MindCraft.ai

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a boutique consultant around new electrical infrastructure - stationary batteries, electric vehicles and other Distributed Energy Resources.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire MindCraft.ai, and what were your goals?

My goals were to supplement the work I've already done for my client with more advanced modeling for electric vehicle fleet charging sites.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Found them through my extended network of contacts in Ukraine by recommendation of a former business partner.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

1. Develop EV charging session generator code in Python 3
2. Implement YAML parser for session generation business logic (config file provided)
3. Implement session generation business logic as per provided detailed requirements
4. Implement logging and estimation for every generator run
5. The project is intended to be run from console / terminal in a cloud JupyterLab environment

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

3 people - project manager, principal developer and engagement manager.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The timing was quite aggressive, but the team was able to deliver against all deliverables in a timely manner, even with disruption due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Proactive style, all communication was done in Slack with code being provided through a private github repository

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The speed of contracting, engagement and deliverables was very impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

No, I'm quite satisfied with the results.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the CEO of Artua design and development agency. We provide our customers with UI/UX development also mobile app development services.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire MindCraft?

To build an engine for user intent detection in short text messages.

What were your goals for this project?

To build PoC that will give us an opportunity to obtain possible quality metrics for intent detection.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Thanks to the recommendations of the people who worked with MindCraft, also due to the strong focus in Data Science Consulting.

Describe the project in detail.

For the purpose of PoC we choose NUS SMS corpus that is available from Kaggle. We use English-language part. Pretrained ELMO model was used to obtain word and sentence embeddings.

Several intents were labeled in original dataset using active learning approach to minimize labeling efforts. We show that the approach provided reasonable accuracy of intent detection and may be scaled for emerging intents while switching to live message flow.

What was the team composition?

Two data scientists and data engineer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We have proven that pretrained embeddings provide an excellent opportunity to detect user intents is short text messages.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We managed to build effective communication with MindCraft team. If was a need, we can have met at any time.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

MindCraft showed their strong knowledge in Machine Learning Area and great focus on clients problem using BA approaches.

Are there any areas for improvement?

The organization structure of the team should be more understandable for the customer and more independent inside the MindCraft. We were forced to confirm each step with MindCraft’s CEO to begin the project phase. Anyway, we obtained the results needed in a short term.