We are the architects you bring in before the build, and the assurance you need before it goes live. We help organisations scope AI opportunities, design production-ready architectures, assess AI risk and establish governance aligned with emerging regulation and industry standards.
Nobody builds a house without an architect. They draw it, cost it and check it stands up before anyone pours concrete. AI systems get built the other way round — assembled by whoever was free, discovered to be unscalable, ungovernable or unsafe, and then built again.
Two paths from an AI idea. The lower path goes straight to build, then hits scale, governance and safety failures, and returns to build a second time — paying for the build twice. The upper path passes through architecture first: the design is scoped, costed and checked, and the build happens once.
The second build is not the expensive part on its own. The expensive part is everything you shipped, sold and staffed on top of the first one.
Every line below is a real reason someone picks up the phone. Find yours and it takes you straight to the engagement that answers it — with what it costs and what it produces.
Seven fixed-scope engagements sit inside these three. Each has a published price, a defined output and an elapsed time you can plan around.
Turn an AI ambition into a design an engineering team can build and a board can fund.
Make AI governable: an operating model you can run, and a defensible view of the risk in each system before it reaches production.
Retained architecture authority — decisions made and recorded, reviews attended, governance kept running.
Every engagement ends in artifacts written for the people who have to act on them — engineering, architecture, risk, and the executive who signs. This is the shape of one of them.
A layered reference architecture: sources and data flow into retrieval and an orchestration layer, which calls model providers through an abstraction; guardrails and evaluation sit across the path to production, with human oversight and monitoring attached.
Set every figure below against the build it protects — and against paying for that build a second time. That comparison is the whole argument for hiring an architect, and it is why the fees are published rather than quoted on request.
Four movements, one practice. Scope the problem before designing anything, architect against constraints that are written down, govern what reaches production, and assure the residual position so someone can sign it. Every engagement closes on a written decision — build this, review that, do not proceed.
Define the problem, the decision it serves and what success would have to look like.
Design the system that meets it — with the trade-offs, costs and control points explicit.
Put the operating model, controls and stage gates in place so it can be run and evidenced.
Assess the risk, evidence the residual position and support an explicit decision.
Define the problem, the decision it serves and what success would have to look like.
Design the system that meets it — with the trade-offs, costs and control points explicit.
Put the operating model, controls and stage gates in place so it can be run and evidenced.
Assess the risk, evidence the residual position and support an explicit decision.
Every figure here counts something real. We publish no outcome statistics we cannot evidence, and we name clients only where they have agreed to it.
Years in enterprise data and AI
Practitioner experience
Defined engagements, each with a published price
Services registry
Regulatory and standards frameworks mapped
EU AI Act · ISO/IEC 42001 · NIST AI RMF · UK · sector
Weeks to a decision-ready assessment
Shortest fixed-scope engagement
Digital transformation architects, working with enterprises, SMEs and EU institutions.
No platform resale, no vendor commission, no implementation arm waiting downstream. The recommendation is the entire product, which is the only way it stays worth having — and the reason we will tell you when you do not need us.
Disciplines, one practice
Architecture · Governance & Risk · Advisory
Stages in every risk and impact assessment
Context → People → Data → Model → Decisions → Controls → Residual
Possible governance decisions — including "do not proceed"
Assessment decision ladder
Engagements that end without a written decision
Every engagement closes on a recorded position
Architecting intelligence, engineering success.
A scoping conversation costs nothing and ends with a written view of what the engagement would be, what it would produce and what it would cost.