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The science of AI systems that act with autonomy.

[ About ]

Actonomy is an AI product business focused on solving the last mile to production AI.

Most AI initiatives stall between pilot and production — not from ambition, but from the last-mile work that takes hard-won experience to get right: integration, governance, reliability at scale.

Part of Kainos Group plc, the UK technology unicorn, Actonomy closes that gap — a decade of applied AI engineering inside the UK's most regulated environments, distilled into Actonomy Core: the last-mile layer that gets AI into production faster, safer, built by engineers who've shipped ML at scale under real operational pressure.

Microsoft
2024 Partner of the Year
Winner
AI Award
Microsoft
2021 Partner of the Year
Winner
AI Award

[ Products ]

Your AI infrastructure, solved, with Actonomy Core.

The last-mile layer that turns pilots into accountable, scalable business systems.

Actonomy Core brings together agentic capabilities, integration machinery, and governance as a single platform for production AI.

Actonomy Core declarative manifest

Core
the platform · mono-repo
Agent Core
Agents · model-driven
Model Core
task-specific SLMs
Data Core
Workflows · Data Services
Integration & deployment machinery
infra · pipelines · connects Core to Solutions
Actonomy SDK
Surface (API · MCP) · Agent · Workflow · Data · Tool
SDK
Solutions
production AI Apps & Agents · call Core via Integration

Don’t need the Core? Get the Solutions.

Production-grade, and narrowly scoped AI Apps & Agents - built to perform a single task reliably in real operational environments.

[ Services ]

Unlock access to the UK's top AI engineering talent.

Experience forged in the UK's highest regulated environments, forward-deployed into yours — tackling your hardest challenges with Actonomy Core and high-velocity engineering.

Contact Actonomy
2016
Dedicated research team formed to explore ML engineering techniques
2019
First production AI system deployed for a UK government agency
2020
Kainos Group plc reaches UK Tech Unicorn status
2020
Microsoft Partner of the Year (Data & AI)
2021
Applied AI delivery scales across new sectors and geographies
2022
First AI Ethicist deployed into highly regulated environment
2023
AI Research Centre (AIRC) launched with Ulster University, housing 100+ academic researchers
2023
ChatGPT launches, driving global adoption of AI
2024
Microsoft Partner of the Year (Data & AI)
2025
200+ Azure AI certifications earned
2025
First agent product launched to Microsoft Marketplace
2026
Rebranded as Actonomy
2026
Actonomy Core - production AI engine launched
Machine learning era
Generative AI era
Agentic AI era
Uncharted behaviours
reasons, plans, acts
established patterns
Tool-use & orchestration
orchestration patterns
failure modes
Safety & governance
identity management
consequence management
Humanist superintelligence
social intelligence
human–agent interaction

[ Research ]

Advancing the frontier.

We study new behaviours as they appear in practice — shaping safer, more predictable, human-centric systems that benefit all of society.

[ News & Insights ]

Latest from the lab.

All articles

[ Careers ]

Join the mission.

We're researchers, engineers, and builders from a range of disciplines, working to make sure AI systems scale responsibly. If you're passionate, inherently curious and drawn to hard problems, we'd like to meet you.

Role
Band
Location
AI Engineer
Senior Associate
Gdańsk, Poland
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Platform Engineer
Senior Associate
Gdańsk, Poland
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Product Owner
Manager
Belfast, UK
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AI Architect
Consultant
Belfast, UK
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Security Analyst
Senior Associate
Belfast, UK
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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Consultant
Belfast, UK
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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Associate
Belfast, UK
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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Senior Associate
Belfast, UK
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Let's build the agentic future, responsibly.

Partner with Actonomy, to build accountable production-grade
AI systems that hold up under real operational conditions.

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