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Locally hosted AI
We help your staff use AI for a defined task on infrastructure you own or control, with human checking built into the work.
Explore locally hosted AIWhat we do
Specialist support for your organisation
We help governments and institutions assess capability, develop their people and put useful systems into practice. Engage us for a focused piece of work or an agreed part of a larger programme.
Locally hosted AI and MEAL
Evidence that informs the next decision
Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
We help you establish what a programme is changing, listen to those affected and use the evidence to improve delivery.
Explore MEALSupport that fits together
The requirement determines the mix of people, systems and delivery support.
Assessment, people and delivery
Bring in individual specialists or combine these services around your requirement.
Assessment and needs analysis
We look at what the organisation and its people can do in practice. You receive an assessment of current capability, the main gaps, costed options and a recommended order of work, including what can be sustained when external support ends.
What the work can include
- Review of establishment, budget, training and maintenance records.
- Structured interviews across command, operations, support and oversight.
- Observation of what happens in practice, as opposed to what is written down.
- Training needs analysis against the job, not against the existing syllabus.
- Comparison against genuinely similar countries, not against a United Kingdom benchmark.
Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
We assess how information is collected, authorised, brought together and analysed, and whether it supports sound decisions and usable evidence. Our work includes maritime and border awareness, where several agencies may need to share information and act on it.
What the work can include
- Collection planning and tasking, and the authorisation record that has to sit behind it.
- Fusion and analysis, including how many analysts you have, how good they are and what tools they use.
- The route from intelligence to charge, and the points where cases fail along the way.
- Maritime and border domain awareness: sensor coverage, gaps and coordination between agencies.
- Communications data and signals analysis, and what it can and cannot lawfully support.
- Evidence handling, retention and disclosure, designed in from the start.
Training, mentoring and capability development
We design training around the work people need to do, deliver it alongside the institution’s instructors and mentor commanders and senior officials. The aim is to leave the organisation able to continue the programme itself.
What the work can include
- Training designed against the requirement, not taken off the shelf.
- Delivery alongside host-nation instructors, so the programme outlives our involvement.
- One-to-one mentoring of commanders, analysts and senior officials.
- Establishment against actual strength, and the route from new entrant to senior command.
- Succession planning, and how far you depend on seconded, contracted or acting appointments.
- Whole-life cost of donated and in-kind equipment, and who pays to keep it running.
Programme and deployed team management
We recruit, contract and manage specialist personnel under host-nation law, taking responsibility for the agreed delivery package and reporting to you on progress. This includes the practical arrangements needed to deploy and support the team.
What the work can include
- Recruitment and vetting of specialists against a defined requirement.
- Employment and management under host-nation law, with a stated duty of care.
- Contract management, reporting and delivery assurance to the client.
- Deployment, rotation, insurance and medical arrangements.
- Equipment sourcing and lifecycle support, subject to export control licensing.
Sensors, systems and data
We help clients assess and specify sensors, communications, unmanned systems and data tools. Our advice draws on experience of installing and using these systems, including the maintenance, staffing and permissions needed to keep them useful.
What the work can include
- Radar, optical and acoustic coverage, and where the real gaps are rather than the mapped ones.
- Communications between agencies that were never designed to talk to each other.
- Detecting irregular crossing and movement, including methods that do not need continuous manned observation.
- Unmanned aerial systems: what they really deliver, what they cost to sustain, and what permissions they need.
- Data and analytics used to direct patrols and assets by evidence.
- Independent evaluation of commercial systems, including work alongside major technology providers on irregular crossing.
Who we work for
We work with governments, security institutions and commercial operators, including in fragile and post-conflict settings. We also support primes and consultancies that need specialist expertise for a bid or programme.