Scope a pilot

A pilot is how most of our customers start: one use case, your data, your models, running inside your perimeter, with the exit criteria written down before anything is installed. Six weeks is the default; the scope is fixed and priced up front after a short briefing — €25,000 to €90,000 depending on how much has to be true at once, and credited against your first year of platform — so procurement gets a single line item and you get a date.

What a pilot covers

• A couple of your data sources ingested. Real sources land in the lakehouse on open table formats, inside your perimeter — not a sample extract on someone's laptop.
• A couple of your processes mapped, and a first ontology. Before anything is automated we describe two or three of the processes in scope and build the ontology that carries them — the model everything else in the pilot reads from, and the thing you keep whatever the verdict.
• One use case, chosen for evidence. An agentic workflow or an analytics question that matters to a sponsor and can be judged in six weeks — not a platform tour.
• Your deployment model. Air-gapped, on-premises, sovereign cloud or confidential compute — the pilot runs where production would run, so nothing has to be re-proven later.
• Your models and your data. Open-weight models you already trust, or your existing provider, connected to the sources the use case actually needs — governed, logged, and reversible.
• A written verdict. Week six ends with a document: what worked, what did not, the measured result against the criteria, and what production would take.

How it runs

1. Briefing (30 minutes). We agree the use case, the deployment model and the exit criteria. If a pilot is the wrong size, we say so — an Organisational AI Day is often the better first step.
2. Scope and price (one week). A one-page scope, a fixed price and the people on both sides. Signed, not negotiated at length.
3. Six weeks, weekly checkpoints. Our architects work with your team inside your environment. You see progress every week, not at the end.
4. Verdict and decision. The written result and a recommendation. Continue to production, adjust, or stop — with the evidence to justify any of the three.

Who this is for

Public bodies, defence and security organisations, and regulated enterprises that cannot send data to a hosted service to find out whether organisational AI works for them. If you can prove it in a vendor's cloud, you do not need us; if you can't, this is how you prove it inside your own walls.