--- title: "Shipshape Data: AI Consultancy UK" description: "Shipshape Data is a London AI consultancy. We build the data foundation your AI depends on, then the AI on top: strategy, development, and delivery that stays past go-live." canonical: https://shipshapedata.com/ language: en-GB --- # Shipshape Data: AI is only as good as its data core > Shipshape Data is a London AI consultancy. We build the data foundation your AI depends on, then the AI on top: strategy, development, and delivery that stays past go-live. Canonical page: https://shipshapedata.com/ We Build AI Success Stories. ## The model We work from one belief: AI is only as good as its data core. Get the foundation right and everything built on it can be trusted. Get it wrong and nothing on top is worth building. So we build the AI delivery stack from the inside out: - **Core: the data foundation.** Cloud data warehouse, medallion architecture (bronze, silver, gold), and a semantic layer. - **Connective layer.** Connectivity, governance and business logic, including the protocols (such as MCP) that let models reach governed data without losing control of it. - **Outer ring: the AI capabilities.** Search and retrieval, summarise and extract, classification and tagging, visualise and predict, conversational platforms, and workflow automation and agents, shipped as product features or custom apps. ## Services An AI consultancy, end to end: - [AI strategy](https://shipshapedata.com/services/ai-strategy/): readiness assessment, sequenced roadmap, and business case, designed by the team that delivers it. - [Data consultancy](https://shipshapedata.com/services/data-consultancy/): data strategy, engineering, analytics and governance on a governed foundation. - [AI development](https://shipshapedata.com/services/ai-development/): bespoke AI applications, agents and chatbots, built on governed data and shipped to production. - [Data migration](https://shipshapedata.com/services/data-migration/): warehouse, database and cloud migration, reconciled row by row and supported past cutover. All nine specialisms, from [the data foundation](https://shipshapedata.com/services/data-foundation/) and [MCP connections](https://shipshapedata.com/services/mcp-connections/) to [RAG and vector search](https://shipshapedata.com/services/search-retrieval/), are listed at [Services](https://shipshapedata.com/services/). ## Proof - [Smarter Services](https://shipshapedata.com/case-studies/smarter-services/) (facilities management): AI document processing freed up 1.5 days of admin time each week. - [1NCE](https://shipshapedata.com/case-studies/1nce/) (IoT connectivity): static developer docs turned into a multilingual AI assistant handling customer queries to a human standard. - [Slimstock](https://shipshapedata.com/case-studies/slimstock/) (supply chain): a custom AI chat interface answering from Slimstock's own content, around the clock. ## How we got here Our first product was Enterprise Chat: people talked to their data, and the hard part was making the output reliable, not the interface. Every AI project kept turning into a data project, and the answers were only ever as good as the data underneath. The lesson stuck: build the foundation first. That is now the company. ## Where to start - [Score your AI readiness](https://shipshapedata.com/ai-readiness/): 16 questions, about three minutes, no email gate. - [Industries](https://shipshapedata.com/industries/): manufacturing, private equity, supply chain and logistics, facilities management, IoT and telecoms. - [Resources](https://shipshapedata.com/resources/): 169 practical guides on data and AI. - Talk to us: hello@shipshapedata.com. Tell us what you are working with, what you want AI to do, and what is driving the timing. We reply personally, usually within one working day, and we will say if we are not the right fit. --- ## For agents This is the agent view of shipshapedata.com. The whole surface, in one place: - Site guide: https://shipshapedata.com/llms.txt | Agent guide: https://shipshapedata.com/agents.md | Auth (none needed for reads): https://shipshapedata.com/auth.md - Read API: https://shipshapedata.com/api/v1 (keyless; OpenAPI spec at https://shipshapedata.com/openapi.json; docs at https://shipshapedata.com/developers/) - MCP servers (Streamable HTTP, no auth): https://shipshapedata.com/mcp (product) and https://shipshapedata.com/mcp/docs (docs Q&A); server card at https://shipshapedata.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json - NLWeb: POST https://shipshapedata.com/ask with {"query": "..."} | A2A agent card: https://shipshapedata.com/.well-known/agent-card.json - Every content page has a markdown twin at its URL plus index.md (or the URL with a .md suffix), and this same view is served at ?mode=agent on any page.