The lab inside a language intelligence company.
GAI Labs is the research arm of Guildhawk — the company that has spent twenty-five years translating, interpreting, and verifying language for regulated industries. The Lab exists because language is no longer only a translation problem.
We study how meaning survives translation across machines, humans, and regulators who will be reading the output under oath.
Most translation AI is optimised for fluency on consumer text. We are optimised for defensibility on contracts, clinical documents, and regulatory filings — where a plausible-sounding mistranslation is worse than no translation at all.
Twenty-five years of receipts — from interpreting for government to certifying documents for the Crown.
GAI Labs is not a first-time attempt at language AI. It is a formalisation of research that has been running inside Guildhawk for a decade.
Guildhawk founded as certified translation house for UK government and legal clients.
First internal ML work on terminology consistency across matter-specific corpora.
Queen’s Award for Enterprise (Innovation). ISO 27001 certified.
Akkordia research begins — ambiguity detection for contract language.
GAI Labs formalised. Research agenda published. Papers, code, and specimens in the open.
Four commitments the Lab makes. To itself, to the Guildhawk network, and to the industries who read the output.
These are operating rules, not marketing lines. They govern which projects we accept and which outputs we publish.
Every claim we publish is tied to a test set, a method, and a reproduction path. If we cannot run it again, we do not publish it.
Every output that leaves the Lab has a named human reviewer. No anonymous automation on regulated text.
We prefer a 2B-parameter model trained on legal bilingual corpora over a 400B generalist. Specialisation survives regulatory review.
We publish methods, evaluation harnesses, and specimen analyses. We never publish customer content. Contracts bind the Lab.
Work with the Lab, not with a vendor.
Research partnerships, commissioned evaluations, and regulated-industry pilots:
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