AI development
Custom AI that ships, not just demos.
Plenty of AI looks impressive in a demo and falls over in real use. We build custom AI systems and agents that do real work. They are grounded in your data, and with guardrails that can be trusted.
We advise on security and the governance you need. We work with vendors to provide ring-fenced AI, controlled by you and only visible to you.
AI built into how your business actually runs. We can also advise and provide internal, local models hosted on your own hardware and not open to vendor chaos.
What we build
AI agents
Agents that handle real tasks end to end — retrieving, drafting, deciding within limits — and hand off cleanly when they shouldn't decide.
Model integration
The right model wired into your systems, with prompts, retrieval, and evals tuned for your actual use case — not a generic chatbot.
Grounded in your data
Retrieval over your own documents and systems, so answers come from your business rather than the open internet.
Guardrails & evals
Tested against real cases, with monitoring and fallbacks, so you know when to trust the output and when not to.
Security & governance
We advise on the security, access controls, and governance you need to run AI responsibly — not just the build itself.
Ring-fenced & self-hosted
Vendor AI ring-fenced so it's controlled by and visible only to you — or internal, local models hosted on your own hardware, away from vendor chaos.
Production-grade
Built to run reliably and stay maintainable once it's live — not a prototype that breaks the first real week.
You probably need this if
- You've seen AI demos but nothing that survives real use.
- You want AI grounded in your own data, not generic answers.
- Off-the-shelf AI tools don't fit your workflow.
- You need AI you can actually trust in production.
Proof, not promises.
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Honest answers.
If yours isn't here, book a 30-minute call. No pitch deck, and we'll tell you straight whether we're the right fit.
What kind of AI do you build?
Custom AI systems and agents grounded in your own data — retrieval, drafting, classification, decision support — wired into your workflow. We use the best available models and tune them to your use case rather than training from scratch.How is this different from your automation work?
Automation runs rule-based workflows; this is for tasks that need judgement or language understanding. They often combine — an agent inside an automated workflow — but AI development is where the model is doing the thinking.Is it safe to put AI in production?
With guardrails, yes. We test against real cases, add monitoring and fallbacks, and keep a human in the loop where the stakes are high. We'll also tell you where AI isn't the right tool.Whose models do you use?
Whatever fits — typically the leading hosted models, run on infrastructure you control. The system is yours; you're not locked into us or a single provider.Can we keep our data private or self-host the AI?
Yes. We can ring-fence vendor AI so it's controlled by and visible only to you, or run internal, local models on your own hardware — so sensitive data never leaves your control.Do you help with AI security and governance?
Yes. We advise on the security, access controls, and governance you need to put AI into a business responsibly, not just the build itself.
Ready when you are
Your business should run
better than it does.
Thirty minutes. We'll talk through how your business actually works, where the biggest bottlenecks are, and whether we're the right team to fix them. No pitch deck. No obligation.
Founder-built
No handoffs. The person you talk to is the person shipping.
Weeks, not months
Modern stack, real infrastructure, production-grade fast.
You own it
Source, infrastructure, docs. Yours to keep, no lock-in.
Built to last
Doesn't break the moment your business grows.