AI deployment on infrastructure you control
A first production use case on infrastructure you control, built to pass audit.
Overview
Lindstead delivers a first production-grade AI use case on infrastructure the organisation controls, on-premise or in a European cloud. The deployment includes access control, logging, evaluation and security measures, and ends with a handover so the organisation's own team can run it.
Key questions
- How do we move from a pilot to a production AI system we control?
- Which security and quality controls will our auditors expect?
- How do we keep AI workloads inside our own data centres and still use strong models?
- Can our own team operate the system after go-live?
Approach
- Architecture A reference architecture for model serving, retrieval, access control and logging, sized to the workload and hosted where the data must stay.
- Pilot deployment One use case taken to production with real users, measured against agreed quality criteria.
- Controls and handover Security testing, evaluation, monitoring and documentation, followed by a structured handover to the organisation's team.
Deliverables
- Production use case One AI use case live on the organisation's own infrastructure.
- Security and quality controls Access control, logging, evaluation and monitoring, documented for audit.
- Team handover Runbooks and training so the organisation operates the system itself.
Frequently asked questions
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A self-hosted LLM is a large language model that runs on infrastructure the organisation controls, on-premise or in a dedicated cloud environment, instead of being called through an external provider's API.
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Yes, provided the licence allows the organisation's use and the deployment meets its security, logging and access requirements. Self-hosting removes third-party access and data transfers, but not risks such as prompt injection or over-broad permissions.
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Among others Scaleway, OVHcloud, Nebius, Verda and Hetzner. Ownership and jurisdiction differ per provider; Lindstead's GPU price tracker lists them with current prices.
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