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The governed foundation your AI runs on, vendor agnostic and owned by you.

We architect, build and run the data and AI platform that your capabilities depend on, deployed inside your own environment. Control, security and governance by design to scale as your ambition grows.

The problem we see

Shadow AI is spreading fast

  • AI built on foundations that cannot scale or be governed

  • Platforms that tie you to one vendor's roadmap

  • AI Agents built with no shared memory, oversight, or safe way to scale

How we do it

Platform architecture

We design a platform fit for enterprise AI, built around your estate and your constraints.

Build and integration

We build it and connect it to your systems and your data, structured and unstructured alike.

Security and governance

We make control, compliance and auditability part of the architecture from the start.

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Running and scaling

We help you run and scale the platform, with FOIL Relay handling the repeatable engineering.

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How we deliver

We deliver with, not to

  1. Shape Our approach is shaped with your people, so the thinking is yours from day 1

  2. Build We build alongside your team rather than in a back room, so the know-how transfers as we go.

  3. Hand over We step back and you move forward, owning the technology, the capability and the confidence to carry it on.

What you leave with

  • A platform you own and run in your own environment, with no black box

  • Governance and security built in from day one

  • The capacity to absorb change without a new project team each time

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Case study | AI Agents and Entities

Welsh Water

FOIL built ORAI, an autonomic triage entity, to cut through the 1,800 daily alarms overwhelming Welsh Water’s control room. By separating signal from noise automatically, it returns around 12 analyst hours a day and is projected to save significant spend in a year.

What we did
Welsh Water’s Operational Response and Control Centre can receive more than 1,800 telemetry alarms on a difficult day, signalling anything from a burst main to a water quality risk, and by some estimates up to half need no action. Four analysts triaged them by hand, piecing together a picture across around 14 systems that were never designed to work together. FOIL built ORAI, Operational Resilience AI, an autonomic entity that reads every alarm, calculates risk, downgrades nuisance alerts and escalates the incidents that matter. It runs inside Welsh Water’s own Microsoft environment and works alongside the team, with a specialist reviewing its calls as confidence grows.

The impact
Early results are strong. ORAI collates in seconds what once took an analyst around an hour, returning an estimated 12 analyst hours a day to a stretched team and freeing experienced people for judgement. Mainly through faster response and reduced regulatory exposure, it is projected to deliver close to £2 million a year in savings and cost avoidance, and to trim up to 20 per cent from the time taken to restore supply after a loss. The work won Agentic AI Solution of the Year at the 2026 British Data Awards and unlocked further investment.

— Close to £2 million a year in projected savings and cost avoidance
— Around 12 analyst hours returned to the control room every day
— Up to 20% faster to restore supply when customers lose water

"The reduction in the triage time and the robustness of the responses gives you real confidence that you can trust what you're getting out of ORAI, and that can lead to almost immediate business action."

Chris Catchpole
Welsh Water, Chief Data and AI Officer

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