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LlamaIndex Consulting · Plymouth

LlamaIndex Consulting in Plymouth

Retrieval advice for Plymouth 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 Plymouth?

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.

Book a 30-minute call

Working in Plymouth

South West

Plymouth has the largest naval base in Western Europe, and the defence supply chain around it brings security clearance and accreditation requirements that shape what a supplier can realistically bid for.

Marine and defence supply chain systems where security accreditation is a precondition rather than a differentiator.

Sectors we work with in Plymouth

  • Marine & Defence
  • Manufacturing
  • Healthcare
  • Higher Education
  • Tourism

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 Plymouth 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

  1. Step 1

    Free consultation

    A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.

  2. Step 2

    Proposal

    Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.

  3. Step 3

    Build

    Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.

  4. Step 4

    Launch and support

    We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.

LlamaIndex Consulting in Plymouth — 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 Devon?
Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout South West, including Plymouth and the surrounding Devon area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
What kind of Plymouth businesses do you usually work with?
Marine and defence supply chain systems where security accreditation is a precondition rather than a differentiator. Beyond that we work across Marine & Defence, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Higher Education and Tourism.
Do you cover the areas around Plymouth?
Yes — we work throughout South West, including Exeter, Truro, Bristol. Plymouth is an urban area of roughly 260,000+, and we take on work across the wider Devon region rather than the city boundary alone.

Talk to us about LlamaIndex Consulting in Plymouth

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

Or reach us directly

07707 771599admin@asionis.com

Leicester, United Kingdom