# Kainos

> Kainos is a reviewed AI agency in Belfast, United Kingdom, listed in the AIAgencies.eu register and last assessed 2026-09-08.

Canonical page: https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/kainos
Generated: 2026-09-21 · Curated by Gabor Kiss · No paid placements — inclusion, score, and rank are never sold.

## Facts
- Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
- Website: https://www.kainos.com
- Hourly rate: not published
- Team size: 1000+
- Founded: 1986
- Services: AI Development, Generative AI, AI Consulting
- Industries: Public Sector, Healthcare, SaaS & B2B
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kainos

## About
Kainos is a Belfast-headquartered digital services company whose data and AI practice builds machine learning and generative AI for government, healthcare and commercial clients.

## Documented clients
Documented engagements: DVSA, HM Land Registry, Funds-Axis, Genomics England, Julius Baer, and DfT. All 6 carry a source URL on file.

## Curator assessment
Reviewed 2026-09-08 by Gabor Kiss against published evidence.

The published AI work is narrower than the size of the firm suggests: a machine-learning risk-rating tool for DVSA that flags abnormal MOT testing patterns and document comparison for HM Land Registry, both dated 2020, plus a 2024 Azure OpenAI build that cut equity-analyst research time by 30% for an unnamed UK asset manager.

Funds-Axis's founder names the AI team directly for extracting data from KIIDs with NLP, which is the clearest third-party confirmation on the site.

Most of the success-story library is Workday and cloud delivery—Genomics England's AWS migration, HR and finance rollouts across dozens of clients—so AI is one practice inside a broad services business, and the AI studies themselves are short: the HM Land Registry page is a customer quote plus a gated PDF.

The weaker fit is a buyer who wants a small senior AI team on one focused build; this is program-scale delivery, bought the way a government framework supplier is bought.

### Key strengths
- Named public-sector AI delivery: a machine-learning risk-rating tool for DVSA targeting MOT test fraud, and intelligent document comparison for HM Land Registry
- A client founder names the AI team on the record—Funds-Axis on extracting KIID data with document analysis and NLP
- Scale and continuity: founded 1986 with 1,000+ staff and long-running UK government programs published as success stories (DVSA, DfT, DVLA, FCDO, Genomics England)

### Good to know
- The two named AI case studies date from 2020 and the 2024 generative AI build is anonymized—ask for a recent LLM engagement you can reference by name
- AI write-ups are short and metric-light; the HM Land Registry story is a quote plus a gated PDF—ask for architecture and evaluation detail before scoping
- Most published work is Workday and cloud delivery—confirm who from the AI practice is actually staffed on your account rather than buying the firm's headline capability

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