Cloudaeon Innovation Lab
Cloudaeon’s Innovation Lab is a risk free environment to validate Data & AI solutions before full scale implementation. Traditional enterprise constraints, like; legacy systems, siloed data and limited expertise, slow innovation.
We remove these barriers, enabling rapid experimentation
Our experts help you move from concept to proven solution quickly, without security risks or costly missteps. Whether optimising data pipelines, deploying AI models, or scaling analytics, we help you validate the impact before making key investments, so you can innovate with confidence.
Who it's for
Businesses who want to explore Data and AI solutions quickly and safely, without upfront costs. Test ideas, prove concepts and build proof of value before committing.
How it works
We follow four clear steps:
1. Understand your goal
2. Build a prototype
3. Test it in a lab setting
4. Share the results to validate
No commitment required.
What you get
A working prototype, real test results and clear next steps. You can move forward with confidence, knowing the solution to your problem is proven and worth investing in.
Turn your Ideas into Data & AI Solutions
Keeping up with the speed of change in the Data and AI market requires expertise, agility and the right technology. But innovating with Data & AI in an enterprise environment is challenging, to say the least.
Despite the potential for transformative insights, automation and efficiency, many organisations struggle to turn ideas into real solutions due to issues with people, systems and data.
Whether you're exploring AI driven analytics, cloud data platforms, machine learning models, or data pipeline optimisation, Cloudaeon experts collaborate with you to define, prototype and validate solutions before making investments.
Challenges of Data & AI Innovation in the Enterprise
Cloudaeon’s Innovation Lab solves the challenges blocking innovation by providing on demand expertise, scalable infrastructure and a secure environment for risk free experimentation.
Whether you face skills shortages, integration hurdles, or data quality issues, we help you test, validate and refine Data & AI solutions before committing to investments.
Our structured approach ensures you can explore new technologies without operational disruption. By tackling fragmented systems, compliance concerns and infrastructure constraints, we remove the common roadblocks to innovation.
With Cloudaeon, you gain confidence in your solutions, proving their value before making costly commitments.
Restricted Access to Expertise
Finding experienced Data Scientists, ML engineers or cloud specialists is a constant challenge that can delay innovation. Even businesses that have skilled internal teams are often stretched thin by day to day operational demands, leaving little bandwidth for new initiatives.
Complex Enterprise Systems
Many enterprises still rely on legacy systems that weren’t designed for modern data analytics, making it difficult to harness the full potential of new technologies. Even organisations that have embraced new data platforms, face integration challenges, struggling to connect data sources into a unified ecosystem. On top of these technical hurdles, security and compliance concerns stifle innovation as businesses must navigate strict policies while experimenting with AI.
Access to Quality Data is a Bottleneck
Data and AI projects are only as good as the data they use. Yet fragmented and siloed data, spread across multiple platforms, owned by different teams is still commonplace. Even when data is available, quality issues such as inconsistencies, missing values and unstructured format can make it difficult to generate meaningful insights.
Infrastructure Constraints
AI and machine learning require significant compute power, but many enterprises lack the infrastructure to support them. While cloud adoption is growing, many businesses still operate in hybrid environments, creating complex challenges. Cost pressures further limit innovation as budgets are often allocated to maintaining legacy systems rather than investing in AI experimentation and transformation.
Innovation Lab Alumni
Data Architects
Data Engineers
Data Scientists
Project Managers
Cloudaeon Experts Support your Innovation
Innovation works better with professional support in your corner
Define the
Outcome
We start by understanding your business challenge, desired outcomes and key success metrics. This ensures that every experiment aligns with your strategic goals
Rapid
Prototyping
Our Data and AI experts work alongside your team to develop a functional prototype using industry leading tools and platforms
Start the
Experiment
The prototype undergoes controlled testing, leveraging real world data and insights to measure its impact and effectiveness
Results
Playback
Based on the experiment's outcomes, we provide a clear, data driven recommendation on whether to proceed, iterate, or pivot.
Streamline Innovation with a Results Driven Approach
The Innovation Lab created £17.56M in quantified value during its Beta year.
Benefits of the Innovation Lab
Cloudaeon’s Innovation Lab removes the barriers to AI and data innovation by providing on demand expertise, enterprise ready solutions and a risk free experimentation environment. We enable ROI focused innovation, ensuring you can test, validate and invest in AI and Data initiatives with confidence of success.
On Demand Expertise
Get instant access to Data and AI specialists with enterprise experience, helping you overcome skills gaps without disrupting internal teams
Enterprise Ready Solutions
We prove you can readily connect your existing data platforms and business applications to ensure seamless integration and scalability
Compliant Experimentation
A controlled, risk free environment where you can explore AI models, machine learning and data driven applications without security, governance and compliance issues
Accelerated Access to Data
We help break down data silos by mirroring your environment to prove you can establish the robust data pipelines and high quality data you need to fuel innovation
Scalable Cloud Infrastructure
We leverage cloud native architectures, serverless computing and AI accelerators to ensure your prototypes can scale without hitting infrastructure limitations
ROI Focused Innovation
Our approach ensures that every experiment is designed with measurable business impact, allowing you to make data driven decisions on whether to scale, pivot, or abandon a project
Why we Created the Innovation Lab
It all started with M&S. They were struggling to get enough production data to test their data products. They were passing all the test’s in their development environment but when they pushed to production and volumes increased, they ran into problems that QA and test hadn’t found.
They asked us to find a way to generate huge volume of synthetic data from a tiny sample, not ones to turn down a challenge we built and trained an antagonistic ML model that succeeded better than we’d imagined. With that first use case the Innovation Lab was born. You can read the full story here.
