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“The team built real sovereign AI. Secure and grounded in our marketing data.”

Barry Neethling, Group CTO at FTN, after we built a business-cloud, multi-model marketing agent for their publications.

The challenge

What issues do we see.

  • Engineering velocity is under pressure; AI tooling is being frantically but unevenly used across teams.
  • Customer-facing AI features are demanded by leadership but the data foundation is not ready.
  • Telco and media systems are heavy on legacy integrations; modernisation has stalled mid-flight.
  • Pricing pressure on subscription products; need a usage-led growth motion that data can support.

We start every engagement by Envisioning, see what that looks like. Then we get to work:

our work

Our customer stories from your world.

Harvey, a generative-AI assistant for First Technology’s legal team

First Technology

First Technology

A cloud chat assistant, Harvey, that lets legal and paralegal staff check contract terms, dates and notice periods in seconds instead of digging through documents.

Capability

Practice

Modernise Apps with Azure AI

Azure AI ServicesAzure AI FoundryCosmosDB
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Private token, no per-seat cost, company wide impact!

First Technology

First Technology

We gave First Technology staff local AI chat and agentic desktop agents running on our private NVIDIA GPU cluster, so the data and token generation stay local, the bill is in local currency, and responses come back fast.

Private AI Inference

FDX - Apex (GPU) logo
NVIDIA CUDAPyTorchOpen-source LLMPrivate GPU Cluster
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Cutting a two-month NPC model training run down to size for Vector Gaming

Vector Gaming

Vector Gaming needed serious GPU horsepower to train a custom 350-million-parameter model for smarter game NPCs. We put our private GPU cluster behind their Vulkan-based distributed trainer and cut a two-month run down to a fraction of that.

Capability

Practice

Distributed Model Training

FDX - Apex (GPU) logo
C#Vulkan350M-parameter LLMDistributed GPU Training
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ISP automates routing diagnostics via AI

Urban Connect

Urban Connect’s agentic diagnostic agent works a network fault out for itself, pulling the logs, querying the routers and upstream providers, then writing the call-centre ticket, so support is proactive instead of a manual scramble.

Agentic Diagnostics

FDX - Apex (GPU) logo
Private Hosted ModelGemma 3 27BQwenHigh-speed NVLink
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Automating data enablement for GroupM

GroupM

An end-to-end pipeline that automates GroupM’s data gathering and reporting, so their teams spend their time on analysis instead of assembling spreadsheets.

Power Business Decisions with Cloud Scale Analytics

Power BIAzure Data FactorySSISAzure SQL
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Agentic solutions in Technology & Innovation

Where modern technical works best.

Where AI and Agents work

When we build for technology and innovation teams, AI is not a feature, it is part of how the product gets made. Apex shortens the cycle without lowering the quality bar.

Featured approach: APEX, turning SDLC into AI Development Lifecycle.

AI-native software development, every step. Our APEX framework is modular, relies on cloud or private token factories, and automates the software lifecycle from discovery transcripts, to feature backlogs, to architecture, build, and delivery. Secure, quality-driven, and fast.

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