AI Architecture

AI that fits your data, your cloud and your obligations.

We design the platform, build the agents and advise on where AI pays off, with security and data protection as constraints from day one.

Useful AI in an organisation is mostly plumbing: where the data lives, who may see it, which model may process it, how the output is checked and logged. We architect that plumbing on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud and build on OpenAI and Anthropic models, choosing per use case.

We build agents that do work, not demos: they retrieve from your documents, draft, classify and act, with a person approving where the stakes require it.

What's included

AI Architecture

Cloud IT Services

The secure foundation AI workloads need.

  • Data readiness: sources, quality, access and lineage
  • Secure landing zones for AI services (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI)
  • Private networking, identity and key management
  • Model access governance and usage logging
  • Cost controls and quota management

Agents Development

Assistants and agents built on OpenAI and Anthropic models.

  • Retrieval over your documents and systems (RAG)
  • Integration with Microsoft 365, CRM, ERP and ticketing
  • Workflow agents with human-in-the-loop approval
  • Evaluation suites, guardrails and prompt management
  • Audit logging and monitoring in production

Consulting

Decide where AI pays off and how to do it safely.

  • Opportunity assessment and use-case prioritisation
  • Build versus buy and model selection
  • Data protection impact assessment (GDPR)
  • EU AI Act readiness and risk classification
  • Roadmap, budget and operating model
AI Architecture

Core competencies

What we design, build and operate when an organisation wants AI inside its own cloud, with its own access controls.

AI architecture & platforms

  • Secure AI landing zones (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI)
  • Microsoft Foundry: model catalogue, agents and evaluation
  • Private networking, identity and key management for AI services
  • Model access governance, quotas and cost controls
  • Multi-model design: OpenAI, Anthropic and open-weight models
  • Reference architectures for RAG and agent systems

Agents & assistants

  • Retrieval-augmented generation over documents and systems
  • Workflow agents with human-in-the-loop approval
  • Tool and API integration (Microsoft 365, CRM, ERP, ticketing)
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot extensions and agents
  • Copilot Studio and custom copilots

Data readiness

  • Source inventory, quality and lineage
  • Vector search (Azure AI Search, pgvector)
  • Document ingestion, chunking and enrichment pipelines
  • Access control carried from source systems into retrieval
  • Data residency and processing boundaries

Evaluation, safety & operations

  • Evaluation suites and regression testing for prompts and agents
  • Guardrails and content safety
  • Prompt and model version management
  • Audit logging, monitoring and usage reporting
  • Cost and latency optimisation

AI governance & compliance

  • Data protection impact assessments (GDPR)
  • EU AI Act readiness and risk classification
  • Microsoft Purview for AI data governance
  • Responsible AI policies and acceptable-use guidance
  • Vendor and model contract review (training-data commitments)

Advisory

  • Opportunity assessment and use-case prioritisation
  • Build versus buy and model selection
  • Pilot design with measurable baselines
  • Roadmap, budget and operating model
  • Executive briefings and team enablement

Who it's for

  • Organisations that want AI inside their own cloud tenant, with their own access controls.
  • Teams with documents, tickets or records that staff spend hours searching and summarising.
  • Football organisations with scouting reports, medical notes and match data that could be queried in plain language.
  • Leaders who need a clear answer on what to build, what to buy and what to leave alone.

How an engagement runs

  1. Assess

    Two to four weeks of interviews and data review, ending with prioritised use cases and a risk view for each.

  2. Pilot

    One agent, one team, real data, measured against a baseline. Security and logging are in place from the first day.

  3. Scale

    Hardening, evaluation, cost controls and handover or ongoing operation by our team.

AI Architecture

Technical skills & technologies

The platforms and tools behind the practice.

Models & APIs
  • OpenAI API
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Google Vertex AI & Gemini
  • Open-weight models (Llama, Mistral)
Agent frameworks
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Semantic Kernel
  • LangChain / LangGraph
  • Microsoft Foundry
  • Copilot Studio
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Function calling & tool use
Retrieval & data
  • Azure AI Search
  • PostgreSQL + pgvector
  • Azure Blob Storage & Data Lake
  • Document Intelligence (OCR)
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Power BI
Security & governance
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Azure Key Vault & Private Endpoints
  • Azure AI Content Safety
  • Microsoft Purview
  • Audit logging & Azure Monitor
  • GDPR & EU AI Act controls
Engineering
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps)
  • GitHub & Azure DevOps
  • Terraform / Bicep
  • Evaluation & observability tooling
AI Architecture

Common questions

Will our data be used to train models?

We use enterprise and API tiers where providers commit not to train on your data, and we review the contract terms with you before any data moves.

Which models do you use?

OpenAI and Anthropic models, accessed directly or through Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. The choice is made per use case on quality, cost, latency and where the data may be processed.

Is this just a chatbot?

A chat interface is sometimes the right front end, but the value is in the agent behind it: retrieving the right records, drafting the right document, and acting with approval.

How do you handle GDPR and the EU AI Act?

Data protection impact assessment, data minimisation, access logging and a risk classification for each use case. Legal interpretation remains with your counsel.

Find the use case that pays for itself.

An AI assessment ends with a shortlist of use cases, each with its data, risk and cost picture.