Partners
Which AI platforms does Softblues partner on?
Softblues holds a partner relationship with four platform providers: OpenAI, Google Cloud, Anthropic and Microsoft. Those relationships help us get the platform you choose running properly inside your own environment. VAYRO is our main UK partner for AI strategy and leadership, and works with your leadership team on where AI should go in the first place.
London-based, working with companies internationally.
Technology providers
What is our relationship with each provider?
Four platform providers, the exact status of each, and what we can help you build on it.
OpenAI
ChatGPT Enterprise and Business as the assistant people use across the day, and builds on the OpenAI API where a workflow needs more than the product gives you.
Google Cloud
Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI, on the Google Cloud estate a company already runs. Useful where the data is in BigQuery or Workspace and the work should stay next to it.
Anthropic
Partner Network member
Claude Enterprise for long documents, analysis and repeatable method, and Claude in engineered agents where the work runs without somebody in the chat window.
Microsoft
Member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program
Microsoft 365 Copilot for the people already living in Outlook, Teams and Excel, and Azure for the agents and integrations that sit behind it inside your own tenant.
Our main UK partner
AI strategy and leadership with VAYRO
VAYRO works with your leadership team to understand the organisation and set priorities for AI. Softblues engineers the systems that the agreed roadmap calls for. Where a company wants a full diagnosis of how it runs before deciding where AI should go, that is the order the two of us work in.
Also
Which other organisations do we work with?
techUK
The trade association for the UK's technology sector.
Toptal
A global network of senior freelance software and design talent. We have worked alongside them on engineering delivery.
Cloudflight
A European digital engineering company delivering large-scale technology projects. We have worked alongside them on engineering delivery.
What this looks like in delivery
- Claude adoption at Key CapitalThis case describes the rollout and training delivered. It does not report measured time savings, cost savings or financial return.
Common questions about our partners
What exactly is Softblues to each of these providers?
An OpenAI Select Partner, a Google Cloud Services partner at Select tier, an Anthropic Partner Network member, and a member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. Those are the four statuses in full. We do not hold an Anthropic Select status or a Microsoft Solutions Partner designation, and we do not print either.
Does a partner status mean the platform is approved for our company?
No. Partner status describes our relationship with the provider. It says nothing about which features are available to you, whether your company is eligible for a plan, where your data would be held, or whether a product meets a regulator you answer to. Those are questions about your situation and we work through them with you.
Are you limited to one vendor?
No. We hold a relationship with all four providers and none of them is our default. Which one fits follows from the work you want to change, the systems it has to reach, the controls you need and what the whole change costs. Sometimes the answer is two platforms, and sometimes it is that a seat licence already covers it.
Which platform will you recommend?
Whichever one the work points at, and we will show the reasoning rather than the conclusion. The platform selection page sets out the routes side by side. If your existing licences already do the job, we will say so.
How does the VAYRO partnership fit alongside the platform providers?
VAYRO is a separate business relationship, not a fifth platform. VAYRO is an AI management consulting firm that works with your leadership team on where AI should go. Softblues engineers the systems that the agreed roadmap calls for. The VAYRO page sets out the method in full.
Talk through the platform question
Tell us the work you want to change and which systems it touches. We can go through which of the four platforms suits it, what the change would involve and whether a scoped discovery is the right next step.
We respond within 24 hours.