AI Consultancy & Engineering Partner
Engineering partners who ship in two weeks, build AI that works, govern AI safely, deliver, not advise, modernise safely, scale as you grow and hand it back clean.
Influxient is the senior engineering team you would hire if you could hire fast enough. We scope the work honestly, build it in your repository and your cloud, and put a release in front of your users every fortnight. You own all of it from the first commit.
Building and running the software your business depends on
How we build software at Influxient
Human and AI, building side by side
Most delivery still runs on the assumption that every task needs a person from start to finish. We pair experienced engineers with AI that carries the repetitive weight: the boilerplate, the first draft of a test suite, the migration nobody wants to write by hand. The result is a shorter path to a working release, with the same people accountable for what ships.
- Decide
We work out what to build with you, and what to leave out.
Drafts the options and surfaces the edge cases worth arguing about.
- Build
Our engineers own the architecture and every real decision.
Writes the repetitive code, the tests and the plumbing around it.
- Check
Nothing reaches you without an experienced engineer reviewing it.
Catches the bugs, security holes and regressions on the first pass.
- Run
We stay on it after launch and keep shipping.
Watches it around the clock and flags problems before users do.
AI Buddy
Hire a buddy who never clocks off
Specialists that work alongside your team, taking on the repetitive work that fills a week and making far fewer mistakes doing it. Each one is trained on your tools and your data, and running in your environment within two weeks.
Built and deployed into your own cloud. No shared runtime, and your data never trains a model we reuse.
AI governance
Answerable AI, not just impressive AI
The hard part of shipping AI is not making it work in a demonstration. It is being able to say, afterwards, why it produced that answer, who was accountable for it, and what happens on the day it is confidently wrong. These are the controls we build in as standard rather than offer as a later phase.
Measured before it launches
An answer-quality benchmark built from real questions with agreed answers, run before release and re-runnable after any prompt, model or data change. Without one, every future change is a guess about whether things improved.
A person is accountable
Anywhere an action costs money, contacts a customer or cannot be undone, a human approves it. Agents get latitude to read and draft, and a checkpoint to act.
Your data stays yours
Everything runs in your cloud tenancy under your keys. We do not train shared models on your content, and where a third-party provider is involved we tell you which, what it receives, and what its retention terms are.
Every answer is traceable
Citations back to source documents, prompts and model versions under version control, and an audit log of what was asked and answered. A reviewer can reconstruct a decision rather than take it on trust.
Designed for being wrong
A confidence floor below which the system escalates to a person instead of guessing, and an interface that shows uncertainty rather than hiding it. A model that is right most of the time needs a plan for the rest.
Permissions survive the pipeline
Access rules are carried from the source system through retrieval to the answer, so a copilot can never surface a document the person asking was not allowed to open.
What we build
One team across the whole stack
Seven practices, one team: full-stack and AI development, AI strategy and consulting, product and UX design, mobile apps, cloud and DevOps, data engineering, and legacy modernisation.
Real projects rarely sit inside one of these. The same people cover all of them, so nothing waits on a handover between vendors, and wherever you start the first release is live in two weeks.
Full-Stack & AI Development
Web, backend, LLM features and agents, built by one team.
ExploreAI Strategy & Consulting
Where AI is worth applying, and where it is not.
ExploreProduct & UX Design
Interface and flow design, built to be built.
ExploreMobile App Development
iOS, Android, and cross-platform apps, including on-device AI.
ExploreCloud & DevOps
Cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, CI/CD, cost control.
ExploreData Engineering
Pipelines and the data foundation AI actually needs.
ExploreLegacy Modernisation
Old system to new, without the big-bang cutover.
ExploreThe stack
Tools your engineers already know
We default to what is proven and what your team can already operate, rather than what is newest. A stack nobody on your side can run is a handover problem dressed up as an architecture decision.
How we work
Fourteen days, start to shipped.
Bigger scope does not mean a longer wait. It means more cycles. The first release always lands on day fourteen.
- Day 1
Scope
An NDA, then a working session on the real constraints. We agree what ships in this cycle and what waits.
- Days 2–3
Prove the risk
We build the part most likely to fail first: the integration, the throughput, the retrieval quality.
- Days 4–12
Build
Daily commits to your repo, deployed to your environment. You watch it happen rather than wait for a demo.
- Day 14
Ship
Working software in production, with the runbook. Then the next cycle starts, or we hand over and go.
Who we build for
Sectors where being roughly right is not enough
We work best where an audit, a regulator or a reconciliation eventually checks the work. Each sector below sets out the failure cases we build around and the compliance posture we work to.
See how we work in your sector
Our commitments
What we will put in writing
Not values-page decoration. Each of these is a contract term, which is the part that actually protects you.
Talk to a solutions architectExperienced engineers only
Everyone on your engagement has shipped and run production systems. No juniors learning on your budget.
Your cloud, your data
We deploy into your VPC. Your data, indices, and model artefacts stay yours.
A release every two weeks
Every cycle ends with working software in production, not a status deck. No release, no invoice.
You own everything
Code, infrastructure, and docs are yours from the first commit. No lock-in, no exit fee.
Mutual NDA before scoping
Signed before any technical conversation, so you can describe the real problem.
Leave-behind documentation
Decision records and runbooks written as we go, so your team can run it without us.
Engagement solutions
Start from a solution, not a blank page
The briefs we are asked for most. Each one names the problem, the order we would tackle it in, and exactly what is live at the end of the first two weeks, so you can see the plan before you commit to anything.
Working together
Three ways to start
Every option runs on the same two-week cycle. Larger scope simply runs more of them.
Two-Week Delivery
Fixed priceOne cycle, one fixed price. Working software in production at the end of it.
- Scoped on day one, shipped on day fourteen
- Deployed to your environment, not a demo server
- Runbook and handover included
- Roll straight into the next cycle
Embedded Squad
MonthlyBack-to-back two-week cycles with the same team. For sustained roadmaps.
- Two to five experienced engineers plus an architect
- A release every fortnight, without fail
- Direct access, with no account management layer
- Scale up or down with one month of notice
Fixed Outcome
Multi-cycleLarger scope broken into two-week releases, at a price agreed up front.
- Agreed acceptance criteria up front
- Milestone-based payment
- Change control in writing
- Warranty period after handover
Before you ask
The questions we actually get
Including the awkward one. Ask yours directly and a solutions architect answers, not a sales script.
Because we would rather show you nothing than show you logos we are not entitled to use. Our early engagements are under NDA, and we will not trade a client's confidentiality for our marketing. Judge us on the first cycle instead: fixed price, fixed scope, and working software in your environment inside fourteen days. That is a faster read on whether we are any good than any case study.