KITSILVA — DATA · AI · ENGINEERING

Boutique data & AI consulting that ships.

Tailored consulting across IT, data science, and AI. We help you set a strategy, execute it, run leaner, and get real value from your data.

Start a conversation small team · senior people · real range

01 / CAPABILITIES

DATA & AI

Strategy & Advisory

Define a pragmatic data and AI strategy, then a plan to execute it.

Data Science & Analytics

Turn messy data into decisions, forecasts, and measurable insight.

Machine Learning Engineering

Design, train, and ship models that hold up in production.

AI Agents & LLM Solutions

Build agents and LLM systems that do useful, reliable work.

Data Engineering & Pipelines

Reliable pipelines and platforms your team can build on.

TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS

Operating-Model & Cost Transformation

Redesign how technology is organised, sourced and run — and take real cost out without breaking delivery.

M&A IT Due Diligence

Assess IT risk, cost and separation before a deal — and steer integration after it.

Fractional CTO

Senior technical leadership, on tap, without the full-time hire.

Program & Delivery

Scope, run, and land complex programmes end to end.

02 / WHY KITSILVA

Bigger than a freelancer. Closer than a big firm.

Broader than a freelancer

A full team's range of capability, with the ability to scale up around a project.

Smaller than a big firm

Direct access to senior people — no layers, no inflated day rates.

Built on real operating experience

We've run commercial operations, startups, and enterprise programmes — not just advised on them.

For businesses that fall through the cracks

Serious technical partnership for organisations the large consultancies overlook.

03 / SELECTED WORK

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AI AGENTS · EVENTS

Building the AI platform that turns chaos into intelligence at the world's largest trade shows — founding engineering partner from zero to production in three months.

65,000 users · 5 events · 100% API reliability at peak

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AI PRICING SAAS

An AI price-optimisation platform that moves prices to match value — reading customer-behaviour signals to find pricing headroom and evidence the rationale behind each move.

10× typical ROI · value-based pricing · AWS serverless

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QUANTITATIVE TRADING · AI ENGINEERING

A two-stage AI system combining LSTM share selection with reinforcement-learning timing — automated daily before the open, benchmarked rigorously against buy-and-hold.

+47% profit vs buy-and-hold · LSTM + RL · daily automation

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04 / WHO YOU WORK WITH

Chris Witheridge

FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL

Kitsilva is a boutique consultancy founded in 2015 by Chris, drawing on 38 years across retail finance, marketing services, regulated financial information, news & media, B2B tradeshows & events, and building & professional services.

Group-level CTO / CIO experience in global media, information and financial-data businesses, and founder-CTO of an AI-driven pricing SaaS — in public and private companies, from sub-£1m startups to £2bn+ enterprises.

Maksym Vierovkin

PRINCIPAL DATA & AI SCIENTIST

Maksym brings 25 years across project management, business analysis, data engineering, research, machine learning, and AI — spanning technology, marketing services, outsourcing, telecom, and finance, as both a hands-on practitioner and in leadership roles.

A Master of Mathematics with published research from the early AI era, he has led data-science teams and shipped production ML and AI systems for regulated financial-information and marketing-services businesses.

You work directly with the people doing the thinking and the building — from first conversation to delivery.

05 / START A CONVERSATION

Have a problem in data, AI, or technology that doesn't fit a neat box?

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