Artificial Intelligence
in Manchester
I'm Brandon Allen, born and raised in Greater Manchester and now an independent AI engineer and data scientist based in Plymouth. Manchester is the UK's fastest-growing tech city, and it's my home turf: I build private, production-grade AI systems for Manchester teams, remote-first with regular time back in the city.
Senior AI engineering from a Greater Manchester-born engineer
I grew up in Greater Manchester, and the working culture shows in the practice: direct, practical and sceptical of hype. Manchester's digital economy is full of teams that want AI in their product or operations but don't want to bet on a black-box vendor. I work as a direct, senior pair of hands: standing up language models on your own infrastructure, building the machine learning and evaluation pipelines around them, and shipping the agentic tools and interfaces your team will actually use.
I work with Manchester clients the way modern engineering teams work: remote-first with tight communication, plus on-site days in Manchester for discovery, workshops and launches. Being from the area, those visits are easy to arrange and they aren't billed as an expedition. You get one accountable engineer across architecture, build and deployment, not a rotating cast.
The specialism is private, on-prem AI: systems that run on your own hardware or private cloud. For Manchester firms in legal, finance, health and SaaS, keeping data out of third-party AI providers is often the requirement that decides the whole project.
AI services for Manchester
Stack
Local LLMs (llama.cpp / vLLM) · PyTorch · fine-tuning & evaluation · RAG / vector search · Next.js · Python · TypeScript · on-prem & private-cloud GPU
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you come to Manchester in person?
Yes, and more naturally than most: I was born and raised in Greater Manchester and am back in the city regularly. The working model is remote-first (daily comms, shared repos, demos) with on-site days in Manchester for kickoff, workshops and key milestones.
How are you different from a Manchester AI agency?
You work directly with the engineer doing the work: one senior person across architecture, build and deployment, at an independent's rate. No account managers, no juniors learning on your project.
Can you work alongside our in-house developers?
Yes, and it's often the best setup: I bring the AI infrastructure and MLOps depth, your team keeps ownership. Everything is handed over documented, with your developers able to run it.
How do we start?
Email b.a@live.co.uk with a couple of lines about what you're trying to do. I'll reply with an honest read on feasibility and, if it's a fit, a small pilot that proves value on your real data.
