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Data Science Services

We help organisations extract value from unstructured data. We provide professional data science consulting services for businesses. We are able to respond rapidly to new challenges and you will always be speaking directly to a professional data scientist rather than a non-technical sales representative.

Do you have a set of large documents which you need to analyse?
Do you need to identify persons, places, companies, or chemical compounds mentioned in a document?
Detect common topics in a set of texts?
Triage emails? Identify key opinion leaders in a scientific field based on their publication output?

Data Science Consulting Services

AI consultancy in London and beyond - wide across industries and purposes.

AI for healthcare

We have undertaken large projects in healthcare for clients such as the NHS. We have developed clinical named entity recognition models and predictive models for healthcare workforce management.

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AI in pharmaceuticals

The pharmaceutical industry is moving towards widespread adoption of AI. We have worked on projects to extract data from pharma KOL insights, NLP models to extract data from clinical trials.

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Data strategy consulting

Fast Data Science can assist with your entire data strategy, from opportunity identification through to stakeholder workshops, opportunity prioritisation, and infrastructure planning.

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Machine learning consulting

A valuation of your machine learning processes and strategy and recommendations to build durable and maintainable machine learning systems, avoiding vendor lockin.

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Data analytics consulting

Optimise your business intelligence processes, leverage existing data, and identify opportunities to extract value from your data with out data science consulting services.

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Deploying machine learning models

Machine learning model deployment is an often overlooked aspect of data science. Often, the majority of effort required in a project is invested in deployment. We have experience with hosting, all three major cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure), continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tools such as Github Actions, and infrastructure management such as Terraform.

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Training and upskilling analytics teams in data science

We can run customised workshops and produced video tutorials to boost an organisation’s data science capabilities.

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Public sector procurement for AI projects

If you are responding to an RFI or project out for tender, or a funding grant for a research project, we would be glad to help draft your application and be listed as the technical partner in your project. We have applied for and been awarded projects with universities and public bodies such as the NHS, Office of Rail and Road, and Tarion (Canadian housing regulator). We have an ongoing partnership with Ulster University and University College London.

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AI due diligence

If you are considering investing in or acquiring a company in the AI space, we can perform a due diligence exercise. The director, Thomas Wood, has the CUBS (Cardiff University/Bond Solon) certificate for expert witness work in England and Wales (civil cases).

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Model context protocol vs RAG for chatbots

Natural language processing

Sep 25, 2026

Model context protocol vs RAG for chatbots

We are all familiar with the general-purpose chatbots like Gemini, GPT, and Claude. Companies and organisations have also been creating internal and external facing special-purpose chatbots, such as those which can book flights, tell you the weather, answer healthcare related queries, or answer questions about government procedures.

Harmony Meta at DRIVE-Health on 24 September 2026

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Sep 24, 2026

Harmony Meta at DRIVE-Health on 24 September 2026

Thomas Wood, director of Fast Data Science, and Dr Bettina Moltrecht of UCL appeared at DRIVE-Health, an event hosted at Kings College London, to present Harmony Meta on 24 September 2026.