AI for business

Using public AI safely

Your staff are already using public AI tools - often on personal accounts. Banning them rarely works. We help you choose approved tools, block the risky ones and stop sensitive data leaving the business.

We run it ourselves

Our own business runs on AI assistants and private agents. We deploy what we use every day.

Security first

Every rollout starts with permissions, testing and monitoring - so AI only sees what it should.

Your data stays yours

Business plans, local models and on-premise options keep your data out of other people's training sets.

Guided or done for you

We can coach your team to do it, or implement it quickly and support it for you.

The risks of unmanaged AI

Data leakage

Client details, contracts and code pasted into free tools can be stored and, on some consumer plans, used for training.

Shadow AI

Browser extensions, note-takers and AI apps signed up to with work email - outside IT's view.

Inaccurate output

Confident but wrong answers reaching customers without review.

Compliance gaps

UK GDPR, NDAs and regulators all expect you to know where data goes.

How we keep it safe

AI acceptable use policy

Clear rules on which tools are approved, what data can be used and when output must be checked.

Approved business tools

Business accounts for the tools you allow, with training opted out and admin control.

Filtering and blocking

DNS and web filtering to block unapproved AI sites and extensions.

Data loss prevention

Policies that stop sensitive data being pasted or uploaded into AI tools.

Discovery and monitoring

We find the AI apps already in use and keep watching for new ones.

Training

Short, practical sessions so staff get the benefit without the risk.

Ways to get started 📄 PDF 📄 Order form

Three ways to start safely with one solution, then the full AI Readiness assessment when you are ready to look at the whole business. Prices exclude VAT.

Entry product

AI Readiness Core

A one-off check of the system you want to connect AI to, with an executive summary report.

£150one-off + VAT
Per solution or integration proposal
  • Risk assessment of the environment being connected
  • External penetration test of the asset being connected
  • Policy review
  • Audit log assessment
  • Cost guardrail review
  • Scoped to one solution or integration proposal, not a whole-company assessment
Entry product

AI Readiness Core as a Service

The Core assessment run continuously, with Secure Score monitoring and a full gap analysis report.

£136.25/ month + VAT
plus £520 setup
  • Risk assessment of the environment being connected
  • External penetration test of the asset being connected
  • Policy review
  • Audit log assessment
  • Cost guardrail review
  • Scoped to one solution or integration proposal, not a whole-company assessment
Entry productHigh risk

AI Integration

Whilst certainly not recommended, technically connecting AI is often simple. If standard connectors exist, we can deploy these for one of your systems (API or MCP) once your board has approved the access.

£150per integration + VAT
One-off, by a senior engineer
  • AI integration terms (disclaimer) signed
  • Access added as requested, on board-level approval
  • Charged per integration
  • No privacy assessment
  • No data loss assessment
  • No GDPR controls
  • No backup or DR controls
  • No cost guardrails (securities may be required)
Full assessment

AI Readiness

A full environment assessment and strategic engagement on how AI would best work for your business.

One-off

£6,250+ VAT
  • £950 per additional site + 10 IPs

As a Service

£450/ month + VAT
  • Up to 3 sites and 10 public IPs
  • £100 / month per additional site + 10 IPs
  • £2 / month per device above 1,000
  • Full environment assessment across the whole business
  • Everything in AI Readiness Core
  • Full internal and external penetration test, inside and out
  • Full vulnerability assessment, inside and out
  • Defender for AI usage reporting
  • Systems integrations audit (digital and consultative)
  • Data privacy risk assessment, including GDPR controls
  • Cost controls risk assessment
  • Core and default guardrail availability
  • Strategic engagement on how AI would best work for the business
  • Board retains liability for AI cost, data and all AI risks

Easy to connect is not the same as safe to connect

Connecting AI to your business systems has never been easier. Ready-made connectors, MCP servers and one-click integrations mean anyone in your team can link an AI tool to email, files, cloud storage or line-of-business apps in minutes.

That ease does nothing to reduce the cost or the data privacy risk. An AI tool connected without guardrails can read data it should never see, send it somewhere you have not approved, and run up cloud bills nobody signed off. The liability sits with your business, not with the AI vendor.

It only takes one prompt"I just asked AI to search the internet and download cat videos. I didn't know there were 20 million of them, and our Azure storage went up 1,000x overnight."

Is your board happy to pay the bill?

Before any AI connection goes live, your board should know what it can access, what it could cost and who carries the liability. AI Readiness Core checks exactly that for the system you want to connect, including a cost guardrail review.

Questions and answers

Should we just block ChatGPT?

Blocking alone pushes use onto personal phones. We recommend providing an approved business AI tool, then blocking the rest and protecting sensitive data.

Is the free version of an AI tool safe for work?

Usually not for business data. Consumer plans may keep conversations and, depending on settings, use them to improve models. Business plans give you contractual protection and admin control.

Start with a free AI readiness call

Tell us what you want AI to do for you and we will show you the safest, quickest way to get there - no obligation.

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