Sovereign AI, Sized to Your Organisation
You own your data. We help small businesses and medium enterprises run useful AI in their own cloud tenancy or on their own premises, with UK or EU data residency and no training on their data. And if a simpler answer will do, we’ll tell you.
You Own Your Data
Sovereignty is something you can show, not a postcode. Whatever the size of your organisation, four things hold:
It Stays Inside Your Boundary
Your data is processed in your own cloud tenancy or on your own premises, in the UK or the EU.
It Is Never Used for Training
Your documents, questions and answers are not used to train models.
Access Follows Your Permissions
People see only what they can already see today, through the accounts they already use. You set the logging and retention.
You Can Show Where It Goes
Every data flow is mapped and recorded, so you can answer your clients, your board and your regulator with evidence.
The Challenge
Your team is already using AI. Some of it is the tool you chose. Some of it is a personal account on someone’s phone, with your customer emails and supplier contracts pasted in. Your clients are starting to ask where their information goes, and you’d like a straight answer.
The big platforms say trust our cloud. The hardware sellers say buy a server. Neither starts with your data, your people or the size of your organisation.
And “sovereign” gets used loosely. Running a model on your own kit doesn’t, on its own, tell you who can reach your data or where the logs end up. Owning your data means being able to show it.
Two Offers, Sized to You
The principles are the same. The scope, the people involved and the evidence you need differ with the size of your organisation.
Small Businesses
Under 500 employees
For owner-led and growing businesses without an in-house AI team, holding client-confidential information.
What’s Included
- One workflow proven on your own documents with a small group of named users
- One private set-up: a business AI service on the right terms, private AI in your own cloud tenancy, or AI on your own premises
- Sign-in with the accounts you already have, and access that follows your current permissions
- A plain-English staff guide and a named owner on your side
Ideal For
- Professional services firms, recruiters, specialist manufacturers and distributors
- Teams already using personal AI tools at work who want a sanctioned, private alternative
- Businesses whose clients or contracts ask where data is processed and who can access it
Medium Enterprises
501 to 5,000 employees
For organisations with several departments or sites, an IT and security team, and data protection obligations to evidence.
What’s Included
- A data map across departments, and an agreed classification of what stays inside your boundary
- An architecture fitted to your existing cloud estate and identity provider
- Several use cases prioritised and rolled out in waves, each proven before the next
- Role-based access across departments, with audit logging into your existing security monitoring
- Support for your data protection impact assessments, an AI use policy and a governance group
- Department champions, and handover to your IT team with operator runbooks
Ideal For
- Organisations where unsanctioned AI use has spread across departments
- Regulated and client-facing sectors that must show where data is processed and who can access it
- IT and security teams who need AI to fit the controls they already run
How We Work
We help you decide where your AI should run, prove it on real work, then build it inside a boundary you control. We’ll also tell you if a well-configured business service, or no AI at all, is the better answer.
1. Map Your Data
- Where your information lives today, and where AI already touches it, personal accounts included
- Which data has to stay inside your boundary, and which only feels like it should
- What your clients, contracts and regulators actually ask of you on data location and access
2. Weigh the Options
- Three routes side by side: a business AI service on the right terms, private AI in your own cloud tenancy, or AI on your own premises
- Each judged on control of your data, effort to set up and run, and risk
- An honest recommendation, which might be the tool you already have, or a simpler fix with no AI in it
3. Prove It on Real Work
- One workflow for a small business; a first wave of use cases for a medium enterprise
- Tests for answer quality, speed, permissions and data flows, including that nothing quietly leaves your boundary
- A clear go or no-go before anything bigger is built or bought
4. Build Inside Your Boundary
- Open-weight or private models in your own tenancy or on your premises, with UK or EU data residency
- Sign-in with your existing accounts, access that follows the permissions you already have, encryption throughout, and logging and retention you set
- Answers that show their sources, and no training on your data
5. Hand Over to Your Team
- A plain-English staff guide: what you can use it for, what to check first and what stays out
- An operator runbook, a tested backup and restore, and a named owner on your side
- A boundary record you can show: data flows, access, logging, retention and residency
What You Get
A working set-up you understand, and the evidence to show you own and control your data:
- Data map: where your information lives and where AI touches it today
- Options appraisal across public, private-cloud and on-premises routes
- Recommended architecture, explained in plain English
- Proven workflows, with the test results behind them
- Boundary record: data flows, access, logging, retention and residency
- Staff guide and operator runbook
- A roadmap for what comes next, if anything
No pitch. No pressure.
Just 30 minutes to understand your challenge and explore whether we can help. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you that too.