Augustova takes AI prototypes into production for £4,000 to £15,000 in one to three weeks, covering deployment, integration with existing systems, cost instrumentation with enforced spending ceilings, monitoring and the security and data protection work required before real customers touch it. We deliver this for businesses in Belfast and across Northern Ireland.
Price range£4,000 to £15,000
TimelineOne to three weeks
ServingBelfast and Northern Ireland
How this usually starts in Belfast
Where an in house team exists, we work to their conventions, document every change and hand back something they maintain without us.
Why Belfast businesses ask for this
Belfast has built one of the strongest cyber security and financial technology clusters in the United Kingdom, alongside legal services, film and television production and a substantial professional services base. Firms here compete for work across Britain and Ireland while operating on a regional cost base.
Competing for London and Dublin work from Belfast only works while the operation stays lean. That makes efficiency a competitive position rather than an internal preference.
Sectors we work with in Belfast
Cyber securityFinancial technologyLegal servicesFilm and television productionProfessional services
What this covers
Model Deployment and ServingAPI Design and IntegrationData Pipeline EngineeringCost Instrumentation and CapsMonitoring and ObservabilitySecurity and Compliance
How it runs
01Architecture review
02Infrastructure setup and provisioning
03Integration and pipeline build
04Load testing and cost modelling
05Handover, documentation and support
What you receive
✓The prototype running as a service, on infrastructure you own
✓Integration with the systems your team already uses
✓Cost attributed per customer, per feature and per model, with ceilings enforced in real time
✓Monitoring and alerting, so failures are noticed before customers report them
✓A signed data processing agreement and a written security review
✓Handover to your own developers, working to their conventions
What this does not include
✗Rebuilding a prototype that should be replaced rather than promoted, which we say plainly
✗Taking ownership of a system we are not allowed to change
✗Compliance certification, which is an audit rather than an engineering job
Signs this is the right call
Something works in a notebook and there is no agreed route to customers touching it
Your AI bill moves and nobody can say which feature caused it
A pilot has been running for months with no date for production
Where projects like this go wrong
Promoting the prototype as it stands
Code written to prove an idea rarely survives contact with real load and real data. We review honestly, and if the right answer is to rebuild the pipeline rather than harden it, that is quoted openly rather than discovered later.
Limits nobody has tested
A spending cap that has never fired is an assumption. We trigger ceilings deliberately in production and watch them hold, because the alternative is finding out during a busy week.
Nobody owns it after launch
Pilots die when the excitement fades and no name is against the system. Handover names an owner, documents what changed, and leaves your developers able to maintain it without us.
Common questions
Our prototype works on a laptop. What does production actually require?
Integration with the systems people already use, cost that scales predictably with usage, monitoring so failures are noticed before customers report them, security and data protection review, and somebody accountable for it once the excitement fades. The prototype is usually the easy fifth of the work.
Can you stop our AI costs running away?
Yes. We attribute cost per customer, per feature and per model, route routine work to economical models, and enforce spending ceilings in real time. A limit nobody has watched stop something is an assumption, so we trigger it deliberately in production before relying on it.
Will you work alongside our existing developers?
Yes. Much of this work is integration into systems another team owns, so we work to their conventions, document what we change, and hand back something their developers can maintain without us.
What about GDPR and data protection?
A written data processing agreement is signed before any personal data moves, and we are registered with the Information Commissioner under reference ZC152144. Client systems sit on the client own provider accounts wherever possible so ownership is never ambiguous.
ai implementation for your Belfast business
Tell us what happens today and roughly when you need it changed. We work remotely, with visits when the project needs them.