Case studies

Engagements, with the constraint stated first.

Fewer of these than a firm our age usually shows, because we only publish work we can describe accurately. Each one ends with what we would do differently, since that is the part with information in it.

Professional services, our own systems10 August 2026

A sovereign AI assistant running on infrastructure we own

Constraint · We wanted a working assistant with real memory and real access to our systems, without a vendor platform holding the conversation history, the credentials or the state.

A long-running agent on a single server we control, with its memory on local disk, its secrets in an encrypted store, scoped access per user, and a documented path to move or shut it down.

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How these engagements are structured →

Start with the constraint.

Most of these projects are shaped by what you cannot do rather than what you want. Data that cannot leave the estate, a model you cannot host with a third party, a decision somebody has to justify to a regulator. Tell us yours and we will say honestly whether we can work inside it.

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