An AI engineering company · Lagos, Nigeria
We build products and ship systems for clients who need both. Currently focused on quantitative finance and machine learning, with data engineering and software engineering services alongside.
What we do for clients
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For asset managers, trading firms, and fintechs needing applied research.
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For teams building production AI features into products.
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For organizations whose data should be working harder.
What we build
Alongside client work, the Lab builds and operates its own software — held to the same standard we sell.
Launching soon
Trading research & decision tools
Built by the Lab · since 2026
Trade on evidence, not on hope.
Èrè turns trading ideas into precise rules, tests them honestly and keeps you on paper until the evidence says otherwise.
Also in development Studio, Elixirs Work, Assay, Sentinel See all products →
Working with us
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Tell us what you're working on — quant research, AI engineering or data infrastructure. We respond within 48 hours.
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Start with a discovery sprint — ask us for a fixed quote.
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Anything from a short technical review to a multi-month build. Typical engagements run one to six months, depending on the service.
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Production deployment and monitoring are part of the work. Our work has to ship, run, and stay running.
What we believe
We build code and relationships meant to last. Restraint over flourish, working systems over impressive demos, honest reporting over optimistic estimates.
Latest writing
A founding note. Why we exist, what we're trying to build, and what we mean by 'restraint over flourish.' Written for our future selves to keep us honest.
Read post →A complete retrieval-augmented generation system pairing Llama-3.1 8B Instruct with Intel's OpenVINO GenAI toolkit. INT4 quantization cuts model size by 73% with under 5% quality loss; FAISS-GPU vector search and a heterogeneous Intel-plus-NVIDIA pipeline give 2–5 second query latency on a single workstation, with no cloud dependency.
Read paper →Get in touch
Or write directly info@theelixirslab.com
Impact
Alongside the engineering work, we run school-engagement programs across Lagos District 5 — helping students build the relationships, mindset, and perspective that shape what they do next.
A series of interactive sessions across secondary schools in Lagos District 5, helping students build the right relationships, mindset, and perspective for life and academic decisions.
Read more →A student organization being established in secondary schools across Lagos District 5 — a permanent home for the relationships, mentorship, and mindset work that the school visits started.
Read more →Photos from the school sessions across District 5 — students, teachers, conversations, follow-ups.
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