AI agents that run on a box in your server room. No cloud, no API keys, no data-processing agreement with a company in California. Installed, wired into your workflows and looked after — by the studio that's shipped for the NHS, the FT and Oxford University Press.
01 / 05 — The objection
Somewhere between the pilot and the contract, someone with "Officer" in their title asked where the data goes. The honest answer was "a US cloud provider". The meeting ended there.
The models are good enough. The problem was never capability — it was permission. Ground Station changes the answer to the only question that matters to a DPO: where is the data processed? Here. On this box. Pull the cable and it keeps working.
02 / 05 — What we do
The same shape as every Mission Control build: we map it with you first, we engineer it in-house, and we keep it flying afterwards. Fixed price at each stage.
Two weeks with your team. Which workflows are being blocked, what data they touch, and what "good enough" means for each. You get a written scope and a yes/no on whether on-prem genuinely solves it.
A compact Nvidia GB10 system — 128 GB of unified memory, the size of a hardback — in your rack or under a desk. Open-weight models in the 70–120 billion parameter class, configured, hardened and benchmarked against your real documents. Outbound AI traffic: none.
Rocket, our agent platform, running on your box: triaging shared inboxes, summarising case files, pulling fields out of contracts, drafting first replies, answering staff questions over your own documents. Humans approve; agents do the typing.
Monitoring, model updates when better open weights land, a quarterly review of what's working and what's next. If the box dies, we swap it.
03 / 05 — Cloud vs ground
Open-weight models now handle the triage, extraction, drafting and Q&A that real work is made of — on a box you own. The question stops being “is it allowed?” and becomes “what shall we automate first?”
| Cloud AI | Ground Station | |
|---|---|---|
| Where data is processed | Provider's data centre, usually US-owned | Your building. Verifiable with a network monitor. |
| Paperwork | DPA, sub-processor lists, transfer impact assessment | One DPIA. No sub-processors. |
| Cost model | Per token, forever, in dollars | Box plus a monthly fee. Volume is free. |
| Model quality | Frontier | Strong open-weight models, improving every month. More than enough for triage, extraction, drafting, Q&A. |
| When the internet goes down | Stops | Carries on |
| Who can read your prompts | Governed by their terms | Nobody. |
04 / 05 — The hardware
Nvidia's GB10 platform — the same silicon family as their rack systems, shrunk to a 1.2 kg slab. It draws less than a kettle, sits on a shelf, and holds a 100-billion-parameter model in memory with room to spare. We run one in Northampton; it's where the demo happens.
Who it's for
Three hundred emails a day into a shared mailbox, each one privileged. Triage, tag, draft — without a single message leaving the practice.
You'd love to summarise referral letters automatically. Your Data Security and Protection Toolkit says the data stays in the UK, with you. It can.
Resident correspondence, planning objections, FOI requests — all "sensitive", all stuck. An on-prem box turns a 40-page DPIA into a short one.
05 / 05 — Straight talk
The pilot
Half a day in Northampton. Bring a real document you'd never upload. Watch an agent work on it on our box, then watch us unplug the network and watch it keep going. If that answers your DPO's question, we scope a pilot.