AI consulting · Cardiff, UK

AI Consulting Services Cardiff

Cardiff runs a nation’s government, a growing financial-services back office, a compound-semiconductor cluster and a media industry that punches well above the city’s size. The AI that helps here has to work in Welsh and English, inside public-sector procurement rules, and on data that often lives in older systems.

Our team’s experience includes
GE University of Edinburgh Stanford University Amazon ELLIS The Alan Turing Institute McKinsey & Company University of Illinois SoftBank
The Pierhead Building and the Senedd at Cardiff Bay at blue hour

AI consulting in Cardiff and South Wales

We deliver Cardiff engagements with on-site discovery and integration days and remote build work in between. Cardiff Central is a direct train from Bristol and London, so a senior consultant in the room at Cardiff Bay, Central Square or the Cardiff Gate business park is a scheduling question rather than a travel plan.

Cardiff organisations often come with a public-sector or bilingual dimension the London consultancies have not thought about. Welsh-language obligations, procurement frameworks and the particular data-sharing rules of devolved public bodies are part of the design brief here, not an afterthought.

  • On-site across Cardiff, Newport, Swansea and the M4 corridor
  • Experience designing for public-sector procurement, transparency and information-governance rules
  • Bilingual Welsh and English handling designed in from the start where it applies

Proof from production, not proposals.

Three things to look at before a first conversation, with the detail a Cardiff procurement or risk lead will want.

Delivered under NHS governance

A clinical documentation system for a Scottish health board

On schedule across four milestones, built without real patient data, clinicians in control of every code. The same discipline transfers to Welsh health boards and devolved public bodies.

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Running in production

Automated case handling for a regulated financial firm

Our agents read incoming communications and documents, extract the data and prepare the update in the case system, with staff approving every consequential action. A direct fit for a Cardiff operations centre.

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Who you work with

Professors and industrial engineers, end to end

Our CTO and CSO hold chairs at the University of Edinburgh; our head of engineering spent ten years at Amazon. They scope, build and operate your Cardiff system themselves.

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Where the South Wales economy and production AI meet.

Cardiff’s strengths are more varied than its size suggests. Four sectors where we do our most useful work in the city.

01 · Public sector & devolved government

Casework, correspondence and knowledge in two languages

The Welsh Government, its agencies and Cardiff’s health boards handle correspondence and casework at volume, in Welsh and English, under procurement and transparency law. We build assistants that draft, route and summarise with a full audit trail, and knowledge systems that make policy and precedent searchable for staff, deployed within the governance those bodies require.

02 · Financial services & back-office operations

Automation for regulated operations centres

Cardiff hosts large financial-services operations centres and a growing fintech community. We build document intelligence for applications and claims, and agents that classify incoming communications and prepare updates in the case system, with a person approving what matters. We run this pattern in production today.

03 · Compound semiconductors & advanced manufacturing

Yield, inspection and technical documentation

The cluster around Newport and Cardiff produces inspection images, process data and dense technical documentation. We build vision inspection with labelling loops, anomaly detection on process data, and retrieval over specifications and test reports that answers engineers with citations.

04 · Media, broadcast & creative

Archives, subtitling and production workflows

Cardiff’s broadcasters and production companies manage large archives and bilingual output. We build search over media libraries with metadata and rights intact, speech and language tools that handle Welsh and English, and workflow automation for logging and versioning.

Systems we deliver for Cardiff organisations.

Every capability has its own specialist page. In Cardiff the work leans towards public-sector knowledge systems, regulated back-office automation and bilingual language handling.

Knowledge and retrieval systems

Permissioned search and question-answering over policy libraries, case files and archives, with every answer cited. Built for public bodies where access control and transparency both matter.

AI agents for operations

Agents that process communications and documents and prepare actions in your core system, with a person approving anything consequential. Running in production for a regulated financial-services client.

Custom and domain-specific models

Speech and language models adapted to your terminology, including Welsh-language handling, with evaluation built from your own real cases.

Computer vision for inspection

Defect detection and visual inspection for semiconductor and advanced-manufacturing lines, with a labelling loop your engineers run and drift monitoring that flags process change.

AI strategy and roadmapping

An evidence-led roadmap sequenced by value, feasibility and risk, written for boards and public-sector leadership teams that need to fund one thing this year.

AI that stays inside Welsh public and regulated boundaries.

For a devolved government body, a health board or a financial operations centre in Cardiff, sending data to an external AI service is usually ruled out before the conversation starts. That constraint no longer means doing without. Open-weight models now perform within a few percent of the leading hosted ones, and they can run inside a boundary you control.

We adapt the model to your domain and your languages, put the retrieval index and evaluation harness alongside it, and deploy where your governance requires: your own data centre, a UK private cloud, or the tenancy your IT team already runs. Nothing leaves, and the audit trail belongs to you.

  • On your own hardware

    Model, index and monitoring on servers you control, whether a public-sector data centre, a health board estate or a manufacturer’s site near Newport.

  • Dedicated UK cloud

    A single-tenant environment in a British region, with keys and access control held by you, satisfying residency and transparency rules without owning hardware.

  • Inside your tenancy

    Deployed in the cloud account your IT team already governs, inheriting its identity, monitoring and change control rather than adding a new perimeter.

Diagram of an on-premise AI deployment: documents, a permissioned index, an open-weight model on your own servers, your applications, and evaluation and monitoring all inside your network, with a third-party hosted API outside the boundary crossed out
Reference on-premise deployment · sized to the workload

A Cardiff engagement, start to finish.

01

Discovery on site

A half-day in Cardiff with the people who do the work and the person accountable for the risk. We map the process, agree how success will be measured and leave with a scored shortlist.

02

Prototype in your languages

A working system on your documents and data within weeks, evaluated on Welsh and English separately where both apply, with a test set drawn from real cases.

03

Integrate under your rules

We connect to your systems of record with the approvals, logging and monitoring that public-sector governance, FCA supervision or a manufacturing quality regime expect.

04

Operate and hand over

Your team is trained to run and extend the system, the runbooks are yours, and our engineers stay available through the first weeks of live operation.

Three ways to start, sized to pass a procurement threshold.

Fixed scope, fixed duration, senior-led, written result. Designed so a public body or a regulated firm can c