Industries
Defence & public sector
Work in this sector is shaped by classification boundaries, formal accreditation processes, and environments in which delivering a routine software update constitutes a project in its own right.
What makes this sector different
Classification boundaries
Systems spanning multiple classifications are governed by rules that assume no automated flow between them, and the design has to proceed from that assumption.
Accreditation
Approval is a formal process with its own evidence requirements and timeline, and it is rarely compatible with an approach based on iterating in production.
Genuine air gaps
These environments have no outbound network path at all, rather than a restricted one. Dependency resolution, telemetry and model updates each require a different approach rather than a change of configuration.
Long service life
Systems in this sector routinely remain in service for longer than the frameworks they were built on. Any component subject to a retention requirement must therefore be independent of the framework that produced it.
Workloads that come up
- Technical documentation and standards retrieval
- Engineering change impact analysis
- Intelligence and open-source summarisation within a boundary
- Bid and requirement traceability
- Maintenance record analysis
Frameworks in play
Two patterns we deploy here
Air-gapped grounded assistant
A self-hosted quantised model operating over a documentation corpus, supported by a signed-media supply line, an internal registry and a rehearsed rollback procedure.
Provenance-first deployment
Artefact identifiers are carried across the boundary intact, deployment records tie artefact digests to specific serving windows, and model identity is recorded against every inference.
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.