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Automate

AI Automation, as practice.

Chatbots, AI assistants, and workflows that take repetitive work off your team and run in the background.

We build AI assistants and automations that take real work off your team. Customer support that answers itself. Reports that write themselves. Workflows that just run, quietly, in the background.

Not demos. Real production systems with monitoring and support. We tune them as your business grows, and you only see them when something needs your attention.

Deliverables

13

AI assistants for your customers

Answer questions, qualify leads, book calls

14

Workflows that run themselves

The repetitive stuff, automated

15

Manual work, taken off the team

Finance, HR, support, ops

16

Reports and data, automated

Leadership dashboards that update themselves

17

Answers grounded in your data

Based on your docs, not made up

18

Always tuned, always working

Monitored, improved, supported

The practice in detail

What AI automation actually means here

AI automation is the practice of handing a repeatable business process to a system that can read unstructured input, decide what to do with it, and act, without a person driving each step. It is not a chatbot bolted onto a website, and it is not a single prompt saved in a document. It is a production system with inputs, rules, escalation paths, logging, and an owner.

Most of the work we ship falls into three shapes. The first is intake: something arrives, an email, a form, a document, a call transcript, and the system classifies it, extracts the fields that matter, and routes it to the right queue. The second is throughput: a process that already exists but runs on copy and paste, reconciliation, data entry, report assembly, and the system does the mechanical part while a person approves the outcome. The third is retrieval: a question gets asked against your own documents and the system answers from them rather than from the open internet.

The distinction that matters commercially is between an automation that saves a person twenty minutes and one that removes a headcount-level constraint. We scope for the second. If a process does not run often enough, or does not cost enough when it goes wrong, automating it will not pay for the engineering.

How we build it

Every engagement starts with a process map, not a tool choice. We sit with the people who currently do the work and write down what actually happens, including the exceptions they handle without thinking about them. The exceptions are usually where the project succeeds or fails. A system that handles the happy path and dumps everything else on a human has not removed the work, it has moved it.

We then fix the boundary. Which decisions the system makes on its own, which it proposes for approval, and which it never touches. That boundary is a compliance artefact as much as an engineering one, and in regulated sectors it is the thing an auditor will ask to see. Anything with a legal or material effect on a person stays behind human approval by default.

Build runs against a fixed spec with a fixed price. We integrate with the systems you already run rather than asking you to move, and we instrument everything so that when a workflow drifts you find out from a dashboard rather than from a customer. After go-live we stay on the system, because an automation that nobody tunes degrades as the business around it changes.

Why most of these projects fail

The common failure is not technical. It is that the automation was built for a process nobody had agreed on. Two departments describe the same workflow differently, the system is built to one description, and the other department stops using it within a month. Writing the process down and getting it signed off is unglamorous and it is the highest-leverage hour in the project.

The second failure is scope without a measurement. If nobody agreed what the system was supposed to reduce, hours, error rate, turnaround time, then there is no way to say whether it worked, and no basis for the next investment. We fix a baseline before build starts and report against it after.

The third is treating the model as the product. Models change, get cheaper, and get replaced. The durable asset is the process definition, the integrations, the evaluation set, and the audit trail around it. Build those properly and swapping the model underneath is a maintenance task rather than a rewrite.

What we automate, by industry

The workflows below are the ones that recur across engagements in each sector, alongside the compliance framework that governs them.

Healthcare

40–60%

Clinical admin, patient flow, and compliance automation.

  • Appointment scheduling and patient reminders
  • Clinical documentation and records processing
  • Referral routing and prior authorisation

UK · UK GDPR Articles 22A to 22D, NHS DSPT, CQC regulations, and ICO guidance on automated processing in clinical settings. Health data is special category data, so solely automated decisions with legal effect on patients stay restricted and require human-in-the-loop controls.

Fintech

70%

KYC, AML, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting.

  • KYC/AML onboarding and ongoing monitoring
  • Transaction reconciliation and exception handling
  • Regulatory reporting and audit trail generation

UK · FCA PS22/9, UK GDPR Articles 22A to 22D, FCA model risk management guidance, and PRA supervisory statements on algorithmic systems used in regulated activities.

Legal

70%

Document review, client intake, and billing automation.

  • Contract review and clause extraction
  • Client intake and matter management automation
  • Billing, time capture, and accounts receivable

UK · SRA Code of Conduct 2011, UK GDPR, and SRA Technology and Innovation guidance govern legal AI deployments. Matter data must remain within approved jurisdictions.

Manufacturing

45%

Predictive maintenance, quality control, and supply chain.

  • Predictive maintenance and asset health monitoring
  • Quality control inspection and defect classification
  • Supply chain and inventory optimisation

UK · UK GDPR, Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and ISO 9001:2015 quality management requirements apply to manufacturing AI systems.

Education

60%

Admissions, student support, and administrative automation.

  • Admissions processing and applicant scoring
  • Student support routing and early intervention alerts
  • Administrative reporting and compliance documentation

UK · UK GDPR, DPA 2018, Ofsted regulatory framework, and JISC guidance on AI in higher education apply to student data processing.

E-commerce

35%

Inventory, pricing, fulfilment, and customer service automation.

  • Inventory forecasting and replenishment automation
  • Dynamic pricing and margin optimisation
  • Customer service triage and returns processing

UK · UK GDPR, Consumer Rights Act 2015, FCA BNPL regulations, and Payment Services Regulations 2017 apply to e-commerce AI systems.

Working from a specific city? See AI automation by location.

What it costs

Every project is fixed-price against agreed deliverables. Running costs after go-live depend on volume and are quoted separately. Not sure which of these you need? Start with the free scan, and the fee comes off the build.

ScopeUnited KingdomUnited StatesTimeline
Single workflowOne process, end to end, with the integrations it needs and a compliance review before go-live.£8,000–£25,000$10,000–$35,0006–10 weeks
Multi-workflow buildA connected set of processes sharing data, routing, and audit logging across more than one team.£30,000–£80,000$40,000–$100,00012–20 weeks
AEO AuditStarts from a free AEO scan of your site, then covers every failing check and what it costs, the fixes in payback order, what answer engines currently say about you, and the automatable share of the process behind it. Yours to keep whether or not we build.On enquiryOn enquiry5 working days

Common questions

What is the difference between AI automation and traditional workflow automation?
Traditional workflow automation moves structured data between systems on fixed rules: if this field equals that value, do this. It breaks the moment the input is unstructured or ambiguous. AI automation adds a model that can read free text, documents, and speech, classify what it is looking at, and extract structured fields from it. The rules, routing, logging, and approval gates around that model are still conventional engineering. In practice most systems we ship are a mix: a model at the point where the input is messy, deterministic rules everywhere else.
How long does an AI automation project take?
A single-workflow automation runs 6–10 weeks from brief to go-live: 1–2 weeks for discovery and process mapping, 3–5 weeks for engineering and integration, and 1–2 weeks for testing, compliance review, and handover. Multi-workflow builds run 12–20 weeks. Timelines are fixed at the brief stage rather than estimated and revised.
How much does AI automation cost?
A focused single-workflow automation typically runs £8,000–£25,000 in the UK or $10,000–$35,000 in the US. Multi-workflow builds with integrations and compliance scaffolding run £30,000–£80,000 or $40,000–$100,000. All projects are fixed-price against agreed deliverables, with no hourly billing. Running costs after go-live depend on volume and the model in use, and are quoted separately at the brief stage.
Is AI automation compliant with GDPR, HIPAA, and FCA rules?
It can be, and compliance is engineered in rather than reviewed at the end. Every automation that processes personal or regulated data ships with a data protection impact assessment, human-in-the-loop controls on any decision with legal or material effect, full audit logging of inputs and outputs, and a documented retention policy. The specific framework depends on your sector and market: UK GDPR Articles 22A to 22D and ICO guidance in the UK, HIPAA and the 21st Century Cures Act in the US healthcare market, FCA and PRA supervisory expectations in UK financial services, SEC and FINRA record-keeping rules in the US.
Should we build custom AI automation or buy an off-the-shelf tool?
Buy when the process is generic and the tool already does 90 percent of it. Build when the process is the thing that differentiates you, when the integrations you need are not supported, or when the data cannot leave your environment. The expensive mistake in both directions is committing before the process is written down, because a process you have not documented cannot be evaluated against a product's feature list.
What happens after the system goes live?
We stay on it. Automations degrade as the business around them changes: a supplier alters a document format, a team adds a field, volumes shift. We monitor throughput and error rates, tune the system against those changes, and report on the baseline agreed before build. Support and iteration run on a retainer sized to the system rather than a fixed package.

How a mandate begins

  1. 1.

    First conversation

    You tell us what you are trying to build and why. We tell you, plainly, whether we are the right team to do it.

    Week 0 · Free
  2. 2.

    Audit and plan

    A short, focused audit of where you are today and a clear plan for what to build next. Yours to keep, even if we do not work together.

    5 working days · On enquiry
  3. 3.

    Start the project

    Once we both agree, we get going. Clear scope, agreed goals, and a single point of contact on our side.

    Week 4 · Project starts
  4. 4.

    Build, ship, support

    Weekly progress, monthly check-ins, quarterly reviews. We build it, ship it, and keep it running after launch.

    Month 2 onward

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