Engineering notes

How some of this
actually gets built.

Written by the engineers who did the work. Where a programme is classified, the capability and the engineering are described in full and the client is not named.

AI Engineering7 min read6 sections

Seventy-five days: a sovereign LLM inside a classified estate

MINERVA went from brief to production in ten and a half weeks without a document leaving the building — sizing, quantisation, retrieval, evaluation and the offline update procedure as one scope.

MLOps7 min read6 sections

Eight fused detection models in one compute budget

ICCS fuses eight detectors with Weighted Box Fusion on one GPU node in roughly 28 GB of VRAM — and the resource that runs out first is the CPU.

Enterprise7 min read6 sections

Built for the accreditation review, before the review asks

An assessor does not read your architecture diagram; they read your audit log. Here are the controls we ship present and enforced — and the certifications we do not claim.