Semantic Kernel Development · Derby
Semantic Kernel Development in Derby
Adding LLM capability to existing applications for Derby organisations using Semantic Kernel, which suits a specific situation well: you have a substantial .NET estate and want AI features inside it rather than a separate Python service alongside it, with its own deployment, its own monitoring and its own on-call.
Why this comes up
The problem
The AI prototype is a Python service nobody in the .NET team can deploy, monitor or support at three in the morning.
What you get
What we deliver
- AI capability built into the existing application rather than beside it
- Functions exposed to the model as typed, testable code with clear contracts
- Existing authentication, logging and configuration reused rather than duplicated
- Model calls wrapped with the retry and resilience patterns the codebase already uses
- Token consumption and latency surfaced through your existing telemetry
- Evaluation built as tests, so AI behaviour is covered by the same pipeline
Want this scoped for your business in Derby?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what semantic kernel development would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Derby
East Midlands
Derby is an engineering city — aerospace, rail and automotive supply chains — so the work here skews toward integration with existing plant systems, quality and compliance workflows, and reporting that has to stand up to audit.
Most work here involves connecting shop-floor and plant systems to reporting the rest of the business can actually read, plus quality and compliance workflows that have to survive an audit.
Sectors we work with in Derby
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Aerospace
- Rail Engineering
- Automotive
- Logistics
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Semantic Kernel
- C#
- Azure OpenAI
- .NET
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Financial services
- Manufacturing
- Public sector
- Professional services
- Technology companies
Why us
Why Derby 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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Semantic Kernel Development in Derby — common questions
- Why not just build a separate Python service?
- Sometimes you should. But a separate service is another deployment, another set of dependencies and another thing your team may not be able to support — and for an organisation whose engineers all write C#, keeping the capability in the main codebase is a real operational saving.
- What does exposing functions to the model involve?
- Describing existing methods so the model can request them, with typed parameters and clear descriptions. The discipline is the same as designing an API for another developer, and vague descriptions produce the same result they always do.
- Can AI behaviour be tested like normal code?
- Partly, and the parts that can should be. Function selection, parameter extraction and structured output are testable against fixed cases; the quality of generated prose needs a different approach, but far more is automatable than teams assume.
- Does this tie us to one model provider?
- Less than a direct integration would, since the abstraction allows swapping. In practice the prompts remain tuned to whichever model you tested against, so switching is a re-evaluation exercise rather than a configuration change.
- Do you work with businesses across Derbyshire?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout East Midlands, including Derby and the surrounding Derbyshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Derby businesses do you usually work with?
- Most work here involves connecting shop-floor and plant systems to reporting the rest of the business can actually read, plus quality and compliance workflows that have to survive an audit. Beyond that we work across Advanced Manufacturing, Aerospace, Rail Engineering, Automotive and Logistics.
- Do you cover the areas around Derby?
- Yes — we work throughout East Midlands, including Nottingham, Leicester, Loughborough, Birmingham. Derby is an urban area of roughly 260,000+, and we take on work across the wider Derbyshire region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Semantic Kernel Development in Derby
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