AI Strategy
How Much Does an AI Audit Cost in the UK?
UK AI audit prices run from under £1,000 to five figures. What drives the cost, what each band should deliver and how to scope an audit that pays off.
20 October 20268 min read
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The EU AI Office began its first high-risk audits this month. The eight artefacts to have ready and the twelve-week plan we run with enterprise clients.
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Software Development
Deterministic AI Workflows vs Autonomous Agents in 2026
Autonomous agents were the 2025 story. In 2026 enterprise teams are rebuilding them as deterministic workflows with LLMs as components. Here is our pattern.
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Cloud & DevOps
How to Cut an Enterprise LLM Inference Bill in 90 Days
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Cloud & DevOps
GPU Inference Autoscaling: Where Kubernetes HPA Fails
The default Kubernetes autoscaler was built for stateless web apps. Here's the GPU-aware inference autoscaling stack we deploy for enterprise LLM workloads.
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AI Strategy
AI Agent Sprawl: The Enterprise Governance Crisis
Every enterprise now has more AI agents than it can name. Here's the governance layer we build before agent sprawl turns into an audit disaster.
11 August 20269 min read
Software Development
Building an Internal LLM Gateway for Enterprise AI
Every enterprise AI programme reaches a point where direct model calls stop scaling. Here's the LLM gateway pattern we deploy, and why.
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Cloud & DevOps
AWS vs Azure vs GCP for AI Workloads: 2026 Verdict
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Software Development
The Silent Test Debt Building in AI-Assisted Codebases
Why AI-assisted teams ship more tests but more production bugs — and how to measure mutation scores and requirement-test coverage to fix your safety net.
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AI Strategy
Model Context Protocol in Production: Enterprise MCP
MCP has moved from spec curiosity to production infrastructure. What enterprises deploy, what they get wrong, and what good MCP looks like at scale.
30 June 202610 min read
AI & Machine Learning
Cut LLM Inference Latency Without a Model Upgrade
Where the time really goes in a slow enterprise support copilot, and the architectural changes that fix it without a frontier model upgrade.
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