Startups

Fractional AI Team

A Fractional AI Team gives startups the engineering firepower of a full-scale machine learning department—without the cost, risk, or recruitment cycle. Instead of spending months assembling talent, onboarding specialists, and establishing development workflows, Theta Tech provides a ready-made AI unit that integrates directly into your company.

Our engineers become your engineers. You gain senior-level data scientists, ML engineers, full-stack developers, model evaluators, and strategic AI architects who know how to build production systems fast. This is how early-stage companies scale intelligently without burning runway.

Understanding the Concept

A fractional AI team is not outsourcing—it is embedded expertise. We operate as an extension of your organization, bringing the exact capabilities you need at the moment you need them: data preparation, pipeline design, model selection, RAG system development, agent orchestration, infrastructure buildout, validation workflows, and more.

Because the team arrives fully assembled—with internal communication protocols, sprint rhythms, code standards, and architectural frameworks already established—you bypass the inefficiencies of building from zero. The result is immediate momentum. You iterate faster, launch prototypes sooner, and focus on product-market fit instead of recruiting and training a technical staff.

Fractional AI is acceleration without overhead.

Why This Matters

Scale your capabilities without scaling your payroll.

Startups cannot afford missteps in hiring. Recruiting AI engineers takes months, salaries are high, and finding talent fluent in practical, production-grade systems is rare. Even after hiring, teams struggle to manage GPU infrastructure, model lifecycle workflows, and the complexities of modern LLM stacks.

Theta Tech removes these obstacles by providing a team that already knows the terrain—healthcare, automation, RAG, MCP-driven agents, private LLM hosting, and all the operational details that turn AI from concept into capability. You avoid full-time commitments. You avoid technical dead ends. Most importantly, you move faster than competitors who are still searching for their first engineer.

Technical Capabilities

Sub-Services
  • On-Demand Machine Learning & Data Science:
    Senior-level modeling expertise for classification, generation, prediction, retrieval, and multimodal systems.
  • Cloud GPU Setup, MLOps, and Lifecycle Management:
    Infrastructure, training pipelines, model deployments, monitoring, and versioning handled end-to-end.
  • RAG and Private Knowledge System Development:
    Custom retrieval architectures that give your startup proprietary intelligence from day one.
  • API and Backend Engineering:
    Full-stack support to integrate AI features directly into your product’s architecture.
  • Continuous Evaluation, Tuning, and Support:
    Ongoing refinement through automated testing, regression checks, and performance optimization.
  • MVP and Prototype Acceleration:
    Rapid development cycles that turn your ideas into working demos for investors or early customers.

The Result

World-class AI expertise on tap—fraction of the cost, zero overhead.

Theta Tech engineers operate like your own internal team, delivering real traction every sprint.

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Case Studies

Real-World Impact

Explore our successful AI case studies.
Algorithm for Collaboration & Distribution
Updating disparate and unorganized AI algorithm code into cohesive and easily sharable notebooks.
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Clinical UI Design for Radiology AI
Creating intuitive software interfaces that empower doctors and accelerate AI innovation
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Developing 3D Radiology AI Solutions
Moving University Client to the Cloud with Open Source Medical AI Models
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Publications

Explore Our Work

See our 35+ Peer-Reviewed Publications & Patents.
Improved Active Shape Models for Segmentation of the Prostate on MR Imagery
Toth, R. “Improved Active Shape Models for Segmentation of the Prostate on MR Imagery,” M.S. Thesis, Rutgers University, 2010.
Evaluation of prostate segmentation algorithms for MRI: The PROMISE12 challenge
Litjens, G., Toth, R., van de Ven, W., Hoeks, C., Kerkstra, S., van Ginneken, B., Vincent, G., Guillard, G., Birbeck, N., Zhang, J., Strand, R., Malmberg, F., Ou, Y., Davatzikos, C., Kirschner, M., Jung, F., Yuan, J., Qiu, W., Gao, Q., Edwards, P.E., Maan, B., van der Heijden, F., Ghose, S., Mitra, J., Dowling, J., Barratt, D., Huisman, H., Madabhushi, A. “Evaluation of prostate segmentation algorithms for MRI: The PROMISE12 challenge.” Medical Image Analysis 25:18(2), Dec 2013 pp. 359-373. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2013.12.002
HistostitcherTM: An informatics software platform for reconstructing whole-mount prostate histology using the extensible imaging platform framework
Toth, R.J., Shih, N., Tomaszewski, J.E., Feldman, M.D., Kutter, O., Yu, D.N., Paulus, J.C., Paladini, G., Madabhushi, A., “HistostitcherTM: An informatics software platform for reconstructing whole-mount prostate histology using the extensible imaging platform framework.” Journal of Pathology Informatics 5(8), Mar 2014. doi: 10.4103/2153-3539.129441
A Domain Constrained Deformable (DoCD) Model for Co-registration of Pre- and Post-Radiated Prostate MRI
Toth, R., Traughber, B., Ellis, R., Kurhanewicz, J., Madabhushi, A., “A Domain Constrained Deformable (DoCD) Model for Co-registration of Pre- and Post-Radiated Prostate MRI.” Neurocomputing 144(20) Nov 2014. pp. 3-12 doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2014.01.058
"Theta Tech AI is an exciting medical AI consulting company whom we’ve worked with for over a decade.

Their team of experienced healthcare AI developers and PhD level biomedical engineers have helped us accelerate our clinical AI research implementation efforts.

Their team is hardworking and extremely responsive.
If you’re in the healthcare technology space, you’d be remiss to not work with Theta Tech." 
Professor Anant Madabhushi
Executive Director for the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute
"Theta Tech AI brings together biomedical engineers and medical imaging experts who deeply understand both AI and clinical practice.

For anyone working in healthcare AI—especially at a leading university or tech company—they are a fantastic team to collaborate with."
Assistant Professor Andrew Janowczyk
Emory University
"Theta Tech AI is an outstanding team of biomedical engineers and medical imaging software experts, who can provide you with specialized healthcare AI solutions that will ensure successful ventures in this space."
Satish E. Viswanath, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
"Theta Tech AI is a highly competent healthcare AI consulting company that has deep expertise spanning machine learning, data science, medical data, image analysis, comprising of a great team of biomedical engineers."
Mike Galvin
Co-Founder & Chairman of LivAI

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