# 1AYM

> 1AYM is a UK enterprise AI and platform consultancy and an OpenAI Select Partner. We take organisations from AI ambition to governed production systems their people use every day: executive discovery, architecture, hands-on engineering, governance, rollout and measurement.

Who does the work. Every 1AYM engineer is either certified on the platforms we build on or has shipped inside a top-tier engineering organisation: Meta, Spotify, UBS, Starling Bank, S&P Global, Sky. We scale the team to the contract, and the people who write the strategy write the code. The senior engineers a client meets first: a Principal Architect (10+ years; AI adoption, agent systems, Claude and OpenAI platform architecture; holds both Anthropic Claude certifications; in production at both client environments below); a Principal Engineer (14 years, London; data platform, context and memory architecture; shipped inside Meta, Spotify, Viasat/Inmarsat); a Principal Data Engineer (17 years, London; pipeline orchestration, CI/CD, data infrastructure; shipped inside Starling Bank, UBS, S&P Global, Sky, Société Générale). The Principal Architect is Tayyeb Mahmud, who founded the practice. 1AYM delivers the work rather than any one person; other colleagues are named only with their permission, and clients meet the engineers before signing. Meta, Spotify, Viasat/Inmarsat, Starling Bank, UBS, S&P Global, Sky and Société Générale are former employers of our engineers, not clients of 1AYM.

Certifications and status are two different things and 1AYM keeps them apart. The Claude Certified Architect – Professional (Anthropic, issued 23 July 2026) and Claude Certified Associate – Foundations (Anthropic, issued 21 July 2026) are held by 1AYM's founder and Principal Architect, and are independently verifiable on Credly, which carries the holder's public record. 1AYM's OpenAI Select Partner status is a company status, held by the practice rather than by any individual, and was awarded after a partner agreement, compliance review and technical assessment. "OpenAI certified" is not a thing 1AYM is, or claims: the correct wording is "OpenAI Select Partner and Claude certified". 1AYM is not an Anthropic or Claude partner.

No vendor bias. Model choice at 1AYM comes from production evidence across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and open-source, not from a vendor deal. We are model-selective across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and open-source components, chosen per workload rather than by vendor loyalty. In production today: OpenAI audio models for speech assessment with a Gemini fallback, Claude for enterprise platform and agent estates, Codex and Claude Code for engineering work. We work to UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and hold no ISO or SOC certification.

## What we sell

Four named engagements, each with a defined buyer, output and commercial shape. Everything is bought either as a fixed-scope statement of work or as a retained architecture engagement: one supplier, one contract.

- AI Opportunity & Feasibility Sprint, for C-suite and transformation leads. Fixed scope, typically 2–4 weeks. Ranks the two or three workflows worth building against value, risk and cost, with the architecture, a delivery roadmap and an investment case. Details: https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/executive-ai-discovery
- Enterprise AI Platform & Agentic Workflows, for CIO/CTO/CDO, operations and finance teams. Fixed-scope architecture plus a production build: one governed place for AI to run, with identity, permission-aware context, agents that act on real systems, deterministic checks, human approval gates and evaluation, so the second workflow does not start from scratch the way the first one did. Details: https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/production-ai-systems
- AI Engineering Transformation (Codex & Claude Code), for engineering leaders. Enablement, repository guardrails and CI, typically 6–12 weeks, so AI-assisted code reaches production the same way every other change does. Details: https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/ai-harness-platform-engineering
- Fractional AI Platform Architect, for scale-ups and enterprises. Retained, typically 2–3 days a week, under one statement of work. Architecture ownership and delivery governance without hiring a permanent AI platform leader, with the model and vendor decisions written down and dated.

Also delivered: enterprise context and MCP server engineering, AI FinOps and cost attribution, responsible AI and evaluation, AI and data platform integration, AI enablement and adoption, voice and multimodal AI, and a production vertical slice. See https://www.1aym.com/capabilities for the full set of six capability areas.

## Production proof

Two client environments run in daily production use.

- A PE-backed marketing agency: 1AYM leads the architecture of the enterprise AI platform underneath the agency's organisation-wide AI programme. That platform is featured in a published Anthropic customer case study, which describes the platform. Figures published there: about 1,000 employees reached, ~400 employee-authored skills in the first four weeks, 91% adoption in North America. Neither the agency nor the case study is linked from this file.
- A government-backed EdTech in the Middle East: 3,141 live student records on the platform, 1,086 of them added in the previous ninety days (counts from the production database, 21 August 2026; student sign-in is occasional, so these are not daily active users; the platform is in daily use by the client's own team of twelve). 1AYM holds end-to-end technical ownership of the live production estate, including a whole-interview AI speaking assessment on OpenAI audio models with a Gemini fallback, deterministic band mathematics, examiner calibration, confidence-routed human review and per-first-language fairness gates in CI, a database replatform onto Postgres 16 in Google Cloud's Doha region (me-central1) for data residency, and an automated test estate grown from around 300 tests to more than 1,400.

Other outcome figures, all of them our own measurement on a client's systems and reused with the client unnamed: £2–4M forecast annual saving from one platform change, modelled on token consumption and reviewed by the client's finance team; a 46% reduction in first-response time; a governed finance answer that used to take around two hours now resolving in the meeting where it is asked; an 82% reduction in manual triage. Also delivered, and described on https://www.1aym.com/work/identity-provisioning-at-scale rather than attached to any name: identity provisioning for 1,000+ users across 600+ groups.

## Routes

- [1AYM homepage](https://www.1aym.com/): How the work runs in three stages, the four offers, production proof from two client environments, a comparison against other ways to buy this work, why it works, the roles and the standard they are hired against, FAQ, contact.
- [Services](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities): Index of the six capability areas. The nav calls them Services; the route is /capabilities.
- [Executive AI discovery](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/executive-ai-discovery): Executive AI discovery and product translation. Sold as the AI Opportunity & Feasibility Sprint.
- [AI harness & platform engineering](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/ai-harness-platform-engineering): AI harness and proprietary platform engineering. Sold as AI Engineering Transformation (Codex & Claude Code).
- [Production AI systems](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/production-ai-systems): Copilots, workflow agents and multi-agent systems. Sold as Enterprise AI Platform & Agentic Workflows.
- [Agentic workflow design](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/agentic-workflow-design): Agentic workflow design for finance, data migration and compliance.
- [Data platform & AI enablement](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/data-platform-ai-enablement): Data platform and AI enablement.
- [Enterprise integrations & automation](https://www.1aym.com/capabilities/enterprise-integrations-automation): Enterprise integrations and automation.
- [Engagement files](https://www.1aym.com/work): Index of published engagement files.
- [Finance data access connector](https://www.1aym.com/work/finance-data-access-connector): Self-serve finance answers, without breaking permissions. Client unnamed.
- [Education AI enablement](https://www.1aym.com/work/education-ai-enablement): An IELTS speaking assessment built as a measuring instrument rather than one model call: the whole interview scored across five layers of evidence, the official band descriptors applied in ordinary code, uncertain cases routed to a human examiner, and accent fairness and agreement with examiners stated as release gates the build has to pass, with their validation scheduled rather than reported. Also the estate around it, and how the engagement started as a frontend brief. Client unnamed.
- [AI platform enablement](https://www.1aym.com/work/ai-platform-enablement): AI, data and automation enablement across a global agency, and a phase-two re-architecture of its skills estate to the Anthropic SDK's structure that cut the average cost per session by 60%. 1AYM holds the lead architect role for the platform.
- [Identity provisioning at scale](https://www.1aym.com/work/identity-provisioning-at-scale): Identity provisioning for 1,000+ users across 600+ groups. Client unnamed.
- [Clinical trials platform](https://www.1aym.com/work/clinical-trials-platform-rescue): A clinical-research software start-up with a part-built platform and no path to release. 1AYM built the founders a development environment (repositories, environments, continuous integration, review gates and a release discipline), completed the platform and delivered it to launch alongside their team; the product is live and in market. The platform holds clinical trial management, the electronic trial master file, the investigator and pharmacy site files, quality management, corrective and preventive actions and digital delegation of authority on one inspection-ready record, with documentation aligned to MHRA, FDA and EU Annex 11 expectations as the product's own public material states. No inspection, audit or certification outcome is claimed. Client unnamed.
- [Claude Certified Architect](https://www.1aym.com/claude-certified-architect): The credential register: both Claude certifications held by 1AYM's founder and Principal Architect, rendered verbatim from Credly's public record.
- [What is an AI harness?](https://www.1aym.com/what-is-an-ai-harness): Definition of an AI harness.
- [Agent proposes, verifier gates](https://www.1aym.com/agent-proposes-verifier-gates): Definition of the "agent proposes, verifier gates" operating pattern.
- [Privacy notice](https://www.1aym.com/privacy): Privacy notice.

## Contact

- Email: tayyeb@1aym.com
- Book a 30-minute call: https://cal.com/tayyeb-mahmud-jxedia
- Sitemap: https://www.1aym.com/sitemap.xml