Applied AI and data engineering
Fail fast works for experiments.
Not for systems your business counts on.
Find the weak spots in your systems before you connect AI to them. Or get a ready made AI assistant into your team's hands in weeks, not quarters.
Not ready for a project? Start with a review or a half day workshop.
How Pacen works with your systems
YOUR SYSTEMS
WE ASSESS, THEN REDESIGN
PACEN AGENT LAYER
WHAT YOU GET
And peace of mind: you know what's running in your systems, and your people know how to use it.
Led by architects with 25 years of building production systems at scale, across machine learning, data platforms, robotics, and autonomous vehicles.
Client work is confidential. Results are shared by industry, never by name.
The problem
The real risk isn't the AI. It's what you connect it to.
01
Your oldest code is your biggest attack surface.
Outdated languages, libraries, and integrations collect known vulnerabilities. Connect AI to them without a review and you widen the door.
02
Your systems weren't built for AI.
Nearly two thirds of IT leaders rank data silos or legacy integration among their top three automation blockers. Wiring AI into older code safely is the real work.
03
Nobody can audit what it does.
47% of IT leaders name security, auditability, and guardrails as a top factor when buying AI. If you can't trace a decision, you can't scale it.
04
Your team was never shown how.
Tools get rolled out with no onboarding and no policy for responsible use. People either avoid AI or use it in ways nobody signed off on.
Source: Jitterbit 2026 AI Automation Benchmark Report, 1,500+ IT decision makers in the U.S., U.K., and Brazil.
What we do
Four practices. One accountable partner from first workshop to launch ready.
All services →PACEN SOLUTIONS · BUILD
AI agents and integrations
AI that works inside your existing code and tools, rolled out in stages with a human approval step wherever it matters.
- Codebase evaluation, review, and redesign
- Legacy aware integration and coding agents
- Agentic workflows and RAG assistants
- MCP connectors and API integrations
PACEN ANALYTICS · DATA
Data foundations for AI
The pipelines, warehouse, and search layer that make AI answers accurate and auditable.
- Pipelines, ETL/ELT, and data modeling
- Vector search and knowledge bases
- AI dashboards: executive, operations, and AI usage
- Auditable by design: we log what your team needs to trace and trust every answer, scoped to how you work
PACEN INNOVATIONS · ENABLE
Strategy, governance, training
A roadmap that makes funding decisions easier for your board, policies organized to speed up legal review, and a team trained to run it.
- AI readiness assessments and security reviews
- Fractional Chief AI Officer
- Governance drafting and policy review
- AI Safety Net: alerts and audit trails
- AI Partner Retainer
PACEN WORKSHOPS · LEARN
AI training for your team
We offer standalone workshops that come alongside your team, so they can adopt, integrate, and govern AI safely on their own.
- Onboarding teams to AI tools
- Preparing legacy code for AI
- AI policy and safe use
- Integrating simple systems
How we work
We build it. We train your team. We stay in your corner.
STEP 1
Assess
We map the systems AI will touch, flag the risks in writing, and define the number we'll use to measure success.
STEP 2
Build
We fix what the assessment flags, with our team or specialists we manage, then build and test the AI on your real data.
STEP 3
Train
Your team learns to run and monitor the new system and respond to alerts. Every build ships with tests, documentation, and runbooks for key alerts.
ONGOING
Ongoing support
Once your team owns it, we stay in your corner through an AI Partner Retainer, advisory or hands on, sized to what you need.
AI dashboards
Ask your data a question. Get answers in a view you can trust.
We connect your systems, model the data, and put AI on top, so leaders ask questions and get live answers traced to their source, with an audit trail sized to your needs.
See AI dashboards01 · LEADERSHIP
Executive KPIs
Revenue, pipeline, margins, and growth in one live view. Ask in your own words and get AI written summaries.
02 · OPERATIONS
Operations monitoring
Real time metrics with alerts and anomaly detection, so your team acts on data as it appears.
03 · AI GOVERNANCE
AI usage and cost tracking
See a clear record of which AI tools are the most beneficial and cost effective for your team, and how accurate they are.
Where clients start
Six workflows where clients often see results first.
Why Pacen
Engineered for the systems your business counts on.
Autonomy grade rigor
Our architects come from fields where every decision is tested, logged, and backed by a fallback. Your AI stack gets the same treatment.
Model agnostic
Claude, GPT, Gemini, Muse, or open weight models. We choose by accuracy, cost, and data rules for your use case, and you can switch later.
Your cloud, your keys
We deploy inside your own environment and use enterprise model endpoints that don't train on your data.
Fixed scope per phase
Clear deliverables and a price per phase before we start work. No open ended hourly billing.
AUDIT TRAIL
Every build ships with an audit trail, sized to what your team needs to review.
Our team
We were building machine learning before it was called AI.
Every engagement is led by staff and director level engineers. We assemble the bench for each project around the problem in front of you, so you get specialists matched to the problem, not whoever happens to be free.
Machine learning data platforms
Large scale data pipelines, labeling, and training infrastructure that fed production models long before generative AI.
Autonomy and robotics
Where systems are tested, monitored, and built to fail safely.
Enterprise AI integration
Bringing AI into the systems large organizations already run, with the security and governance they require.
Fields our team has built in
Have an AI project that's stuck, or one you haven't started?
In one free 30 minute call, you'll leave with a recommended first step. A phased quote follows after we review your code.