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During Covid we had the opportunity to help out on [Project OASIS](https://transform.england.nhs.uk/covid-19-response/data-and-covid-19/project-oasis/) which was a collaboration between the UK Government, Academia and a couple of private companies aiming to knit together data collected from covid symptom tracker apps. The project was reliant on voluntarily submitted symptom reports and did not have any contact tracing capabilities. Eventually we were completely (and rightly) blown out of the water by the official NHS covid tracking app. However, I am still really proud and honoured to have been part of that team and experience. During Covid we had the opportunity to help out on [Project OASIS](https://transform.england.nhs.uk/covid-19-response/data-and-covid-19/project-oasis/) which was a collaboration between the UK Government, Academia and a couple of private companies aiming to knit together data collected from covid symptom tracker apps. The project was reliant on voluntarily submitted symptom reports and did not have any contact tracing capabilities. Eventually we were completely (and rightly) blown out of the water by the official NHS covid tracking app. However, I am still really proud and honoured to have been part of that team and experience.
{{<figure src="https://media.jamesravey.me/i/a41396b8-f151-40c8-8cc1-68e6d9293528.jpg" alt="a screenshot of some software showing a flowchart of different ML processes linked together" title="Filament Engine was a complex beast that tried to do too many things but it was a really cool project that I'm proud of.">}}
While we kept the lights on with consulting projects, we were also building out Filament Engine. Engine was an MLOps platform. This was long before the term MLOps had broken into the zeitgeist. We showed it to a few clients, but at the time it wasn't clear to them why they would need such a platform and we tried to do way too much with a skeleton crew. We were trying to build [Weights&Biases](https://wandb.ai/) AND [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/) hub AND [Argilla](https://argilla.io/) in a single platform with a team of 8 people and no investment before the market was ready for any of those things. We even integrated [NodeRED](https://nodered.org/) to provide a low-code way to build out machine learning processes. While we kept the lights on with consulting projects, we were also building out Filament Engine. Engine was an MLOps platform. This was long before the term MLOps had broken into the zeitgeist. We showed it to a few clients, but at the time it wasn't clear to them why they would need such a platform and we tried to do way too much with a skeleton crew. We were trying to build [Weights&Biases](https://wandb.ai/) AND [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/) hub AND [Argilla](https://argilla.io/) in a single platform with a team of 8 people and no investment before the market was ready for any of those things. We even integrated [NodeRED](https://nodered.org/) to provide a low-code way to build out machine learning processes.
{{<figure src="https://media.jamesravey.me/i/a41396b8-f151-40c8-8cc1-68e6d9293528.jpg" alt="a screenshot of some software showing a flowchart of different ML processes linked together" title="Filament Engine was a complex beast that tried to do too many things but it was a really cool project that I'm proud of.">}}
Eventually we wound down the Filament Engine project pivoting to [EBM](https://ebm.ai/), a chatbot management system which we span off as its own business in early 2023. We also started some pilots with banks and private equity companies that would eventually be sewn together and become Syfter, modern Filament's main product line. Eventually we wound down the Filament Engine project pivoting to [EBM](https://ebm.ai/), a chatbot management system which we span off as its own business in early 2023. We also started some pilots with banks and private equity companies that would eventually be sewn together and become Syfter, modern Filament's main product line.