AI Interview Intelligence

TalentJet: AI Interview Intelligence

Result: Saved 70% of recruiter time with data-driven candidate assessments.

East Rock developed TalentJet, an AI-powered platform that instruments the interview process — automating candidate analysis, scoring responses using NLP, and generating detailed assessments that replace gut feel with data. Used by executive recruiters and venture capital firms to evaluate technical leadership.

Technology Stack

ReactPythonOpenAIAWSVideo

Capabilities

Video AnalysisAI ScoringNLPMachine Learning
Learn more about TalentJet.ai
Riviera Partners: Production ML in Executive Search

Riviera Partners: Production ML in Executive Search

Result: Several years in production at one of the world's top executive search firms.

A production ML system built for one of the world's top executive search firms. Custom data pipelines, bespoke analytics, internal tooling — engineered for the precision a top-tier search firm demands.

Technology Stack

PythonNLPReactData Analytics

Capabilities

Production MLCustom PipelinesBespoke AnalyticsInternal Tooling
Learn more about our approach
Goldsmith: Executive Search Platform

Goldsmith: Executive Search Platform

Result: Purpose-built ATS with data science at its core for executive search.

East Rock built Goldsmith, a cloud-hosted executive search platform combining ATS, CRM, and data analytics into a single system. Features include vector-based candidate research, configurable multi-stage pipelines, attribute-driven interview frameworks, smart email sequencing, and one-click reporting — built from the ground up for how executive search teams actually work.

Technology Stack

ReactNode.jsPostgreSQLNLPChrome Extension

Capabilities

ATSCRMData AnalyticsVector Search
Learn more about Goldsmith

The engineers behind the build

AI engineers who’ve already shipped this.

Deep AI expertise across the stack. The same senior engineers from strategy to production to the team that runs it — one coordinated engagement, end to end.

Senior AI engineering on every engagement

PhD-led, hands-on from strategy to deploy. The people advising you are the people writing the code.

Built for scale and security

Production-grade systems: observability, evaluation, access control, cost control. The things that break vibe-coded AI when real load shows up.

Strategy, build, and training in one team

Consulting, integration, implementation, and enablement — one coordinated engagement, not three vendors with conflicting incentives.