🔒 Private AI Hosting
AI that keeps your data in the UK
Your staff are pasting client information into ChatGPT. Not maliciously — because it saves them twenty minutes and nobody told them not to.
Private AI hosting gives them the same convenience on infrastructure you control, where the data stays in the UK and is never used to train anybody’s model.
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- 20 years in business
- Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
dijitul provides private AI hosting for UK businesses from £79 + VAT per month. Your AI assistant is trained on your own documents, runs on UK infrastructure, and your data is never used to train public models. Set up and managed from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Call 01623 650333.
Starter from £79 + VAT/month · Business from £199 + VAT/month · Dedicated from £699 + VAT/month · UK data residency · No training on your data
⚠️ The problem
Nobody wrote a policy for this
In most businesses we visit, AI arrived from the bottom up. Someone in accounts started drafting emails with it. Someone in sales summarised a call. Someone pasted a client contract in to get a plain-English read on clause fourteen.
None of that is unreasonable behaviour — it is what a genuinely useful free tool looks like in the wild. The problem is that on consumer tiers of some AI services, what you type can be retained and used to improve the model. Client information has left your control and you cannot get it back or say where it went.
If you handle personal data under UK GDPR, that is a problem you own whether or not you knew it was happening.
✅ The alternative
What private AI hosting actually is
An AI assistant that behaves like the tools your staff already like, with three differences: it runs on infrastructure we manage in the UK, it is contractually guaranteed never to train on your data, and it knows about your business because we have given it your documents.
That last part is what stops people treating it as a novelty. An assistant that has read your policies, your quotes, your product specs and your previous proposals is useful in a way a blank chat box never is.
| Free public AI | dijitul Private AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your data is processed | Often outside the UK | UK region, guaranteed |
| Used to train the model | Sometimes, on consumer tiers | Never — contractual |
| Knows your business | No | Trained on your documents |
| Audit trail of who used it | No | Yes, full logging |
| Access control when staff leave | None | Managed by us |
| Someone accountable if it breaks | No | Us, on 01623 650333 |
Three tiers, published prices
No lock-in contracts, 30 days notice, and we export your data if you leave. Prices exclude VAT.
Starter
from £79
+ VAT per month
One assistant, up to 500 of your documents, usage logging and a monthly report. Where most small businesses should start.
Business
from £199
+ VAT per month
Up to three assistants, up to 5,000 documents, team access controls, isolated tenancy on dijitul infrastructure and a quarterly review.
Dedicated
from £699
+ VAT per month
Your own isolated instance and custom model selection. For regulated work where shared infrastructure is not acceptable.
🛠️ How it works
Five steps from go-ahead to your team using it
01
Work out what it needs to know
Usually policies, procedures, product information, past quotes and whatever else your team keeps re-explaining to each other.
02
Build the retrieval layer
Your documents are indexed so the assistant answers from your material rather than guessing — and cites which document it used.
03
Host it properly
UK data residency, contractual no-training, encryption in transit and at rest.
04
Set up access and logging
Who can use it, what they can reach, and a record you can show a client or a regulator.
05
Train your staff, write the policy
A tool without a policy just moves the problem somewhere else.
Typical timescale
Two to three weeks. Most of that is collecting and tidying the documents — work you benefit from regardless.
🤝 Straight talking
What we will talk you out of
Plenty of suppliers will happily sell a small business its own AI server. For almost everyone, that is the wrong purchase.
Dedicated hardware only makes financial sense at very high usage — far beyond what a typical business generates. Below that threshold you are paying several hundred pounds a month for something that would cost a fraction of that to run properly.
What clients actually need is a guarantee about where data goes and who is accountable for it. That is what we sell. If your usage ever genuinely justifies dedicated hardware, we will tell you, and the Dedicated tier is there.
Who this is for
The businesses that get most from this are the ones that cannot use public AI freely: solicitors and conveyancers, accountants and bookkeepers, healthcare and dental practices, recruiters holding candidate data, financial advisers, and any business whose client contracts specify where data may be processed. It also suits manufacturers and engineering firms sitting on technical documentation nobody can find.
📍 Across the two counties
Private AI hosting near you
We set up and manage private AI across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, working face to face from our Mansfield office.
Frequently asked questions
Is this just ChatGPT with a different logo?
No. The distinction is where your data is processed, whether it is retained for training, and whether the assistant has been given your own documents to answer from. On the Business and Dedicated tiers it runs on our infrastructure using open models rather than a third-party consumer service.
What happens to our data?
It stays in the UK, it is encrypted, it is never used to train a model, and access is logged. If you leave, we export your data and delete our copies. That commitment goes in the contract, not just on this page.
Do we still need a ChatGPT subscription?
Often not. Many clients replace per-seat consumer subscriptions with one private assistant, which usually costs less overall as well as being safer.
How long does setup take?
Typically two to three weeks from go-ahead. Most of that is collecting and tidying the documents you want it to know about.
What if the AI gives a wrong answer?
It will, occasionally — every AI does. That is why the assistant cites the document it answered from, so staff can check, and why we insist on a usage policy that says what must be verified before it goes to a client.
Can it connect to our other systems?
Usually yes. CRM, email, document storage and quoting systems are common integrations, quoted separately as an automation project from £1,495 + VAT.
I’ve been working with dijitul for years now, and Olly, Connah and the team have always been very helpful and supportive, even when things have gone wrong at 4pm on the Friday of a Bank Holiday weekend. They understand the pressures of running a microenterprise and always seek to find affordable, secure solutions.
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