Applied AI consulting for complex, high-stakes environments.
Most organizations know AI matters but not where to start or what's actually worth building. We bring the clarity and the engineering to figure that out — then build it with you.
This is where we operate.
We bring strategic clarity and hands-on engineering to every engagement.
We assess where you are and map where you need to go. A real technical and organizational audit that tells you what's worth building, what's not, and what has to be true underneath.
We build the thing. Prototypes, internal tools, data infrastructure, production systems. We write code, ship software, and stay accountable to outcomes.
Custom agent architectures, skills and plugin development, multi-agent coordination, and workflow automation. We build the systems that make AI actually do work — not just answer questions.
Ongoing strategic guidance for engineering and product leaders navigating AI decisions. Architecture reviews, vendor evaluation, build-vs-buy, team structure. A senior technical partner on call.
Half-day and full-day sessions for engineering teams, leadership, and cross-functional staff. Practical, hands-on, and tailored to your industry. Also running free community AI workshops for local businesses through chambers of commerce and libraries.
Production systems and active projects. Every one ships with guardrails, real-world grounding, and intentional constraints.
Internal AI platform for a regulated logistics company operating under strict data retention requirements. Built within their existing cloud tenancy with no external data exposure — shipped under an aggressive compliance deadline.
Assessing and modernizing big data infrastructure for an industrial IoT company. Designing a modern lakehouse architecture as the foundation for downstream analytics and AI capabilities.
A human-in-the-loop AI assistant for quality analysts in regulated pharma environments. Built for auditability and trust — not just answers.
An AI-to-physical-mail platform. Generates human-sounding messages and original artwork, then produces real mailed postcards. Extended into a civic product for letters to Congress — same architecture, different constraints.
An agentic activity discovery engine. Learns from your history, proactively searches for activities by timeframe, and filters by real-world constraints like weather — so suggestions are actually doable.
We bring strategic clarity and hands-on engineering to every engagement — because AI transformation requires both.
We bring outside perspective and top-down clarity to teams deep in the weeds — then roll up our sleeves and build alongside them. The work spans from architecture and system design to production code and deployment. One team, full stack, no handoff gap.
Third Order Labs is led by Ian Jones — 15 years building and leading engineering teams in regulated, high-stakes environments. MEng in Computer Science from Cornell. Practitioner-first: close enough to the code to debug production issues, experienced enough to set technical direction.