Edinburgh is the rare city where the client team often knows the literature better than the agency does. The university has been doing this since before it was fashionable, and a good number of the people running data teams in the fund managers along Lothian Road came through it. That changes the conversation: nobody needs the capabilities explained, they need someone to build the unglamorous part properly.
Edinburgh is the UK's second financial centre by a distance, weighted towards asset management and life assurance rather than the trading floors of London. Add the banks, the university's informatics base, and an energy sector shared with Aberdeen, and the mix produces work with an unusual character: heavy on documents, heavy on evidence, and staffed by people who will ask what the evaluation set looks like.
Fund managers and insurers arrive with reporting. Quarterly client reports, fund factsheets, suitability files, regulatory returns — each assembled by a person from numbers that already exist somewhere else, and each carrying a liability if it is wrong. Drafting is the easy part; the value is in the checks around it. The pattern is described in regulatory reporting, and the surrounding control structure in our risk and compliance architecture.
The research connection shows up as a specific request: prove it. Teams here are comfortable with what a language model can do and sceptical about whether a particular system does it well enough to trust, which we regard as the correct posture. Almost every Edinburgh engagement starts with an evaluation harness rather than a demo — see evaluation — because a number everyone agrees on ends the argument that a demonstration only postpones.
Energy work, whether from Edinburgh offices or Aberdeen operations, tends towards asset records and maintenance history rather than language: decades of inspection reports about a small number of very expensive things. That is closer in shape to predictive maintenance than to anything in financial services.
No. We have one office and it is in Barcelona. We come to Edinburgh for discovery, for handover and for the meetings where being in the room matters. Claiming a Scottish presence we do not have would be the first thing a procurement team caught, and rightly.
Not especially. We sign under Scots law with jurisdiction in the Scottish courts when that is what your legal team wants, and we invoice in GBP or EUR. What we will not do is offer an opinion on Scots law — that is your solicitor's job, and we defer to it.
Yes. UK-region hosting is a configuration choice with every major provider, and open-weight models can run inside your own network where nothing may leave it at all. Where a hosted model is used we document its retention and training position at the time of writing, and you should confirm it against the provider's current terms before relying on it.
Usually the part that is engineering rather than modelling: retrieval that holds up on your real corpus, an evaluation harness with a maintained test set, observability that shows drift before a client does, and the deployment and handover work that internal teams postpone because they have a day job. If the honest answer to this question is that you do not need us, we will say so on the call.
Published ranges on the pricing page, in euros and exclusive of VAT, the same for every city. We do not price by postcode, and we do not charge extra because the client is a fund manager.
Thirty minutes on the problem and the evidence you would need to trust a solution to it.
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