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Frontier applied AI company

Frontier AI, put to work.

Pick a process that is costing you real money. We build a working AI system into it, on your own data, usually inside six weeks. You own what we build, it runs on your systems, and we are still accountable after it goes live. Nobody owns us, so nobody picks the model for us.

The Applicat AI mark: an outer circle representing your organisation, containing two overlapping lenses, one for the frontier models and one for your operation. The point where they meet is what is running in production.

Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Engineering
Globally distributed, forward-deployed
We build on
Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, Open models

Who we build for

Mid-sized enterprises.

Mid-sized enterprises run real operations at real volume and can still decide quickly. What they rarely have is an AI engineering team of their own. The deployment arms of the AI labs, the clouds and the global consultancies are built for much larger organisations, so this is the part of the market we built the company to serve.

Volume worth changing

Thousands of documents, requests and decisions a month, sitting inside processes your leadership already measures. Enough volume for a system to move a number, and a small enough estate to move it this year.

No AI engineers of your own

Engineers who have put AI into production are scarce, expensive and hard to keep current as the frontier moves. We bring named ones to the engagement and hand the capability to your people as we go.

Decisions you can actually reach

One sponsor, one working group, one room. That is what gets an engagement from first conversation to a working system on real data in weeks, while a larger organisation is still booking its second steering committee.

How we engage

Three engagements. The last one never ends.

Each is fixed in scope and ends in a decision you make on evidence. Start where the risk is, and carry on only if the numbers say so.

Frame and Prove

01

Applied AI Sprint

Four to six weeks, fixed scope and fixed fee. We work out which of your processes is worth doing first, then build a working version of it on your real data, inside your own environment. You get a straight recommendation at the end, including the recommendation to stop.

  • A ranked shortlist of what is worth building
  • A working system on your real data, not a demonstration
  • Tests built from your own cases, with the first scores
  • A written go or no-go
Scope a sprint

Build and Deploy

02

Applied AI Programme

Turning that proof into something your business can lean on. It connects to the systems you already run, respects who is allowed to see what, keeps a record of every decision it makes, and passes your security review. Then we roll it out with the people who will use it.

  • Connected to the systems you already run
  • Permissions, audit trail and safety limits
  • Security and compliance documentation
  • Rollout, training and adoption tracking
What a programme covers

Run

03

Managed AI Operations

Someone has to own the thing at three in the morning. Accuracy and cost are watched daily, a new model is tested on your cases long before it goes near your users, and you get a written report every month against the number we agreed at the start.

  • Accuracy, safety and cost watched daily
  • Every change re-tested on your own cases
  • Model upgrades proven before they reach users
  • A monthly report against the number we agreed
How we run systems

Why this is hard

Most enterprise AI never makes it into production.

These are other people's numbers, with the sources attached. They are the reason this company is built the way it is.

95%
of enterprise generative AI pilots deliver no measurable impact on the profit and loss
Source: MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025
2x
AI deployments built with an external specialist succeed about twice as often as internal builds
Source: MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025
30%
of generative AI projects were forecast to be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025
Source: Gartner, July 2024

Three commitments

Three things most of this industry cannot say.

Every firm will tell you it is experienced and outcome-focused. These are the ones you can check.

01

No lab, cloud or consultancy owns us

Applicat AI is founder-owned. In 2026 the AI labs and the big clouds started selling deployment themselves, and a deployment team owned by a lab deploys that lab's models. We have no licence to protect. So we can test four models on your work, tell you the cheapest one won, and tell you when you should not build the thing at all.

02

You own the whole layer

What we build runs in your own environment, on your accounts, under your security. The code, the data, the prompts and the tests are yours in the contract, and your process knowledge does not travel to anyone else. End the relationship tomorrow and the system keeps running, with your team holding everything they need to change it.

03

We are still here after go-live

A delivery firm hands over and invoices. We stay on the system: accuracy and cost watched, every change re-tested on your own cases, new models proven before they reach your users, and a written report each month against the number we agreed before we started.

Independence only counts where it is written down.

In 2026 the AI labs and the clouds became deployment companies, and everyone started claiming to be model-agnostic. Here is ours in the three places a buyer can hold us to it.

Why independence matters now
Model choice
Any frontier or open-weight model, ranked on your cases, swappable without a rebuild.
Knowledge boundaries
You own the code, data and evaluation assets. No reuse of your process knowledge across clients.
Who gets served
Mid-sized enterprises and the divisions of larger groups, at engagement sizes built for them.

Proof

We are new. Here is what you can check anyway.

Applicat AI is a young company, and pretending otherwise would be the first thing to distrust about us. So instead of logos, two things: what this work looks like inside an organisation, and the facts about us you can verify before you commit to anything.

Specialty insurance

Today
Claims arrive as email attachments: a PDF, some photographs, a spreadsheet, occasionally a scan of a handwritten form. Four people open every pack, key the fields into the claims system, and chase whatever is missing.
What runs
The system reads the pack, fills the fields it can evidence, flags the ones it cannot, and drafts the chase email for a handler to check and send.
What changes
Handlers stop keying and start deciding. The queue stops growing overnight.
Document intelligence

Industrial distribution

Today
A service desk answers the same forty questions about order status, credit limits and returns, several hundred times a week, plus a long tail that genuinely needs a person.
What runs
The system answers the forty from the order system and the policy documents, shows where each answer came from, and hands over anything it is unsure about with the history already written up.
What changes
The team spends its day on the long tail. The customer stops waiting for the easy answer.
Customer and service operations

Engineering and construction

Today
Twenty years of method statements, test reports and site photographs sit across a file server, a document system and the memories of three people who are close to retirement.
What runs
The system answers questions from that material with the source document attached, and says plainly when the answer is not in there.
What changes
A question that took two days and a phone call takes a minute, and the answer arrives with its evidence.
Knowledge and decision support

These are engagement shapes, drawn from the kinds of operation the Applicat Method is built for. No client is named and no result is claimed, because we would rather show you the work than a number you cannot audit.

Four things you can verify before you commit.

01

Who owns us
Founder-owned, with no AI lab, cloud provider, consultancy or investment fund on the cap table. Ask for the register and we will send it. Our independence, in full

02

Who does the work
Named engineers, on your calls and in your systems, for the length of the engagement. You will know who they are before you sign, and they do not get swapped for someone junior once the contract is signed. Who we are

03

That we track this properly
The Frontier log is our public record of what changed in the models, the pricing and the contract terms, written as it happens. Read a few entries and judge whether we know what we are talking about. Read the Frontier log

04

That we will tell you no
The first engagement can end with a written recommendation not to build. We have no licence sale riding on the answer, so that recommendation costs us nothing to give and is worth something to receive. How the method works

Case studies. Named case studies will appear here as engagements complete and clients agree to be named. Until then, we will introduce you to a reference directly, which tells you more than a paragraph we wrote ourselves.

Business Operating System

One layer your company owns, for every app and agent you build.

Buying AI one tool at a time leaves an estate of vendors, each with its own copy of your data, its own permissions and its own version of the truth. The alternative is a layer you own, running in your own environment, where your people build.

See what it is made of

01

Held once, by you

Connections, permissions, model access and the record of what happened live once in your own environment, instead of once inside every vendor you buy from.

02

Built on by your people

Your engineers and the teams closest to a process build on it, inside limits the layer enforces. Ours build the first systems and the difficult ones.

03

What a programme leaves behind

Nothing is bought in advance. Each part is built the first time a real system needs it, and the second and third systems are what turn it into a layer.

The Applicat Method

Frame. Prove. Build. Deploy. Run.

Five stages. Each produces something you can look at, and each ends in a decision you make. The first four to six weeks put a working system on your own data.

Read the method
  1. 01

    Frame

    What is worth building, ranked

  2. 02

    Prove

    A working system on real data

  3. 03

    Build

    Integrations, limits, tests that gate every change

  4. 04

    Deploy

    Rollout, training, adoption

  5. 05

    Run

    Operations and monthly value reporting

Independent, with deep roots. Founded by the team behind BroadVision Technologies, a global IT services company with more than 26 years of enterprise delivery. About Applicat AI

FAQ

Questions we are asked

Bring the frontier into production.

Tell us about the process you want to change. We reply within one business day.