AI services and consulting

AI systems that make it into production.

AIPHINX helps organisations pick the right problems, build working systems on their own data, and run those systems safely once they are live. We work inside your cloud, we document what we do, and we hand it over.

  • Deployed in your cloud
  • Evaluated before scaled
  • Documented and handed over
how_we_work.txt
phase 1  frame
+ map the process with the people who run it
+ audit the data that actually exists
+ score the backlog on value, effort and risk

phase 2  prove
+ prototype on your real data
+ agree the evaluation suite first
> go or no-go, on the numbers

phase 3  industrialise
+ guardrails, monitoring, rollback
+ deployed inside your boundary

phase 4  transfer
+ your team owns the core system
  • Built on your data

    Deployed inside your cloud boundary. We do not train on your data.

  • Measured before scaled

    An evaluation suite is defined before we build, and it decides whether we proceed.

  • Handed over

    Documentation, pairing and a written handover are in scope from the first week.

Services

Six practices, engaged on their own or as one programme.

Each can stand alone. Together they cover everything between an idea and a system your team runs without us.

AI strategy and roadmapping

We review your data, processes and constraints, then score candidate use cases on value, feasibility and risk. You get a sequenced roadmap with a business case for each initiative, and a clear view of what is not worth doing.

  • Opportunity assessment and ROI modelling
  • Build, buy or blend decisions
  • Operating model and team design

Generative AI and LLM applications

Assistants, retrieval over your own knowledge base, document understanding and agentic workflows. Built with retrieval you can audit, evaluations that gate every release, and guardrails your risk team can review.

  • Retrieval augmented assistants
  • Workflow and process automation
  • Evaluation harnesses and red teaming

Data and ML engineering

The layer that decides whether anything else works. Pipelines, feature stores, vector infrastructure and warehouse modelling, built for lineage, cost control and reproducibility.

  • Batch and streaming pipelines
  • Feature and vector stores
  • Data quality and lineage

Computer vision

Quality inspection, safety monitoring, document capture at scale and geospatial analysis. Trained on your imagery, deployed to the edge or your private cloud, and measured against the process it replaces.

  • Defect detection and visual inspection
  • Document and form extraction
  • Edge deployment and optimisation

AI governance and assurance

Model inventories, risk classification, documentation and human oversight, mapped to the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. Compliance becomes a byproduct of how you build rather than a project afterwards.

  • Readiness assessments
  • Model cards, impact assessments and audit trails
  • Bias, robustness and safety testing

MLOps and managed operations

Continuous delivery for models and prompts, observability, drift and cost monitoring, and incident response. Run it with us under an agreed service level, or have us build it and train your team to take it over.

  • Model and prompt delivery pipelines
  • Observability, drift and cost control
  • Monitoring and incident response

Approach

Four phases, each with a decision point at the end.

Every phase is fixed in scope and ends with a go or no-go. You can stop after any one of them and still own something useful.

  1. 01

    Frame Weeks 1 to 2

    Workshops with the people who do the work. We map the process, the data that exists rather than the data you assume exists, and the constraints that genuinely bind. The output is a scored backlog and a decision on what to build first.

  2. 02

    Prove Weeks 3 to 6

    A working prototype on your real data, with the evaluation suite agreed before we start building. We measure against your current baseline and report the numbers, including when they say the project should not continue.

  3. 03

    Industrialise Weeks 7 to 12

    Hardening for production: security review, guardrails, latency and cost targets, monitoring, rollback and documentation. Deployed inside your cloud boundary and integrated with the systems your users already work in.

  4. 04

    Transfer Ongoing

    Further use cases on the platform you now have, your engineers pairing with ours, and a documented handover. The measure of success is the point at which you no longer need us for the core system.

What we build

The kinds of systems we are usually asked for.

Described by the problem rather than by the technology underneath it.

Document processing

Extracting structured fields from contracts, forms, invoices and correspondence, with a citation back to the source page and a review step where accuracy matters.

Knowledge assistants

Question answering over internal policies, procedures and technical documentation, with every answer cited and out of scope questions declined rather than guessed.

Forecasting and planning

Demand, capacity and maintenance models that feed an existing planning process, with the uncertainty made visible instead of hidden behind a single number.

Visual inspection

Detecting defects, wear or safety conditions from camera feeds, deployed at the edge so it keeps working when the network does not.

Triage and routing

Classifying incoming cases, tickets or claims so that people spend their time on the ones that need judgement.

Internal platforms

The shared foundation underneath the above: pipelines, evaluation tooling, monitoring and access control, so the second use case costs a fraction of the first.

Industries

Context beats generic models.

Sectors where the data is messy, the decisions matter and the results have to stand up to review.

Financial services

Underwriting, client onboarding, reporting and model risk management.

Healthcare and life sciences

Clinical documentation, trial feasibility, safety monitoring and evidence review.

Manufacturing and energy

Visual inspection, predictive maintenance, yield optimisation and forecasting.

Retail and consumer

Demand forecasting, assortment planning, service automation and content operations.

Logistics and mobility

Routing, arrival prediction, document processing and fleet analytics.

Public sector

Case triage, records digitisation and citizen services, with transparency requirements built in.

Engagements

Three ways to work with us.

Scope and duration are agreed up front. You work with the people you met, not a rotating bench.

Assessment

Two to three weeks

A fixed scope diagnostic for teams deciding where to start.

  • Data and capability review
  • Scored use case backlog
  • Business case for the strongest candidates
  • Twelve month roadmap
Scope an assessment

Managed operations

Ongoing

We run what is already live so your team can build what comes next.

  • Monitoring and incident response
  • Model, prompt and evaluation maintenance
  • Cost and drift management
  • Quarterly assurance reporting
Discuss a service level

Every engagement is quoted after a scoping call, once the work is understood. Ask us for a proposal and you will get a written scope, a timeline and a fixed price for the first phase.

About AIPHINX

Engineers who have operated what they advise on.

AIPHINX exists because most enterprise AI stalls in the gap between a convincing demonstration and a system that survives an ordinary working day. We staff for that gap: machine learning engineers, data platform specialists and risk practitioners who have been responsible for the things they built.

We work inside your cloud boundary, we do not train on your data, and we write down what we do so your team can take it over. If the honest answer is that AI is not the right tool for a problem, that is the answer you will get, before the invoice rather than after it.

Evidence over enthusiasm

Claims get an evaluation. We report the numbers even when they are unflattering.

Your stack, your keys

Deployed in your tenancy, with no lock in and no data leaving your boundary.

Transfer by default

Documentation, pairing and handover are part of the work, not an afterthought.

Governed from the start

Risk, audit and human oversight are designed in rather than added before launch.

Contact

Tell us what you are trying to make work.

A short call with an engineer rather than a salesperson. If we are not the right fit we will say so, and point you somewhere more useful.

Response time

Within one business day

How quickly can you start?

An assessment usually starts within two weeks. Build engagements depend on team availability, normally three to five weeks from signature.

Do you work alongside our existing vendors?

Yes. We are model and cloud agnostic and often work with incumbent integrators and platform vendors. Where a tool you already own is sufficient, we will tell you.

What happens to our data?

It stays in your tenancy. We do not train on client data, and every engagement begins with a data handling agreement and a documented processing boundary.

Can you take over an existing project?

Often. We start with a short technical review of what exists and give you a candid recovery plan, including the option to stop.

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