How we use AI, and how we protect your data
Last updated October 28, 2026.
We build AI features for clients and we use AI tools in our own work. Both deserve a plain account of what happens to your code and your data, so here it is.
Five commitments, written into every agreement
- Your code and models live in your systems; we hold no lock-in.
- The people you meet on the first call do the work; nothing is subcontracted without your written agreement.
- Weekly written status every Friday, a working demo at least every two weeks.
- Protected data (personal, financial, or otherwise regulated records) never enters a third-party model unless you have approved the vendor and the data path in writing.
- We say no when AI is the wrong tool and propose the cheaper fix.
These are contract terms, not aspirations. Ask for them in the first technical consultation and you will see them in the agreement.
In the systems we build for you
How we design an AI feature, from the data path drawn and approved before any prompt is written to the evaluation set that ships with it, is described on the AI engineering page. Two further rules apply to everything we ship.
People stay in the loop where it matters
Where an output affects a customer, a payment, or a record you must stand behind, the design keeps a person able to review, correct, and switch the feature off. The design tells users when they are reading machine-generated text, and we do not build features meant to pass as human.
We say what the model cannot do
Every handover includes the failure cases we found, the inputs the feature should not be given, what to do when it is wrong, and the evaluation results as the acceptance criteria.
In our own work
We use AI coding assistants for scaffolding, tests, refactoring, and documentation, and they make us faster. An engineer reads and understands every line before it reaches your repository; nothing is committed that we cannot explain. Your code and data go only to tools you have approved in writing, under terms that exclude training on them, and we name those tools in the agreement. Writing on this site is ours; where a tool helped draft, a person decided what it says.
On this website
Nothing about your visit is sent to an AI service. What the site does record, and how to see or delete it, is in the privacy notice.
Have a question about how we would handle your data? Get in touch.