su·per em·ploy·ee \ˈsü-pər im-ˌplȯ(i)-ˈē / 1. a malleable, multi-faceted, quality-driven, results-driven team; acts as a chameleon in any organisation to produce results beyond expectations.

The reason that people turn to Kinsol is that they’ve heard that we love solving tricky problems. What may surprise them is the diversity of team members they can access.

Just think of all the factors involved in solving a problem in machine learning and computer vision:

• Precise definitions of the challenges
• Discovering how to best ‘tool’ the solution
• The need to develop, produce and monitor prototypes.
• Business challenges – how does a company best staff itself to implement solutions and scale for success?

Kinsol’s team includes cutting edge scientific researchers, data scientists and business strategists that can be employed in any combination to best help a company of any size achieve its current goals. That’s what we call a “super employee”.

For instance, a start-up will have an idea on how to solve an important problem as well as some scientific expertise that puts them on the road to the solution. But they may not have the resources to hire four different positions to bring their idea to life.

This is where Kinsol enters the picture. For the price of one full time staff person the start-up gets an additional scientist, engineer and business strategist – and there are no health plans or other benefits that need to be monitored!

In other words we can backfill that start-up’s strengths with a knowledge of the latest scientific developments and abilities to create an informed architecture and know how this fits into the life-cycle of the project.

When it comes to your project, we can start it, scaffold it, get unit tests together, initiate continuous integration, and show you how to manage your workforce of 1 to 100 employees. Larger and more mature companies will typically have the management side under more control and so we are able to focus on the data engineering or data science pieces of a project.

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2. A team that gives you access to the latest scientific and engineering developments.

Because we are constantly working on the cutting edge with innovative start-ups, our engineering processes are constantly evolving – and we are able to bring this expertise to any size company.

This is not about Intellectual Property – which we keep under lock & key for each of our clients. It is about the efficient and strategic use of scientific building blocks that get applied to your company’s challenges in ways that save time and money – without jeopardising anybody’s intellectual property. This collective intelligence helps everyone to be better scientists, engineers and employees.

Our tentacles extend into the world of academic research. There are times when I will say, “Let me pair you up with this PhD from McGill who needs a little help with architecture, which you should be better at, but who has an expertise in an area that could inform what you are doing. You can pollinate each other and both become better, more engaged, and work as a great team”.

We don’t hesitate to reach out to expertise in our network that fits your project – this is because we have seen the benefit of pairing up, for example, a researcher with a start up – each are energized by the other. This leads to a result-driven and highly energized approach to a project

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3. A team that offers stability in a quickly shifting world of technology.

A super employee offers you stability – that may sound odd since Kinsol is, essentially, a highly skilled contractor. However, in the world of technological development staff attrition can be high. Our team is highly stable – so much so that when we have had companies come back to us after a gap of several years, there is someone here who remembers the work and is able to pick up where we left off.

As you can see from our website, we’re extremely proud of our company culture. Our people stay with us – and we have strong relationships with researchers and academics across the country. This means that you can trust us to be there for you when you need us.

-Darren Fairall