Semantic Kernel Development · Durham
Semantic Kernel Development in Durham
Adding LLM capability to existing applications for Durham 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 Durham?
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 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
- 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 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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Semantic Kernel Development in Durham — 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 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 Semantic Kernel Development 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