Elver · Applied AI · Bristol, UK
AI decision support
for mission driven organisations.
Use the latest AI models. Keep institutional knowledge, and control, in-house.
Custom AI harnesses
IP and code owned by you
Compounds institutional knowledge
Improves automatically with use
Use frontier or open source models
Improved decision making without increased risk.
AI models
- Frontier or open source models
Governance layer
- 01Steers the models so information is accessed correctly, consistently and use can be audited
- 02Captures institutional knowledge in workflows, and improves automatically with use
- 03Secures sensitive information and separates AI-made from human-reserved decisions
Your people
- Using custom apps, Teams or Slack integrations, or through MCP
Your data
- Existing sources, ingested and enriched
- New third-party, open and AI-generated sources
- Adversarially reviewed against agreed standards
How we build
Sargasso
Our own agentic management system. It's an evaluation harness, it orchestrates agents, it's also a delivery pipeline and a client portal. Sargasso is not a product we sell, it's how our small team can ship high-quality software so efficiently. It's also how we can ensure everything we build is safe and secure.
sargasso · factory floor
replay
Fig. 1 — a Sargasso job.
Live Demo
GSS Explorer
As most of the products we build are not public facing, we produced this example. Powered by the General Social Survey, an US attitudinal survey that's been running since 1973, it allows you to describe a story and an agentic system will isolate relevant data. Our storytelling engine extracts themes from your narrative and builds charts that support, or challenge, your case. The user requires no knowledge of the underlying survey data. Built using Sargasso in two days.
Try it yourself →Fig. 2 — GSS Explorer: describe a narrative, get fifty years of survey data to support or challenge it.
Essays
What we're thinking about.
No, There Isn’t a 1 in 10 Chance AI Kills Your Family
Extinction forecasts from inside the frontier labs are feelings expressed as numbers — and they crowd out the AI risks that are actually here.
Read the essay →A Third Way
Companies think they have to choose between a third-party AI product and an enterprise licence from a frontier AI lab. There is a third way.
Read the essay →Co-development
Built with you.
All our AI systems are co-developed with our customers. AI is a fast-moving field with baffling jargon and we upskill the teams we work with. We are also well placed to help clients work through the ethical implications of AI adoption.
01 — Parametric knowledge
What the model already knows from its training, baked into the model itself. Nothing is looked up. It answers the way you'd recall your own phone number.
Fig. 3 — Demystifying the vocabulary of AI. Hover or tap any term to hold it and read what it means.
Company
Fifteen years of building together.
Elver was founded by Nick Fellingham and Andy Littledale, who have worked together since 2011 across three startups. Their first was an analytics business acquired by Twitter, the second a VC backed deep-tech video firm. Elver was started in December 2025 when it became clear that AI models would fundamentally change how software was developed.
Nick Fellingham
Co-founder · Technology
AI specialist with deep expertise in large language models and generative systems. Previously CEO and co-founder of Condense, the VC-backed volumetric-video company behind immersive broadcasts with the BBC; before that, engineering at Twitter and a decade of applied ML, starting with the systems at SecondSync that mapped global conversation to live television in real time.
Andy Littledale
Co-founder · Commercial
30 years working in tech. Co-founded SecondSync, the social-TV analytics company acquired by Twitter, then led audience-analytics products at Twitter. Founded Poli, a micro-polling startup rethinking how public opinion is measured. Honorary Professor at the University of Bristol, where he lectures on innovation and entrepreneurship. Philosophy degree. Advisory board member of Practice-Oriented AI CDT.
Now hiring · Bristol · £120k
Forward Deployed Engineer
Half with customers, half building. Own the work from the first conversation to production, with the founders sitting next to you.
Contact us
Get in touch.
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