QAI Labs

AI Safety & Security · London

AI you can trust.
Built to stay that way.

We help UK businesses implement AI safely — with the governance, security controls, and compliance frameworks to protect your data, manage risk, and satisfy your board.

No obligation. No jargon. Just a straight conversation about AI risk.

AI is moving fast. The risks are moving faster.

Most businesses are adopting AI without understanding what they're exposing. Data sent to third-party models. No audit trails. Staff using consumer tools on sensitive client information. Shadow AI everywhere. And now regulators are catching up — the EU AI Act is in force, and the UK's own framework is coming.

We help you get ahead of it — not by slowing AI down, but by implementing it in a way that's secure, auditable, and defensible.

What we do

Senior AI safety and security expertise — from rapid risk assessments to full governance frameworks and secure implementation.

01

AI Risk Assessment

We audit your current AI usage — sanctioned and shadow — identify your exposure, and give you a clear picture of what needs to change. Fixed price. Two weeks.

02

AI Governance & Compliance

Policies, controls, and frameworks that make your AI use defensible — to regulators, insurers, clients, and your own board. Built for the EU AI Act and UK regulatory landscape.

03

Secure AI Implementation

When you're ready to build AI into your operations, we design and deliver systems with security built in from the start — not bolted on afterwards.

Where businesses get exposed

Data leakage

Sensitive client and business data sent to external AI models with no visibility into how it's stored, used, or retained.

Shadow AI

Staff using consumer AI tools — ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini — on business data without IT or compliance knowing.

No audit trail

AI decisions and outputs with no logging, no accountability, and no way to explain them to a regulator or client.

Vendor lock-in

Business processes built around a single AI vendor with no exit strategy, no data portability, and no fallback.

Regulatory exposure

EU AI Act now in force. UK framework incoming. Financial services and healthcare sectors under particular scrutiny.

Over-reliance

Critical decisions delegated to AI systems without adequate human oversight, validation, or challenge processes.

Live in Production

We practice what we advise

Our own operations run on AI — securely.

We run AI in our own business — managing projects, deploying infrastructure, handling operations. Built with the same security principles we advise clients on: isolated data, audit logs, controlled access, no sensitive data in third-party training pipelines.

When we tell you how to do it safely, it's because we've already done it.

See case studies →
secure — qailabs.io

mark: is this deployment GDPR compliant?

assistant: Checking data flows, storage locations, retention policies...

Data isolated — no cross-tenant access
Storage: eu-west-2, no third-party egress
Audit log complete — all actions recorded
Retention policy: needs review after 90d

assistant: Compliant with one flag. Retention rule added to backlog.

Senior expertise. Direct access.

Enterprise background

30 years in enterprise technology — financial services, government, large-scale infrastructure. We understand regulated environments and compliance requirements.

Built in production

We don't consult from theory. Our AI systems handle real operations every day, built with the same security controls we design for clients.

Straight advice

We'll tell you what's genuinely risky and what isn't. No manufactured urgency, no unnecessary complexity — just honest guidance.

Know your AI risk. Start there.

Book a free 30-minute call. We'll talk through your current AI usage and give you an honest view of where your exposure is.

No spam. No obligation. Just a conversation.