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AI & Automation

Automate the work nobody should be doing by hand

Workflow automation, system integrations and applied AI, scoped against the hours they actually save — and measured after launch to prove they saved them.

The problem

Most automation projects automate the wrong thing

Teams tend to automate whatever is easiest to automate, not whatever costs the most time. We start by measuring where the hours actually go, then automate in order of payback. Every workflow ships with a number attached — hours saved per month — and we check it ninety days later against reality.

What is included

From process audit to monitored production

01

Process audit

We map the workflow as it is really performed, time each step, and rank candidates by hours saved against cost to build. You get the ranking whether or not you hire us.

02

Workflow automation

Approvals, handoffs, document generation, data entry and reporting — replaced with reliable pipelines that log every action for audit.

03

System integration

Making your CRM, accounting, support desk and internal tools actually talk to each other, with reconciliation so the numbers agree in both directions.

04

Applied AI

Document extraction, classification, summarisation and drafting using Claude and comparable models — with human review built into anything consequential.

05

Internal tools and dashboards

The small operational interfaces that replace a shared spreadsheet nobody trusts, with proper permissions and an audit trail.

06

Monitoring and handover

Alerting on failures, runbooks for the humans, and documentation good enough that another team could maintain it without calling us.

Typical outcomes

What good looks like

Placeholder — replace with real client data

60%+

Typical manual hours removed

90 days

To measured payback

Human

Review on consequential steps

Full

Audit log on every action

How we build

Automation you can trust unattended

Measured before and after

We time the manual process first, so the saving is a measured number rather than a claim in a proposal. We report it back at ninety days.

Fails loudly, never silently

Every workflow has alerting, retries with backoff, and a dead-letter path. Silent failure in an automated process is worse than no automation at all.

Humans stay in the loop where it matters

Anything touching money, contracts or customer communication routes through human approval. AI drafts; a person signs off.

No black boxes

Every automated action is logged with inputs, outputs and the reason for the decision, so you can answer an auditor or an unhappy customer.

Related services

Most engagements combine more than one

Work rarely stays in a single lane. These are the disciplines that most often sit alongside this one.

Web Development

Sites and applications engineered for speed, search and conversion.

Mobile Development

iOS and Android apps that ship on schedule and survive store review.

Blockchain & Web3

Smart contracts and on-chain integrations, specified and audit-ready.

Digital Marketing

SEO, content and paid acquisition measured in pipeline.

Start a project

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for ai & automation

Send a short brief and we will come back within one business day with scope, timeline and price. No discovery fee, no obligation.

  • A senior person reads it

    Not a sales development rep working from a script.

  • You get a real answer

    Including “this is not for us, here is who to call” when that is the truth.

  • Written scope in five days

    Fixed price against a written specification, at no cost to you.

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FAQ

AI & Automation questions

By payback. We time the real process, estimate build cost, and rank by hours saved per pound spent. Often the highest-value automation is unglamorous — a reconciliation nobody wants to own rather than a chatbot.

In our experience it removes the worst part of their week rather than their job. We target repetitive data handling and handoffs, not judgement. If a project genuinely means headcount change, that is a conversation to have openly at the start.

Only with guardrails. We restrict models to well-defined tasks, validate their output against rules, log every decision, and route anything consequential through human approval. We do not put an unsupervised model in front of your customers or your money.

Data handling is defined in writing before any build. Where models are involved we use providers with no-training guarantees on business data, and we can keep sensitive processing inside your own infrastructure where that is required.

It alerts, retries, and fails into a queue a human can inspect — it never fails silently. Support retainers include monitoring and a response commitment.

Portfolio

A decade of work still in production

Selected engagements across software and growth. Many of these systems have been running — and being maintained by us — for years.

Web · Mobile2014 — present

Field operations platform

Logistics group

A dispatcher platform and driver app built in 2014 and still in daily use across three countries. We have maintained and extended it continuously since launch.

  • Long-running
  • Mobile
  • Platform

Web · Growth2019 — present

Subscription commerce storefront

D2C brand

Headless storefront with subscription billing, rebuilt for speed and paired with the acquisition programme that grew it. Now in its fourth year of retained work.

  • Commerce
  • SEO
  • Retained

Web App2022

Regulated onboarding flow

Fintech

A fourteen-step KYC journey rebuilt as a saved, resumable process — completion up substantially without weakening a single compliance control.

  • Fintech
  • Compliance
  • UX

Web · SEO2021 — present

Clinic network consolidation

Healthcare group

Nine competing location sites consolidated into one architecture with proper local schema, then a condition-led content library mapped to patient intent.

  • Healthcare
  • Local SEO
  • Content

Next step

A 30-minute call will tell you more than any deck

Bring the problem you are actually trying to solve. We will tell you what it takes, what it costs, and whether we are the right people for it.