# Microbrain Ltd

> UK IT consultancy in Cheltenham specialising in bespoke development, artificial intelligence, cyber security, and compliance.

**Tagline:** clear thinking, serious capability.

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## Company

- **Legal name:** Microbrain Ltd
- **Studio:** Lower Ground Floor, 122 Bath Road, Cheltenham GL53 7JX, United Kingdom
- **Hours:** Monday to Friday, 09:00–17:00
- **Email:** sales@microbrain.co.uk
- **Phone:** 01452 227550 (`tel:+441452227550`)
- **Certifications:** ISO 9001, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus

## Development

Software that does not exist until we write it.

Bespoke systems for organisations that have already outgrown the catalogue. APIs, applications, mobile, and the integration work that actually moves a business — including the blockchain, wallet, and trading platforms most consultancies still treat as a side interest.

- **Bespoke applications** — Web and internal platforms shaped to the operating model, not the other way around.
- **API and platform engineering** — Contracts, gateways, and services that other teams can build on without fear.
- **Mobile** — iOS, Android, and companion apps with the same security bar as the estate behind them.
- **Blue-chip integration** — Stitching new capability into living systems — ERP, payments, identity, data.
- **Blockchain and wallets** — Custody UX, signing flows, and reviews written for people who can lose real money.
- **Trading systems** — Market-facing and internal trading applications where latency and correctness share a desk.

## Intelligence

Custom models. Real integration. No theatre.

Two AI Master-level designers programme the models and the software around them. We build private LLM systems, wire them into the estate you already run, and leave you with something a board can defend — not a demo that expires when the prompt window closes.

- **Custom LLM systems** — Models, retrieval, and tool-use designed around your data boundaries.
- **Enterprise integration** — AI inside existing workflows, identity, and audit — not a parallel universe.
- **Workflow design** — From the first sketch of a process to software that staff will actually use.
- **Applied machine learning** — When a language model is the wrong instrument, we say so, and build the right one.

## Cyber

Assume someone capable is already looking.

In-house certified penetration testers and security specialists. Engagements scoped for large organisations: web applications, APIs, infrastructure, cloud, and the blockchain surfaces generalist firms still wave away. We test, we validate, we tell you the truth.

- External penetration testing
- Internal penetration testing
- Web application testing
- API and microservice testing
- Security validation
- Cloud review — AWS and Azure
- Blockchain and wallet review
- Web3 / DeFi assessment
- Infrastructure testing
- Assumed-breach exercises
- Incident preparedness
- Secure hosting and DDoS mitigation

## Compliance

The work, not the slide deck.

Two retained services for organisations that need a named person in the role — without the cost and delay of a permanent hire. Beats: Understand, Protect, Verify, Improve.

### Virtual CISO

A hands-on chief information security officer in a virtual capacity. Strategy, board reporting, control ownership, and the authority to drive a compliance programme. Present in the meetings that matter; accountable for the direction of travel.

### Virtual Compliance Manager

A dedicated compliance lead who takes operational ownership of the journey. One or two days a month, as an extension of your team: coordinating tasks, tracking progress, engaging stakeholders, and keeping momentum through the lifecycle. Execution and progress tracking — the right people, the right actions, at the right time. Instead of hiring a full-time manager, you get an operational team lead in a virtual capacity.

## Contact

Start with a proper conversation. Tell us the shape of the problem. We will tell you if we are the right people — and if we are not, we will say that too.

Full contact details and how to enquire: [contact.md](https://microbrain.co.uk/contact.md)