ORTOM: PRODUCTION
AGENTIC AI
FOR STARTUPS
I help startups and scaleups build AI agents and LLM systems that work reliably in production, not just in a demo.
Ortom is a specialist AI consultancy based in Manchester. I work mainly with startups and scaleups that are building AI into their product. I act as your senior AI engineer and technical adviser. I can help you get from prototype to production without the false starts.
Most of what I build today is agentic. These are systems that reason over your data, call tools, extract structured information and take multi-step actions. Getting them to behave reliably takes careful engineering, evaluation and monitoring. That’s where I spend most of my time.
I deploy wherever the product needs to run. Usually that’s the cloud. When data sensitivity, cost or connectivity call for it, I deploy on your own servers or on-device.
Much of my recent work has been in health tech, life sciences and defence tech, where safety and data governance matter as much as capability.
I would never hesitate in suggesting Ortom to anybody else. You need somebody who's equally invested in the success of your business, and finding people like that are few and far between.
Twenty years of taking AI from prototype to production
Ortom is led by Tom Liptrot, an AI engineer and consultant based in Manchester. He works with startups and scaleups to build agentic AI systems that hold up in production.
Before founding Ortom, Tom was Head of Data Science at Peak AI. There he grew data science revenue from £100k to £3.5m ARR and built the team that delivered it. Earlier in his career he worked on personalised medicine and clinical NLP at AstraZeneca and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, and he has published peer-reviewed research in cancer genomics and clinical NLP.
Today his work centres on production agentic systems: tool-using agents, RAG and structured extraction, built with Python, FastAPI and PydanticAI across AWS, GCP and Azure. He deploys in the cloud, on-premise or on-device as the product requires.
He's technical enough to write the code and commercial enough to tell you when not to build something.