Practical Artificial Intelligence that fits your data

We design machine learning systems for mid-size UK companies. Not proofs of concept that gather dust, but production models that run every day, process real transactions, and pay for themselves within months.

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// process

How a project moves from idea to live system

We start by looking at what you actually have. Database schemas, CSV exports, API logs, scanned PDFs: everything gets catalogued. Within two weeks we deliver a written assessment that tells you which questions your data can answer right now, which gaps need filling, and a rough cost estimate for each viable model. No slide decks full of buzzwords.
We pick the highest-value problem from the audit and build a working prototype in four to six weeks. This is a real model trained on your data, tested against a hold-out set, with accuracy metrics you can verify. If the numbers disappoint, we tell you before anyone spends more money. Honesty costs less than sunk costs.
A Jupyter notebook is not a product. We containerise the model, write integration tests, set up monitoring dashboards, and deploy to your cloud environment or ours. Latency targets, failover behaviour, and retraining schedules are agreed in writing before go-live. The system runs on Kubernetes with automated scaling, so a sudden spike in requests does not bring everything down.
Models decay. Customer behaviour shifts, product catalogues change, regulations update. We track prediction drift weekly and retrain on fresh data as needed. You get a monthly performance report with plain-English explanations. If a model stops earning its keep, we flag it and propose alternatives rather than quietly billing for maintenance on something that no longer works.

// capabilities

What we build

Predictive analytics

Demand forecasting, churn prediction, credit scoring. We train gradient-boosted and neural models on your historical records and serve predictions through a REST API your existing software can call. Typical accuracy improvements over rule-based systems sit between 18 and 35 per cent.

Document intelligence

Invoices, contracts, medical letters, compliance forms. Our OCR and NLP pipeline extracts structured data from messy documents, classifies them, and routes them into your workflow. One logistics client cut manual data entry by 80 per cent within the first quarter.

Knowledge graphs

We map relationships across your data: products linked to suppliers linked to defect reports linked to customer complaints. Graph queries surface patterns that flat tables hide. Fraud detection, supply chain risk, and recommendation engines all benefit from this approach.

Computer vision

Quality inspection on production lines, vehicle damage assessment for insurers, shelf-stock monitoring in retail. We fine-tune convolutional and transformer-based vision models on your labelled images and deploy them to edge devices or cloud endpoints depending on latency requirements.

Data engineering

Before any model can train, data needs to flow reliably. We build ETL pipelines with Apache Airflow or Prefect, set up data warehouses on BigQuery or Snowflake, and write the tests that catch schema changes before they break downstream processes. Clean plumbing makes good models possible.

MLOps and retraining

Already have models but struggle to keep them current? We audit your ML infrastructure, introduce CI/CD for model artefacts, and set up drift-detection alerts. Retraining runs automatically when performance drops below agreed thresholds, with human approval gates for high-stakes predictions.

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A small team that ships

AI Core Synthesis engineering team collaborating at a whiteboard

AI Core Synthesis started in 2021 when two machine learning engineers got tired of watching promising prototypes die in staging environments. The gap between "works in a notebook" and "runs in production" was costing companies months of wasted effort and thousands of pounds.

Today we are eight people: five ML engineers, two data engineers, and one project manager who keeps everyone honest about deadlines. We work from 45 Swaniawski Grove, Upper Beier End, England, FB4 1YV, though most of our collaboration happens over Git and video calls.

Every project we take on must pass a simple test: can we define a measurable outcome before we write the first line of training code? If the answer is no, we help the client reframe the problem until it becomes testable, or we recommend they spend their budget elsewhere. That policy has lost us a few deals. It has also meant that 97 per cent of the clients who do start with us stay for at least two years.

// questions

Things people ask before signing

A data audit runs between £4,000 and £8,000 depending on the number of sources. A full prototype-to-production cycle for a single model usually falls in the £25,000 to £60,000 range. We quote fixed prices after the audit, not day rates with open-ended timelines.
No. We can work inside your cloud tenancy, your on-premise cluster, or a dedicated VPC that we provision for you. Sensitive data never needs to leave your perimeter. For the audit phase we often work with anonymised samples.
Most of our work has been in logistics, insurance, and e-commerce. We have also completed projects for a regional NHS trust and two agricultural suppliers. The common thread is structured operational data with enough volume to train useful models.
Yes. We expose predictions through REST or gRPC endpoints that any modern application can call. We have built connectors for SAP, Salesforce, and several bespoke ERP systems. If your platform supports webhooks or scheduled API calls, integration is straightforward.
You do. All model weights, training scripts, and pipeline code are delivered to your repository at the end of the engagement. We retain no copies. Our ongoing value comes from monitoring, retraining, and building the next model, not from holding intellectual property hostage.

// get in touch

Describe the problem, we will tell you if we can help

A short paragraph is enough. What data do you have, what decision do you want to automate, and what does a good outcome look like? We reply within two working days.

45 Swaniawski Grove, Upper Beier End, England, FB4 1YV, United Kingdom