Artificial Intelligence
in Manchester
Manchester is the UK's fastest-growing tech city — and its businesses are being sold a lot of AI. I'm Brandon Allen, an independent AI infrastructure engineer who builds the real thing: private, production-grade AI systems for Manchester teams, remote-first with on-site visits when it matters.
Senior AI engineering for Manchester teams — without the agency markup
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. 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. The working model is remote-first — daily comms, shared repos, demos — with on-site days in Manchester for kickoff, workshops and key milestones. It keeps costs down without losing the face-to-face.
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.
