Contract
Starling Strategy
Remote (UK)
Contract | 4 weeks | 15–25 hours/week | Remote (with availability to collaborate during East Coast workday)
Start date: Immediately
About the project
We're helping a leading nonpartisan research and advocacy organization ship a public-facing AI chatbot. It helps education stakeholders explore school district-level teacher policy data through natural conversation: salary comparisons, observation requirements, compensation structures, peer district matching, and more.
The system is a multi-stage agent pipeline built on PydanticAI and FastAPI that we're refining for public launch. It uses structured handoffs between stages managed through Pydantic models, with a PostgreSQL data layer, a PHP/Tailwind frontend, Logfire observability, and containerized deployment on Azure. Evaluation uses pydantic-evals with a mix of deterministic validators and LLM-based judges.
We're in a 4-week sprint to get from "works most of the time" to "accurate enough to launch...

