The London campus of Deloitte is now home to a new AI Studio, built in collaboration with Google Cloud and announced at the Google Cloud London Summit on Wednesday. The facility is positioned as a co-innovation hub where Deloitte's teams and their clients will build and test agentic AI solutions — systems that don't just generate responses but take autonomous actions across workflows — with a stated goal of reaching production-ready deployments in four weeks.
The studio, opening in late July, targets six sectors: public sector, financial services, retail, healthcare and life sciences, consumer products, and technology, media and telecommunications. For retail, the aim is to shift from conversational AI interfaces toward systems capable of doing things across the customer journey. In healthcare and TMT, Deloitte's focus is on rewiring daily business workflows rather than augmenting them.
Alongside the physical studio, Deloitte announced it will certify 1,000 members of its UK AI and data workforce on Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise — positioning this as one of the largest pools of Google-certified agentic AI talent in the UK.
Deloitte UK's Chief AI Officer Hayley McKelvey said: "Our clients are looking for more than just productivity gains-they want AI that can take action and drive real-world business outcomes. With our new AI Studio and the continued investment in our people, we are providing the physical and technical infrastructure necessary to make agentic AI an industrial reality in the UK. This is about moving from curiosity to a new era of autonomous business operations."
Maureen Costello, Vice President for UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa at Google Cloud, added: "By launching this AI Studio and putting these advanced tools into the hands of 1,000 Deloitte specialists, Deloitte is ensuring that the UK remains at the heart of this technological journey."
The announcement extends an existing strategic alliance between Deloitte and Google Cloud, giving it a permanent London location alongside Deloitte's AI Experience Centres in Egypt and India. Regular innovation labs will run from the studio, letting client teams prototype against specific transformation problems before committing to wider deployment.
Four weeks from idea to production-ready agent is an aggressive claim. How realisable it is will depend on how far along clients are with data governance and infrastructure before they arrive. For enterprises that have cleared those foundations, the combination of pre-certified talent and a co-located build space represents a shorter path than most have had access to in the UK.
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