AI development company for Belfast fintech, cybersecurity, insurance technology, and software scaleups.

We do not operate a Belfast office. Aiinfox runs from our Mohali, India HQ and a Frisco, TX office. For Belfast clients we deliver with native four-to-five-hour daily overlap with UK business hours from Mohali. For on-site engagements at the Titanic Quarter, Catalyst Belfast, Lanyon Place, the Cathedral Quarter, or Mays Meadow (kickoff, milestone reviews, security walk-throughs), we travel to Belfast on a scheduled cadence rather than maintaining a sub-scale local presence. The senior engineer on your kickoff is the senior engineer through launch.

UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply across the UK including NI, so the standard UK data-protection regime is the baseline. The Windsor Framework — the 2023 successor to the NI Protocol — preserves NI's alignment with certain EU regulations for goods, which does not directly govern AI data processing, but creates a specific cross-border context for Belfast organisations that serve Republic of Ireland customers (which is more common in Belfast than in any other UK city). For those engagements, the dataset originating from RoI customers is processed under EU GDPR with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) as the lead supervisory authority, while UK-customer datasets are processed under UK GDPR with the ICO as lead. We map the data flow against both regimes in the engagement DPA and structure inference, storage, and audit-log retention to satisfy whichever regime applies to each dataset.

Yes. Citi Belfast operates one of the bank's largest non-US technology centres serving global capital markets, treasury, and trade operations, and the systems we build into that footprint typically sit inside the parent's globally-supervised compliance scope. We mirror FCA SM&CR audit-trail patterns alongside US OCC and SEC expectations where the system feeds into globally-supervised infrastructure, so the senior manager accountable for the system has the evidence required for a Section 166 review, a parent-level audit, or a routine supervisory examination. Every model and tool call is audit-logged with input, output, prompt version, and operator identity. Humans approve everything that touches a regulated outcome.

Yes. Allstate NI and Liberty IT are technology subsidiaries of US insurance carriers (Allstate and Liberty Mutual respectively), and the systems we build into those footprints typically feed back into the US parent's compliance scope. We map engagements onto the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law equivalents and the New York DFS Part 500 expectations that flow back into the parent. For Belfast claims, underwriting, and fraud workflows, we have shipped the relevant patterns at insurance-cluster scale — outbound voice, claims-triage document intelligence, fraud signal extraction. UK GDPR remains the local baseline for personal data of NI and GB customers.

Carefully and explicitly. For Rapid7-adjacent and broader NI cyber-cluster engagements where controlled security-research artefacts (exploit signatures, vulnerability disclosures pre-publication, red-team artefacts) are in scope, we are explicit that those artefacts do not transit a managed inference API endpoint. Self-hosted Llama 3 on vLLM inside the customer's UK or NI VPC is the default. Source-available delivery — your repo, your IP — is standard. The engagement scope explicitly bounds what classes of artefact can reach managed inference and what classes must remain self-hosted, and audit logs capture every prompt and tool call against the boundary.

Yes. Our engagement defaults are aligned with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. DPAs (UK GDPR controller-to-processor or processor-to-processor as appropriate) are signed before any personal data is shared. For engagements processing personal data at scale or involving special category data, we run a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) aligned with the ICO's published guidance. The UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) or the EU SCCs with the UK addendum cover any necessary international transfer of personal data. Audit logs on every model and tool call are exportable for ICO inspection.

Your call. We default to AWS London (eu-west-2), Azure UK South, or GCP europe-west2, and we will run the entire build inside your UK cloud account if your DPO requires no cross-region replication. For Belfast organisations with Republic of Ireland customer bases, we can additionally pin certain datasets to AWS Dublin (eu-west-1) or GCP europe-west2 with a clear data-flow map in the DPA. For inference, we pin Claude or GPT-4o to a UK or EU endpoint where available (Azure OpenAI UK South is the standard route for GPT-4o into a UK boundary), or we self-host Llama 3 on vLLM inside your VPC for zero third-party inference.

Most v1 engagements at Aiinfox land between GBP 20,000 and GBP 100,000 fixed-price for a focused build — an AI agent, a RAG system, a voice pipeline, or a bespoke ML model. Larger multi-quarter engagements with fine-tuning, custom evals, FCA-aware capital-markets work, or NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law-aligned insurance work typically reach GBP 150,000 to GBP 280,000. Pilots are usually GBP 8,000 to GBP 20,000 with acceptance criteria written into scope. Belfast clients invoice in GBP via bank transfer or USD by preference.