CROSS-BORDER
UK companies entering African markets
You have a UK product or service and want to launch in Lagos, Accra, or Nairobi. We bring UK-grade strategy and engineering paired with on-the-ground delivery teams who know the market culturally and technically.
African companies expanding into the UK or EU
You're a Nigerian or West African scale-up that needs UK presence — for fundraising, enterprise sales, or regulatory positioning. We provide the UK contracting entity, the Manchester address, and the go-to-market support.
Cross-border AI infrastructure and data
Data residency, model deployment, and compliance across UK GDPR, NDPR, and emerging AI regulation. We've built systems that span both jurisdictions and know where the friction points actually are.
The friction points we've already hit.
Data residency
Where can data sit? Who can access it? What are the cross-border transfer mechanisms? We work this out before the contract is signed, not after the breach.
Time zones and culture
WAT and BST overlap by six hours. We've built our delivery model around that overlap, with handoff conventions that make async work between London and Lagos feel native.
Currency and contracting
We invoice in GBP, EUR, USD, or NGN depending on what makes sense for the engagement. UK Ltd or Nigerian entity contracting available based on procurement requirements.
Regulatory landscape
UK GDPR, NDPR, the EU AI Act, sector-specific regulation. We won't pretend to be solicitors, but we know enough to flag the questions you should be asking.
Almost no other consultancy can credibly serve all three regions.
UK consultancies that “have an Africa practice” usually mean a couple of partners who flew to Lagos once and a sub-contracted local team they've never met. African shops that “have a London office” usually mean a serviced address and a director who visits twice a year.
We have founders in Manchester and engineers in Lagos and Abuja, working together on the same projects every day. The cross-border practice isn't a vertical we sell — it's how we operate as a company.
That's why our existing engagements (Royal Q's embedded engineering team, the University of Greater Manchester partnership integrating Sentino AI into research pipelines) are mostly cross-border by nature. The kind of work that doesn't survive a single time-zone team.
Got a cross-border AI project?
Tell us where it starts, where it's going, and what's in the way. We've probably already hit at least one version of it.