Stop fighting software that gets in the way of how your team actually works. Stop watching manual processes eat hours your business cannot afford. Stop forcing generic AI tools onto problems they were never built for.
Custom software and AI consultancy for ambitious founders and established UK businesses. We assess, we advise, and we build. A small UK team of senior practitioners.
Most software companies are set up to do what they are told. You write the brief, they bill the hours, you take the risk if it does not work. We are not built that way. We are partners on the work. We use AI to handle the routine parts, which keeps the team small and experienced — the people you hire are the people who think with you, challenge your assumptions, and share the responsibility for getting it right.
You get the thinking, not just the building. We ask the difficult questions. We tell you when something is a bad idea before you spend the money on it.
The people who win the work do the work. From the first call to the final handover.
The price we agree at the start is the price you pay. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no surprise invoices.
Reports your board can read. Recommendations you can defend. No jargon hiding behind technical complexity.
Three things we do. Combine them as your business needs. Most engagements start with a conversation about which one fits — and end with a written, fixed-price proposal.
We look at where your business stands across technology, AI, processes, knowledge, data, and governance. You get a written report and a roadmap your leadership team can act on.
We act as your senior technology and AI lead, on demand. Strategic calls, vendor decisions, board education, regulatory horizon-scanning — without you hiring a full-time IT director or CTO.
We deliver the work itself. Pilot builds to prove an idea, then bespoke builds to put real technology into your business. One team across the commercial and the technical side.
Every step is priced before it starts. You can stop after any of them and keep everything produced so far.
A CMS, a customer portal, an integration between systems that do not talk. We scope it, price it, build it.
An Assessment comes first. It makes the scoping step lighter and roughly half the cost, because the thinking is already done.
Start with one. Combine them as your business needs. Every engagement is fixed price, fixed scope, agreed before we begin.
“A two-week structured review across technology, AI, processes, knowledge, data, and governance.”
“Pick one priority use case. Four weeks. A working prototype, real users, real evidence.”
“End-to-end delivery of what the assessment recommends or the pilot proved.”
We are not for everyone — and that is the point. The businesses that work well with us recognise themselves in this list.
Most consultancies bring senior people to win the work and juniors to do the work. We do not. The thirty-year technologist who sells you the work is the thirty-year technologist doing the work.
We do not own a software product, so we have no vendor's incentive pushing you onto one. Recommendations are based on what fits your business — including using what you already have, or doing nothing for now.
Generic AI tools were not built for how your business works. We build around your processes, your data, your existing systems — not around a vendor's product roadmap. When off-the-shelf is right, we say so.
From the first conversation to the final handover, you work with one team. Strategy, build, integration, training, governance, change management — all inside our scope. One contract. One place to come back to.
We share the risk. We ask the difficult questions. We tell you when something is the wrong thing to build before you spend the money on it. You hire us for our judgement, not just our hands.
Reports your board can read. Engagements with prices agreed before we start. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no jargon hiding behind technical complexity. If we cannot explain it in plain English, we are not doing it right.
Your team is already using AI, with or without a policy. These are the commitments we make on every engagement so the board can show oversight, not just claim it.
Client data stays on infrastructure in the UK, or on yours.
Nothing you share is used to train a model, ours or a vendor's.
Regulator, insurer and customer requirements are part of the scope, not an afterthought.
A data processing agreement with every vendor we bring in.
AI governance mapped to the ISO 42001 management standard.
Professional indemnity cover on every engagement.
Most consultancies sell you senior people and deliver with junior ones. When you work with Khiliad, you work with both founders directly — on every engagement, from the first call to the last review.
Jimmy leads delivery across the Khiliad Group, including the work that runs through our specialist legal practice. Thirty years in enterprise technology, including McKinsey and IBM, with roles from developer to CTO. He will tell you what is realistic before you commit to anything.
Naz leads our specialist legal practice and brings the commercial, contracts, and governance perspective to every engagement. Former commercial litigation lawyer with nearly two decades in legal practice across private practice, in-house healthcare and regulation, and the Government Legal Department. MBA.
Their commitment to vision is evident in the quality of the MVP delivered, laying a strong foundation for our future success.
We appreciated that they kept the user and the core problem at the centre of the work. They understood our mission, and ensured the conversation and development plans stayed on track to address it.
A plain English guide for lawyers on what open source really is, why it is already everywhere, why an open model can be safer than a closed one, and the better questions to ask any vendor.
A specialist litigation firm across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland used Khiliad's Technology & AI Assessment to turn a working practice into a scalable, tech-enabled business — twelve priority opportunities in three weeks, with a projected £0.5–1M valuation uplift at exit.
AI tools are changing software development fast, but law firms still need custom developers who understand their problems, not just their code requirements.
A conversation costs nothing. We will tell you honestly whether we can help — and if the answer is “not yet”, we will tell you that too.
We use analytics cookies to understand how people use our site. Essential cookies are always active. Cookie Policy & Privacy Policy.
