Enterprise-grade AI knowledge management with ISO/ITIL/IEC certification. Modern SaaS experience. 100% client ownership. Deployed in 14 days.
Why CTOs in Regulated Industries Are Abandoning SaaS
For 1,000-employee firm (Gartner 2025) with zero data sovereignty and 15% YoY price increases
CTOs report concern with AI tools (PwC 2025). Your board demands transparency. SaaS vendors provide black boxes.
Average time for consulting projects to deliver production systems. By then, your compliance requirements have changed.
UNUS London solves all three problems: Low TCO, Full Transparency, Rapid Deployment.
Database-first AI governance platforms delivering 85% classification accuracy while maintaining ISO 27001 audit trails.
| Feature | Traditional SaaS | Big 4 Consulting | UNUS London Best |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Sovereignty | Vendor-controlled servers | Client-controlled (eventually) | Client-controlled (Day 1) |
| Compliance Certification | Generic | Tailored but slow | Tailored and fast |
| User Experience | Modern GUI | Enterprise-ugly interfaces | Softr "SaaS-like" portals |
| Total Cost (3 Years) | £936,000 | £450,000+ | £77,000 |
| Time to Production | 2 weeks (forever dependencies) | 18 months | 14 days |
| Code Ownership | Never | After final payment | From Day 1 (full export) |
| Feature | Blueprint | Basic | Intermediate | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment | You (6-8 weeks) | We (5-7 days) | We (10-14 days) | We (14-18 days) |
| Documents | Unlimited* | 100 | 500 | Unlimited |
| Users | Unlimited* | 50 | 500 | Unlimited |
| Migration | You do it | We do 100 | We do 500 | We do unlimited |
| AI Classification | No | Yes (basic) | Yes (advanced) | Yes (enterprise-grade) |
| Workflows | Templates (you configure) | 3 basic | 10-15 standard | 20-30 custom |
| Portal | Templates (you build) | Basic | Intermediate | Enterprise |
| Training | Self-teach | 1 × 1 hour | 2 × 1 hour | 3 × 2 hours |
| Support | 5 email questions | 14 days | 30 days | 24/7 ongoing |
| Advanced AI | No | No | No | Yes |
| Multi-tenant | No | No | No | Yes |
| Managed Service | No | Optional (£500/mo) | Optional (£500/mo) | Included (£1.5k/mo) |
| Best For | DIY technical orgs | 5-50 employees | 50-500 employees | 200+ employees |
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
Information Security Management
Your knowledge base includes immutable audit logs, role-based access control (RBAC), and encrypted data-at-rest—satisfying GDPR Article 32.
ISO/IEC 19770-1:2017
IT Asset Management
Track hardware, software licenses, and documentation in a single PostgreSQL schema with deterministic ID generation.
ITIL 4
Service Management Excellence
Our platforms align with the ITIL Service Value Chain: Plan → Engage → Design → Obtain → Deliver → Improve.
IEC 60617 & 80000-13
Electrotechnical Standards
Documentation uses IEC-approved symbols and units (GiB not GB, per IEC 80000-13)—critical for engineering and manufacturing clients.
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Calculations use conservative estimates based on published industry research (Gartner, MakeUK, Thomson Reuters, HDI 2024–2025) and anonymised UNUS client data. Individual results will vary.
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