APPLIED AI SYSTEMS
AI that survives production.
Sharp Matter designs and ships agent systems, retrieval pipelines, and evaluation harnesses — for companies that can't afford hallucinations, silent failures, or security surprises.
Hong Kong · Remote · Worldwide
THE GAP
Everyone has a demo. Few have a system.
88%
of organizations now run AI somewhere
~23%
see measurable production ROI
42%
cite implementation, not models, as the blocker
The failures cluster in integration, data quality, evaluation, and guardrails — not model quality. Getting from demo to deployed is systems engineering. That's the part we do.
WHAT WE BUILD
Systems, not prompts.
Agent harnesses
Stateful planning, deterministic tool sandboxing, human-in-the-loop escalation, and error recovery. Agents that complete tasks — and fail loudly when they can’t.
Retrieval that cites
Hybrid dense + sparse retrieval with reciprocal rank fusion, hierarchical chunking, and verification layers. Answers grounded in your documents, with receipts.
Evals in CI
Synthetic edge-case datasets, faithfulness and drift checks on every release. If quality regresses, the build fails — not the customer.
Guardrails & governance
PII and PCI-grade masking, audit logging, cost ceilings, and loop protection. Built for teams with something to lose.
PROOF
Work that holds up.
REGULATORY INTELLIGENCE
Ordinance
Hybrid retrieval over Hong Kong's building regulations — dense embeddings plus sparse search, fused with reciprocal rank fusion. Citations are verified against source clauses before they're shown, because a made-up clause number is worse than no answer.
5,700+
Documents
224
Regulations
0
Unverified citations
PAYMENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Money-grade systems
Multi-gateway payment abstraction for a fintech platform: PCI-scoped cryptography, idempotent orchestration across acquirers, and observability that can prove what happened. AI systems at Sharp Matter are built to the same standard — because a silent failure costs the same either way.
Multi-gateway
Orchestration
PCI
Scoped
Production
Grade
Technical writing and experiments → maniksoin.com
CONTACT
Bring the problem. Leave with an architecture.
Twenty minutes: where your AI underperforms, what that costs, and the shortest defensible path to production. No deck. No discovery phase.
Book an architecture callor write to hello@sharpmatter.com