Questions, answered.

The questions buyers actually ask us, with the answers we actually give. If yours isn’t here, ask it on a discovery call. That call is a conversation, not a pitch.

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About Kallidin

What does Kallidin actually do?
Kallidin builds the working data function of an enterprise. We call it KAL, the Autonomous Data Office: AI agents that answer business questions from your data, with every answer checked and fully auditable. Alongside it sits consulting that fixes the foundations those answers depend on. It is built for regulated businesses that cannot take answers on faith.
Is Kallidin a consultancy or a product company?
Both, deliberately. The consulting finds and fixes what is broken in your data foundations, and the platform runs the daily answering work on top. The platform and the agent builds sit behind the consulting, so what you’re left with is a working system, not a deck.
Who are the founders?
John Brodie and Warwick Beresford-Jones built two data businesses together and sold them both, Aquila Insight to Merkle in 2017 and Forth Point to Blend360 in 2023. Sam Riddington brings more than 25 years of enterprise consulting. Anders Uhrenholt, Chief Engineer, joined to build the platform: a PhD in machine learning and recommendation systems at Amazon behind him. The full stories are on our About page.
Which sectors do you work in?
Financial services, telecoms, and energy and utilities, on the customer facing side of the business. We also work with private equity firms on a track built for the hold period. If your sector isn’t listed, the problem is usually the same shape, so ask.

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The engagement

How do we get started?
Book a discovery call. It’s a conversation with someone senior, no deck, no pitch. The usual next step is the diagnostic: a short, flat fee piece of work that finds what is broken and designs the fix.
How long does the diagnostic take?
2 to 4 weeks, at a flat fee. It covers data foundations, governance, capability and decision architecture, and ends with a maturity heatmap, a gap analysis and a 12 month action plan you own either way.
What does it cost?
The diagnostic is a flat fee, agreed before it starts. Everything after it is scoped from what the diagnostic finds, so you see the shape of the work before the spend, never the other way round.
Do we have to commit to the platform to work with you?
No. The consulting stands on its own, and the diagnostic is designed so you get full value even if it’s the only thing we ever do together. Where the platform fits, the diagnostic will show it, and where it doesn’t, we’ll say so.
Will this replace our data team?
It changes what they are for. Right now your best analysts spend the week answering the same twelve questions, because the queue never empties. KAL takes the queue. Your team takes the questions nobody has asked yet: the modelling, the commercial judgement, the work you hired them for. The function gets more valuable to the business, not smaller.

03

Trust and security

How does Kallidin keep our data in the UK?
Kallidin deploys into your own cloud environment in AWS’s London region. Your data, prompts and outputs are stored and processed there and never leave your control. Model providers never see your data, and written agreements confirm it is never used to train their models.
How do we know an AI answer is right?
Every finding is checked by an independent AI agent before it goes into an answer, and the independent agent is itself measured: tested against a large body of cases where the right answer was already known, so each finding carries a confidence score. The audit trail shows what was checked and what was assumed, so you can follow the reasoning step by step.
What happens to our data if we leave?
Within 30 business days of the contract ending, we return all of your data in its original format, or an agreed export format, by secure transfer. Once you confirm the return, we delete it: from active systems within 30 days, and from backups within 30 days after that.
What certifications do you hold?
Cyber Essentials is in progress and we are building our processes towards ISO 27001. We claim neither until it is actually held. Accreditation takes time for a new business, and it gets harder with every hire, which is exactly why the work is happening now. The model providers we work with carry their own certifications, including SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and those are theirs, not ours. The detail is on our trust page, and we will update it as our status changes.

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Private equity

What exactly is the Portfolio AI Value Scan?
A 3 week, flat fee diagnostic across a portfolio company or a portfolio. It identifies where AI can create value before exit, sized and sequenced against the hold period, and it ends in evidence you can take to the investment committee, not a vendor deck.

Ask us the one that is not here.

The discovery call is a conversation with someone senior. Bring the question your team is actually stuck on.