Applied AI
AI that reaches production inside your controls, with the governance your IT director can sign off.Assistants, document processing and decision support built on your data, inside your security boundary, with an audit trail. Delivered as working systems, not pilots.
Who this is for
- Operations directors with a process that is too manual and too expensive to keep staffing.
- IT directors asked to "do something with AI" who need it to pass a security review.
- Finance directors who want a business case with a measurement period, not a demo.
What’s included
Each capability has its own page with deliverables, process, measures and questions answered.
Internal assistants and copilots
Retrieval over your documents and systems, with access control that follows your existing permissions.
EU AI Act readiness
Classification, documentation, logging and human oversight for the systems the Act names as high-risk, delivered by the team behind swarmd.ai.
Document and email processing
Extraction, classification and routing for invoices, contracts, claims and correspondence, with human review where it matters.
Decision support and forecasting
Models that score, rank and forecast against your history, explained in terms a manager can act on.
Agentic workflows
Multi-step automations that call your systems under policy, with rate limits, approvals and an immutable log.
AI sovereignty and data handling
Private deployment of open-weight models, EU-hosted, so your data never trains someone else’s product.
AI governance and ISO 42001
The controls, documentation and oversight that let you show how your AI systems are tested, monitored and supervised, mapped to ISO 42001.
AI in payments, credit and fraud
Credit, pricing and fraud models built with the documentation and oversight the EU AI Act and the FCA expect.
AI for recruitment: sourcing, screening and matching
Extraction, matching in both directions and enrichment, with confidence scores and a person in the loop where the law requires.
EU AI Act for recruitment and HR
Hiring AI is high-risk under the Act; classification, documentation, bias testing and oversight built in.
AI governance readiness for HR
Inventory, data foundations, policy and testing mapped to ISO 42001, starting from the candidate data.
How it’s delivered
Engagement models that fit this service, in order of how often clients choose them.
- Stage 1.
Discovery and assessment
2–4 weeks
A fixed-price, fixed-length look at an idea, a process or an existing system, ending in a written report your board can act on: what it would take, what it would cost, and whether it is worth doing. Feasibility studies, technical assessments and due diligence all start here.
Best for: Before committing to a build, a migration or an AI initiative. Also the starting point for a security review, an EU AI Act assessment, or due diligence on a system you are buying.
- Stage 2.
Delivery and iteration
Monthly retainer on 30 days’ notice, or fixed price per phase
Software built or changed by a team in one of two shapes: embedded inside your business, on your tools and in your meetings, or run in-house at Hexploits with your stakeholders joining the demos. Bring a specification or we write one with you. Either way you get a written report every week, a working demonstration every fortnight, and live progress against the KPIs agreed at the start.
Best for: Every build, integration, migration or AI system. Embedded when you have an internal team to work alongside; in-house when you would rather hand the work over and see it at the demo.
- Stage 3.
Deployment and monitoring
Rolling, 30 days’ notice
Someone to own a system that is already live: deployment pipelines, monitoring, patching, backups, on-call and support, on a monthly contract with response times in writing. The monthly figure includes two hours of incident work; anything beyond that is billed per engineer per hour. Runs on your existing stack or on Hexploits Cloud.
Best for: Anything in production that matters, where you would rather one contract covered deployment, support and small changes. Most clients choose it after a build; none are obliged to.
Technologies & frameworks
Technologies we’ve used on recent projects.
Languages
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
Frameworks & runtimes
- Node.js
- Spring Boot
- .NET
- Django
- Flask
- React
- Next.js
Data & AI
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
- pgvector
- Claude
- OpenAI
- Open-weight models
Cloud & edge
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Azure
- Cloudflare
- Hexploits Cloud
Platforms & delivery
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS Lambda
- Terraform
- Helm
- Argo CD
- GitLab CI
- GitHub
Monitoring & observability
- Grafana
- Loki
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
We’re familiar with modern technology stacks beyond those shown here, and work with the languages, frameworks and platforms your business already uses.
Proof
Outcomes with numbers and named clients.
swarmd.ai · Software vendor · 6 months
Enterprise AI control plane delivered in six months at 75% under budget for a UK software vendor
JobVantage · Recruitment technology · Duration TBC
99.9% availability and sub-100ms responses for a recruitment intelligence platform, at negligible infrastructure cost
What clients say
Verified reviews, linked to Google where they were left there.
Director, JobVantage
“Working with Hexploits has genuinely been a pleasure, and I see them as my scaling partner for the foreseeable future as JobVantage grows. If you’re looking for a development team who combine strong AI/engineering capability with honesty, flexibility and a real interest in your business, I’d strongly recommend them.”
Director, PeppaSync
“Hexploits have been a breath of fresh air on Peppasync, an AI/ML autonomous decision platform for commercial leaders in retail and ecommerce. The depth and thoroughness the team brought to design and architecture was second to none.”
Director, IO Solutions
“Fantastic to work with. High level of attention to detail and flawless communication throughout. Would recommend to anyone looking to develop or improve a software product.”
Insights
AI Sovereignty: What It Costs to Teach an AI Your Business
AI agents can triage support tickets, write your documentation, and answer questions from your own records - but only if you feed them your data. Here is what that trade actually costs, and how AI sovereignty lets you get the value without giving up control.
EU AI Act High-Risk Series, Part 1: Recruitment & HR Tech
CV screening, candidate ranking and performance monitoring tools are high-risk under the EU AI Act, and one interview-scoring feature is banned outright. What a recruitment business or HR technology vendor has to build by December 2027, and why the commercial effect arrives sooner.
EU AI Act High-Risk Series, Part 2: Finance & Insurance
Credit scoring and life or health insurance pricing are high-risk under the EU AI Act, with a mandatory impact assessment for every deployer. What a lender, insurer or payments business has to build by December 2027, and how to do it once for every regulator.
Questions we get asked
Will our data be used to train a model?
Can this run inside our own cloud account?
How do you measure whether it worked?
What about the EU AI Act?
Next step
Request a proposal.
Tell us about the system and the sector. A named engineer replies within one working day. A written scope and an indicative price within two working days of a short scoping call.