Minimum Viable Model

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The Concept

What is a Minimum Viable Model (MVM)?

You've heard of an MVP, right? Similarly, a minimum viable model (or MVM) is the creation of an AI/ML application that is able to be tested. In software development, it's the first major milestone of an AI model.

The goal of an MVM is to be able to build quickly, test early and discover real world opportunities or challenges while reducing risk and costs to creating and implementing AI applications.

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Why Digital Scientists?

Why choose Digital Scientists for your MVM development?

We're experienced

We don't just talk about AI/ML, we've been developing minimum viable models for partners for years.

We deliver

Our integrated team of product managers, designers and developers can build the web application or mobile application that your AI/ML model will live within.

We're U.S.-based

Work with a team that's in your timezone and understands your business's unique challenges. Our development team is Google Cloud Certified.

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Featured Work

AI development work that began with a MVM

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Mailchimp Innovation Partnership

Multi-year innovation partnership powering Mailchimp's AI features

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How It Works

Our MVM process

Our MVM process will guide you through the necessary steps to build an initial AI/ML model. Our process follows industry standards, starting with identifying a hypothesis, analyzing a data set, determining the appropriate algorithm, cleaning, segmenting and qualifying the data, training the algorithm against the data, and evaluating the model against the business use case.

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Our Approach

What our MVM services are like

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We move quickly

Our product and development experts are trained to help teams identify and uncover hidden opportunities for improving their businesses with AI and machine learning techniques – always with a focus on helping you move to market quickly with a viable solution at minimal risk.

02

We follow process

Each MVM engagement is a bit different, depending on the complexity, scope, and specific business use case. But in every engagement, we follow a proven standardized process, pioneered by Google Cloud, that enables us to quickly validate use cases or challenge existing assumptions.

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We deliver

Our team knows how to deliver. You'll end your MVM engagement with a functional AI/ML model that is ready to be tested on your use case.

What You Get

MVM deliverables often include

Competitive analysis
Product requirements
Customer journey maps
Defined business and technical level roadmap
Solution architecture documentation
Testable AI/ML model

Next Step

Ready to See What's Possible?

$20,000. One week. A working prototype that proves whether your idea works — before you commit to a full build.

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