Predicate Ventures

We help small businesses apply artificial intelligence to cut costs, improve margins, and save time so that daily work feels powerful. Services include:

- Fractional AI Engineering leadership
- Technical architecture
- Hands-on execution for organizations

Representative engagements:

- Interim data & AI leadership for high-growth companies: Stabilized analytics environments, established foundational data architecture, and introduced operational discipline during critical inflection points.

- Built modern data pipelines & ML-ready infrastructure: Designed workflows using dbt, Airflow (MWAA), ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, Lambda, and event-driven processing to support reliable analytics, feature engineering, and MLOps.

- Developed production AI systems: Delivered platform-level workflows for fraud detection, financial risk modeling, content integrity, and personalization - including ranking, recommendation, and sequence-based behavioral models.

- Improved trust, safety & operational reliability: Implemented multimodal content moderation for image, video, and text, and built targeted risk models to strengthen marketplace integrity and financial controls.

- Executive advisory for product, engineering & GTM leaders: Provide guidance on AI strategy, investment sequencing, data team structure, and the roadmap required to reach ML maturity.

• Blake Aber
  Principal