A weighted appraisal
Hosted, in-tenancy, embedded, extend what you own, or not yet. Criteria locked before anything is scored, and the same questions to every supplier.
AI Architecture
AI Architecture
AI Platform and Access Decision.
Five shapes, one choice you can still defend in three years.
The service
A choice you can defend in three years’ time: hosted, in-tenancy, embedded, extend what you own, or not yet. Criteria locked before scoring, five-year cost at your consumption, not list price, and access designed on your side of the boundary.
What you get
What lands on your desk.
A five-year cost
At your consumption rather than list price, with the access designed on your side of the boundary.
A decision paper
The recommendation and outline case, written for your board.
Who you’ll speak to
Adam Fitton
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer · MBCS
Twenty years in IT across public sector, transport, emergency management and higher education, bridging strategy, value-led AI architecture and delivery. Adam is behind our own AI applications and leads the AI architecture practice.
Read the profileMore from the practice
Other services in AI Architecture.
- AI Readiness Health Check Whether your estate can safely take AI, in five days.
- AI Risk Management From a risk list to a plan, in four weeks.
- AI Process Intelligence Where AI actually pays, measured rather than workshopped.
- AI Benefits Realisation Of everything promised, what actually landed?
How to buy
Fixed before you sign.
Fixed price
Every service is fixed once scoped at a scoping call, before you sign.
- Budget certainty for approval
- We carry the overrun risk
- Payment tied to delivery
Time and materials
For evolving scope or high-speed delivery.
- Pivot priorities without renegotiation
- Start immediately
- Scale resource to real demand
Hybrid
Fixed price for the core deliverables, time and materials for what evolves.
- Certainty for the roadmap
- Room for change
- One contract, two modes
Frameworks
Public sector clients can appoint us through the SparkDPS, AIDPS and SpaceDM frameworks.
Accreditations
Cyber Essentials · RISQS · JOSCAR
Independence
On this work we take no commission, hold no reseller or partner agreements, and our fee does not change with the recommendation.
Scope the AI Platform and Access Decision.
A short call to pin down what you need to decide, and by when. You leave with the shape of the engagement, fixed before you sign.