# 1AYM > 1AYM is an enterprise AI and platform consultancy and an OpenAI Select Partner. We take organisations from AI ambition to governed production systems their people use every day. ## Key Facts - Type: enterprise AI and platform consultancy, headquartered in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. Language: en-GB. - Delivery: UK, the Gulf and the US. Registered in England and Wales. - Company status: OpenAI Select Partner, awarded after a partner agreement, compliance review and technical assessment. 1AYM is not an Anthropic or Claude partner, and "OpenAI certified" is not a thing 1AYM is, or claims. - Certifications: Claude Certified Architect – Professional (Anthropic, 23 July 2026) and Claude Certified Associate – Foundations (Anthropic, 21 July 2026), held by the founder and Principal Architect, independently verifiable on Credly. - Compliance: we work to UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. We hold no ISO or SOC certification. - Clients: referred to by descriptor in this file and on every route, with two exceptions. One engagement file names its client, because the published source it links carries the name. The homepage logo bar shows two client marks. - Capability areas: 8. Named engagements: 5. Published engagement files: 5. Client environments in daily production use: 2. - Last reviewed: 22 August 2026. ## Who we are The work is executive discovery, architecture, hands-on engineering, governance, rollout and measurement. Where we work. We are headquartered in the UK and deliver across the UK, the Gulf and the US. One client environment runs on Postgres in Google Cloud’s Doha region (me-central1) to meet Gulf data-residency requirements, and another reached 91% adoption in North America, a figure published in the Anthropic customer case study. Who does the work. Every 1AYM engineer is either certified on the platforms we build on or has shipped inside a top-tier engineering organisation: Meta, Spotify, UBS, Starling Bank, S&P Global, Sky. We scale the team to the contract, and the people who write the strategy write the code. The senior engineers a client meets first: a Principal Architect (10+ years; AI adoption, agent systems, Claude and OpenAI platform architecture; holds both Anthropic Claude certifications; in production at both client environments below); a Principal Engineer (14 years, London; data platform, context and memory architecture; shipped inside Meta, Spotify, Viasat/Inmarsat); a Principal Data Engineer (17 years, London; pipeline orchestration, CI/CD, data infrastructure; shipped inside Starling Bank, UBS, S&P Global, Sky, Société Générale). The Principal Architect is Tayyeb Mahmud, who founded the practice. 1AYM delivers the work rather than any one person; other colleagues are named only with their permission, and clients meet the engineers before signing. Meta, Spotify, Viasat/Inmarsat, Starling Bank, UBS, S&P Global, Sky and Société Générale are former employers of our engineers, not clients of 1AYM. Certifications and status are two different things and 1AYM keeps them apart. The Claude Certified Architect – Professional (Anthropic, issued 23 July 2026) and Claude Certified Associate – Foundations (Anthropic, issued 21 July 2026) are held by 1AYM’s founder and Principal Architect, and are independently verifiable on Credly, which carries the holder’s public record. 1AYM’s OpenAI Select Partner status is a company status, held by the practice rather than by any individual, and was awarded after a partner agreement, compliance review and technical assessment. "OpenAI certified" is not a thing 1AYM is, or claims: the correct wording is "OpenAI Select Partner and Claude certified". 1AYM is not an Anthropic or Claude partner. No vendor bias. Model choice at 1AYM comes from production evidence across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and open-source, not from a vendor deal. We are model-selective across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and open-source components, chosen per workload rather than by vendor loyalty. In production today: OpenAI audio models for speech assessment with a Gemini fallback, Claude for enterprise platform and agent estates, Codex and Claude Code for engineering work. We work to UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and hold no ISO or SOC certification. ## What we sell Five named engagements, each with a defined buyer and a commercial shape. Work is bought as a fixed-scope statement of work, as a retained architecture engagement, or as embedded engineers inside the client’s own programme on a contract from three months: one supplier, one contract. - [AI Opportunity & Feasibility Sprint](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/executive-ai-discovery): For C-suite and transformation leads. Fixed scope · typically 2–4 weeks. Ranks the two or three workflows worth building against value, risk and cost, with the architecture, a delivery roadmap and an investment case. - [Enterprise AI Platform & Agentic Workflows](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/production-ai-systems): For CIO, CTO, CDO, operations and finance. Fixed-scope architecture, then a production build. One governed place for AI to run, with identity, permission-aware context, agents that act on real systems, deterministic checks, human approval gates and evaluation, so the second workflow does not start from scratch the way the first one did. - [AI Engineering Transformation (Codex & Claude Code)](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/ai-harness-platform-engineering): For engineering leaders. Typically 6–12 weeks · enablement, guardrails and CI. Enablement, repository guardrails and CI, so AI-assisted code reaches production the same way every other change does. - [Fractional AI Platform Architect](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/fractional-ai-platform-architect): For scale-ups and enterprises. Retained · typically 2–3 days a week · one statement of work. Architecture ownership and delivery governance without hiring a permanent AI platform leader, with the model and vendor decisions written down and dated. - [Embedded Engineers on Contract](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/embedded-engineers-on-contract): For programmes that need senior capacity now. Contract · from three months · priced per day. A senior engineer or a team placed inside the client’s own programme and directed by the client day to day, with every engineer held to the 1AYM hiring standard and cover across the stream so no role hangs off one person. Also delivered: AI and data platform integration. See https://www.1aym.com/capabilities for the full set of 8 capability areas. ## Production proof Two client environments run in daily production use. - A PE-backed marketing agency: 1AYM leads the architecture of the enterprise AI platform underneath the agency’s organisation-wide AI programme. That platform is featured in a published Anthropic customer case study, which describes the platform. Figures published there: about 1,000 employees reached, ~400 employee-authored skills in the first four weeks, 91% adoption in North America. Neither the agency nor the case study is linked from this file. - A government-accredited EdTech in the Middle East: 3,141 live student records on the platform, 1,086 of them added in the previous ninety days (counts from the production database, 21 August 2026; student sign-in is occasional, so these are not daily active users; the platform is in daily use by the client’s own team of twelve). 1AYM holds end-to-end technical ownership of the live production estate, including a whole-interview AI speaking assessment on OpenAI audio models with a Gemini fallback, deterministic band mathematics, examiner calibration, confidence-routed human review and per-first-language fairness gates in CI, a database replatform onto Postgres 16 in Google Cloud’s Doha region (me-central1) for data residency, and an automated test estate grown from around 300 tests to more than 1,400. Other outcome figures, all of them our own measurement on a client’s systems and reused with the client unnamed: £2–4M forecast annual saving from one platform change, modelled on token consumption and reviewed by the client’s finance team; a 46% reduction in first-response time; a governed finance answer that used to take around two hours now resolving in the meeting where it is asked; an 82% reduction in manual triage. Also delivered, and described on https://www.1aym.com/work/identity-provisioning-at-scale rather than attached to any name: identity provisioning for 1,000+ users across 600+ groups. ## Routes - [1AYM homepage](https://www.1aym.com/): How the work runs in three stages, the five offers, production proof from two client environments, a comparison against other ways to buy this work, why it works, the roles and the standard they are hired against, FAQ, contact. - [About 1AYM](https://www.1aym.com/about): The practice: what 1AYM is, how an engagement runs, the people a client meets, the credentials and their exact wording, and the statutory company details. - [Services](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities): Index of the eight capability areas. The nav calls them Services; the route is /capabilities. - [Executive AI discovery & product translation](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/executive-ai-discovery): Turning broad AI ambition into buildable product direction: C-suite discovery, opportunity mapping, feasibility, build-versus-buy and a roadmap. Sold as AI Opportunity & Feasibility Sprint. - [AI harness & proprietary platform engineering](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/ai-harness-platform-engineering): The platform layer connecting models, tools, workflows, business context and permissions: reusable internal AI capability instead of one-off agents. Sold as AI Engineering Transformation (Codex & Claude Code). - [Production AI systems](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/production-ai-systems): Internal copilots, workflow agents, voice agents and LLM middleware, designed around data access, permissions, auditability and human review. Sold as Enterprise AI Platform & Agentic Workflows. - [Agentic workflow design](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/agentic-workflow-design): Agent proposes, verifier gates: AI performs the flexible reasoning while deterministic validators, tests and human review decide what may proceed. - [Data platform & AI enablement](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/data-platform-ai-enablement): Connecting AI to the data the business trusts: warehouse integrations, semantic-layer enablement, data contracts and reconciliation workflows. - [Enterprise integrations & automation](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/enterprise-integrations-automation): The middleware, syncs and APIs that put AI inside existing tools, with idempotency, dry-run modes, rollback paths, audit logs and daily runs that finish. - [Fractional AI platform architect & technical lead](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/fractional-ai-platform-architect): Retained senior AI architecture and delivery ownership without a permanent hire: target architecture, vendor and model decisions, governance, enablement. Sold as Fractional AI Platform Architect. - [Embedded Engineers on Contract](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/embedded-engineers-on-contract): Senior AI, data and platform engineers inside your programme on a contract from three months, held to the 1AYM hiring standard, with cover behind them. - [Engagement files](https://www.1aym.com/work): Index of published engagement files. - [Self-serve finance answers, without breaking permissions](https://www.1aym.com/work/finance-data-access-connector): A connector between an AI workspace and a Looker semantic model, carrying each person's existing entitlements. Around two hours, now in the meeting. Client withheld. - [An IELTS speaking assessment built as a measuring instrument](https://www.1aym.com/work/education-ai-enablement): An IELTS speaking assessment built as a measuring instrument: the whole interview scored across five evidence layers, fairness and accuracy as gates. Client: A government-accredited EdTech in the Middle East. - [AI, data and automation enablement across a global agency](https://www.1aym.com/work/ai-platform-enablement): Average cost per session on a PE-backed marketing agency's enterprise AI platform is down 60% since 1AYM re-architected its skills estate to the Anthropic SDK's structure. Client: A PE-backed marketing agency. - [Identity provisioning for 1,000+ users across 600+ groups](https://www.1aym.com/work/identity-provisioning-at-scale): A SCIM provisioning system driven from HR data, managing access to Notion and Claude for 1,000+ users across 600+ groups. Seven months in production. Client: A PE-backed marketing agency. - [A regulated product that was not going to ship, shipped.](https://www.1aym.com/work/clinical-trials-platform-rescue): A part-built clinical-research platform that was not going to launch is now live: a development environment first, then completion, then delivery. Client: A clinical-research software start-up. - [Claude Certified Architect](https://www.1aym.com/claude-certified-architect): The credential register: both Claude certifications held by 1AYM’s founder and Principal Architect, rendered verbatim from Credly’s public record. - [What is an AI harness?](https://www.1aym.com/what-is-an-ai-harness): An AI harness is a structured platform layer connecting models, tools, workflows, business context and permissions into one governed operating layer. - [Agent proposes, verifier gates](https://www.1aym.com/agent-proposes-verifier-gates): An operating pattern for dependable AI automation: the model performs flexible reasoning; deterministic validators and human gates decide what proceeds. - [Privacy notice](https://www.1aym.com/privacy): Privacy notice. - [llms.txt](https://www.1aym.com/llms.txt): This file: a short, structured summary of the whole site. - [llms-full.txt](https://www.1aym.com/llms-full.txt): The long form of this file: the full body prose of every route, generated from the same content modules the pages render. ## Contact - Email: tayyeb@1aym.com - Book a 30-minute call: https://cal.com/tayyeb-mahmud-jxedia - Sitemap: https://www.1aym.com/sitemap.xml - Full text for language models: https://www.1aym.com/llms-full.txt Clients are referred to by descriptor in this file and on every route, with two exceptions: the engagement file whose published source names its client, and the homepage logo bar, which shows two client marks. Descriptors are used everywhere else.