AI consulting for firms that can't get it wrong.
Independent advice. Private infrastructure.
We tell you where your firm actually stands on AI, then build and run the infrastructure to act on it — without your data ever leaving the building.
Two ways in, one standard.
Some firms need to know where they stand before they spend anything. Others already know, and need the platform. We do both, to the same control bar — the one financial regulators hold banks to.
AI Readiness Healthcheck
A half-day, independent assessment of where you actually stand — adoption, governance, data protection, security, resilience. No vendor pitch.
Learn more →Private AI platform
On-premise AI for matters, built so client data never leaves the firm. Approved models, hash-chained audit, matter-scoped access.
Learn more →Your fee earners are using AI. Do you know how?
A free, half-day assessment across five areas — AI adoption and value, governance and control, data protection, security posture, and resilience and recovery — written to be shared with your leadership team. No vendor or product pitch: this is your assessment, not ours. Shown here for law firms; the same assessment runs for regulators, accountants, and other regulated professions.
Key finding
59% of UK fee earners use unapproved AI for client work. Across enterprises generally, 40% of files uploaded to generative AI contain personal or payment-card data.
Who it's for
Law firms
50–300 fee-earners, matter-centric work, engagement-letter exposure on AI use.
Learn more →Regulators
License applications, fitness-and-propriety assessments, regulatory returns.
Learn more →Professional advisors
Accountants, auditors, consultants, HR. Regulated client data, audit-trail demands, on-prem expectations.
Learn more →About Abila
Abila is a Gibraltar-incorporated company, founder-run by the engineers who build and ship the platform. No outside investors, no board pressure to monetise data, no growth team writing the roadmap.
Reply-to on every email is a person who can change the code that day. The company is small on purpose — the customers are firms whose risk appetite rules out the large-vendor failure modes.
Founders
Robert Quinlivan
CEO
30+ years in international financial markets. Senior roles at KPMG, Merrill Lynch, Barclays, and Macquarie took him from Australia to Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong; Group CFO at Sun Hung Kai & Co. (HKEx-listed); then CEO of Bullish Gibraltar, the GFSC-regulated digital asset exchange. CFA charterholder and Fellow of Chartered Accountants AU/NZ. Based in Gibraltar.
Simon Ordish
CTO
35 years shipping software, still cutting code daily. Founded Laverock von Schoultz in 1992 and grew it from 6 to 60 people — clients including Ernst & Young, Reuters, and GCHQ — before its acquisition by La Française des Jeux in 2010. Since then: blockchain at scale, co-founder of WhatsOnChain, and production AI architecture for regulated industries. Based in Gibraltar.