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Cognitecta

Applied AI

Make AI useful.

We help organisations understand, design and deploy artificial intelligence.

Expert training. Strategic consultancy. Production AI systems.

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Applied AI. From capability to production.

Practice, not company age

  1. 01

    Training

    More than twenty years delivering professional technology training — the practice, not the company.

  2. 02

    Courses

    Hundreds of technical courses delivered for engineering teams and large organisations.

  3. 03

    Engineering

    Deep software engineering and architecture experience, including senior and principal work.

  4. 04

    AI

    A formal academic background in Artificial Intelligence.

  5. 05

    Production

    Hands-on delivery of production systems, including applied AI.

Understand it. Design it. Build it.

We don’t just advise on AI. We teach it, architect it and build it.

  1. 01

    TRAIN

    Build AI capability inside your organisation.

    Practitioner-led technical training grounded in real engineering experience.

  2. 02

    ADVISE

    Work out what to build — and how to build it properly.

    Strategy, discovery and architecture from people who understand the underlying technology.

  3. 03

    BUILD

    Take AI into production.

    Agents, RAG, intelligent applications and bespoke AI systems designed around real organisational requirements.

Why Cognitecta

Cognitecta closes the gap between learning about AI and putting it into production.

We don’t just advise on AI. We teach it, architect it and build it. Customers engage at any point on that path. They do not have to follow the entire journey.

Selected capabilities

  1. 01

    Generative AI and LLMs

  2. 02

    Applied AI for engineers

  3. 03

    RAG and agentic RAG

  4. 04

    AI agents and workflows

  5. 05

    AI architecture

  6. 06

    Workshops and discovery

  7. 07

    Model integration

  8. 08

    Production systems

Figure 01 · How we work

Learn. Discover. Prototype. Production. Engage at any point.

  1. 01

    Learn

    Build shared language and judgement. Training that holds in an engineering room, not a product demo.

  2. 02

    Discover

    Establish where AI is genuinely useful, what the constraints are, and what would constitute a good outcome.

  3. 03

    Prototype

    Prove the shape of the system against real data, interfaces and failure modes — before committing the organisation.

  4. 04

    Production

    Design, integrate and ship. The people who will own the system stay in the work.

Train

Serious engineering education.

Practitioner-led rooms for teams who have to ship. Generative AI, RAG, agents, architecture — shaped to the work, not a public timetable.

Training

Build

Production AI systems.

Agents, RAG, copilots and bespoke applications, designed around existing systems. Reusable technology under delivery — not a catalogue of products.

Build

Practice

A specialist technical organisation. Training, consultancy and substantial AI engineering — led by people who still do the work.

Cognitecta is not a trainer who visits architecture, and not an agency that cannot teach. The same practice designs the system, explains it, and builds it.

About

Principal

Nicholas Johnson

AI architect and software engineer

The work is led from practice: architecture, engineering, and the teaching of both.

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From first understanding to a working production system.

Write with the organisation and the problem. Engage for training, architecture, delivery — or the whole path.

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Engagement notes — forthcoming

Selected work will sit here when it can be discussed. Until then, the work speaks in the room.