AI Engine

Your own AI Engine. Your own data. Nowhere else.

Most practices are already using AI. Very few can say where their data goes when they do. Public AI tools are capable, but they place your project information under someone else’s terms, in someone else’s jurisdiction. Clients, insurers and regulators have started to ask about it.

The alternative

An AI Engine that stays inside your practice

Workshop IT’s AI Engine is the alternative: an open-source AI deployed on dedicated GPU capacity inside your practice, connected only to the documents you choose and managed by the team that already looks after your IT.

Staff ask questions in plain English and receive answers grounded in your own drawings registers, specifications, reports, standards and correspondence, with references back to the source.

Ring-fenced by design

Nothing is sent to a public AI service and no third party trains on your data
The Engine runs on your premises or in a UK data-sovereign datacentre, so your data stays in UK jurisdiction and inside your environment
Access mirrors the permissions you already run: people see only what they are entitled to see and every interaction is logged

Compliance

A compliance answer as much as a technical one

Client confidentiality clauses increasingly restrict what may enter third-party AI systems. Professional indemnity insurers now ask about AI usage and controls at renewal. An AI Engine lets your people use AI while you keep custody of the data. Every deployment comes with an AI policy and governance pack you can put in front of a board, a client or an insurer.

Workshop IT is ISO 27001 certified (since 2018) and ISO 9001 certified (since 2023) and is extending both to cover AI under ISO 42001, the international standard for AI management systems.

Built to tick the boxes you are already measured against

UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018: you remain the controller, with no onward transfer and no third-party processor
Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus: the deployment sits inside your certified boundary
ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and ISO 19650-5 security-minded information management for PQQs, framework bids and client audits

How we get there

A ladder, not a leap

Each rung earns its place and stands on its own. Start with the assessment and go no further, or climb the whole ladder.

AI readiness and governance assessment

Data estate mapping, classification, permissions and identity review, AI policy and governance pack. Valuable on its own.

AI Engine deployment

A proven open-source stack, selected for permissive licensing and vetted provenance, connected to your data on dedicated GPU capacity, owned or subscribed, with security and compliance review before and after go-live.

Adoption and training

Guidance for every user, then structured training for professional staff.

Managed AI Engine

Monitoring, patching, model updates, governance reporting and usage analytics as a managed service.

The hardware question

An Engine needs its own GPU capacity

Hardware you own on your premises is the ultimate in control. The same Engine can also run on a subscription basis in a UK data-sovereign datacentre. We recommend the best solution for your workflows and your environment.

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