Foundry Accelerator · Azure AI Foundry
Azure AI Foundry consultancy
North Peak Cloud is an Azure AI Foundry consultancy that takes organisations from AI pilot to production — the Foundry Accelerator does it at a fixed price, in weeks. We design the Foundry hub and projects, build your first real use case — retrieval-augmented generation, an agent workflow or document intelligence — and wire in the evaluation, guardrails and CI/CD that make it safe to run. You work directly with the architect who does the build.
- Azure AI Foundry hub & project architecture
- RAG, agents and document intelligence, production-grade
- Evaluations, content safety and responsible-AI guardrails
- A cost model agreed before you commit
- Reusable accelerator IP and full knowledge transfer
AI on Azure, done right.
AI-ready foundations
Azure AI Foundry hubs and projects, private networking to your models, identity and policy guardrails — the secure base every AI workload needs before it scales.
Cost control for AI & cloud
FinOps for the AI era: token and PTU strategy, model right-sizing, reservations and anomaly detection. We find the waste your invoice is hiding.
Platform engineering
Landing zones as code in Bicep or Terraform, GitOps, policy-as-code and golden paths. Enterprise-grade Azure delivered in weeks, not quarters.
Security & responsible AI
Content filtering, evaluations, data-residency and audit-ready guardrails aligned to the EU AI Act and ISO 42001 — trustworthy AI you can put in front of customers.
Migration & modernisation
Cloud Adoption Framework migrations and Well-Architected reviews that leave you cheaper, faster and ready for AI — not just lifted-and-shifted.
Senior engineers, direct
You work with the architect who does the build — no account managers, no offshore hand-off, no gatekeeping. Answers in plain English.
Three routes to AI on Azure.
| Route | Typical cost | Speed to production | Who does the work | Price certainty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build in-house | Engineer salaries + the learning curve | 3–6 months to first production use case | Your team, learning as they go | Open-ended |
| Large MSP / SI programme | Typically six figures | Quarterly roadmaps, rotating teams | A delivery team and an account manager | Quoted after discovery calls |
| North Peak Cloud | Fixed-price packages | Weeks to production | The architect who scoped it | Fixed and agreed before work starts |
Three ways to start.
An AI-ready Azure landing zone, delivered in weeks.
- Azure AI Foundry hub & projects
- Private networking to model endpoints
- Identity, RBAC & Azure Policy guardrails
- Responsible-AI baseline & content filters
- Infrastructure as code you own
- Handover & runbook
One AI use case, production-grade, on AI Foundry.
- RAG, agent or document-intelligence build
- Evaluation & guardrails wired in
- CI/CD and observability
- Cost model before you commit
- Knowledge transfer to your team
- Reusable accelerator IP
Stop AI and cloud bill shock — with a gain-share option where our fee aligns to the savings we deliver.
- Token / PTU vs pay-as-you-go strategy
- Model right-sizing & reservations
- Cost anomaly detection
- Classic Azure estate optimisation
- Monthly reporting & reviews
- Gain-share option available
for AI.
Asked and answered.
How much does the Foundry Accelerator cost?+
A fixed price agreed before work starts, covering one AI use case — RAG on your data, an agent workflow or document intelligence — taken from pilot to production on Azure AI Foundry, with evaluations, guardrails, CI/CD and knowledge transfer included. One number, no day-rate open-endedness.
What is Azure AI Foundry?+
Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft's platform for building, evaluating and operating generative-AI applications on Azure — organising work into hubs and projects with a model catalogue, prompt and evaluation tooling, content safety and deployment. North Peak Cloud designs and builds production AI Foundry workloads for you.
How do you take an AI pilot to production?+
We start with an AI-readiness review, design a secure AI Foundry foundation (identity, private networking, policy and responsible-AI guardrails), then build your use case with evaluations and CI/CD so it can be run, monitored and trusted — not just demoed.
Do you work outside the UK?+
Yes. North Peak Cloud is a UK Azure consultancy that works remotely with clients across the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and the EU, and invoices cross-border.