LlamaIndex Consulting · Durham
LlamaIndex Consulting in Durham
Retrieval advice for Durham organisations, beginning with the artefact most projects skip. Before building anything you need a set of real questions with known correct answers — because without it, every subsequent decision about chunking, embedding and ranking is settled by whoever tried the most convincing example.
Why this comes up
The problem
Two approaches were compared by asking each a few questions, and the team picked the one that felt better that afternoon.
What you get
What we deliver
- An evaluation set of genuine questions with verified answers and sources
- Retrieval measured against it, so improvements are demonstrated not asserted
- Document corpus assessed for what is actually answerable from it
- Architecture chosen against your document types and question patterns
- Cost and latency modelled at expected volume before building
- A view on where retrieval will not help and something else is needed
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what llamaindex consulting would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- LlamaIndex
- Python
- pgvector
- Claude API
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Professional services
- Legal services
- Financial services
- Healthcare
- Technology companies
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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LlamaIndex Consulting in Durham — common questions
- Why build an evaluation set first?
- Because it is the only way to know whether a change helped. Retrieval improvements are frequently trade-offs — better on one question type, worse on another — and hand-testing a few examples systematically favours whatever the tester happened to try.
- How many questions do we need?
- Fewer than people assume, provided they are representative. Fifty real questions covering the range users actually ask, with correct answers and the source that contains them, is enough to detect meaningful differences between approaches.
- What if the answer is not in the documents?
- Then no retrieval system will find it, and the honest finding is that the corpus is the problem. Organisations frequently discover the knowledge people ask for lives in individuals rather than documents, which is a different project entirely.
- When is retrieval the wrong approach?
- When questions need aggregation or reasoning across many documents rather than finding the right passage. Counting, comparing and trend questions are poorly served by retrieval, and pointing that out early avoids a system that disappoints on exactly those.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about LlamaIndex Consulting in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise