We bring proven enterprise engineering discipline to UK SMEs. The same rigour we applied to Pay.UK’s national payment infrastructure and Screwfix’s digital transformation — now made practical and accessible for businesses like yours.
The same engineering discipline we applied to projects for Oracle, IBM, Screwfix, UK Government, English Heritage and the RNLI.
Find out how AI is right for your businessServices
Most AI tools and consultancies are built around what a vendor can sell broadly. We start from the opposite direction: we deeply understand what your business is trying to achieve, then build the right system to support it.
A structured three-week engagement. Business mapping, opportunity identification with outline financial models, deep-dive analysis, and a co-developed Roadmap to Success.
A lighter strategic overview for businesses that need directional clarity before committing to deeper work. Two to three weeks, largely remote.
Detailed specification with full financial modelling, technical architecture, and delivery blueprint. Complete cost and timeline clarity before development begins.
Building and deploying AI systems your business owns outright. Survey-driven phased delivery, or client-briefed with validation before any build begins.
A half-day session for leadership teams: what AI can realistically deliver for a business like yours, competitor activity, and the regulatory landscape.
Ongoing monthly retainer for businesses with live AI systems. A part-time Head of AI providing strategic oversight, vendor management, and regulatory monitoring.
How we work
We build a strategic understanding of your operation — customers, suppliers, revenue streams, constraints. The foundation every recommendation rests on.
Working with you, we map every area where AI can reduce manual effort, eliminate errors, or unlock new revenue — with outline financial models.
Technology, security, integration, data, timelines, risks — each opportunity is analysed to board-ready detail before a decision is made.
A prioritised, costed plan — quick wins first, dependencies managed, delivery aligned with your actual business priorities.
Phased delivery. Quality gates at every stage. Full documentation. You own the result outright — no licence trap, no dependency you can't exit.
Your questions
It's not about size — it's about whether your operation runs on repeatable processes that are currently done manually. If your team spends significant hours on rule-following work — processing orders, qualifying enquiries, moving data between systems — there's almost certainly a strong case. The Discovery Survey answers this before you commit: three weeks and a fixed fee to know for certain.
Yes. You don't need an IT department — you need someone who can design the system, build it, and hand it to your team in a state where they can use it without becoming technologists. That's what we do. Most businesses we work with have no internal developer resource.
AI Discovery Survey Lite: £1,000–£5,000. Full AI Discovery Survey: £3,000–£50,000. AI Solution Design, Implementation, and Fractional AI Director are scoped and quoted based on your specific requirements. The most common path is to start with the Discovery Survey — you'll have costed recommendations before any build commitment.
We use enterprise API accounts where providers have contractual obligations not to train on your data. For clients with strict data residency requirements, we can deploy AI models that stay entirely within your infrastructure — nothing leaves your network.
Because the Discovery Survey and Solution Design phases answer this with financial models before any build begins. On well-defined manual processes, we've seen efficiency gains of 60–80%. On the revenue side, one national retailer saw a 15–20% uplift after we automated their customer data management — without adding headcount. If the numbers don't stack up, the report tells you that directly. No further commitment.
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We map your business, identify every viable AI opportunity, and deliver a written report with prioritised, costed recommendations — or an honest assessment that AI is not the right move for you right now. Either outcome is valuable. No further commitment required.
Start with a conversationWho we are
For over 30 years, our founder has designed and delivered complex systems where failure carried serious consequences — including the architecture behind Pay.UK’s interbank payments and the digital platform that helped take Screwfix from £300M to £1.5Bn.
We now apply that same engineering discipline to the SME sector. The methodology is unchanged: map the business, identify genuine opportunities, deep-dive the viable ones, and deliver with clarity and accountability. The scale is different. The standard is not.
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