Artificial Intelligence
in Plymouth
I'm Brandon Allen, an artificial intelligence engineer and data scientist, resident right here in the Greater Plymouth area. I help local businesses put AI to work: private, on-prem systems that run on your own hardware, keep your data in the building, and actually ship.
A Plymouth-based AI engineer, not an agency or an API reseller
Plymouth businesses don't need a London agency retainer or a thin wrapper around someone else's chatbot. I design and build the real thing locally: language models served on your own machines, machine learning pipelines trained on your data, retrieval systems that answer from your documents with citations, and the web applications that put it in front of your team or customers.
I live in the Greater Plymouth area; this isn't a satellite office or a listed service region. Being resident here means I can sit in the room with you: map the problem on a whiteboard in the morning and be prototyping by the afternoon. I work with businesses across Plymouth, Plymstock, Plympton, Saltash, Ivybridge and the wider Devon and Cornwall area on-site, and across the UK remotely.
The specialism is private, on-prem AI: systems that run offline on your own hardware. For firms handling client data (legal, marine, engineering, healthcare, finance) that's often the difference between AI being viable and being a compliance risk.
AI services in Plymouth
Stack
Local LLMs (llama.cpp / vLLM) · PyTorch · fine-tuning & evaluation · RAG / vector search · Next.js · Python · TypeScript · on-prem GPU
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you work with small Plymouth businesses or just tech companies?
Both. Most of the value of AI right now is in ordinary businesses (professional services, marine, property, retail, education) automating document-heavy work. You don't need a data team; that's what I'm for.
Can our data stay private?
Yes, that's my specialism. I build systems that run entirely on your own hardware or private cloud, so nothing is sent to third-party AI providers. For regulated or client-confidential work in Plymouth this is usually the deciding factor.
Can we meet in person in Plymouth?
Yes. I'm based in Plymouth, so on-site discovery sessions, workshops and build reviews are easy to arrange anywhere in Plymouth, Devon or Cornwall.
What does an engagement look like?
Usually a short discovery call, then a small paid pilot that proves value on your real data, then a production build with handover. Email b.a@live.co.uk and I'll come back with the clearest next step.
