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Software continuity · London
Free 20-minute checkAI application production support
Your AI application works. Now make it operable.
Stonehold helps UK organisations move employee-built AI applications and internal tools from useful prototype to controlled production—then keeps them supported as the business changes.
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For AI, automation and internal-tool programmes without a complete software operations team behind them.
The prototype crossed a business boundary.
Once other people rely on the tool, the question changes from ‘can it work?’ to ‘who is responsible when it changes, fails or produces the wrong outcome?’
Sensitive data entered the workflow
Access, retention, providers, logging and human oversight now need deliberate control.
A first builder is being hired
The role can create value faster when deployment, monitoring, security, support and handover already have an owner.
AI changes the checks. It does not remove the basics.
AI applications still need ordinary software engineering. They also need evidence that variable outputs remain acceptable in the business situations that matter.
Software controls
Access, tests, dependencies, deployment, observability, incident response, backup and recovery.
AI controls
Representative evaluations, model and prompt change tracking, output monitoring and human approval boundaries.
A production layer for the first useful tool.
Application inventory
Builders, platforms, models, data, integrations, users and current production boundaries.
Acceptance evidence
Deterministic tests and AI evaluations tied to real business rules and representative cases.
Access and data control
Permissions, secrets, provider boundaries, audit evidence and consequential approvals.
Release discipline
Versioned prompts, models, code and dependencies with review and rollback appropriate to impact.
Production monitoring
Technical health, model behaviour and important business outcomes observed together.
Human ownership
Named product and technical owners with clear authority for exceptions and incidents.
Keep the speed. Add an operating system.
- 01
Map the application
Trace the intended outcome, users, data, platforms, models, integrations and current owner.
- 02
Productionise the boundary
Add the smallest credible set of tests, evaluations, monitoring, access, release and recovery controls.
- 03
Operate and learn
Support the live tool, review failures and changes, and keep business experts in charge of what right means.
Questions buyers usually ask.
Can you productionise an application built with AI coding tools?
Yes, when the organisation controls the code, data and infrastructure and the application can be made supportable. The same engineering controls still apply, with additional evaluation and approval controls where model behaviour matters.
What is the difference between software tests and AI evaluations?
Tests usually check deterministic behaviour such as calculations, permissions and integrations. Evaluations measure whether variable AI outputs remain useful, safe and aligned with representative business cases.
Do we need an internal AI developer as well?
It depends on the volume and type of product work. Stonehold can give a builder a production and operating layer, or provide managed continuity when the application need is fractional and the business retains product decisions.
Can employees keep using Lovable, Replit, Base44 or similar tools?
Potentially. The platform choice must fit the application's data, access, resilience, change-control and handover requirements. Stonehold assesses the actual boundary instead of assuming that every prototype must be rebuilt.
Bring us the software. We'll help define the job.
The first call is free and requires no preparation. We'll tell you whether the sensible next step is a developer, a takeover, managed support—or no Stonehold engagement at all.
- 01 Tell us what the software does.
- 02 Tell us who depends on it.
- 03 Suggest a time that works.