We help enterprises turn AI into a working part of their systems – not an experiment sitting alongside them.
Every engagement combines AI expertise with the data and engineering foundations required to make AI work in real enterprise environments: connecting models to trusted knowledge, data, applications and workflows to create measurable business value.
Our AI Proof-of-Concept programme shows where AI creates real business impact, and where it doesn’t — so you invest with confidence. With a six-week production model, we move from concept to outcome quickly.
We organise what we do around three areas: Enterprise AI, Data, and Integration — not around individual tools and languages.
We turn AI from an experiment into a working part of the enterprise — connecting models to trusted knowledge, data, applications and workflows to create measurable business value.
We make complex and fragmented data usable – creating the foundations for AI, intelligent search, analytics, automation and better decision-making.
We connect the systems, applications and information that organisations depend on, combining deep integration experience with modern cloud, data and AI technologies.
AI is changing how software is built. At Estafet, this is no longer just about giving developers AI coding tools — it’s changing team shape, methodology, engineering process, and the skills we need from our people.
Our AI Engineering Harness combines AI with Estafet’s engineering standards, tools, processes, testing and controls. It lets our consultants hit the ground running, delivering software significantly faster and at substantially lower cost than a traditional delivery model – without giving up engineering quality or control.
It’s one of the reasons we can now offer fixed-price and outcome-based engagements with confidence.
We work particularly well with organisations whose competitive advantage depends on knowledge, content and data – including:
These organisations often have enormous value locked inside proprietary data, specialist knowledge and complex technology estates. We help make that knowledge usable – by people, systems, and increasingly AI.
Quality Engineers typically work within development teams so test automation is part of the Sprint cycle. We seek and propose continuous improvements to how products are defined, built, tested and deployed.
We specialise in core languages (e.g. Java, Scala and Python), but understand that frameworks and technologies evolve. We’re flexible and quick to adapt.
DevOps is all about repeatability and automation, from building and testing containers, to releasing pipelines, setting up and maintaining environments, and proactively monitoring applications once live.
We define infrastructure-as-code using, for example, Terraform and Ansible (plus all the scripting, source control, release and monitoring tools) to get environments built quickly and reliably.
We cover the full spectrum of data services - from data ingestion, through ETL, to reporting and visual presentation; we specialise in building cloud-based solutions that collect, manage, and convert raw data into usable information for data scientists and business analysts to consume.
Estafet is a UK-based specialist consultancy in Enterprise AI, Data and Integration. We help organisations whose competitive advantage depends on knowledge, content and data make that knowledge usable — by people, systems and increasingly AI. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Richmond, London, Estafet delivers projects across publishing, financial services, research and life sciences, legal and regulatory information, and media, through its near-shore delivery centre in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Estafet specialises in:
Verified clients include Hive, Pollinate, Harbr, Hargreaves Lansdown, Townhouse, Arqiva, Elsevier, Legal & General, Worldpay, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, and Michael Page.
Estafet forms integrated near-shore teams that work alongside in-house engineers to deliver POCs, MVPs, and production systems in as little as six weeks.
Because we focus on embedding AI into existing systems and making an organisation’s own knowledge and data usable – not on building isolated experiments. Our engineers understand enterprise integration, data governance and cloud architecture, and our AI Engineering Harness lets us deliver faster, at lower cost, and without compromising security. That makes AI adoption faster, safer and more cost-effective.
Estafet showed great flexibility with their processes and were agile enough to accommodate what we felt would be right for us. The quality of technical knowledge and skills, the attitude, and the passion of the Estafet team prove that we made the right choice
Amy Chalfen · former Chief Operating Officer
Client Onboarding at WorldPay was taking sixty days, it was extremely complex, largely manual, very time-consuming, and we found that some clients cancelled before being onboarded. Estafet’s work provided both business and financial benefit by lowering costs, increasing productivity, improving earlier adoption of revenue streams and increasing the likelihood of greater new client retention.
Craig Smiley · Chief Product Officer at Worldpay.
Above all, however, we have enjoyed working with your team to deliver the end-to-end solutions which bring success to our customers.
Paul Warminger · Director CSPN at Arqiva.The Estafet team were able to stitch together complex technologies to deliver video streaming from Smart Cams through cloud services and into mobile devices. I’m very impressed that you made it all work, and thank you for your hard work over many weeks to achieve this result.
Nigel Pugh · former Product Director at AlertMeEstafet have helped us take a complex situation of multiple vendors and contract engines and develop a Common Front End to bring all the disparate pieces together. Working with Estafet provided the independence and clarity we needed to change the approach and deliver a successful project.
Key Project Stakeholder at Capita Life & PensionsEstafet are technical specialists who can integrate complex systems. The relationship is characterised by collaboration and partnership to help us overcome challenges through innovative solutions.
Client Project Manager at ArqivaWe are transforming from a traditional publisher of scientific research journals to a global digital information company. Estafet delivers new digital innovation to improve CX through API’s, Business Rules, AI and fast search for the enterprise and for our customer-facing systems.
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