Service · AI

Turn unstructured text into signal you can act on.

NLP that reads the text your business generates — classify, extract, score, summarize, search, translate — validated against your real data and deployed in your own cloud, in 4–8 weeks.

Fixed scope One accountable lead Production in 4–8 weeks

From prose to structured signal

UNSTRUCTURED TEXT

TICKETS CONTRACTS REVIEWS
NLP TOOLKIT
CLASSIFY EXTRACT SCORE SEARCH
SIGNAL YOU CAN ACT ON

Validated on your data · deployed in your cloud

The real problem

Why most of an enterprise's text never gets used.

Because it's locked in prose — tickets, contracts, claims, reviews, clinical notes, transcripts — and a person has to read each one to get the answer out.

The hard part isn't the model; it's the engineering around it: picking the right technique, proving accuracy on your real text before it's trusted, redacting sensitive data, wiring output into the system that acts on it, and monitoring as your language drifts.

15–25%

Of knowledge workers' time goes to searching and processing documents — the manual reading NLP is built to remove.

IDC ↗

60%

Of NLP use cases projected to run on foundation models by 2027 — up from under 5% in 2021. The technique landscape is shifting fast.

Gartner, Oct 2023 ↗

Where it pays off

Where NLP actually pays — and what each capability delivers.

NLP isn't one product; it's a toolkit, each tool earning its keep on a specific high-volume language task.

01

Text classification & routing

Labels inbound text — tickets, emails, complaints — by topic, urgency, or department so it lands in the right queue automatically.

Faster routing, sorting hours reclaimed

02

Entity & information extraction

Pulls specific fields — names, dates, amounts, clauses, codes — out of documents, turning prose into structured data.

Document-to-data in seconds, not minutes

03

Sentiment & intent analysis

Scores tone and intent across reviews, surveys, and transcripts at a scale no team can read.

Free-text responses become a number you track

04

Summarization

Condenses long material — transcripts, filings, ticket threads — into a faithful short form, source kept for verification.

Act on the gist in minutes, not hours

05

Semantic search & Q&A

Staff search your documents by meaning, not keywords, and get the passage that answers the question.

The right answer in one search

06

Translation & multilingual

Translates text and runs the same classification, extraction, and search across every language you operate in.

One workflow serves every market

07

PII detection & redaction

Masks names, account numbers, and health details before text is stored, shared, or fed to another system.

Text put to work without exposing regulated data

As of June 2026 · revisit quarterly

What NLP does to those processes — the measured impact.

Independent industry findings, cited as third-party evidence — never Silicon Prime's own client results.

~70%

Document work collapses. Faster turnaround when document-heavy workflows are automated, with processing costs cut ~40% — the core NLP payoff.

McKinsey ↗

~14%

Agents resolve more. More issues resolved per hour from gen-AI assist in a study of ~5,000 agents, with handle time cut ~9%.

McKinsey, Jun 2023 ↗

60%

The field is shifting. Of NLP use cases projected to run on foundation models by 2027 — up from under 5% in 2021, so the technique choice matters more than ever.

Gartner, Oct 2023 ↗

Model vs baseline Beats it

No model ships unless it beats the baseline. Measured on a production-realistic split, on the metric that matches the business cost — not headline accuracy on a slide.

What's included

What our NLP development covers.

The difference between an NLP system that runs the business and a notebook that scores well on a slide.

01

Use-case scoping & technique selection

We decide what to build and, crucially, how — a fast, auditable classical model where it wins, a foundation model where the task demands flexibility. The honest "not worth building" call is included.

02

Data, labeling & annotation

We assess your text, design the labeling scheme, and build the annotated set the model learns and is judged against — handling the class imbalance and edge cases that quietly wreck production accuracy.

03

Model development — classical & LLM

We build classification, extraction, sentiment, summarization, search, and translation models, choosing the architecture on your constraints — latency, cost, interpretability, data sensitivity.

04

Honest evaluation & validation

Every model is measured against a baseline on a production-realistic split, on the metric that matches the business cost — precision/recall, field-level accuracy, faithfulness. A model that doesn't beat the baseline doesn't ship.

05

Privacy, redaction & governance

We build PII detection and redaction into the pipeline, document every data path, and favor approaches your risk team can audit — so sensitive language is protected before it's stored, shared, or used to train anything.

06

Deployment, integration & enablement

We ship the model as a monitored service in your own cloud, wired into the system that acts on its output, instrumented for accuracy drift, and handed over with the retraining path and a trained team.

What you get — all assigned to you under full work-for-hire IP

A trained, validated NLP system in your own cloud tenant
The labeled dataset and annotation guidelines
The evaluation suite and baseline
The redaction and governance layer
Monitoring and drift dashboards
Runbooks and a trained team

How it runs

How an NLP engagement runs.

The same delivery model behind all our AI development work — one accountable lead, fixed scope, no handoffs.

STEP 01

Frame

Define the language task, the data available, and the metric and baseline the model must beat.

Output: a ranked plan & the success criteria

STEP 02

Build

Design the labeling scheme, annotate, and develop and compare candidate models — classical and LLM-based — in your cloud.

Output: a candidate model & a documented comparison

STEP 03

Validate

Measure against the baseline on a production-realistic split, check the costly edge cases, and confirm the redaction holds.

Output: an evaluation report & a go/no-go

STEP 04

Deploy & enable

Ship as a monitored service wired into your workflow, instrument it for drift, and train your team to read the dashboards and retrain it.

Output: a production system & a team that owns it

Straight talk

The production discipline behind a text system you'd actually trust.

We're candid: an NLP system is only as trustworthy as the engineering underneath it, and we don't claim a published case study for every capability above. What we can show is a track record of taking real software from prototype to dependable production and operating it for years.

The clearest evidence is Bridge Athletic: a partnership since 2012 we carried from a day-one build through more than a decade of re-engineering — never going offline — into a platform now used by USC, the LA Rams, and MLB and MLS teams. Operating a data-driven system reliably across 12+ years is the same muscle an NLP pipeline needs: validate before you ship, monitor after.

We'll tell you plainly when NLP is the wrong tool, or when a keyword rule beats a model — which a vendor paid to ship one won't.

Silicon Prime is a Stanford-rooted Responsible AI lab, founded 2011, run by founder Kelvin Tran — 20+ years of production engineering, personally accountable for every engagement.

Why build your NLP with us.

01

The right tool, not the trendy one. A lean classical model when it's faster and more auditable, a foundation model only when the task needs it — we're not paid to sell you the expensive option.

02

Honest evaluation is non-negotiable. A model that doesn't beat its baseline on a production-realistic split doesn't ship.

03

Responsible AI is the founding charter. Redaction, audit trails, and governance are part of the build, not an afterthought — which matters most where the text is regulated.

04

Founder-led, one accountable lead. No account managers, no handoffs — the person who scopes the work answers for it.

05

Built to transfer. Models, datasets, evals, and code assigned to you under full work-for-hire IP, your team trained to retrain and extend them. You own the asset, not a dependency.

Where it lands first

Where NLP earns its keep first.

Questions buyers ask before they build.

How is NLP different from your LLM and conversational AI work? +
This page is the broad language toolkit — classification, extraction, sentiment, summarization, semantic search, translation, and redaction — applied to your unstructured text, using whichever technique fits (often a lean classical model, sometimes an LLM). When the task is generating new content, that's generative AI; when it's a chat or voice assistant, that's conversational AI; when it's prediction on structured data, that's machine learning. Many real systems combine several; we scope which yours needs.
Do you use classical NLP or large language models? +
Whichever wins on your task. A foundation model is flexible but heavier, slower, and harder to audit; a fine-tuned classical model is often faster, cheaper, and easier to govern for a well-defined job like routing or extraction. Gartner has projected foundation models will underpin 60% of NLP use cases by 2027, but "most" isn't "all" — we benchmark both on your data and recommend on evidence, not fashion.
Do we have enough data, labeled correctly? +
Often yes, and the honest answer comes early. The first phase assesses your text volume and quality and designs the labeling scheme — because in NLP the annotation guidelines and inter-annotator agreement decide accuracy as much as the model does. Where labeled data is thin, modern foundation models can do useful work with few or no examples, and we'll tell you when that's the right starting point.
How do you know it works before we deploy it? +
We measure it against a baseline on a held-out split that reflects production, on the metric that matches the business cost — precision and recall for classification, field-level accuracy for extraction, faithfulness for summaries — not just headline accuracy. A model that doesn't beat the baseline doesn't ship. Then we monitor it for accuracy drift, because language shifts and a model right at launch can quietly go wrong.
How do you handle sensitive text and PII? +
Redaction is built into the pipeline: we detect and mask names, account numbers, health details, and other sensitive data before text is stored, shared, or used to train anything. Models run inside your own cloud tenant under your access controls, every engagement starts with an NDA and a security review, and we document every data path so your risk and compliance teams audit rather than trust — which matters most in fintech and healthcare.
Who owns the models and code when you're done? +
IP ownership is defined in each engagement's contract, and our standard model assigns it to you: the trained models, the labeled datasets and annotation guidelines, the evaluation suites, and the code transfer so your team can run and extend the system in your own cloud tenant. We build around a clean handover rather than lock-in, and the specifics are agreed in writing before any work begins — no ambiguity later about who owns what.
How do we choose an NLP partner that actually reaches production? +
Look for validation before deployment, a clear ownership and handover model, deployment inside your own cloud, and one accountable lead rather than a chain of handoffs. Gartner predicted in 2024 that at least 30% of generative-AI projects would be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025 — usually from poor data quality, unclear business value, or runaway serving cost. We scope those risks up front: the metric a model must beat, your data readiness, and the ongoing running cost, so the pilot is engineered to reach production rather than just demo well.
What does it cost and how long does it take? +
Most NLP systems reach production in 4–8 weeks under a fixed-scope engagement with one accountable lead, and payment is tied to the ROI we agreed to deliver. Build cost depends on scope and data readiness — our AI development cost guide gives real ranges — and we model the ongoing serving and retraining cost before building, so the running cost is a forecast you've already seen.

Thirty minutes · no pitch deck

Ready to turn your text into something you can act on?

Bring the text you're drowning in — tickets, documents, reviews — and we'll tell you honestly whether NLP fits, which technique to use, and what it costs to run.