Lydia Zhigmitova

About

Lydia Zhigmitova

I help businesses make AI accurate and verifiable — testing AI systems, structuring content so it holds up, and checking every claim against its source before it reaches a customer.

I'm an AI/LLM specialist with three years of production generative-AI experience, built on more than a decade in applied linguistics. As a prompt engineer, I develop and evaluate production-grade prompt systems.

I optimize across GPT, Claude, and Gemini for the right balance of accuracy, performance, and cost, and design for regulated environments where SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance is non-negotiable.

Before GenAI, I worked as an editor, publishing articles and guides to a strict editorial standard. That combination is the heart of what I offer: the technical skill to make AI systems perform, and the editorial discipline to ensure what they produce is accurate, verifiable, and worth publishing.

How I work

Make AI outputs accurate, verifiable, and genuinely useful, with a person accountable for what ships.

  • Accuracy Every claim is checked against source material before it ships
  • Verifiability Answers cite their source, so anyone can trace where they came from
  • Restraint A dependable AI system declines to answer rather than guess
  • Clarity Short reports on what is wrong and how to fix it, not walls of output