AI strategy & roadmap
Identify where AI actually earns its keep in your operation, then sequence the work: use cases, data readiness, governance, and a build plan your board can hold you to.
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Intelligence built on Azure.
Governance built for the agent era.
Code Cipher is a consultancy for organisations that run on two hard problems: putting AI to work in the enterprise, and governing the agents that follow — before a regulator, a customer, or an incident asks how.
Built on Microsoft Azure & Agent 365 · Aligned with ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act & NIST AI RMF · Based in Cyprus, working worldwide
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Azure AI consulting, from strategy to production
Most AI initiatives stall between the demo and the deployment. We take enterprise AI the whole way on Microsoft Azure — measured, governed, and running inside the systems you already trust.
Architecture & infrastructure
Landing zones, networking, identity, and cost design for AI workloads — Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, and AI Search wired into your estate the way Microsoft intends.
Copilots & agents
Retrieval-grounded assistants and task agents built on Azure AI Foundry — scoped to your data, evaluated before launch, and monitored after it.
Optimisation & FinOps
Model selection, token economics, caching, and capacity planning. AI that was affordable in the pilot stays affordable at scale.
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Cyber security, governance & assurance
AI only earns trust when it is secured, governed, and independently checked. We bring the controls, the evidence, and the Microsoft tooling to run AI and autonomous agents the way a regulator would expect to find them.
Cyber security
Security architecture and hardening for Azure and hybrid estates: identity, network segmentation, threat modelling, and incident readiness — so AI workloads inherit a posture that holds.
AI governance
Policies, risk assessment and controls for enterprise AI, mapped to the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework — with ownership that survives the pilot.
Agent governance
Guardrails for autonomous agents: scoped permissions, tool access control, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, audit trails, and runtime monitoring — designed in before the first agent ships.
Microsoft Agent 365 adoption
Rolling out Microsoft's control plane for agents: Entra Agent ID registration, a complete agent inventory, Defender and Purview policies, plus licensing and rollout planning across Microsoft 365.
Audit & assurance
Independent audits of AI systems, agent deployments and security posture — evidence-based findings and remediation plans written for boards, regulators and customers.
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Agents are arriving faster than the controls
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Microsoft Agent 365 reached general availability in May. Every agent now gets an identity, an inventory entry, and a policy — governance is the default, not the extra.
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EU AI Act high-risk obligations apply from December 2027. Transparency duties already apply. The evidence has to exist before the deadline, not after.
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Of global turnover — the EU AI Act's maximum fine. Ungoverned agents are a board-level risk, and boards are starting to ask.
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A small firm for hard problems
Code Cipher works at the intersection of enterprise AI and the governance that makes it trustworthy. From our base in Agia Thekla, Cyprus, we advise organisations across Europe and beyond — hands-on engagements, senior people only, no bench.
The practices share one discipline: systems that have to be trusted. An AI platform is only as good as its governance; an agent is only as safe as the permissions it holds. We build, govern, and audit both to hold.
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