Getting AI running takes an afternoon. Keeping it safe is the work.
Anyone can connect Claude or ChatGPT to a company login in an afternoon. The hard part is the part nobody sees: keeping it secure, maintained, and not quietly leaking your data into a tool no one signed off on.
OpenKit is a UK AI consultancy of working engineers, not advisers. These are the principles we build by, and why a careful CTO can hand us the keys.
A careful AI rollout is mostly about sequence and restraint. These are the defaults we hold to on every engagement, before anyone writes a line of code.
Big AI builds fail quietly because they start with the riskiest system. We begin with a fixed-scope audit, then configure workflows on the stack you already run.
You get a strategy roadmap that names the top opportunities, what to start in Claude today, and where a build is genuinely warranted.
Maps to: the AI audit and transformation block
Handoffs are where AI projects lose their context and their nerve. The senior engineer who runs your audit is the same one who stays on as your embedded AI lead.
No account-manager layer sits between you and the person doing the work. You talk to the engineer, every week.
Maps to: the embedded AI lead
A strategy PDF is easy to write and impossible to use. The audit ends with workflows running against your data and your team trained to drive them.
We would rather show you one working thing than describe ten. The roadmap exists to point at the next working thing.
Maps to: every engagement, by default
The fear is real: connect AI to company data, and a leak becomes your name on the incident report. We design the guardrails first, so nothing leaves the boundary you set.
Access stays role-based, prompts and responses are logged, and the data protection review runs against ISO 27001 from day one.
ISO 27001 · Cyber Essentials · GDPR
A consultancy that hides the how is selling dependence. We write down every workflow, so your team can author their own once we step back.
The audit ships with a workflow-authoring walkthrough and recorded sessions. Continuing with us should be a choice, not a trap.
Maps to: the embedded AI lead and handover
Most problems are solved by configuring tools you already pay for. A custom build is the exception, scoped only once the audit shows configuration will not reach.
When a build does earn its place, we are strong engineers and we do it well: retrieval over your own data, regulated-industry tools, internal platforms.
Maps to: bespoke builds, scoped after the audit
Almost everyone starts with the audit. Most continue with an embedded lead. A bespoke build happens only when the audit shows it should.
The usual front door. A fixed-scope engagement that opens with a discovery audit of where AI fits and ends with workflows running in production and your team trained on them.
What happens
What you get
The ongoing motion. After the audit most clients keep a senior OpenKit engineer on a monthly retainer, shipping new workflows as opportunities surface and staying accountable for the estate you are building.
What happens
What you get
When you need it built. Some engagements need a system that does not exist yet: retrieval over a proprietary corpus, a regulated-industry tool with custom audit logging, an internal platform with role-based access. Less common than the audit-and-retainer route, and never the headline.
What happens
What you get
Start with the audit. We find where AI fits, configure it on the stack you already run, and keep one senior engineer accountable for it.
OpenKit is a UK AI consultancy that puts AI to work safely, starting with a fixed-scope audit and then an embedded senior AI lead on a monthly retainer. OpenKit configures workflows on the stack you already run, keeps your data inside your boundary with role-based access and audit logging, and builds bespoke software only when the audit shows configuration will not reach. OpenKit holds ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and Cyber Essentials, is GDPR compliant, and works with clients across the United Kingdom from a base in Cambridge.
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