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Everything AI, done properly.

Senior advice on where AI fits your business, and the hands-on engineering to make it real. Custom agentic AI harnesses, tools and apps, automation wired into the systems you already run, local and sovereign AI that never leaves your control, lower AI bills, and security hardened throughout — for one person or a whole company.

Why Talorion

The advisor who also builds it.

  • Advice you can act on

    We sit with founders, executives and managers on the decisions in front of them: where AI fits, which ideas deserve money, what to buy, what to build, and what to leave alone. Straight answers, grounded in what the technology can really do today.

  • Then we build it

    Agentic AI harnesses, tools, apps, automations, integrations, local models. The people who advise you design and ship the system, so nothing gets lost between a strategy deck and the code — and AI-assisted engineering puts custom work within reach of a small business or a single person.

  • Secure, private, cost-aware

    Every system is hardened against prompt injection and abuse, keeps your data where it belongs — on your own servers or fully air-gapped when it has to be — and is engineered to spend as little on AI as the job allows.

Services

What we can do for you.

From one conversation with your leadership team to a fully built, privately hosted AI system, and everything in between. Pick one, combine several, or describe the problem and we will tell you which apply.

  • AI Strategy & Advisory

    A senior, independent voice for founders, executives and managers. We help you decide where AI belongs in your business, which ideas are worth the money, what to buy and what to build, and how to roll it out without disrupting the people doing the work — as a one-off or as your part-time AI lead.

  • Custom AI Agents & Harnesses

    Custom agentic AI harnesses, designed around your business or your own needs. The harness gives an agent your tools, your data and your rules, with the guardrails, approvals and audit trail that let you trust it with real work.

  • Custom AI Tools, Apps & Products

    Whatever you need built, we build: internal tools and dashboards, customer-facing apps, and AI features inside the product you already have. AI-assisted engineering puts bespoke software within reach of budgets that could never justify it before.

  • AI Automation & Integration

    AI wired into the systems you already use — email, CRM, documents, spreadsheets, support desks, databases — so repetitive, judgement-heavy work runs on its own and your team gets its time back, with a person kept in the loop wherever it matters.

  • Local, Private & Sovereign AI

    Sovereign AI, built and set up locally on infrastructure you control: your own servers, your own private cloud, or fully air-gapped with no internet connection at all. Your data, everything your team types into it, and every answer it gives stay on infrastructure you control, and no outside provider can change the terms on you.

  • AI Cost Optimisation

    AI bills grow quietly. We find where your spend actually goes and cut it — routing each task to the right-sized model, caching, batching, trimming prompts, and moving suitable work in-house — without losing the quality your users rely on.

  • AI Security, Hardening & Audits

    Deep audits and hardening for AI systems and the software around them: prompt injection, data leakage, tool misuse, abuse and runaway spend, plus the conventional security they depend on — for systems we built and systems we did not.

  • AI Training & Customisation

    We train the AI and the people. Models fine-tuned and customised on your own data, terminology and tone of voice, and hands-on sessions that make you or your team confident using AI in your everyday work.

Approach

Four phases, each with a gate.

Every engagement follows the same four phases, sized to the job. A small automation moves through them quickly; a large system earns its way past each gate before serious money is spent.

  1. Discovery

    We get to the heart of what you want, then find the thing most likely to stop it — missing data, an awkward integration, a hard edge case — and test that first, before anything else is spent.

  2. Prototype

    A working first version on your real data and real edge cases, not a polished demo. It shows exactly what works, what does not, and what it will cost to run, before you commit to the full build.

  3. Build

    The real system, built with AI-assisted engineering so it arrives sooner and costs far less than traditional development. Security, monitoring, tests and recovery paths are part of done from the very first line.

  4. Handover

    Your team runs it with us alongside, then we step back. Handover has its own deliverables and sign-off, because a system only we can operate is not finished.

Questions

Things people ask before they email.

Who does Talorion AI work with?

Individuals, founders, executives, small businesses and established companies — anyone with a real problem AI could solve. That ranges from a sole trader who wants their admin automated, to a leadership team deciding where AI belongs in the business, to an operations team that needs a tool or agent their vendors will never build. The common thread is wanting AI that works, not another presentation about it.

Do you only advise, or do you build as well?

Both, and by the same people. We advise executives and managers on the decisions in front of them, then build what those decisions call for. Advice that never meets code is cheap to give and expensive to follow, so every build carries the reasoning and documentation you would expect from a strategy piece, and every recommendation is one we could build ourselves.

What can you actually build?

Most things with AI in them, and plenty without: custom agentic AI harnesses and the agents they run, internal tools and dashboards, customer-facing apps, AI features inside your existing product, automations and integrations between the systems you already use, models fine-tuned on your own data, and private AI deployments. If you can describe it, we can tell you how we would build it.

How can you build for less than a traditional developer or agency?

We use AI-assisted engineering throughout: design, code, tests, and documentation. A senior engineer working this way produces what used to take a team, so the cost of a custom tool, agent, automation, or app drops dramatically. What does not drop is the standard — everything ships with security, error handling, and documentation you would expect from a much larger budget.

Can AI run locally, without our data leaving our control?

Yes — this is sovereign AI, and we build and set it up for you. We run open models locally on your own servers or private cloud, or fully air-gapped with no internet connection at all, so your questions, documents and the AI's answers never touch a third-party AI provider. We are also straight about the trade-offs in quality and running cost against hosted models, so you choose with the facts in front of you.

Our AI bills keep climbing. Can you bring them down?

There is usually real room. Spend tends to leak through every task going to the largest model, the same work being paid for twice, and prompts far bigger than they need to be. We measure where the money goes, then route, cache, batch and trim — with quality checks that prove nothing your users rely on was lost.

Which AI models and tools do you use?

Whichever fit your constraint. We work across the major AI providers and with self-hosted open models where privacy, cost, or data residency demand it. We do not resell any platform and do not take referral fees, so the recommendation is only ever about your problem.

How do engagements start, and what does the first step cost?

With an email describing what you want AI to do and where you are stuck. We reply within two working days with a candid view. If we can help, the first paid step is a short, fixed-scope discovery phase that ends in a written verdict and a costed plan — never an open-ended retainer.

Who owns what you build?

You do, entirely. The code, documentation and everything else you pay for are delivered into your own accounts and repositories. There is no proprietary layer you have to keep paying for and no lock-in.

Bring us the problem.

Big or small, a decision or a build — one email gets you a straight answer within two working days on how we can help.