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00 / AUDIT-GRADE AI SYSTEMS

We install AI into your company.

Audit-grade AI systems for serious enterprises. Shipped in weeks. Defensible under review.

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●UK CH 17092223SOC 2 Type II alignedZero-retention default4–8 week ship
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POSTURE · NON-NEGOTIABLES
JURISDICTION
UK · EU data residency
RETENTION
Zero, by default
AUDIT POSTURE
SOC 2 Type II aligned · ISA 315-defensible
ENTITY
UK CH 17092223 · est. 2024
DEPLOY
Your VPC · on-prem · or ours
LOCK-IN
None. Open weights available.
01 / SIGNAL

Artifacts, not demos.

A run, captured. Question in, answer out, sources named, the whole thing sealed. The record a reviewer would actually ask for. Generated as a by-product of the work, not bolted on after.

01 / SIGNAL · A RUN, CAPTURED
RECORD · R-17
14:02 UTC
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consulting sources · 3 retrieved
01
02
03
signed · 2026-04-17
SOC 2·TYPE II
BAND A
Knowledge.
Answers · cited
BAND B
Operations.
Work · handled
BAND C
Evidence.
Records · signed
FIG. 02 · ONE ARTIFACT · THREE BANDS
03 / WHAT WE BUILD

Three lenses. One bar.

AI shows up in enterprises in many shapes. We organise the work around three. All three, held to the same audit-grade bar.

ABAND

Knowledge.

Answers your people trust, drawn from the corpus you already have. Legal, research, policy, operations: wherever a defensible answer matters.

A / KNOWLEDGE · CITED ANSWER
RECORD · R-17 · KNOWLEDGE
14:02 UTC
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consulting sources · 3 retrieved
01
02
03
HOVER A CITATION · SEE THE SOURCE
 
grounded · cited · reviewable
Scroll to resolve a question. Hover any citation to see the source.
BBAND

Operations.

Agents that pick up work, move it through your systems, and leave a clean trail. Intake, triage, drafting, reconciliation: whatever happens a thousand times a week.

B / OPERATIONS · WORK ITEM HANDLED
TICKET · WI-2026-0417
14:02 UTC
S-01REQUESTReceived · parsed
S-02MATCHResolved against record
S-03DRAFTPrepared by agent
S-04REVIEWRouted to reviewer
S-05HANDLEClosed · logged
handled · loggedtrail · immutable
Scroll to move one work item through five stages, logged at every step.
CBAND

Evidence.

Every output, reconstructable end to end. The record a reviewer wants to see, generated as a by-product of the work.

C / EVIDENCE · INVISIBLE PROCESS, SIGNED RECORD
Record R-17 - reconstructable end to end.
E-01Inputquestion · internal user
E-02Sources retrieved3 · scoped · versioned
E-03Generationgrounded · frontier model
E-04Reviewaccepted · reviewer initials
E-05Recordappend-only · exportable
signed · 2026-04-17
14:02:41 UTC
SOC 2·TYPE II
Scroll to build the record a reviewer would actually sign off.
02 / ENGAGEMENTS

Shipped. Defensible.

Three recent patterns, anonymised. Real systems in production. Client names released as NDA allows.

UK regulated fintech

Cited-answer agent

Six-week build. Production across internal counsel and ops. Trail accepted by internal audit on first review.

Mid-market legal practice

Contract-review flow

Agent drafts and a reviewer accepts. Drafting time down, review depth up, every change signed.

Enterprise research group

Evidence pipeline

Multi-source synthesis with every claim traceable. Reviewers read the record, not the output.

●4–8 week ship cadenceZero data retention defaultSOC 2 Type II alignedISA 315-defensible trails
04 / THE AUDIT BAR

Five properties. Non‑negotiable.

Three lenses share one bar. These are the five properties every system we ship has to hold, before anything else gets discussed.

P1
Grounded
Every answer comes from named sources.
P2
Cited
Every assertion traceable, end to end.
P3
Reviewable
Every run a record a reviewer can read.
P4
Recoverable
Every change rollback-safe, re-testable.
P5
Scoped
Every action explicit, authorised, and yours.
05 / POSITION

Built for review. Not for demos.

A bar without a posture is just marketing. These are the commitments every engagement starts from, not negotiable after signature.

COMMITMENTS
  • →Senior pair on every engagement.
  • →Evidence-first engineering.
  • →No account managers.
  • →Weeks to a live system, not quarters.
  • →Deploy into your environment.
  • →Open-weights available.
06 / HOW WE WORK

Four stages. A live system in roughly six weeks.

Fixed-shape, full-stack engagements. We own model, tools, evals, and deployment. Not slivers of any of them.

  1. 01STAGE
    Discovery
    1–2 weeks

    We map the workflow, the data, the risk surface, and the success criteria with your domain experts. We leave with a written specification and a definition of done.

  2. 02STAGE
    Build
    2–4 weeks

    A senior pair ships the core system end-to-end. Daily shared progress. No black boxes, no offshore handoff. The people who scoped the work are the people building it.

  3. 03STAGE
    Internal validation
    1–2 weeks

    Your team drives the system against real cases and the hard edges. We tune, fix, and harden until the reviewers on your side, the ones whose names are on the work, are satisfied.

  4. 04STAGE
    Production deploy
    ≤ 1 week

    We deploy into your environment (VPC, on-prem, or ours), wire up monitoring, hand over runbooks, and stay on call through the first weeks of live traffic.

07 / WHO WE SERVE

We pick. Fit matters more than volume.

Audit-grade work is long and close. A wrong match helps no one, so we name the edges here.

✓A FIT
  • You operate in a regulated or evidence-sensitive domain (finance, health, legal, public sector).
  • You have a real, specific workflow you want AI inside of. Not a search for use cases.
  • You have a technical owner who can meet weekly and make decisions.
  • You care more about the audit trail than the demo.
✗NOT A FIT
  • You need a strategy deck or an AI readiness assessment.
  • You want a chatbot bolted onto a marketing site.
  • Your internal data is not available to your team, let alone to a system.
  • You need a vendor to staff a large offshore delivery team.
08 / TEAM

Two founders. Senior at the wheel.

If this is a fit, these are the two people you will work with. Not a sales team, not a delivery manager, not an offshore pod.

CEO · AI Operator
Niccolò Franzin

Translates regulated workflows into agent specs that survive review.

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COO · Engineer
Davide Gribaudo

Ships the systems. Production software, data infra, platform work.

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09 / NEXT

If your workflow needs to be right, not just fast. Let’s talk.

A 30-minute discovery call. We’ll tell you in the first meeting whether we’re a fit.

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