AI consultancy · Belfast
AI consultancy in Belfast that builds, not advises.
Hypership is a founder-led AI consultancy at 18 Ormeau Avenue. Our senior engineers embed with your team to build production AI systems for startups, scaleups and engineering teams across Northern Ireland, the UK and Ireland.
Hypership, at a glance
- Office
- 18 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HS
- Founders
- Kyle Davidson (ex-Kainos) · Shannon Holgate (ex-Magnite)
- Build for
- Startups, scaleups & teams shipping AI to production
- Local work
- Joulen · Signals, launched with Software NI
- Working
- UK · Ireland · worldwide, remote-first
The short answer
Who is Hypership?
Definition
Hypership is an AI consultancy based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, founded by Kyle Davidson, formerly Technical Director for AI at Kainos, and Shannon Holgate, formerly Director of Software Engineering at Magnite. Its forward deployed engineers embed with client teams across Northern Ireland, the UK and Ireland, from startups and scaleups to established engineering organisations, building production AI systems.
Consulting, here, means building. We work as forward deployed engineers: senior people inside your repo and your standups, who learn the problem by shipping against it and stay until the system holds up in production.
AI made writing code cheap. Understanding your problem and getting a real system live is the work that's left, and it's the work we sell. The case studies show it; everything we run, from a one-week discovery to a full build, is on the services page.
Why Belfast
Why work with a Belfast AI consultancy?
A deep engineering talent pool, senior people who actually ship, and none of the London-agency overhead. We work with you wherever you are.
01 · Talent
Engineers, not account managers.
Belfast trains engineers in shipping at scale; it's the city that grew Kainos. Our founders led AI at Kainos and software engineering at Magnite, and they're still the ones in the repo. Founder-led means the person who understands your problem is the one who ships it.
02 · Value
Senior people, every engagement.
No pyramid of juniors learning on your budget. Senior engineers do the work, and being based in Belfast means you're not paying London rates for the privilege.
03 · Reach
Local roots, not local limits.
We built and launched Signals, a continuous-feedback platform, with Software NI, and we work with teams across the UK, Ireland and worldwide. Remote-first, in person where it adds value.
Belfast case study
Six weeks to AI-native engineering at Joulen
The engagement
Joulen, a Belfast smart-energy company, wanted its teams working AI-native. We embedded on-site for six weeks; by the end, AI-first was how they worked.
“The last six weeks have been transformative for how our engineering and product teams work — everyone at Joulen has felt the shift toward AI-native ways of working. If we ever need AI-native or forward-deployed engineering capability in future, Hypership will be our first port of call.”
6
Weeks from discovery workshop to handover
100%
Of engineers using AI daily by week six
0
Extensions needed (objectives met within the original contract)
How we engage
How an engagement works.
01 · Launchpad (about a week)
Discovery
A short, embedded engagement that turns a fuzzy AI initiative into a decision you can defend: what to build, what it will cost, and where the risk sits.
Discovery02 · Pilot, then Ship
Build
End-to-end delivery of production software you own. A pilot of roughly four weeks proves value; SHIP takes it to full delivery, in your repos, shipping weekly. AlfaGov went from idea to a deployed MVP in six weeks.
Build03 · Six to eight weeks
AI Enablement
We transfer AI capability into your engineers and operators, then step out. For Joulen in Belfast, that took six weeks on-site, with no extension.
AI EnablementFAQ
Common questions.
Let's talk
Tell us what you're building.
One conversation. An honest take. No commitment until it makes sense.
Based in Belfast, working with teams globally