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NuxFamily

Run AI on your most sensitive data, without your data ever leaving the building.

Generative AI on your own GPUs, inside your own perimeter

GPU infrastructure, inference servers, open-weight language models, retrieval over your own documents and MLOps, delivered on-prem and, where required, fully disconnected from the internet.

  • GPU infrastructure
  • vLLM
  • Triton
  • Open-weight LLMs
  • RAG
  • MLOps

The technologies we cover

Products in this family

  • GPU infrastructure

    NVIDIA GPU nodes on bare metal or Kubernetes with the GPU Operator, MIG partitioning, scheduling and monitoring, sized for inference and fine-tuning.

    Bare metalKubernetesPrivate cloudAir-gapped

    Official support

  • vLLM

    High-throughput LLM inference server with paged attention, continuous batching and an OpenAI-compatible API for chat, completion and embeddings.

    KubernetesBare metalAir-gapped

    Official support

  • NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

    Multi-framework inference server for scoring, classification and anomaly models (ONNX, TensorRT, PyTorch, XGBoost) with low-latency batching.

    KubernetesBare metalAir-gapped

    Official support

  • Open-weight LLMs

    Llama, Mistral, Qwen and Gemma model families, selected, quantised and evaluated for your use case, with licences reviewed for commercial use.

    KubernetesBare metalAir-gapped

    Official support

  • RAG on your own data

    Retrieval-augmented generation over internal documents using OpenSearch k-NN or pgvector, with guardrails, citations and a full prompt audit trail.

    KubernetesPrivate cloudAir-gapped

    Official support

  • MLOps on-prem

    MLflow and Kubeflow for experiment tracking, model registry, pipelines and controlled promotion from staging to production.

    KubernetesPrivate cloudAir-gapped

    Official support

Why it matters for data localisation

Where this family meets the CBN directive

The CBN data-localisation directive requires that primary processing, databases, backups, identity and access management, encryption keys and audit logs for Nigerian financial data remain in the country by 1 January 2027, without dependency on a foreign cloud. Generative AI collides with that requirement head-on.

The journey with NuxFamily

  1. 01Assess
  2. 02Design
  3. 03Build
  4. 04Migrate
  5. 05Operate
  6. 06Evolve

Every family is delivered through the same six-stage journey, with official 24×7 support and knowledge transfer built in.

Our expertise

Credentials, not adjectives

Our AI practice grew out of two decades running GPU-less data platforms for banks: the Kubernetes, storage, streaming and search layers a private AI platform stands on were already in production. Since 2022 we have delivered on-prem inference platforms with vLLM and Triton, private RAG assistants over policy and procedure libraries, and fraud-scoring services embedded in payment flows. Two of those deployments run fully disconnected. The same engineers who build the platform hold the support contract.

Sectors

  • banking
  • insurance
  • retail
  • industry

4+

Years with these technologies

8+

Production deployments

32-GPU inference cluster serving a 70B-parameter model to 2,000 internal users

Largest scale delivered

Official vendor support

Support tiers for this family

Essential

Coverage
8×5, Nigeria business hours
P1 response
4 h
  • Corrective support for vLLM, Triton, GPU Operator and the MLOps stack
  • Security patches for the supported release lines
  • Access to the knowledge base and ticket portal
  • Guidance on model selection, quantisation and GPU sizing

Business

Coverage
24×7
P1 response
1 h
  • Everything in Essential
  • Proactive monitoring of GPU utilisation, latency and queue depth
  • Quarterly health checks and model-evaluation review
  • Version management for inference servers, drivers and CUDA
  • Controlled model updates, including air-gapped import

Mission Critical

Most chosen
Coverage
24×7 with a named engineer
P1 response
15 min
  • Everything in Business
  • Named engineer who knows your models and GPU estate
  • Architecture review twice a year
  • Major-upgrade support (vLLM, Triton, Kubernetes GPU stack)
  • Support in CBN inspections and model-governance audits

CVE commitment

Version policy

Response times and tier names are indicative and confirmed contractually.

Use cases

How it is used in a regulated bank

Use case 01

Internal assistant over the bank's documentation and regulation (private RAG)

Staff spend hours searching policies, procedures, product manuals and CBN circulars. A public AI assistant is off limits because the documents are confidential and the questions reveal business context. The bank wants an assistant that answers from its own library with citations, entirely on-prem.

Technologies

  • vLLM
  • OpenSearch
  • Open-weight LLMs
  • MLflow

Expected outcome

Staff get sourced answers in seconds from the bank's own library, and no document or question leaves the perimeter. The audit index shows exactly what the assistant saw and said.

Metric: Citation accuracy above 90 % on the judged set, median answer time under 5 seconds

Internal assistant over the bank's documentation and regulation (private RAG)Staff spend hours searching policies, procedures, product manuals and CBN circulars. A public AI assistant is off limits because the documents are confidential and the questions reveal business context. The bank wants an assistant that answers from its own library with citations, entirely on-prem. Staff get sourced answers in seconds from the bank's own library, and no document or question leaves the perimeter. The audit index shows exactly what the assistant saw and said.1Ingest documentsIngestion pipeline2Generate embeddingsvLLM3Index vectorsOpenSearch4Retrieve with permissionsRetriever5Generate with citationsvLLM6Guard and logGuardrails7Evaluate continuouslyMLflow
  1. 1Ingest documents. Policies, procedures, circulars and manuals are pulled from the document repository, parsed and chunked with their access permissions attached.
  2. 2Generate embeddings. An open-weight embedding model running on vLLM converts each chunk into a vector on the local GPUs.
  3. 3Index vectors. Vectors and metadata are stored in OpenSearch k-NN, with filters for department, document status and effective date.
  4. 4Retrieve with permissions. Each question retrieves the most relevant chunks the user is allowed to see; nothing outside their entitlement enters the prompt.
  5. 5Generate with citations. A Llama or Qwen model served by vLLM answers from the retrieved context and cites the source paragraphs.
  6. 6Guard and log. Guardrails block prompt injection and out-of-scope requests; every prompt, context and answer is written to an audit index.
  7. 7Evaluate continuously. A judged question set is re-run on every model or index change to track answer quality and citation accuracy.

Use case 02

Fully disconnected AI (air-gapped)

Use case 03

Scoring and anomaly detection embedded in the transaction flow

Reference architecture

What a compliant deployment looks like

Private AI platform with optional air-gapInference and orchestration supported by NuxFamilyData, pipelines and consumersExternal source outside the perimeter

Migration path

From where you are to a compliant platform

  1. 01

    2-3 weeks

    Assess

    Activities

    • Inventory current AI usage, including hosted APIs and unsanctioned tools
    • Classify the data each use case touches and its localisation scope
    • Select two or three use cases with measurable value and a defined evaluation set
    • Estimate GPU capacity and decide between connected and air-gapped deployment
  2. 02

    4-6 weeks

    Platform build

    Activities

    • Deploy GPU nodes with the GPU Operator on the Kubernetes platform
    • Install vLLM, Triton, the vector index and the MLOps stack
    • Set up the model registry, signing and, if required, the offline import process
    • Integrate SSO, entitlements and the audit index
  3. 03

    4-6 weeks

    Pilot

    Activities

    • Build the first use case end to end with a limited user group
    • Evaluate model candidates against the judged set and select
    • Tune retrieval, guardrails and prompts from real usage
    • Document model cards, licences and the evaluation record
  4. 04

    3-4 weeks

    Roll out and retire external APIs

    Activities

    • Extend to all users and the remaining use cases
    • Cut off hosted AI APIs at the proxy and close the accounts
    • Publish usage policy and train users
    • Produce localisation evidence for the AI platform
  5. 05

    Ongoing

    Operate and evolve

    Activities

    • 24×7 support under the agreed tier
    • Monthly model and patch updates through the controlled process
    • Drift monitoring and periodic re-evaluation
    • Knowledge transfer so the bank's team operates the platform

FAQ

Questions architects ask us

Sending customer, payment or internal data in a prompt to a service hosted abroad is processing of that data outside Nigeria, which the directive is designed to prevent. Whether a specific use falls in scope depends on the data involved. Running the model on your own infrastructure removes the question entirely. This is not legal advice; confirm the interpretation with your compliance function.

Over two decades

Built by the team behind the platforms of Santander, ING, Bankinter, Mapfre and Inditex

More than twenty years designing, building and operating private clouds for institutions that cannot afford to fail, and a delivery model where we stay with you from assessment to operation.

See our track record

20+

Years building private clouds

40+

Private clouds delivered

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