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Our Approach

Strategy and engineering under one roof

We are an independent AI consultancy founded in 2011. Our founder and CTO, John Griffin, is personally involved in every engagement. We combine 15 years of enterprise delivery experience with the agility of a small, senior team. No layers of account management, no bloated timelines. We are tech agnostic with a preference for open source, and we pick the right tools for your problem.

Whether you need help identifying where AI will have the most impact, evaluating build vs buy decisions, or getting an AI system into production, we bring both the technical depth and commercial judgement to move fast and deliver results. For organisations without a dedicated technical leader, we also act as a fractional CTO, providing ongoing senior technical direction.

How We Work

From discovery to production, fast

Discovery

We map your operational workflows, identify where AI will have the highest impact, and produce a prioritised shortlist with clear success metrics. You get a board-ready business case, not a slide deck.

Architecture

We design the solution using the right tools for your problem. Open source by default, deployed on your infrastructure, integrated with your existing systems. No vendor lock-in. You own everything we build.

Build

Our engineering team builds AI agents and workflows tailored to your operations. Governance controls are built in from day one: audit trails, reasoning traces, human-in-the-loop approval gates.

Deploy

We deploy on your Azure, AWS, or GCP tenancy. Your data stays on your infrastructure. Your encryption keys. We train your team and hand over full documentation and IP.

Support

Ongoing operational support, model monitoring, and retraining. We stay involved as long as you need us, then hand over completely when you are ready to run independently.

Scale

Once the first agents are in production, we help you identify the next highest-impact use cases and expand across teams and departments. The same structured approach, applied iteratively.

Why Atchai

What makes us different

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Founder-led, senior team

John Griffin, our CTO and founder, personally directs every engagement. No handoff to juniors after the sales call.

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Tech agnostic, open source first

We are not tied to any vendor. We pick the best tools for your problem, with a strong preference for open source. You avoid lock-in from day one.

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Private deployment, data sovereignty

Everything runs on your infrastructure. Your data never leaves the building. Your encryption keys. Full audit trails for regulatory review.

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You own everything

Every agent, workflow, and line of configuration belongs to you. Full IP transfer. If you want to run independently, you take everything with you.

Track Record

15 years delivering AI for demanding organisations

Cabinet Office

100x increase in document processing throughput. 1.6 million files processed in weeks, replacing a manual process estimated at 8 years.

Danone

Conversational AI system for clinical nutrition, achieving 90% user satisfaction. "Very professional and well structured."

Government Department

86% reduction in false positives for document classification. AI agents deployed on secure infrastructure with full audit trails.

Also trusted by: Bank of England, NHS, FCDO, Microsoft, Unilever, Cisco, ConsenSys, and more.

our clients say

We engaged Atchai to develop our first AI offering. We found Atchai’s experience and knowledge of this space invaluable.

Atchai’s approach to the project was very professional and well structured. I look forward to working with them again.

– MATT SCOTT (Danone)

The Atchai team were fantastically agile, professional and reliable throughout the project, we communicated regularly and managed to develop a novel concept into working software within a short timeframe.

I highly recommend working with Atchai for any project that requires a creative approach backed up by strong engineering practices.

- BERNHARD MUELLER (Consensys)

Atchai built the core framework for our agent platform and developed critical agents that perform seamlessly within tight model constraints.

Their precision and reliability made all the difference.

– RAKSHAK TALWAR (Morpheus AI)

I engaged Atchai for a recent, very challenging project mining the group associativity of social media networks. I was highly impressed by the way John runs his team, the agile way in which they approach the work and even more pleased with their ideas and technical input. I would recommend John and his team at Atchai to anyone who needs a competent solution for any data-oriented enterprise project.

- ADRIAN LEU (Parity)

We needed a way for funders to be able to analyse and compare the data of hundreds of organisations on a real time basis and explore visualisations of the data in an intuitive, insightful way.

Atchai and their Dataseed product offered an ideal solution.

– MATTHEW PIKE (ResultsMark)

This is the best use of AI within government I’ve seen!

- LUKE SANDS (Cabinet Office)

Ready to talk?

Book a free 30-minute strategy session with John. We will identify your highest-impact AI use cases and give you a clear view of what production looks like for your organisation.

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