How we work with AI

AI makes our engineers faster. People still decide what gets built, check what AI produces, and put their name to the result.

Where AI helps us

The same tools many engineering teams now use, in the parts of the work where speed helps most.

Writing and checking code

AI assistants help our engineers draft code, write tests and make sense of an unfamiliar system sooner. Every line is still read, tested and owned by an engineer.

Getting to know the data

A first pass at what a new source holds, how its fields might map to another system, and where the gaps are, so the team starts from a draft rather than a blank page.

Writing it down

Workshop notes into plans, plans into specifications, specifications into handover guides, so the documentation exists while the work is happening, not after it.

A person at every step

AI drafts. People decide, check and sign off.

  1. 1

    An engineer asks

    They choose the task, the tool and what the tool is allowed to see.

  2. 2

    AI drafts

    A first version arrives in minutes rather than hours.

  3. 3

    The engineer checks

    They read it, test it and fix what is wrong, the same as any other draft.

  4. 4

    A person signs off

    A named engineer puts their name to the result before it reaches you.

Three promises

  1. People stay accountable

    A named engineer reviews and signs off everything AI helps produce. AI never ships work on its own.

  2. Your data stays protected

    We never put your data into public AI tools without your written agreement.

  3. We say when AI helped

    We tell you when and how AI was used in the work we hand over.

AI starts with good data

Most AI projects stall on the data, not the model. An assistant that answers questions about your business is only as good as the definitions, the warehouse and the quality rules beneath it, and that has been our work since 2014.

What we do

AI in your own business

If you are weighing up AI for your own teams, we can help you find where it would save time, what your data needs first, and which decisions should stay with people.

Thinking about AI for your business?

Tell us what you would like it to do, and we will tell you what it needs from your data first.

Talk to us about AI