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Software development in Edinburgh

Edinburgh pairs centuries-old asset management and insurance money with a university that has been a serious AI research centre for decades. The result is a market that buys both conservative, compliance-heavy platform work and genuinely advanced AI work — sometimes from the same building.

What businesses in Edinburgh actually buy

Fintech and asset-management clients want systems that satisfy risk and compliance while still shipping; research-adjacent and AI companies want engineers who can take a working idea into production with evaluation, guardrails and cost control. We do both, and we are candid about which projects do not need AI at all.

Asset management & insuranceFintechAI & research spin-outsHigher educationTourism & hospitality tech

How working together actually works

Remote delivery with quarterly or milestone visits where it helps; Scottish and English contracting are both routine for a UK company. Data residency in UK regions where regulated data is involved.

Relevant work

An AI assistant that summarises articles and video for a global paying readership

The Economist's readers pay for depth but don't always have time for it. Our CTO helped build an agentic AI assistant that summarises articles and video on demand and answers follow-up questions, grounded in the publication's own content, so busy readers get the gist without leaving the brand.

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