AI strategy and delivery for regulated firms.
We advise on AI effectiveness and implement our recommendations. Your consultant is answerable to you.
Our Clients
We work with regulated professional-services firms whose world we know from the inside. Financial advisers first, then accountants and solicitors. Firms with money, a real need and genuine anxiety about adopting AI in a way that survives scrutiny. Firms testing AI, but unwilling to gamble with regulator trust.
The problem this solves
Most firms stall, and it is not for lack of interest.
A regulated firm cannot pilot AI the way a startup can. A wrong move costs regulator trust, and regulator trust took years to earn.
So the firm waits. It watches competitors move and it waits, because waiting feels safer than a wrong move. How long does that hold?
Why now
Regulator attention is changing how AI pilots are judged. The FCA now tests AI systems in live UK markets under supervision, and it will publish guidance on good and poor practice for the sector. The firms that build governance in from the start will meet that scrutiny with less friction than the firms forced to retrofit it under pressure.
Financial Conduct Authority, "FCA announces second cohort for AI Live Testing", 21 April 2026
Automation is not depth
Most AI consultancies build on no-code platforms. Those platforms optimise for speed and ease, and they deliver what their templates allow.
A regulated firm needs what no template anticipates. Deterministic calculations. A governed pipeline. An audit trail that survives inspection. A licensed professional in control of every output.
We write code, which lets us build to your obligations rather than to a platform's limits.
Three gates a template cannot give you
Nothing enters the knowledge base unapproved.
A no-code pipeline ingests whatever you point it at, and the AI then draws on it. We sanitise and approve data before it enters the knowledge base, so what the system knows has passed inspection.
The model never writes a citation.
Our code constructs each citation from the page the system visited, and our indexer places it inline. So the model cannot invent a source, because the model never writes one.
The adviser approves every output.
The system drafts a blueprint. The adviser inspects it, edits it and owns every choice in it. Nothing reaches a client without that review.
Approved data goes in. Adviser-approved work comes out. Every gate is yours.
The gates exist because we write code. We build your business logic into a tier of its own, where it can be read, tested and changed. A no-code platform scatters its rules through a workflow, and nobody can say where a decision came from.
See the full mechanism on the Client Intelligence Engine page.
Testing you can show a regulator
Code can be tested. We test the system against its specification and repeat those tests after every change, so the evidence exists before anyone asks for it.
A no-code platform offers the vendor's assurance instead. Financial services asks for more than assurance.
Why us
Most AI consultancy firms advise. Few implement. We do both, meaning we know when to recommend a bespoke AI solution and when not to.
A firm that only advises has every reason to say yes. We have a reason to say no.
We built FinPrint, a working bespoke AI, for an FCA-regulated context. It generates verified pre and post-meeting intelligence, with a governed pipeline, deterministic calculations and a full audit trail. Our roots are in banking-grade compliance systems, where AI that cannot be explained has never been an option.
How we work
Your consultant is answerable to you.
Your consultant determines a strategy and leads implementation. You brief one person, and when something goes wrong you know who to call.
We start with the assessment.
Before we build anything, we establish what AI is worth to your firm, what the risk is and what to build first. The deliverable is a document and a set of clear decisions.
We implement to a defined standard.
We build to a specification and gate the work against a standard you could not define for yourself. The business logic sits in readable documents, so what we implement is auditable from the start.
Then we stay.
A retainer keeps the work maintained, tuned and extended. Think of us as your AI capability, a few days a month.
See the judgment behind the work on our About page.
Three things we won't do
Replace advisers, shortcut compliance, or over-promise outcomes. Our AI supports the adviser and keeps them in control; the governance is the point, never an obstacle to work around; and where a bespoke AI is the wrong call, we say so.
Questions boards and regulators ask
The assessment is the conversation to have before anyone writes a line of AI into your firm.
It is the clearest, fastest read on what AI is worth to your firm and what it costs you to keep guessing. In a supervised industry, this is the step you cannot skip.