Artificial intelligence
Locally hosted AI for sensitive information
Give your staff a useful tool for drafting and analysis while keeping information on infrastructure you own or control. We help you choose a first application, test it with your team and establish the training and support it needs.
How the system works
Your staff check the output against the sources and remain responsible for the final judgement.
An illustrative use case
Preparing a briefing from approved documents
A member of staff uses approved documents to produce a first draft, then checks it against the originals before approving the briefing. A trial establishes whether this saves useful time while meeting the required standard.
Start with a useful first application
Test the value before committing to wider use.
- 01
Choose a useful first task
Understand the work, the information involved and the checks the result will need.
Scope and practical considerations
- Mapping of the specific analytic tasks a model would support, not a generic list of AI use cases.
- Classification of the data involved, and how that shapes what can be built and how quickly.
- Independent advice on the fastest route to real benefit, including a smaller first step where that gets you there sooner.
- 02
Select and test
Compare suitable models against the task and budget. Trial the proposed approach with your staff before committing to wider use.
Scope and practical considerations
- Selection of the strongest available open-weight model for the task and the budget.
- Licensing, export control and end-use checks cleared before deployment, not discovered after.
- An agreed position on data residency and jurisdiction, settled up front.
- 03
Introduce it into daily work
Size the infrastructure for realistic use and establish the access and review arrangements.
Scope and practical considerations
- Infrastructure sized against realistic day-to-day use, not a vendor benchmark.
- Deployment on client-owned or client-controlled infrastructure, so the capability answers to the client alone.
- Sourcing, procurement and ongoing management of hardware and software, where the client wants the whole capability delivered and supported, not just advised on.
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Equip your team to run it
Train users and maintainers, document the system and agree the support needed after handover.
Scope and practical considerations
- Training for the analysts and officials who will use the tool day to day.
- Ongoing support and review, for as long as the client wants it.
- Handover documentation written for the institution that owns the system.
Where we stand
- Independent advice
- Advice and supply are separately scoped. We explain when a smaller step, or no deployment, is the better option.
- Agreed controls
- We check model licences, permissions and data requirements before deployment, including whether the system must operate without internet access.
- Clear about capability
- This is a service we are continuing to develop. We explain what we can deliver now, which specialists would be involved and where further work is needed.
Discuss a first use case
Tell us which task takes your team time and what information it involves.