Stratford Consulting

Beyond the working demo.

Turn an AI-built prototype into software you can operate, maintain and put in front of paying customers.

A demo answers one question

It shows that an idea can work. It does not establish that users can only access their own data, that retries cannot duplicate a payment, or that someone can restore the service after a failed deployment.

AI coding tools can accelerate implementation. The production responsibilities remain: security, data governance, testing, monitoring and a clear account of who owns the code.

What we check

  • Authentication, authorisation and separation between tenants.
  • Input handling, secrets, dependency risk and licence provenance.
  • Personal data flows, retention and external model providers.
  • Evaluation, guardrails and monitoring for model-driven behaviour.
  • Billing correctness, retries and failure recovery.
  • Tests, deployment controls, documentation and handover.

A readiness report, then a practical backlog

The assessment separates launch blockers from work that can follow release. You receive a readiness report, a prioritised hardening backlog and a costed route to production. Scope and fee are agreed before the assessment starts.

Readiness specimen

An illustrative structure for organising findings:

AreaEvidence requiredTypical next action
Identity and tenancyAccess-control testsClose cross-tenant access paths
Data governanceData-flow and retention mapRemove unnecessary personal data
Model behaviourEvaluation set and failure logsDefine acceptable failure behaviour
OperationsDeployment and restore evidenceTest recovery before launch

Built on operating experience

We build and run deepcall.ai, an AI contact-centre product. Our assessment asks the questions that continue to matter after a successful demonstration: what happens under load, on a bad input, or when an upstream service fails?

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Production is the start

If you need a team to own the continuing work, managed IP covers engineering stewardship after the initial hardening engagement.

Your next move

Let’s make
it stand up.

A software purchase. An ageing system.
A prototype with potential. Start here.

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