Your knowledge is hard to use.
Answers are buried in documents or depend on a few experienced people. Give teams a way to find the right information and check where it came from.
Nirox Labs · Dependable custom AI · Hull, UK
Applications, knowledge assistants and agents that work from your own information, show their sources and wait for approval where it matters. You work directly with the founder who scopes, builds and hands over your system.
Free first call · Fixed price after scoping · Sometimes the answer is a simpler tool
Liam Silk · Founder · Nirox Labs · Hull
You speak to the person who scopes, builds and hands over your system. 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
What I build
Nirox Labs builds custom AI for established businesses across the UK, from a base in Hull. It helps when the information is scattered, the process is specific or the product you need doesn’t exist off the shelf.
01 / Built for your business
An internal tool, a client portal or an AI feature inside your product. Software designed around the job your business needs to do.
Your workflow. Your interface. Your system.
02 / Built for your business
Give your team a useful answer from your own documents, with the source attached. Build company knowledge into the tools people use.
Company documents → answers with sources
03 / Built for your business
Read an enquiry, check a record, prepare the next step. Connect reasoning to actions across your systems, with limits and approvals built in.
Context → a decision → a controlled action
Before you build
Where could AI make a meaningful difference? I help you assess the opportunity, compare an existing tool with a custom build and define a sensible first version. Automation is one option; the business outcome decides.
Explore AI consultancy↗From a business question to a working system
Illustrative interface and data. Not a client system.
Example 01 · Knowledge assistants
A team member asks a question. The assistant searches the documents they are allowed to use, returns a grounded answer and points back to the relevant source.
Explore knowledge assistants ↗ Illustrative interface and data. Not a client system.What information do we need before a project starts?
If the source is missing or unclear, the assistant says so.
When custom AI makes sense
If an existing product does the job, I’ll tell you.
Answers are buried in documents or depend on a few experienced people. Give teams a way to find the right information and check where it came from.
People bridge the gaps between systems, interpreting documents and handling exceptions. Build around those decisions and connections.
Help customers find a suitable option, work through information or complete a specialist task. Add AI inside the experience they already use.
From idea to everyday use
A focused first version. Tested in the real world. A clear path to what comes next.
We work through the outcome, your data and the systems involved. You get a focused scope, success measures and an agreed price before the build.
I build and test against real examples. Where the system takes action, it runs alongside your existing process first. Your team reviews outputs and exceptions.
I deploy the agreed system, document it and hand it over. I define running costs and responsibilities, with ongoing engineering available as your needs grow.
How a build is made dependable
Need engineering beyond the first project? Work with an AI engineer on an ongoing basis ↗
The person behind Nirox Labs
You work directly with the person scoping and building your system. Liam founded Nirox Labs and brings more than ten years’ experience across software engineering, training and helping businesses of all kinds adopt new ways of working. His focus now is AI engineering and solution design.
That training background is why documentation, team training and a proper handover come with every project. Based in Hull, working with businesses across Yorkshire and the UK.
More about Liam ↗Inside Nirox Labs / an internal build
Liam’s account of building an internal AI operating system with Claude Code: bringing business context, working methods and reusable instructions into one place.
Read the engineering story ↗ An internal Nirox Labs project, not a client case study.Before we start
A clearer idea of what you’re buying.
Discuss your AI project ↗Nirox Labs designs and builds custom AI applications, company knowledge assistants and AI agents. That can mean an internal document-review tool, an assistant that answers from your own information, or an AI feature connected to your existing software. It is based in Hull and works with businesses across the UK.
Workflow automation follows defined rules. Custom AI can interpret language and documents, retrieve relevant knowledge or choose between permitted next steps. An application may use both. I choose the simplest approach that meets the requirement; not every process needs AI.
If an existing product solves the problem well, that may be the better starting point. A custom build becomes useful when your process, data, integrations or customer experience need something more specific. I assess that fit before proposing a build.
No. Bring the outcome you want, an example of the work and the systems involved. I help establish feasibility and define a first version. If the uncertainty needs deeper investigation, we agree a separate discovery scope before committing to the build.
The price depends on the application, available data, integrations and testing required. After scoping, we agree a fixed price for the defined work. Hosting, model usage, third-party licences and optional ongoing support are discussed separately, so you can assess the cost of running the system as well as building it.
We agree who can access which information, which actions require approval and how uncertain results should be handled. I test realistic examples and exceptions before release. Hosting, model providers, data handling and monitoring are project decisions, discussed during discovery.
You own the custom work I build for you, with documentation and a handover. Third-party tools retain their own licences and fees. Ongoing engineering and support can be scoped separately, with response expectations and responsibilities agreed in advance.
That is a fair question, and it shapes how I work. I document what I build, hand it over with training so your team can run it, and agree support expectations and responsibilities in writing before launch. Where a system matters to daily operations, ongoing engineering can be scoped separately. If something needs more than one pair of hands, I say so up front.
I build a set of real questions or tasks from your own work, with the expected source or outcome for each, then run the system against them before anyone depends on it. Anything that takes action runs alongside your current process first. Where the system is unsure, it should say so rather than guess. Read the free RAG guide for the question-set method.
A useful first conversation
Free first call · Fixed price after scoping
Bring the problem, the process or the idea. I’ll tell you what’s possible, where the risks are and whether a simpler tool would do.
Discuss your AI project↗ Read the free RAG guide Or email hello@niroxai.comIndependent AI engineering. Based in Hull & East Yorkshire, working across Yorkshire and the UK.