MB Fire Sam — Advisory & Engineering

FIRE SAM.

We're the sidekicks that brilliant teams call when they want to build something audacious. AI strategy, RPA, DeepTech R&D, rapid prototyping — CERN-caliber thinking at startup speed.

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What We Do

Three Modes.
One Team.

We don't do one-size-fits-all. Every engagement starts with understanding what you actually need — then we show up in the right mode.

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Advise
Strategy & Architecture

When you need to make the right call before writing a line of code. We map your technology landscape, identify leverage points, and give you an honest, opinionated roadmap.

  • AI & automation strategy
  • Technology landscape assessment
  • Architecture & system design
  • IT & RPA opportunity discovery
  • Build vs buy vs integrate decisions
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Build
Engineering & Delivery

When you need it built — not specced and handed off. We prototype fast, validate hard, and deliver working systems that your team can own and extend.

  • AI / ML system development
  • RPA pipeline engineering
  • API integrations & automation
  • Data pipelines & analytics
  • Production-ready prototypes
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Research
R&D & DeepTech

When the answer doesn't exist yet. We run structured experiments, evaluate emerging tech, and turn research questions into working proof-of-concepts.

  • DeepTech feasibility studies
  • Emerging AI/ML evaluation
  • PoC & rapid experimentation
  • Domain-specific model research
  • Technical due diligence
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Selected Work

Built by Us.
Owned by You.

A preview of what we've shipped. Real work, real constraints, real results. More on request.

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AI / ML · Enterprise
Intelligent Document Processing Pipeline
Multi-model extraction and classification system processing 50k+ documents/day for a regulatory compliance team.
PythonLLMOCRKafka
RPA · Government
Cross-System Process Automation
End-to-end automation of a 14-step administrative process spanning 5 legacy systems. 90% manual effort eliminated.
UiPathPythonREST API
Architecture · R&D Lab
Data Lake Architecture for Research Institute
Designed and validated a scalable data architecture for petabyte-scale experimental data. Delivered as a working reference implementation.
AWSSparkDelta Lake
Prototype · DeepTech Startup
Real-Time Anomaly Detection PoC
14-day sprint from brief to live demo. Edge-deployed ML model detecting manufacturing defects with 94% precision.
PyTorchEdgeFastAPI
R&D · Scientific Computing
LLM-Assisted Scientific Literature Analysis
Research tooling for a physics lab — semantic search and synthesis across 200k+ papers. Reduced literature review time by 70%.
RAGEmbeddingsElasticSearch
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Coming Soon
Your Project Here
We update the portfolio regularly. More case studies available on request — including NDA'd work we can walk you through privately.
Technical Depth

What We Actually Know

Not buzzwords. Skills we've used in production, at scale, under pressure.

Large Language Models
RAG Systems
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
NLP / NLU
RPA Engineering
Process Mining
UiPath · Automation Anywhere
Solution Architecture
Cloud Architecture (AWS · Azure · GCP)
Microservices & APIs
Data Engineering
Rapid Prototyping
Edge AI
Python · TypeScript · Rust
Business Analysis
Functional Requirements
Technical Due Diligence
EU Regulatory Compliance
Scientific Computing
MLOps
Vector Databases
The Process

How We Work

01
Understand

We ask the annoying questions. What's the actual problem? What's been tried? What does success look like in 6 months? No templates — genuine inquiry.

02
Map

We map your current landscape — technology, people, processes, constraints. Then we show you the shortest path to something real.

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Build Fast

We prototype before we perfect. A working demo in weeks, not months. Real feedback from real use beats any number of specification documents.

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Hand Over

We build things your team can own. Clean code, good docs, knowledge transfer sessions. We're sidekicks — not gatekeepers.

Tell Us What
You're Building

Not a form. A conversation starter. Takes 90 seconds.

mbfiresam — discovery.sh
What brings you here?
Pick the one that fits best right now.
What kind of organisation?
Helps us calibrate our language and approach.
How soon do you need traction?
We work at different speeds. Tell us the pressure you're under.
Drop us a line.
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The Team

Mad Scientists.
Responsible Adults.

MB Fire Sam is a boutique advisory and engineering practice. We're a small team of specialists who've spent careers inside some of the most demanding technical environments in the world — CERN, EU institutions, government digital programmes, and enterprise R&D labs.

We know how to identify and specify business and functional demand in ways that engineers can actually work from. We know how to design appropriate technology landscapes. And we know how to build things fast without cutting corners that matter.

We're not a large consultancy. We don't have junior analysts padding your engagement. When you work with us, you get the people who've actually done it — not a methodology and a slide deck.

Experimenting is our day-to-day job. The best projects we've worked on didn't have a known solution at the start. That's the point.

Founder · Strategy & Architecture

Former CERN contributor. 12+ years designing technology landscapes for complex organisations. Equally comfortable in a boardroom and a terminal.

Lead Engineer · AI & Automation

Built production AI systems for EU institutions and enterprise clients. Specialist in LLM integration, RPA and process engineering.

Viktor Alekszandrov
R&D Lead · DeepTech

Research background in scientific computing. Turns "is this even possible?" into a working demo in under three weeks.

Got something
ambitious?

We don't take every project. We take the ones that are interesting. If you're working on something hard, let's talk.

Start the Conversation → ping@firesam.eu