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Where it runsField note: what it takes to move AI beyond the pilot

Inside your own
environment.

A system runs where your data already lives. Nothing is migrated, nothing is replaced, and nothing is copied out to make it work.

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Records reconciled inside your environment

200,000records reconciled every morning, inside your environment

The principle

Built into what you already run

The system runs inside the platforms your teams already use. Your engineers review every connection, and the system answers to your controls, not ours.

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Under your controls

Residency, approvals, audit trail

Encrypted in transit and at rest, scoped per system, never used to train a model, and able to run inside your own environment where residency requires it.

200KrecordsRead every day where they already live, never copied out
194systemsSystems of record connected, none replaced
3.6sMedian time to route an exception to a person
>1BActions on the audit trail

Timeline

276 days from the first scoping session

The next process

Extended to the next process under the same controls, by the same engineers.

Running where your data already lives

Latest update ยท Logs, backups and the audit trail now stay in the same region as the data they describeRead update →

Every system runs inside your own environment, in your cloud or on-premises, operated by Lyrion's engineers under your controls.

Where residency requires it, Lyrion runs the whole system there: the models, the logs and the audit trail, with nothing copied out to us.

Nothing copied out

We start from your controls.

Most AI tools ask for your data to be sent somewhere else before they can work. We begin the other way round: our engineers record where every record in the process lives and which rules govern it, and the system is built to run there, inside the platforms your teams already use.

Throughout the engagement we work with your security, legal and risk teams, your platform owners and your auditors, as well as the cloud and data centre providers you already hold contracts with, so every connection is reviewed before it carries real work.

Where your data stays

Our commitment on data

We build inside the businesses that use our systems, so the data never has to come to us. Your environment, your region and your controls decide where a system runs, and we hold ourselves to that in writing before anything is built.

We do not just build in your environment, we stay inside it. That means:

  • Running in your own cloud tenancy or data centre, in the region you choose
  • Working within your existing security and access controls
  • Holding the audit trail where your data is held

Built with your engineers, not around them

At Lyrion, we are committed to building every system inside the environment it serves, under the controls your auditors already trust, and to operating it there after go-live. The foundational commitments that support this are about residency and control: where the data stays, and who decides what happens to it.

Running in your existing environment, already approved for your data.

Nothing copied out to us, ever.

No extract is sent to Lyrion and nothing is uploaded to a third party to make a system work. Every connection reads the data where it already lives, and your engineers review each one before it carries real work.

We respect the residency your regulators require.

Where a regulator or a contract names a region, the system, its logs and its backups stay in that region. It is written into the blueprint, checked at every change, and visible to your security team at any time.

Where residency rules differ between countries, each region runs its own instance under the same controls, and records never cross between them.

Your data is never used to train a model, unless you ask for it in writing.

Records, documents and conversations are used to do the work and nothing else. No model is trained or tuned on your data unless your team asks for it in writing and approves the scope, and every model a system calls is listed in the blueprint with the region it runs in.

Model providers are chosen at the scoping session, named in the blueprint and held to the same terms, so no record ever leaves under someone else's policy.

Encrypted in transit and at rest, scoped per system.

Each system holds only the access its process needs. Credentials stay in your vault, keys stay under your management, and your team can revoke any access at any time, without asking us first.

An audit trail held where your data is held.

Every action is logged against the record it touched, in your own environment, for as long as your retention policy says.

Approvals, overrides and exceptions handed to a person are logged the same way.

When the auditor asks, the answer is already written down: what the system did, on which record, under which rule, and who signed for it.

Reviewed by your engineers

Your security team, from the start

Lyrion works with your security, legal and risk teams before anything is built: who reviews what, where approvals sit, and what has to stay in the building.

From the first scoping session, our team works with your platform owners, your security team and the people who run the process. Every connector, credential and data flow is written into the blueprint, and every connection gets your engineers' sign-off before it carries real work. The system answers to your controls, not ours, and the same engineers operate it after go-live, inside your environment.

  • Residency requirements are recorded at the scoping session, before an environment is chosen, with your security and legal teams in the room and their answers written down.
  • Every connector, credential and data flow is listed in the written blueprint and signed off by your security team before anything is built, including the region each one runs in.
  • Changes to rules, connectors or models go through change control, with the approver named on each one and the change log kept beside the audit trail.
  • When an engagement changes, everything built inside your environment stays there, with its documentation and its audit trail.

Updates

Residency and environment updates

Dated notes on where Lyrion systems run, how residency is decided, and what changes when it does.

Logs, backups and the region they stay in

Lyrion builds AI systems inside the businesses that use them, and we operate them after they go live. Where a system runs is decided at the scoping session and written into the blueprint before anything is built. Most of our clients choose their own cloud tenancy; some require their own data centre. Today we are setting down, in writing, how the rest of a system follows its data.

From today, every new Lyrion system keeps its logs, its backups and its audit trail in the same region as the data it works on. A system that reads records held in one region never writes a copy of them, or a summary of them, to another. Where a client's regulator names a region, that region is recorded in the blueprint and checked at every change. Existing systems move to the same rule at their next scheduled review, with the client's security team signing off each move, and nothing about the move is left to a person's memory.

In addition, every model a system calls is listed in its blueprint with the region it runs in and the terms it runs under. If a model provider cannot keep a request inside the required region, the system does not send it; the request is held for a person to decide. Every request is logged, so the client's own team can check this for itself.

The rule is the same in insurance, construction, energy and financial services. Where a client operates in more than one jurisdiction, each region runs its own instance under the same controls, and records never cross between them. Nothing is migrated and nothing is copied out to us. When an engagement changes, everything built inside the client's environment stays there, with its documentation and its audit trail, and our engineers remain accountable for every system they still operate.

Frequently asked questions

Answers to the questions we are asked most about where Lyrion systems run, where your data lives, and who can see it.

About Lyrion and where it runs

What is Lyrion?

Lyrion is an engineering firm. We design and build AI systems inside the businesses that use them, on your own platforms and under your own controls, and we operate them after they go live. We work across insurance, construction, energy and financial services, and the same engineers scope, build and run each system.

Where does a Lyrion system run?

Inside your own environment: your cloud tenancy or your own data centre, in the region you choose. The system runs within the platforms your teams already use, and nothing is migrated or replaced to make it work.

Who decides where it runs?

You do. Residency requirements are recorded at the scoping session with your security and legal teams, written into the blueprint, and signed off before anything is built. A change of region goes through change control like any other change.

Data, access, and models

Is my data copied out to Lyrion?

No. A system reads your records where they already live and writes its results back to your own systems of record. Nothing is copied out to us and nothing is uploaded to a third party to make it work. Logs, backups and the audit trail stay in the same region as the data they describe. Where a model provider is used, it is named in the blueprint with the region it runs in and the terms it runs under, and a request that cannot stay in the required region is held for a person to decide. Your security team sees every one of those decisions in the audit trail, and any of them can be reversed by a person with the authority to do so.

Is my data used to train a model?

No. Records, documents and conversations are used to do the work and nothing else. No model is trained or tuned on your data unless your team asks for it in writing and approves the scope, and model providers are held to the same terms in their contracts with you and with us.

Who can see the data a system works on?

Only the people and systems your team approves. Each system holds the access its process needs and nothing more, scoped per system. Credentials stay in your vault and keys stay under your management. Our engineers work inside your environment under the access you grant, every session is logged, and your team can revoke that access at any time. When a person needs to see a record to decide an exception, the system shows them that record and nothing else, and the view itself is logged against the record. Nobody at Lyrion browses your data.

How is the data protected?

Encrypted in transit and at rest, scoped per system, and held to your existing security policies. Your engineers review every connection before it carries real work, and every action the system takes is logged against the record it touched. Approvals sit wherever your team wants them, and nothing leaves the building without a person. That is what gets a system through a security review, and it is the standard we hold every system to after go-live.

What happens to the data when an engagement ends?

It stays where it always was. Everything built inside your environment stays there, with its documentation, its configuration and its audit trail, so your team can keep running it, hand it to another provider, or switch it off. Nothing has to be returned, because nothing was ever copied out. The blueprint, the connections and the rules the system follows are written down from the first day, so nothing about the system depends on a person who has left. We prefer to stay, and we operate what we build, but the choice is yours.

Can a system run entirely on premises?

Where residency requires it, yes. The system, its logs and its audit trail can all run inside your own data centre, and so can the models where the work allows it. Where a hosted model is needed, it is named in the blueprint and reached through a connection your engineers review and control, in the region you choose. Nothing about the system changes for the people who use it: it runs inside the same platforms either way.

Our commitment to your controls

Why does Lyrion build inside the client's environment?

Because that is where the work is. The process, the exceptions and the systems of record already live there, and so do the controls your auditors trust. A system built anywhere else has to be trusted twice: once for what it does, and once for where it does it. Building inside your environment means the system answers to your controls from the first day, and our engineers stay accountable for it after go-live. Nothing is migrated, nothing is replaced, and nothing is copied out to us to make it work. It is also why the same engineers scope it, build it and run it.

How does Lyrion work with our security team?

From the scoping session onwards. Your security team sees the written blueprint before anything is built: every connection, every credential, every data flow, and the region each one runs in. They review each connection before it carries real work, hold the approvals they want to hold, and receive the audit trail in the format their tools already read. When a rule, a connector or a model changes, the change goes through change control with the approver named on it. Nothing reaches production without their sign-off, and nothing changes in production without it either.

They can ask our engineers anything, at any point, and the answer is written down. Every question and answer is kept with the blueprint, so the next reviewer starts from what the last one learned. Our engineers stay on the same system for as long as it runs, so the people who answer your security team are the people who built it, and they know where every record goes.

Can our auditors review a running system?

Yes. Lyrion keeps every action logged against the record it touched, with the rule it followed and the person who approved it, inside your own environment. Your auditors can read the trail directly, without asking us for an export. Lyrion's commitments on data and residency are set out on this page, under Our commitment on data.

Does Lyrion stay after the system goes live?

Yes. We operate what we build, inside your environment and under your controls, and extend it to the next process the same way. The same engineers scope it, build it and run it, so there is no handover to a team that was not in the room. When something breaks in production it is ours until it is fixed, and every fix is logged against the record it touched like any other action. The rules the system follows change only through change control, with the approver named on each change, and your team can read the full history of a system in one place.