Inference Group
About

Built to close
the production gap.

Inference Group is a UK AI engineering company that assesses, builds, deploys, and monitors production-grade AI systems for mid-market enterprises. Founded in 2024.

Key facts
Founded2024
HQBattersea, London
SpecialisationAI Engineering, production-grade AI systems
ModelAssess / Build / Deploy / Scale & Govern
ClientsEnterprise clients
CEODr. Richard Davis · DataIQ100 · AI Implementer of the Year 2023
Dr. Richard Davis, Founder and CEO of Inference Group
Leadership

Dr. Richard Davis

Founder and CEO. Richard has spent his career getting data and AI into production inside some of the UK’s most regulated organisations. He leads every Assess engagement personally, and authors every article and case study Inference Group publishes.

DataIQ100AI Implementer of the Year 2023 · The AI SummitFormer CDO, OfcomFormer Head of Innovation & Analytics, Lloyds Banking Group
Meet Richard
Founding story

Founded in 2024.

Inference Group exists because of a pattern. Most enterprise GenAI pilots never show a measurable return — they stall somewhere between the demo and the deployment. We’d spent our careers inside the organisations where that happens, watching good ideas die in exactly that gap.

In 2024 we decided the gap wasn’t a market problem. It was an engineering problem. So we built an engineering company.

Mission

Depth in production beats breadth in slideware.

We go deep on production — turning AI from a promising pilot into a live, governed system — rather than spreading thin across strategy and tooling. We have built the entire Inference Group methodology around that depth, from Assess through to Scale & Govern. It is why our accelerators turn months into days, and why the systems we hand over are ones your team can run without us.

What makes us different

Three things we will not compromise on

01

Depth in production

We go deep on getting AI into production, rather than spreading thin across strategy decks and tool demos. It's why we move fast, and why we'll tell you straight what AI can and can't do for you.

02

One connected programme

Assess, Build, Deploy, and Scale & Govern work as a single flow, so nothing falls through the gap between strategy and delivery.

03

You own everything

No black box, no lock-in. You get the code, the documentation, and a handover your own team can run with.

Financial services
Healthcare
Facilities services
Enterprise
Telecoms
Not-for-profit
Student accommodation
Investment management
Enterprise
Financial services
Government & public services

The people who scope your problem are the people who build the answer.

Senior architects only, plus our TCN Capital advisory. Meet the whole team.

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