eLLM for Government & Defence

Governed AI. Sovereign by default.

No data leaving your boundary. No query visible outside your own systems. From accredited UK cloud to fully air-gapped deployment on your own hardware, your data, your models and your decisions stay inside your perimeter.
DEPLOYMENT

Sovereignty by deployment, not by promise.

Departments face a genuine bind: the AI tools that could save the most time are often the ones you are least able to use, because commercial providers cannot meet your data handling, transparency or accreditation requirements. eLLM closes that gap. The deployment model matches your classification requirements, not a fixed tier, and the same platform, the same governance and the same audit trail run in every one of them.

Your data is never used to train or improve any model. That is a contractual commitment, not a policy statement, which matters when this goes through security and procurement sign-off.
Accredited UK cloud

Hosted by EssingtonITS in ISO 27001 certified UK data centres. Fastest to stand up, with UK data residency, dedicated tenancy and no shared models.
Your own estate

Installed on your servers or on our GL Server appliance inside your network. Authentication against your directory, models running on your GPUs, nothing leaves the building.
Fully air-gapped

No external connectivity at all. Models, documents and updates are delivered by controlled transfer and everything, including the audit log, stays inside the enclave.
AIR-GAPPED

Built to Run With the Cable Unplugged

Most AI products assume an internet connection and a vendor on the other end of it. eLLM assumes neither. An air-gapped deployment is a complete system on hardware you control, designed for environments where no outbound connection is ever permitted.
  • Local models only open-weight models run on your own GPU servers, from a single workstation for a small team to a rack for a department. No API calls, no telemetry, no licence check-ins.
  • Your documents, indexed inside the boundary doctrine, standing orders, engineering manuals, policies and case files are indexed and searched entirely within the enclave, so answers are grounded in your material and cite it.
  • Controlled updates model and software updates are packaged, signed and delivered by removable media or a data diode, with a record of what changed and when.
  • Directory-backed access users authenticate against your Active Directory or LDAP, roles decide which document sets each person can query, and every query is attributed to a named user.
  • Exportable evidence the full audit trail can be exported for review boards, internal audit or incident investigation without connecting the system to anything.
eLLM secure deployment for defence and public sector
eLLM reporting and oversight dashboard
OVERSIGHT & TRANSPARENCY

Answerable by Design

When a Freedom of Information request, a transparency obligation or an internal review asks what AI was used for and how, the record already exists. You are not reconstructing it after the fact.
  • One policy, every department rather than AI governance varying desk to desk, one platform applies consistent access control, logging and policy enforcement across every team that uses it.
  • Full audit trail every interaction, every model used, every user, logged and searchable, mapped to your own policy framework rather than a vendor's.
  • Human in the loop consequential actions are handed off for approval. eLLM drafts, summarises and suggests; your people decide and sign.
  • Usage and cost by unit see what is being used, by whom and what it costs, with spend caps per team rather than a surprise at the end of the quarter.
SECURE DEVELOPMENT

Governed Development, In-House

Departmental development teams get AI coding support through the same VS Code integration as the platform, with code and credentials never reaching an external provider.
  • Inside the enclave completions, reviews and explanations are served by models on your own infrastructure, so classified or sensitive code is never sent anywhere.
  • Grounded in your standards suggestions draw on your own repositories, coding standards and approved libraries rather than the open internet.
  • Model-routed requests go to whichever local model has the right capability for the task, without developers managing that choice.
eLLM answering questions from your own documents and policies
IDEAS

How Departments and Units Use It

The value is rarely the chat window itself. It is the hours saved when a governed assistant sits on top of the documents and systems your people already use. Some of the ways eLLM is being applied and proposed:
  • Ask the manual. Engineering, maintenance and equipment manuals, standing orders and publications indexed inside the boundary, so a technician gets the right procedure and the page it came from in seconds rather than searching a shared drive.
  • Report summarisation. Long reports, after-action reviews and inspection findings condensed into structured summaries with the source passages attached, for people who need the gist before the meeting.
  • Correspondence and casework. First drafts of ministerial correspondence, resident letters and standard responses from your own templates and policies. Staff review, amend and send.
  • FOI triage. Incoming requests classified, matched to previous releases and flagged where exemptions may apply, with the reasoning recorded for the decision maker.
  • Policy and compliance checks. "Does this draft comply with our data handling policy?" answered against the actual policy text, with the relevant clauses quoted.
  • Training on closed networks. Paired with our Moodle-based eLMS, AI learning assistants inside courses on disconnected networks, for deployed teams, secure sites and ships. We have already delivered digital learning without any internet connection.
  • Secure software development. A coding assistant in VS Code for teams working on classified or sensitive systems, with nothing leaving the enclave.
  • Internal helpdesk. An assistant that answers staff IT, HR and estates questions from your own knowledge base, deflecting the repetitive tickets and escalating the rest with context.
  • Incident and operations support. Turning logs, incident reports and checklists into structured timelines and summaries during and after an event.
  • Procurement and contract review. A first pass over tenders, contracts and supplier responses against your own requirements, highlighting gaps for the evaluators.
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Everything Included

Every platform feature, chat, document intelligence, coding, automation and governance, is available in every deployment model, including air-gapped. What changes is the models: an air-gapped deployment runs open-weight models on your own hardware, while connected deployments can also add approved frontier models where policy allows. Because eLLM orchestrates models and tools, not just conversations, it can automate steps, connect to your other systems and hand off consequential actions for human approval.

Using the eLLM chat

Reliable, cited answers from your documents, with model choice, attachments, and side-by-side model comparison.

Skills

Save a format, tone, or instruction set once and apply it with a click; organisation skills set a house style, personal skills handle recurring tasks.

Personal Memory

Remembers lasting facts about each user to personalise answers, fully reviewable and can be switched off.

Personal Notebook

A private, searchable timeline for notes, images, and files, visible only to the user.

Exporting Answers as Documents

Turn any answer into a finished PDF, Word, or Excel file, generated securely on your own servers.

Workflows

Chain steps into repeatable, named pipelines for routine multi-step tasks, pausing for approval where needed.

Coding with eLLM (code API)

Dedicated coding assistant modes with centralised access, usage logging, and local-model options to keep code secure.

Automatic Model Routing

Chooses the best available model for each question on your behalf, balancing capability and cost.

Local Models

Run entirely on your own servers for data privacy and cost savings.

Cloud Models

Optional access to external AI services for heavier tasks, with privacy controls and budget management.

Scaling eLLM

Grow capacity independently: more local models, cloud models, or spare desktops as a private worker pool (Edge Mesh) — without rebuilding or moving data.

Query Governance

Monitors and controls questions asked to the assistant, flagging or blocking harmful content before any model runs.

The Audit Log

A complete, searchable record of activity, used to investigate events, answer compliance questions, and export records.

Tool Approvals

Administrators review and approve or reject sensitive tool actions before they run, ensuring human oversight.

Reports

Usage insights, popular questions, and content gaps, to help administrators support users and strengthen the document library.

The eLLM Admin Console

Central hub for managing models, permissions, access keys, settings, and tools, live-updating with no restart required.

Permissions, Users & Groups

Manage access through users, groups, and capabilities, ensuring the right people have the right access.

System Settings

Control web search, document relevance, upload limits, and cloud usage organisation-wide.

API Keys

Create and revoke keys for external software, scoped to exactly what each integration is allowed to access.

The eLLM External API

An OpenAI-compatible interface for document-grounded answers, plain chat, or automatic model selection from your own systems.

Understanding MCP (connected tools)

Connect external tools and services to the assistant, with configurable approval processes.

NewSDE Remote

Secure desktops, apps and devices, from anywhere

Remote desktops, fresh desktop pools (SDE VDI) and single apps (SDE vApps) on your own Proxmox servers, behind one encrypted web port. Data stays inside your network, and USB and serial devices on a user's laptop can be relayed to any Linux or Windows machine in SDE.

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Built by a UK company you can put through procurement

EssingtonITS has worked with UK education, local government and defence organisations since 2009. We hold Cyber Essentials, host in ISO 27001 certified UK data centres and are signatories to the Armed Forces Covenant. We will walk your security and procurement teams through the architecture, the data flows and the contractual commitments before anything is installed.
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