Specialist AI lab · Independent counsel
Your lighthouse in the Age of AI.
A lab working at the frontier and independent counsel for the world’s leading organizations. We help international organizations, governments, technology firms and regulated enterprises safely scale AI across their ecosystems.
Senior-only. Our leaders come from CTO and Practice Director roles, and they are hands-on in the work.
Who we are
We are not a tech implementation firm. And we don’t want to be.
AI is moving faster than any organization can absorb. Knowing where to invest, what you risk, and what to build has never been harder.
Cloud Lighthouse is a specialist AI lab that acts as outside counsel for the Age of AI: conflict-free, senior-only, and on your side alone. Centru runs your AI operating model, our lab builds working AI with you, and our counsel guides you through what comes next.
This is by design
We couldn’t credibly offer Centru, Labs, and Counsel if we were paid to sell you an army of consultants. We avoid that conflict.
Independent in what we build, too
Frontier labs advise in order to sell their own LLMs. What we sell, Centru, makes you more self-sufficient on any vendor’s technology.
Think of us like outside counsel
You bring in outside counsel when a matter calls for specialist expertise. We do the same for AI, conflict-free and on your side alone.
What we do
Centru, Labs, and Counsel
The model we built, the lab where we build with you, and counsel on your side.
Centru
Runs your AI operating model.
Centru helps organizations run their AI operating model, so they can build faster, align strategy, reduce risk, and evidence their work.
Labs
Bring your hardest problems into our lab.
We build working solutions with you in focused cycles, starting from two weeks, across a wide range of technologies, ready to scale in your environment.
Counsel
Independent, senior expertise on your side.
We guide your organization, conflict-free and senior-only. Any of these can be where a relationship starts.
Centru.ai
Build faster. Align strategy. Reduce risk. Evidence the work.
Leaders see their whole AI portfolio before they invest. Product and engineering teams work to a clear roadmap and navigate AI compliance. Compliance teams look after the AI in use. And everyone can see how their work moves strategic goals forward.
See Centru.aiResearch and publications
Open research, free to read.
Every finding traces back to a published model.
Results
Getting AI right pays off.
4,575,199%
Return in one week
Approximately $400 million recovered from a single incident for a publicly traded global company, within an ongoing Counsel relationship.
Technical Audit and Recovery92%
Lower cost for a major solution
A globally deployed public sector agency used our lab to cut the cost of a major solution from $20 million to $1.6 million.
Rapid Prototype$150,000
Lost in 36 hours
By an organization that thought getting AI right wasn’t worth the investment, and believed its platform vendor was at fault. We tracked down the real cause.
Read the case studiesConvened by Cloud Lighthouse
Leaders, engineers, ethicists, and policymakers in one room.
More than a series of events. The AI Trust Forum is home to all of the AI work across our consortium, where the people responsible for AI work through its hardest questions together.
- Leadership retreatsBy application and city-branded, each co-hosted with organizations from the consortium.
- PublicationsOpen research and practical guidance, free to read.
- A global communityActive year-round. Members work alongside us and are able to collaborate on the Forum’s work. Membership
Retreats
How we think
At the intersection of three disciplines
Each discipline on its own gives a partial answer.
Engineering without ethics builds what should not be built.
Ethics without engineering produces principles nothing runs on.
Either without the law fails the first time someone with authority asks.
We work at that intersection.
How we engage
We don’t sell time for money.
Every engagement is priced at fixed-cost, around what we can do and produce together.
From two weeks
Lab cycles
Focused cycles in our lab, starting from two weeks. Several can run at once to meet tight timelines.
Three to twelve months
Sustained presence
Our people alongside yours for the long haul: ongoing senior advice, and engineers building in your environment when the work calls for it.
Scoped to one question
A single matter
An assessment, a diligence, or an audit, scoped to the question in front of you.
Most clients
Standing counsel
Most clients combine our services in one retained relationship, with Lab cycles and Centru.ai included. A client might retain us for AI Strategy and Technical Assurance together, with Lab cycles on hand whenever a priority calls for experimentation.
Who we serve
Complex industries in more than a dozen countries
We ♥ regulated industries.
- Financial Services incl. multilateral development banks
- Public Sector incl. international organizations
- Law Firms
- Energy + Utilities
- Healthcare
Organizations we’ve served
- One of the three largest companies in the world
- Global governance, humanitarian, and peacekeeping organization
- Global bank investing around the world
- Enterprise bank investing across the Americas
- Renowned “Big Four” consulting firm
- Global telecom regulator
- Prominent law firm in the United Kingdom
- Major, historic law firm in the United States
- Uniquely innovative national electricity company
- Global healthcare and emergency services provider
- Global medical research and healthcare
- International enterprise humanitarian organization
- Global energy research and policy organization
- Economic development in the Asia-Pacific region
- Private equity firm with holdings around the world
- Specialized insurance technology firm
- Global accounting applications and data provider
- Sustainable agriculture manufacturer
- International coworking and office space provider
- Leading cloud systems integrator
- Highly awarded technology consultancy
Our people
We are who you get when you engage Cloud Lighthouse.
100% of our leadership team comes from a CTO or Practice Director role. And we all do direct, hands-on work.
Andrew Welch
Managing Partner
Keegan Chambers
Chief Operating Officer
Ana Welch
Chief Technology Officer
Chris Huntingford
Chief AI Officer
Bogdan Demeny
Lab Director
Talk to us
Bring us the question in front of you.
Where to invest, what you’re exposed to, what to build, or something that has gone wrong. Any of our services can be where a relationship starts.
- London
- Boston
- Seattle
- Valencia
- Brașov