Alt HorizonAI ConsultancyUK
Most AI projects fail at the economics and governance layer, not the demo layer. We model all three options — cloud, self-hosted, hybrid — then recommend the one that survives cost, compliance, and operational reality.
No deckNo sales pressureWe'll tell you to wait if you should
Or email a workload to hello@althorizon.co.uk — one-page model back in 48h.
01 · Evidence
Real numbers before you commit.
02 · Options
We don't assume cloud.
03 · Discipline
If it doesn't pay for itself, it doesn't ship.
04 · Measurement
Instrumented, not inferred.
Trusted across regulated industries
Founded 2026, because the maths is finally honest. Why →
Featured customer
Sectors
Public sector. Financial services. Education. Professional services.
Buyer roles
CFO, COO, CTO. Heads of risk, data, and operations.
Constraints
Data sovereignty, regulated workloads, board-level ROI sign-off.
01 · The problem
Most AI projects don't fail at the demo. They stall between "we picked a tool" and "it pays its way." The teams we see struggling have usually skipped one of these.
Token-based pricing means your bill scales with usage, not value. A successful pilot can become an unbudgeted line item within a quarter.
Symptom · runaway opex
If your data is regulated, sensitive, or commercially valuable, "send it to someone else's API" is a decision, not a default. Most teams make it by accident.
Symptom · audit findings
Copilots, agents, RAG, fine-tunes. The market sells answers before the questions are clear. We start with where value is created, then choose the tooling.
Symptom · pilot fatigue
02 · Consultancy
A typical engagement runs from a half-day Assessment through to live, measured deployment. Scope scales with ambition.
Scope · 01
Find the real problem before you solve it.
£2,400ex VAT
1 week · fixed fee
Most chosen · Model
The business case, before the purchase order.
From £4,500ex VAT
1–3 weeks · per use case
Deliver · 03
MVP to measured deployment, ROI-gated.
Scopedquote
Milestone-based · KPIs from Assess
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03 · Delivery
After the discovery week. Same five phases on every engagement, whether you're scoping a single use case or a portfolio. Each phase has a deliverable, and a failure mode worth knowing in advance.
Use-case longlist, current state, data sensitivity. Stakeholder interviews and a risk-appetite conversation with the commercial owner.
Deliverable · Assessment report
Score each longlist item on impact, effort, and residual risk. Quick wins separate from strategic initiatives. The top 3–5 go to modelling.
Deliverable · Scored shortlist
TCO and ROI across cloud, self-hosted, and hybrid. Assumption ranges, not single-point forecasts. The model that has to survive a finance review.
Deliverable · Cost / ROI model
Phased delivery. Milestone-based, ROI-gated. Governance and security set up before go-live, not after.
Deliverable · Live solution + baseline
KPIs from Assess, reported against. Quarterly review of the ROI model. Outcomes documented as the input to the next decision.
Deliverable · KPI report + case study
In production with Reef
Engagements don't require it. When it's there, the work becomes live, measurable, and yours. One dashboard for agents, tickets, alerts, change workflows. Policy, usage, and ESG controls underneath. Self-hosted, no data leaves your perimeter.
04 · Outcomes
Below is a live deployment of Horizon Platform — Reef, a workspace booking platform, running in production on Alt Horizon-managed infrastructure. The shape of the proof a CFO or CTO will expect, with a real customer on the other end of it.
Live · in production
Reef · Workspace platformReef helps people find places to work and helps venues fill empty seats. The application, the database, and the operational surface all run on Alt Horizon-managed infrastructure — single-tenant, UK-resident, with Horizon Platform handling agents, telemetry, and policy. No customer data leaves the perimeter. Performance and cost metrics from this engagement will be published here as they're signed off.
UK
Data residency
Single-tenant VPS, UK datacentre. Customer and venue data never leaves the perimeter.
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Horizon agent modes
Full, Cyber, and ESG telemetry across the production estate. One platform, one audit trail.
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Third-party AI processors
No customer data routed to cloud AI vendors. Self-hosted runtime, signed deploys.
"Cost, compliance, and operations decide whether AI ships. I make sure they're in the room before the demo is."
05 · Tokenomics
Cloud, self-hosted, and hybrid priced side by side on your own assumptions, then ranked on real UK numbers. Below is a sample workload, drawn from the tool's live matrix.
Talks to its neighbours
Your scenario carries forward via URL state. Hand it to the ROI article and the calculator pre-fills with your inputs — cost grossed up to include the ops & governance overhead that's usually the bigger half.
06 · Resources
Practical writing on AI adoption for people who have to defend the decision afterwards. Frameworks, benchmarks, and the questions that come before tooling.
A defensible model in four moves: volume, sensitivity, deployment, payback. With the maths shown. The mistakes that quietly break most ROI cases, called out by name.
Method · Read article →
Five questions that usually decide whether AI is the right tool, before tooling choices are even made. Sometimes the answer is "not yet". That's a defensible decision too.
Decision lens · Read article →
A100, H100, L40S, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX PRO 6000. UK prices, real workloads, no vendor noise. When self-hosting becomes the cheaper answer, and when it doesn't.
Benchmark · Read article →
07 · Next step
A real workload, two sentences. We price it across cloud, self-hosted, and hybrid, then tell you what we'd run — or tell you to wait.
No deckNo sales pressureWe'll tell you to wait if you should
Or email a workload to hello@althorizon.co.uk — one-page model back in 48h.
Matt Shore
Founder · Alt Horizon
Data residency
Sovereign by default
Self-hosted unless you opt to a cloud option
