AI & Machine Learning Company in Glasgow

What a Glasgow machine-learning engagement costs is set by which of three rungs you actually need: a scoped AI proof of concept, a custom production ML model (predictive maintenance, defect detection, transaction surveillance, satellite onboard inference), or full production AI systems with multiple models, fine-tuning, and integration into MOD, FCA, or PRA-regulated estates. Scope drivers include data audit, a baseline model, a hosted demo on UK-region infrastructure, MLOps, monitoring, and a model card aligned with the UK AI Standards Hub and NCSC secure AI principles. Defence and List X engagements carry a premium for cleared personnel, vetting overhead, and JSP 440 documentation. We quote fixed fees and we do not bill open T and M, which finance directors at BAE Glasgow, Thales, and Morgan Stanley appreciate.

Yes, for unclassified and UK Official-tier AI workloads. We work under MOD Defence Standard 05-138 cyber assurance, JSP 440 information security, and the Cyber Essentials Plus baseline that MOD primes flow down to their supply chain. For Official-Sensitive and above, we work alongside a List X holder on the client side, with cleared personnel either drawn from the prime or from a sub-contracted UK partner. For ITAR-equivalent dual-use export-controlled work (combat systems, sonar processing, certain satellite payloads) we run an ECJU classification at discovery and we structure the project so all controlled artefacts stay inside UK persons and UK jurisdiction. Our Edmonton and Chandigarh engineers do not touch controlled material until the classification permits it. We have patterned engagements after public BAE Glasgow and Thales UK supply chain practices.

Yes. Glasgow now manufactures more small satellites than any other European city, with Spire Global at Skypark, AAC Clyde Space on Skypark 5, Alba Orbital at Hillington, and Bird.i in the city centre. Our space AI work covers onboard inference for earth observation, downlink-constrained model deployment, weather and maritime tracking pipelines patterned on Spire's public products, automated ship and aircraft detection, and ground-segment ML for orbit determination and anomaly detection. We deploy quantised models in PyTorch Mobile, TensorRT, and ONNX Runtime sized for CubeSat power and thermal envelopes, and we coordinate with the Civil Aviation Authority's Space Industry Regulation team and the ECJU on dual-use classification before any model touches a flight payload.

PRA Supervisory Statement SS1/23 governs model risk management at PRA-regulated firms. Our finance AI deliverables for Morgan Stanley Glasgow, JP Morgan Glasgow, Barclays Glasgow, and Tesco Bank Glasgow operations ship with SS1/23-aligned model documentation, including model inventory entries, an articulated model purpose and limitations statement, performance and stability monitoring, challenger model testing where the model is material, independent validation hooks, and a documented model risk tier. We produce the artefacts internal validation and the PRA's supervisory engagement teams expect, including evidence the model survives stress and out-of-sample testing. FCA Consumer Duty PS22/9 outcome tracking ships in the same pipeline where customer-facing models are in scope.

Our default posture is unclassified and UK Official. For Official-Sensitive we work alongside a List X holder on the client side, with cleared personnel either seconded from the prime or sub-contracted via a UK cleared partner. We do not hold List X directly and we do not pretend otherwise. For Secret and above we are not the right vendor, and we will tell you that in discovery rather than overselling and creating a JSP 440 or NCSC incident later. For Official and below we have shipped engineering work for MOD primes' civil-side AI programmes, including predictive maintenance and computer vision, with full Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001, and Defence Standard 05-138 alignment. We are honest about the boundary.

We default to AWS eu-west-2 (London) and Azure UK South (London) and UK West (Cardiff) for storage, training, and inference. For LLMs that must stay in the UK (PRA-regulated finance, NHS data under the Data Security and Protection Toolkit, MOD Official) we use Azure OpenAI UK South or AWS Bedrock UK region, or self-host Llama 3 and Mistral on UK GPU instances. For Crown Hosting or sovereign requirements we deploy to UKCloud or Crown Hosting Data Centres at Corsham and Farnborough. For ECJU-controlled dual-use work all model artefacts and training data stay in UK jurisdiction. Cross-border processing requires a Data Protection Impact Assessment under UK GDPR Article 35 and is documented in the model card before any data movement.

A typical Glasgow industrial AI model (predictive maintenance on rotating machinery for BAE Govan, composites defect detection at Spirit AeroSystems Prestwick, satellite anomaly detection for AAC Clyde Space) takes sixteen to twenty-four weeks from kickoff to production, assuming clean historical sensor and inspection data and MOD or ECJU classification produced inside scope. Week 1 to 4 is data audit, classification, and baseline. Week 5 to 12 is modelling, iteration, and challenger testing against held-out historical incidents. Week 13 to 18 is MLOps, monitoring, shadow-mode deployment alongside the existing human or rules-based process, and internal cyber assurance review. Week 19 onward is gradual rollout. If you are pre-data or need sensor instrumentation, add eight to twelve weeks. We have shipped to this cadence inside UK manufacturing estates.

Most custom AI work qualifies for the UK's merged R&D Expenditure Credit (RDEC) scheme, which from April 2024 provides a 20 percent above-the-line credit on qualifying R&D spend, with an enhanced rate for R&D-intensive SMEs. Eligible activity generally includes novel modelling, architecture experimentation, algorithmic uncertainty, and systematic investigation, not routine integration. We deliver time-tracked logs, technical narratives, experiment histories, and failed-hypothesis documentation aligned with HMRC's CIRD81900 guidance and the Additional Information Form mandatory since August 2023. Glasgow defence and aerospace primes already operate mature R&D claim processes. Final eligibility and submission sits with your R&D tax specialist and HMRC, but we produce the technical evidence base they need.