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Services · Design & assurance

The right foundations. A clearer view of risk.

Choose the right AI investment, design it for the long run and understand the controls it needs. We work with businesses of every size, public bodies and consultancy partners.

Your team or chosen partner owns implementation. We provide independent architecture, governance and assessment.

Four connected capabilities

Start with your decision.

Discovery, design, reviews and ongoing advice fit within the scope you need. The work, fee and timing are agreed before it starts.

01 / Architecture

AI Architecture

You have an AI idea, a vendor proposal or a system that needs an independent review.

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A clear design your team or chosen delivery partner can build from.

Early design decisions determine the running cost, reliability and security of an AI system. Resolving them before delivery helps avoid expensive rework.

Scope options

  • Opportunity discovery and build-or-buy options
  • Solution design, integrations and data flows
  • Security, privacy, evaluation and operating costs
  • Independent architecture review and ongoing design advice

What you receive

  • Solution design
  • Architecture diagrams
  • Decision records
  • Evaluation and acceptance criteria

Discovery, design or review of a defined system; ongoing advice can be scoped separately.

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02 / Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

You are expanding AI across teams, consolidating platforms or planning a larger transformation.

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A target architecture and practical roadmap for a foundation that scales.

Separate initiatives can create duplicated spend and disconnected controls. Shared foundations give teams a consistent way to grow, while respecting the systems you already depend on.

Scope options

  • Current-state review and capability mapping
  • Target architecture and shared platform patterns
  • Identity, resilience, cost allocation and ownership
  • Transition roadmap, investment sequencing and architecture advice

What you receive

  • Target architecture
  • Capability map
  • Transition roadmap
  • Platform and vendor recommendations

One organisation or defined estate; depth and phases follow its scale and constraints.

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03 / Governance & Risk

AI Governance

You need oversight of AI use, evidence for procurement or a clearer view of your obligations.

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Governance your organisation can operate, with clear owners and decision criteria.

AI can spread faster than accountability. Clear ownership and proportionate controls help your teams make decisions and respond to customers, auditors and regulators.

Scope options

  • AI inventory, classification and accountable roles
  • Policy, approval gates and evidence requirements
  • Mapping to applicable regulation and recognised standards
  • Data Protection Officer (DPO) advisory and ongoing governance advice

What you receive

  • Governance operating model
  • Control catalogue
  • Ownership and gate criteria
  • Regulatory gap assessment

Scope follows your AI estate, jurisdictions and existing governance; advisory support is available.

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04 / Governance & Risk

AI Risk & Impact Assessment

A system needs approval, handles personal data or is changing in ways that affect its risk.

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An evidence-led assessment of risks, impacts and the conditions for a decision.

A useful system can still create privacy, security or operational harm. Assessing the system in context exposes gaps before they become costly decisions.

Scope options

  • AI risks, affected people and potential impacts
  • Security, fairness, oversight and operational resilience
  • Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), where applicable
  • Control evidence, residual risk and reassessment criteria

What you receive

  • Risk and impact assessment
  • DPIA where applicable
  • Risk and control register
  • Decision record and conditions

One defined system or processing activity; assessment depth follows context and applicable requirements.

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We deliver readiness and alignment — formal interpretation of any regulation stays with your legal counsel.

Work & experience

Experience behind
the recommendation.

Past delivery experience informs our independent design and assurance practice today. Client accounts are published only when the facts and wording are authorised.

GRIDSEARCH AI

Historical architecture and advisory work · Pre-ChatGPT to now

Digital transformation architects, working with enterprises, SMEs and EU institutions.

  1. 01Past work: architecture and AI systems before ChatGPT existed
  2. 02Past work: statistical models at scale and their underlying infrastructure
  3. 03Architecture advisory as the estate grew
  4. 04Regulatory advisory on AI obligations in procurement contracts

Representative outputs

What useful advice leaves behind.

Documents your teams can use and decisions they can examine. These structures illustrate the work; they are not client artefacts.

01 · Architecture

A foundation for delivery

Architecture diagrams and decision records explain the design, trade-offs and requirements your delivery team will work from.

02 · Governance

Accountability in practice

An operating model connects each decision to an owner, a control and the evidence needed to review it.

03 · Assessment

A decision you can examine

Risk and impact assessments record the context, control gaps, residual position and conditions that inform approval.

Representative structures, not client documents or claims of client outcomes.

Next step

What needs to be decided?

Bring the opportunity, architecture or risk question. We will help define a proportionate scope and agree what you need to receive.

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