ZEST CONSULT LTD
Zest Artificial Intelligence
Our G-Cloud service aids clients in deploying AI solutions responsibly, prioritising trust, ethics, and legal compliance. With expertise in AI and cloud tech, we offer end-to-end support, driving innovation and impactful outcomes while maintaining ethical standards and legal adherence.
Features
- Strategic planning for ethical AI deployment.
- Tailored AI architecture for government compliance
- Hands-on support for cloud-based AI deployment
- Data management with legal and ethical compliance
- Customized AI models for public sector challenges
- Seamless integration with existing systems
- Continuous performance monitoring for compliance assurance.
- Robust security measures for data protection
- Training for ethical AI utilisation by client personnel
- Ongoing technical support for AI optimisation
Benefits
- Data-driven decisions with ethical transparency.
- Streamlined processes for resource efficiency
- Cost savings through optimised AI deployment.
- Enhanced customer services with privacy protection
- Cybersecurity assurance and legislative compliance
- Innovation acceleration with ethical integrity
- Scalable solutions for evolving needs and legislation.
- Regulatory compliance and reputational protection
- Empowered workforce with ethical AI skills
- Continuous improvement aligned with legislation and ethics.
Pricing
£589 to £1,666 a unit a day
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
3 3 0 1 7 3 4 1 0 8 6 3 8 1 9
Contact
ZEST CONSULT LTD
Geoff Hoyle
Telephone: 07887991973
Email: enquiries@zestconsult.co.uk
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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Our team of AI experts specializes in identifying areas within your organization primed for AI integration, illuminating the transformative potential it holds.
We guide you through comprehending the advantages of transitioning to AI on the cloud while navigating technical, ethical, and regulatory complexities.
Through collaborative business analysis, we delve into the motivations driving your AI deployment, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and suitability for cloud adoption. Whether it entails establishing an AI-focused role within your structure or orchestrating a comprehensive system architecture and procurement strategy, we tailor our approach to your unique needs.
We assist in selecting the most suitable cloud and AI vendors, providing insights into vendor distinctions to secure the optimal system at the best value.
Our technical experts meticulously outline system architecture and design, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance. As independent AI specialists, we offer a spectrum of technical, procurement, commercial, and assurance services, ensuring your new system meets the highest standards.
Throughout the process, collaboration remains paramount, ensuring that the end result not only addresses your challenges but also exceeds your expectations - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
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We meticulously craft and oversee verification and validation testing strategies for new cloud-based AI services, guaranteeing they uphold performance, capacity, security, and ethical standards, yielding robust outcomes.
Our testing encompasses various facets, from evaluating service desk response times during incidents to ensuring seamless adherence to governance protocols. Acting as a client advocate, we meticulously supervise and assure testing procedures conducted by vendors, ensuring alignment with your expectations and requirements.
Backed by a team of seasoned engineers and professional staff, we possess comprehensive insight into the intricacies of designing, managing, and operating high-quality services. Leveraging this expertise, we infuse our assurance process with the requisite knowledge to ensure your AI solutions deliver exceptional performance and reliability."
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security audit services
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- None
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
-
As our organisation is primarily concerned with the early part of the cloud journey i.e. business analysis, quality assurance etc and not the day-to-day running of the service we do not normally provide operational support.
Our staff are available to discuss any or all ongoing issues with the new cloud service and vendor to help the client with any issues they may be having.
Unless a specific SLA is required this extra support will be as per our standard rates. If an SLA and ongoing support contract is required, then this will be discussed at the time of engagement.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
The Zest Consult team are committed to protecting the environment, preventing pollution, and continually improving our Environmental Management System to minimise our carbon footprint. We conduct activities in an environmentally responsible way, encouraging our clients, associates, and subcontractors to do the same.
We have identified the most significant environmental impacts of our activities to be carbon emissions, associated with travel, waste, supply chain, and our ability to influence our clients’ environmental performance. We operate on a carbon-neutral basis and minimize our carbon footprint, identifying ways to offset any remaining emissions, detailed below.
As an office-based organisation we do not own a fleet of vehicles and make conscious decisions to reduce our carbon footprint. We encourage the use of public transport and working from home, with remote attendance for almost all meetings.
We follow our Sustainable Procurement Code when making purchases to minimize our environmental impact by ensuring that products and services are sourced and produced under a set of internationally acceptable environmental, social, and ethical guidelines and standards. We maximize the use of materials with reused and recycled content that can be subsequently reused or recycled. We seek to maximize resource use and energy efficiency to minimize environmental impact: whilst ensuring appropriate substances and materials minimize impact on human health and the environment.
We work with clients to inform their own environmental improvements and carbon reduction. The government’s initial drive for BIM through its Construction Strategy focused on the reduction of carbon by 20% and we see our expertise in the digital consultancy space as a significant client enabler to meeting these targets.
We reduce paper waste using electronic repositories for data capture and storage.
We seek and develop fully green solutions when collaborating on the development of technology that uses alternative energy sources.Covid-19 recovery
The Zest Consult, Ltd. team addresses the challenge to resume business and bring employees back to a safe workplace and still enable the flexible expansion and contraction via the following activities that support successful COVID-19 recovery efforts:
Zest Consult, Ltd. created a new role within the company and welcomed a new employee displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Improved workplace conditions to address health and safety of employees which include the following -
Effective social distancing, remote working, and sustainable travel solutions.
Continue to promote good hygiene practices (e.g., frequent hand washing and -- at least 20 seconds each time, with warm water and vigorous rubbing -- and use of hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol).
When meetings are necessary, conduct virtual meetings (i.e., Microsoft Teams).
Employees avoid close contact by keeping a separation of at least 6 feet between workstations, where necessary, use of face masks, and assure that there is proper ventilation in the office.
Advising employees when they are feeling ill or exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, they are to contact their supervisor and isolate themselves at home. They are then advised to stay at home and self-monitor for 10 days and return after confirmation they are testing negative two days in a row and symptom free.Tackling economic inequality
Zest Consult, Ltd. values education and provide our employees with the support they need for educational/training opportunities to help them expand their skills and grow professionally that result in recognized qualifications.
Additionally, Zest Consult, Ltd. values the apprenticeship program and understands that Apprenticeships are one of the few indisputably effective tools of social mobility currently available to the government. The benefits they confer on workplace learners include enhanced career earnings, continued education, and richer, more fulfilled working lives.
Finally, Zest Consult, Ltd. endeavours in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
No member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen.
Special treatment, in some circumstances, may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
Veterans: supporting the employment of veterans, recognizing military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process; working with the Career Transition Partnership (CTP) to support the employment of Service leavers.Equal opportunity
At Zest Consult, Ltd. we have adopted an Equal Opportunities policy to ensure no job applicant or employee is discriminated against either directly or indirectly on the grounds of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, political opinion or affiliation, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, age of disability:
The recruitment and selection process is crucially important to any equal opportunities policy. We will endeavour through appropriate training to ensure that employees making selection and recruitment decisions will not discriminate, whether consciously or unconsciously, in making these decisions.
Promotion and advancement will be made on merit and all decisions relating to this will be made within the overall framework and principles of this policy.
Job descriptions, where used, will be revised to ensure that they are in line with our equal opportunities policy. Job requirements will be reflected accurately in any personal specifications.
We will not confine our recruitment to areas or medial sources, which provide only, or mainly, applicants of a particular group.
All applicants who apply for jobs with us will receive fair treatment and will be considered solely on their ability to do the job.
All employees involved in the recruitment process will periodically review their selection criteria to ensure that they are related to the job requirements and do not unlawfully discriminate.
Interview questions will be related to the requirements of the job and will not be of a discriminatory nature.
We will not disqualify any applicant because they are unable to complete an application form unassisted unless personal completion of the form is a valid test of the standard of English required for the safe and effective performance of the job.
Selection decisions will not be influence by any perceived prejudices of other staff.Wellbeing
At Zest Consult, Ltd., we commit to an integrated approach to staff wellbeing that creates:
A sense of belonging.
An environment and culture based on shared values and trust.
An environment where staff wellbeing is integrated into day-to-day practices.
An environment that recognises skills and encourages personal development.
Activities that support the wellbeing of employees at Zest Consult, Ltd. include:
Creating a culture that where problems arise, they are quickly identified, and solutions considered against an individual’s needs.
Improving working lives through employment policies such as flexible working, absence management and dignity at work.
Creating a safe place to work through health and safety policy.
Career development through Personal and Professional Development (PPD).
Risk assessing work stress and implementing necessary control measures to prevent harmful stress and consider the necessary support mechanisms at work.
Implementing and monitoring workload in relation to health and work.
Pricing
- Price
- £589 to £1,666 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Service documents
Request an accessible format
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