New Gradient AI engineering team collaborating in Edinburgh

About New GradientBuilding bespoke AI solutions for enterprise

We are an AI consultancy based in Edinburgh. Six years of deep expertise applied to real-world operations.

What we believe

THE BELIEF

State-of-the-art AI belongs in every business. Built in, not bolted on.

We exist because frontier AI is too important to remain the preserve of a few. But access alone isn’t enough. Off-the-shelf tools and bolt-on integrations don’t create lasting value. As an AI consultancy, we build custom AI solutions into businesses: tailored to core operations, integrated with existing workflows, and engineered to deliver results the business owns. When AI is built into the core operation, not wrapped around it, the advantage compounds. The business retains ownership of the system, the data, and the competitive edge it creates.

WHAT WE DO

End-to-end, from strategy to adoption. AI that drives tangible results.

From strategy through to deployment and adoption, we work end-to-end. We identify where AI will create real value, build bespoke AI systems that fit specific operational challenges, and ensure client teams actually use them. That means computer vision models monitoring industrial conveyor belts, edge AI running on battery-powered devices in the field, and large language models processing tens of thousands of documents. Systems designed for the people who depend on them, not for a demo. No pilots that stall. No tools that gather dust.

WHY US

Government research initiatives to multi-billion pound enterprise. Proven delivery at every scale.

Our team has built state-of-the-art AI systems, not just deployed them: custom transformer architectures for geospatial analysis, 3D scene-completion models for mineral exploration, and real-time computer vision for industrial process control. Backed by UKRI, Innovate UK, and the UK Space Agency, and working from Edinburgh across Scotland and the UK, New Gradient brings that depth to every AI consultancy engagement: the expertise to know what is possible, and the rigour to deliver it.

Technical expertise isn't optional.
It's the foundation of
everything we do.

New Gradient AI engineers, Edinburgh

We’re AI engineers and researchers who’ve spent six years building AI systems, not talking about them. Founded in Edinburgh, every member of our team works hands-on with the technology, from training machine learning models to deploying them in production. That’s how we deliver systems that actually work, and why we can stand behind what we build.

Ewan McMillan, Founder & Managing Director at New Gradient

Ewan McMillan

Founder & Managing Director

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From physicist to machine learning engineer, my passion for AI led me to create New Gradient, an AI consulting firm dedicated to introducing cutting-edge AI tech to diverse industries.

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Umer Gupta, Lead Machine Learning Engineer at New Gradient

Umer Gupta

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

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With training in Mathematics and Machine Learning and a masters in Data Science from the University of Edinburgh, I integrate state-of-the-art ML concepts into New Gradient's AI services.

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Patrick Rigg, Lead Software Engineer at New Gradient

Patrick Rigg

Lead Software Engineer

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A software engineer with a defence and safety-critical background. After graduating from Imperial College London, I mastered Software Development and Data Science.

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Dan Hearn, Head ML Ops Engineer at New Gradient

Dan Hearn

Head ML Ops Engineer

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With a background in engineering and compute infrastructure, I design and manage the systems that take ML models from training to production, including cloud deployment and platform reliability.

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Angus Toms, Machine Learning Engineer at New Gradient

Angus Toms

Machine Learning Engineer

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With a background in computer science and a focus on applied machine learning, I build and deploy the models that power New Gradient's AI solutions.

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