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Private AI that never leaves the UK

Quick answer

Sovereign AI is a private AI assistant that runs on nothing but your own documents, hosted on single-tenant infrastructure we run and manage in the United Kingdom. It gives your team the ChatGPT experience over your own files, while your data never leaves the UK, is never sent to OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, and is never used to train anyone's model.

I help UK law firms, accountancy practices and private clinics put AI to work on their own confidential files, without that data ever touching OpenAI, leaving the UK, or training someone else's model.

Digital Adaption Sovereign AI / Private assistant
UK-hosted, single-tenant

Put AI on the files you could never paste into ChatGPT

A private assistant that reads your own confidential documents, inside an environment only your firm can see.

Regulated firmSovereign AI
Data leaving the UK
0records sent out
Calls to OpenAI0
Data used to train0
TenancySingle
HostingUK
How we get you live
Fixed-fee first engagement
01Readiness reviewData and use cases
02Build and onboardUK single-tenant
03Ingest documentsYour own files
04Managed and supportedQuarterly review
The problem this removes
Privileged files too sensitive for a public chatbotHigh
Staff pasting client data into ChatGPTRisk
Special-category patient data needs the highest barOpen
Built-in guarantees
UK
SOLO
ENC
AUDIT
DPA
A32
RBAC
ISO9k
NoAPI
NoTRN
DPIA
RESID

Your best AI use cases are the ones you are not allowed to run

The work AI would help with most sits on top of exactly the data you cannot paste into a public chatbot.

Every law firm, accountancy practice and clinic I speak to has the same problem. The work AI would help with most, reviewing a bundle of case files, drafting from precedent, answering a question across ten years of client accounts, sits on top of exactly the data you are not allowed to paste into a public chatbot. Privileged material. Special-category patient data. Client financials.

So either you skip AI for the work that matters, or your staff quietly paste confidential data into ChatGPT on their own logins and hope nobody asks. One leaves the productivity on the table. The other is a data breach waiting to be reported.

What Sovereign AI actually is

The ChatGPT experience over your own files, inside an environment only your firm can see.

Sovereign AI is a private AI assistant that runs on nothing but your own documents, hosted on single-tenant infrastructure we run and manage in the United Kingdom. It gives your team the ChatGPT experience, ask a question, get a drafted answer, search across everything, over your own files, inside an environment only your firm can see.

Three things are true of it that are not true of a public tool: your data never leaves the UK, your data is never sent to OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, and your data is never used to train anyone's model.

The honest version. This is a new offer, so I am not going to wave case studies or testimonials at you. What I will say is that the hard part of private AI is not the model, it is getting your data clean, structured and in one place first. That is the work I have done for years. Read why regulated firms need private AI.

Why "in the UK, on infrastructure we control" is the whole point

A public AI tool is a transfer of your clients' data to a third party. Sovereign AI is built the other way round.

A public AI tool

A transfer of your clients' data to a third party, usually in the United States. For regulated work that is the line you cannot cross: privileged material, client financials and special-category patient data leaving your control the moment someone hits send.

Sovereign AI

Your documents and every prompt stay on UK infrastructure we run and manage. A single-tenant environment that is yours alone, with a clear data processor relationship, the security measures written down, and an audit trail you can show a regulator.

UK data residency

Your documents and every prompt stay on UK infrastructure. Nothing crosses a border.

Single-tenant isolation

Your environment is yours alone. No shared model, no shared storage, no other firm's data in the same box.

A clear data processor relationship

We act as your data processor under a UK GDPR Article 28 agreement, with the Article 32 security measures written down, not assumed.

Encryption and access control

Encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, and an audit trail you can show a regulator.

ISO 9001-certified delivery

Our process is certified and documented, so the way we build and run your environment is auditable.

On your premises if you prefer

Prefer it in your own building? We can deploy the same environment on your premises so the hardware never leaves your office.

Built for the firms the cloud locked out

The regulated practices that have held back from AI because the data was too sensitive to share.

Law firms and solicitors

Privileged case files, disclosure bundles, precedent. Draft, summarise and search across matters without breaching confidentiality or your SRA obligations. The work stays inside the firm.

Accountancy practices

Client financials, working papers, correspondence. Answer questions across clients and years, draft and review, without client data leaving your control or your professional-body obligations.

Private clinics and medical practices

Special-category patient data carries the highest bar. Put AI to work on records, letters and notes inside an environment that never sends a single patient record to a third party.

What you can actually do with it

It is not a gimmick chatbot. It reads your own document store and works across it.

  • Draft from your own precedent, templates and house style.
  • Summarise long documents, bundles and threads in seconds.
  • Ask questions across your whole archive and get answers with the source.
  • Give every member of staff a private assistant that already knows your files.

We use right-sized models matched to the work, not the biggest model for a headline. The point is accuracy on your data, not a spec sheet.

AI is only as good as the data underneath it

Here is the part the AI vendors skip. A private model pointed at scattered, duplicated, half-migrated data just surfaces the mess faster. If your client, matter or patient records live across a legacy system, three spreadsheets and an inbox, that is the real blocker, not the AI.

This is the work I have done for years before AI was the headline: ERP and CRM data migration, data quality and getting an organisation to a single source of truth. So Sovereign AI is the last step, not the first. We get your data clean, structured and in one place, then we put the private AI layer on top of it. Done in that order, the AI is trustworthy. Done the other way round, it is confidently wrong.

How we work

A low-risk first step, then a managed subscription with no surprise bills.

1

Readiness review

A fixed-fee assessment: what data you hold, where the shadow-AI risk is, a light DPIA, and the two or three use cases worth starting with. You get a plan whether or not you go further.

2

Build and onboard

We stand up your single-tenant environment in the UK, ingest your documents, write the security and data processing pack, and train your team.

3

Managed subscription

We host, monitor, update and support it, with a quarterly compliance review. A fixed monthly fee, no surprise compute bills.

Pricing is a fixed-fee readiness review to start, then a monthly managed subscription. Book a call and I will size it to your firm.

Common questions

The things regulated firms ask before they put AI anywhere near their files.

Does our data ever leave the UK?

No. Documents, prompts and answers all stay on UK infrastructure. Nothing is transferred abroad.

Do you send our data to OpenAI or ChatGPT?

No. There are no calls to third-party AI APIs. The model runs inside your environment.

Is our data used to train a model?

No. Your data is used to answer your questions and nothing else. It never trains a shared model.

Is it GDPR compliant?

It is built to support your compliance: UK data residency, single-tenant isolation, a data processor agreement and Article 32 security measures. Compliance is shared, so we give you the DPIA support and documentation to evidence it.

Do you have ISO 27001?

We run ISO 9001-certified delivery and align our hosting to UK GDPR Article 32. If your policy requires a specific certified environment, we can deploy on your own premises so the data sits inside your existing controls.

What about the EU AI Act?

Most private-AI use here is lower risk, but the obligations are real and growing. We help you document use and stay on the right side of it.

Will it work with our case or practice management system?

Yes. We connect it to your document store as part of the data work, which is where the migration and quality piece comes in.

The data work that comes first

Sovereign AI is the last step. Getting your data clean and in one place is what makes it trustworthy.

Based in the Wirral, working with regulated UK firms across Merseyside, the North West and the rest of the UK.

Put AI to work on the data you could never risk before

If your firm has held back from AI because the data is too sensitive to share, that is exactly the problem Sovereign AI solves. Book a readiness call and I will show you what is possible on your own files, in the UK, without a single record leaving your control.

Book a Sovereign AI readiness call
Start with a fixed-fee readiness review

Give your firm private AI without a single record leaving the UK.

Tell me what your team would use AI for if the data were not too sensitive to share. If there is a fit, we start with a fixed-fee Sovereign AI readiness review and a plan for your own files.