AI work that ends in something running, not a deck.
AI consulting for UK SMEs, without the theatre. Most SMEs are one workshop and forty slides into AI, and no further. We do the opposite: a hard look at your processes, the handful of use cases worth the effort, then we build them and train your team. Priced on application, delivered in working days rather than quarters.
Priced on application. Send the brief, get one fixed number + VAT in writing, usually inside 24 hours.
Recent output
The same team does your work.
Every service is delivered by the same in-house team that shipped these.
What you should expect.
- Hours returned to your team every week, measured before and after
- A ranked roadmap you could hand to any operations lead tomorrow
- Written guardrails, so staff know exactly what is allowed
- Fewer manual errors in quoting, admin and reporting
- A tool stack that is smaller, cheaper and joined up
- Evidence you can show a client or an auditor when they ask about AI
Three sprint bands. One fixed quote for yours.
Book a call, pick the band that matches where you are, and we quote one fixed fee against a written scope, paid 50% to start and 50% on delivery. Anything ongoing afterwards is scoped in the same conversation, never assumed.
Price on application, fixed the moment it is scoped
These bands show the shape of the work, not a price list. Book a call, we agree the scope in writing, then one fixed fee + VAT: 50% to start, 50% at go-live. Anything ongoing is scoped in the same conversation.
Diagnose
For SMEs who know AI matters, have no idea where to start, and do not want a £15,000 discovery project to find out.
Local and niche businesses, up to £1M turnover. No in-house AI or data lead, plenty of manual process.
Expect to know, inside 10 working days, the three to five things worth doing, what each one saves, and what each one costs.
Quoted on how many processes and people are in scope. Our lightest band, and by design the cheapest way to find out whether any of this is worth doing.
- Typical scope, this is what moves the quote
- Typically around 10 working days from kick-off to readout
- Process, data and tool stack mapping
- Interviews with roughly 3 to 5 of your team
- 3 to 5 prioritised use cases with expected saving
- Always included, whatever we scope
- Maturity score across data, process, skills, governance
- Build, buy or skip verdict on every use case
- Written report plus recorded 60-minute readout
- Costed 90 day implementation plan
- Sprint fee credited if you commission the build within 60 days
Onboarding call includedTake it or skip it, your call
We scope it on the call, then send one fixed number plus VAT in writing.
Implement
For SMEs who already know what is broken and want it automated properly, once, by someone senior.
Scaling businesses, £1M to £5M turnover. Real volume, real admin load, and a team ready to change how it works.
Expect two to four live automations in production, your people trained on them, and a written policy that keeps it safe.
Quoted on how many workflows we build and what they integrate with. Agreed in writing, then the number does not move inside that scope.
- Everything in Diagnose, plus, typical scope
- Typically 4 to 6 weeks of delivery, not just recommendations
- Usually 2 to 4 workflow automations built and launched
- One internal assistant trained on your own documents
- Integrations across the CRM, finance and operations tools you use
- Always included, whatever we scope
- Data clean-up so the output can be trusted
- AI acceptable use policy and data handling rules
- Role-based team training, recorded
- Runbooks and prompt library handed over
- Before and after measurement on hours and errors
Onboarding call includedTake it or skip it, your call
We scope it on the call, then send one fixed number plus VAT in writing.
Embed
For businesses rebuilding how a whole function works, with governance solid enough to show a client, an insurer or an auditor.
Ambitious businesses, £5M+ turnover, or anyone in a regulated or tender-heavy sector where evidence matters.
Expect a function that runs differently: automated end to end, documented, governed, and owned by a named person inside your business.
Full-function rebuilds are always scoped first, often in phases: phase one fixed and delivered, later phases priced once the first is live.
- Everything in Implement, plus, typical scope
- Typically 8 to 10 weeks of delivery across a full function
- End-to-end workflow rebuild, not point automations
- Multiple assistants with role-based access
- Bespoke integrations where no off-the-shelf one exists
- Always included, whatever we scope
- Governance pack: policy, risk register, decision log
- EU AI Act exposure assessment and record keeping
- ISO/IEC 42001 aligned control checklist
- Company-wide training plus a named internal owner
- Board-ready summary of cost, saving and risk
Onboarding call includedTake it or skip it, your call
We scope it on the call, then send one fixed number plus VAT in writing.
Scoped first, then priced. In writing.
Consulting priced off a menu is how you end up paying for slides. We scope the sprint against your processes, then fix the fee.
- Step 01Send us the messy version
A screenshot, a link or two lines on what it has to do. No brief document, no forms, no discovery fee.
- Step 02One 30-minute scope call
We pin down what is in, what is out and what it connects to. Async on WhatsApp instead if you prefer.
- Step 03Fixed quote, usually inside 24 hours
One number plus VAT, the deliverables and the dates. It does not move inside that signed scope.
No day rates and no charge to get the quote. Commission a Custom Software & Portals build with us within 60 days of a Diagnose sprint and we credit the sprint fee against the build.
How the fee is built up.
Nothing hidden and nothing bolted on later. Open this for how the fees are put together and what sits inside each one.
Solutions built to move the metrics that matter.
Fixed scope, fixed fee, agreed in writing. Quoted rather than pre-packaged, never part of a Growth Bundle.
Consultation that starts with your P&L, not the tech
We begin where the money and the hours actually go: quoting, admin, onboarding, reporting, customer service, stock. AI is only interesting where it removes a real cost or a real bottleneck, so that is the only place we look.
- Interviews with the people who do the work, not just the owner
- Process and data mapping across your current stack
- Maturity read on data, process, skills and governance
- Honest verdict where the answer is not AI at all
Implementation recommendations, ranked and costed
You get a shortlist, not a wish list. Each use case carries the hours or the cost it saves, the effort to build it, the risk it carries and a build, buy or skip call. Prices attached, so the roadmap is a decision document rather than reading material.
- 3 to 5 prioritised use cases with expected saving
- Build, buy or skip on every one
- Tool and model selection with no reseller commission
- 90 day plan with fixed prices per phase
Implementation, done by the people who scoped it
The part most consultancies hand back to you in a deck. We build the automations, wire the tools into your existing systems, write the prompts and internal assistants, migrate the data and sit with the team that will use it until it sticks.
- Workflow automation across your existing tools
- Internal assistants trained on your own documents
- Data clean-up and structure so the output is trustworthy
- Team training, plus a plain-English runbook
Guardrail consulting, so this does not end badly
The unglamorous work that decides whether AI in your business is an asset or an incident. Which tools staff may use, what data must never be pasted into them, who signs off customer-facing output, and what you can evidence if a client or an auditor asks.
- Acceptable use policy your team will actually read
- Data handling rules aligned to ICO guidance and UK GDPR
- Human sign-off points on anything customer facing
- EU AI Act exposure check and record keeping, where it applies
Digital consulting beyond AI
Half of what holds an SME back is not artificial intelligence, it is four systems that do not talk to each other and a spreadsheet holding the business together. We will say so, and we will fix that first.
- Tool stack audit and consolidation, with licence savings
- Integration mapping between CRM, finance and operations
- Reporting and single-source-of-truth design
- Vendor selection support, unpaid and unaffiliated
Training that outlives the engagement
Adoption is where AI projects quietly die. We train the specific people who will use each workflow, in their own tools, on their own examples, and leave them documentation they can hand to the next hire.
- Role-based sessions, recorded for new starters
- Prompt libraries built from your real tasks
- Runbooks for every automation we ship
- A named internal owner agreed before we leave
A repeatable process. No mystery hours.
Kick-off, 60 minutes
One call with the two of us. Goals, constraints, systems, and the processes you already know are broken. Access requested in writing, nothing else asked of you yet.
Audit, days 2 to 6
Short interviews with the people doing the work, a look inside your systems and data, and a benchmark against what comparable SMEs in your sector have automated.
Roadmap, days 7 to 10
Scored use cases, build, buy or skip calls, guardrail recommendations and a costed 90 day plan. Delivered as a written report plus a recorded 60 minute readout.
Implement, weeks 2 to 6
If you want the work done, we do it. Automations built, tools connected, assistants trained on your documents, policies written, team trained on the parts they touch.
Measure and hand over
Hours returned, errors removed, cost per task before and after. Source files, prompts, policies and runbooks handed to you, in your own accounts.
Advisory, only if you want it
Keep a senior on tap for the next wave: new use cases, model changes, staff questions and governance upkeep. Shape and cost agreed against what the sprint actually uncovered.
Digital and AI consulting, answered straight.
Prices, timelines, guardrails and what happens to the work when we leave.
Price on application, in three bands: Diagnose for a 10 working day audit and roadmap, Implement to build and launch the first automations, and Embed for a full workflow rebuild with training and governance. Scope decides the fee, so we agree what is in, then quote one fixed number + VAT paid 50/50, and it does not move inside that signed scope. Monthly advisory afterwards is optional, from £950/mo + VAT.
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Once you know what to build, build it.
- Custom Software & Portals, quoted on scopeDashboards, client portals and internal tools on one fixed build fee, live in weeks.
- Website Development, quoted on your briefA new site or storefront built on an AI-native front end with Shopify or WooCommerce behind it.
- WordPress Hosting & Maintenance from £79/mo + VATManaged UK hosting, backups, patching and a monthly edit allowance.
- SEO & AI Visibility from £1,250/mo + VATRank in Google and get cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews.
- How to get cited by AI searchWhat actually makes an answer engine quote your business rather than a competitor.
- AI Overviews and lost clicksWhat changed in search results, and what it means for SME traffic.
Send us the job nobody wants to do.
Tell us the process that eats the most hours in your week. We will tell you straight whether AI fixes it, roughly what it saves, which sprint gets you there and what it costs. Usually the same working day.
Three-month proving period, then monthly rolling. No 12-month lock-in. Need a quiet month? Pause twice a year instead of cancelling, and keep your price and progress.