AI Agent Development Company in Glasgow

Three tiers separate a Glasgow agent build, and what divides them is how much autonomy the system is trusted with: a scoped agent proof of concept, a production multi-step agent (KYC document agent for Morgan Stanley-shaped clients, supplier-onboarding agent for BAE Govan, telemetry-triage agent for Spire Global), or full agent fleets with multi-agent orchestration, custom evaluation, and enterprise integration. Scope drivers include tool-use design, a single-loop or LangGraph state machine, evaluation harness, a hosted demo, model card, EU AI Act technical file when high-risk, and full observability through Langfuse or LangSmith. Glasgow rates sit roughly twenty percent below London because we run delivery from our Chandigarh hub on a five-hour UK offset. Every proposal is fixed-fee in GBP, not open T and M.

Yes. We have shipped UK-region-only agent loops for defence supply-chain workflows shaped like BAE Systems Govan and Scotstoun Type 26 work, Spirit AeroSystems Prestwick aerospace structures, and Thales Glasgow defence-electronics environments. ITAR-controlled prompts never leave UK soil and never touch US-headquartered frontier APIs in transit (we default to self-hosted Llama 3.1 or Mistral on AWS eu-west-2 GPU instances, or Claude on AWS Bedrock eu-west-2 London when terms allow). Node operators and engineering staff with access are BS 7858 vetted. The platform passes Cyber Essentials Plus and aligns with DEFCON 658 cyber clauses. We complete an ECJU classification review during discovery and produce a security-aspects letter (SAL) aligned with JSP 440 for any classified workflow.

The EU AI Act treats agentic systems carefully because of their autonomy. Discovery includes an EU AI Act risk classification covering prohibited (we will not build these), high-risk (Annex III: critical infrastructure, employment, credit scoring, law enforcement, migration, judicial), limited-risk (transparency obligations), and minimal-risk categories. For high-risk agents shipping into the EU after the staggered 2024 to 2026 obligations, we produce an Annex IV technical file, a fundamental rights impact assessment, post-market monitoring plans, and human-oversight design that maps explicitly to Article 14. For Glasgow agents that only operate in the UK, we still produce equivalent documentation aligned with the ICO AI guidance and the UK government's AI regulation framework, because Glasgow clients selling into the EU need conformity anyway.

Yes. Glasgow's space cluster around Skypark and the Clyde has unusual AI-agent needs because constellations generate continuous telemetry that exceeds human triage capacity. We ship anomaly-triage agents that classify spacecraft events (battery thermal drift, ADCS pointing error, GPS outage, comms link degradation) and route to the on-call flight dynamics or comms team with full diagnostic context. Constellation-scheduling agents balance customer requests, ground-station availability across Inmarsat, KSAT, and AWS Ground Station, and orbital-pass mechanics from NORAD TLE feeds and Space-Track. We integrate with COSMOS, OpenC3, and customer-specific mission-control software. Safety-critical loops always include a human-in-the-loop checkpoint before any commanding to flight hardware.

Every Glasgow agent build ships with a documented threat model. Input defences include allow-listed tool schemas, structured-output parsing via Outlines or Instructor, and an input classifier trained on PromptBench, Garak, and Anthropic-style red-team corpora. Tool-use runs inside a sandboxed permissions model (PromptShield, NeMo Guardrails, or a bespoke policy engine) where every action is logged and rate-limited. High-consequence tools (anything touching production data, money movement, flight hardware, or external communication) sit behind a human-in-the-loop checkpoint. Output is post-processed for PII leakage using Microsoft Presidio or AWS Comprehend. Every prompt, tool call, and completion logs to Langfuse, Helicone, or LangSmith for offline analysis. The client's compliance lead controls a documented kill-switch without engineering involvement.

Yes. We have shipped patterns for KYC document-extraction agents, AML transaction-monitoring copilots, internal-audit assistants, and back-office workflow agents at investment bank Glasgow technology hubs shaped like Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Argyle Street, and Barclays Tradeston. Builds run under PRA SS1/21 model risk principles with challenger model testing, FCA Consumer Duty governance where retail outcomes are affected, and full lineage logging that feeds the bank's existing model risk management framework. We stay inside UK regions (AWS Bedrock eu-west-2 London, Azure OpenAI UK South) for any customer data. The bank's internal audit team receives a model card, evaluation report, monitoring plan, and a documented escalation runbook that maps to existing operational-resilience playbooks under FCA PS21/3.

A standard Glasgow agent build (single-domain agent with three to seven tools and a clear human-review checkpoint) takes twelve to twenty weeks from kickoff to production. Week 1 to 3 is discovery, DPIA, EU AI Act classification, and (for defence) ECJU review. Week 4 to 10 is tool design, agent state machine on LangGraph or CrewAI, evaluation harness, and progressive integration with the client's systems. Week 11 to 14 is red team, prompt-injection defence, observability, and shadow-mode operation. Week 15 to 18 is rollout with explicit human-in-the-loop gates. Multi-agent orchestration adds four to eight weeks. Defence-bound agents at BAE Govan or Thales Glasgow scale typically run twenty-four to thirty-six weeks because of the additional security-architecture review and BS 7858 vetting cycles.

Most novel agent engineering qualifies under HMRC's R&D tax relief regime, currently delivered through the merged scheme at 20 percent above-the-line credit for accounting periods starting on or after 1 April 2024, with the 27 percent enhanced rate for R&D-intensive loss-making SMEs. Eligible activity typically includes novel tool-use orchestration, agent-state research, custom evaluation methodologies, prompt-injection defence work, and substantive integration uncertainty. Routine API wiring is not eligible. We deliver time-tracked logs, technical narratives, and failed-experiment documentation aligned with HMRC's CIRD81900 guidance. Glasgow-specific funding routes include Scottish Enterprise R&D grants, Innovate UK Scotland-led calls, the Scottish Space Sector Catalyst, and the Data Lab's collaborative programmes. Final eligibility for tax relief sits with HMRC and your tax adviser; grant eligibility sits with Scottish Enterprise, Innovate UK, or the UK Space Agency.