AI & Automation Consultancy · Kent, UK

We automate the work that slows your team down. Measurably.

We help UK software companies automate high-friction work, operationalise AI safely, and move from experimentation to adoption that sticks. Grounded in 23 years of enterprise professional services and customer success delivery. No hype. Measurable outcomes.

40,000+ Hours of operational capacity freed
100+ AI & automation initiatives governed
83% Efficiency gain, verified in production
21+ Years of enterprise software delivery
What we build

Five practice areas. All grounded in production delivery.

We design, build, and deploy automation that eliminates manual work. Every service line has live results behind it.

Workflow & Process Automation

We map and automate manual, rules-based workflows: approval chains, data hand-offs, report generation, and notification flows. Using n8n and Power Automate, we replace repetitive human steps with reliable automated pipelines.

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AI-Powered Customer Operations

Automate support case routing, onboarding validation, and customer self-service using the Claude API and Salesforce integrations. We have automated over 2,600 support cases in a single year across a live production environment.

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Onboarding & Configuration Automation

Reduce time-to-value for new customers by automating ingestion of their requirements, validation against business rules, and system configuration , without manual consultant involvement. Live results: 2 weeks reduced to 2.5 days.

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Data Migration Automation

Intelligent transformation of legacy or competitor data into your target system format. AI handles format normalisation, column mapping, and enrichment , turning a one-hour manual process into seconds. Proven across 50+ production runs.

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AI Portfolio Governance & Strategy

Structured tracking, ROI measurement, prioritisation frameworks, and executive reporting for organisations managing multiple AI initiatives. We have governed 100+ initiatives across 10+ software companies using our own tested frameworks.

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Training & Team Enablement

AI literacy sessions, hands-on tool training, and internal adoption frameworks so your team can operate, iterate, and scale automation without ongoing external dependency.

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Where this applies

The problems we solve most often.

Recognise any of these? Each one is a high-friction process with a proven automation path behind it.

Customer Success & Professional Services

Customer onboarding is taking weeks it should not take.

Automate requirement intake, validation, and configuration so consultants handle exceptions rather than repetition. We reduced one client's onboarding time from two weeks to 2.5 days.

Onboarding automation →
Customer Success & Support Operations

Support case volume is growing faster than headcount can match.

Embed AI into case triage, routing, and resolution for high-frequency, predictable cases. Handle volume without proportionally growing the team.

Customer operations →
Professional Services & Delivery

Data migration is consuming senior consultant hours every month.

Replace manual extraction, reformatting, and import with an intelligent transformation pipeline. One hour per client reduced to seconds, proven across 50+ production runs.

Data migration →
Operations & Transformation

Your team follows the same manual sequence more than ten times a week.

Map the pattern, build the pipeline. Approval chains, data hand-offs, reporting, and notifications automated so your people focus on the work that actually needs them.

Workflow automation →
COO & CTO

AI experiments are running in silos with no shared view of what is working.

Operationalise AI safely with a governance model and portfolio framework that tracks every initiative by ROI, effort, and risk. Move from experimentation to a managed programme.

AI governance →
Operations & People Leaders

The team is unsure how to work alongside AI without disrupting what already works.

Structured enablement so your people understand, trust, and operate the tools we build. AI handles the repetitive. Your team focuses on the work that creates real value.

Training & enablement →
The opportunity most businesses miss

You're already collecting data that could be running your processes.

Telemetry. Order history. Support tickets. Usage patterns. Location signals. Most of it sits in a database, collected but never connected to action.

That's not a data problem. It's a wiring problem. Agentic AI reads your existing data and acts on it: personalising customer interactions, surfacing risks before they escalate, and triggering the right process at the right moment. No new headcount. No bespoke data platform. No tech debt inherited from a rushed build.

If you're already collecting it, we can probably put it to work.

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What this looks like in practice

Order history & purchase patterns

Agent surfaces a personalised recommendation before the customer asks, increasing repeat revenue without a single manual touchpoint.

Support ticket volume & categories

Patterns in your support data identify a recurring product issue weeks before it becomes a complaint trend. Your team gets time to act rather than react.

Product usage & engagement telemetry

A drop in feature engagement flags a customer at churn risk 30 days before their renewal, triggering an automated intervention at exactly the right moment.

Location & scheduling data

Field team routing and job allocation handled automatically based on live location, availability, and job complexity. The dispatcher bottleneck disappears entirely.

How we work

From first conversation to working automation.

A straightforward four-step process designed to deliver measurable results quickly. Not six-month strategies that produce slides before they produce output.

1

Discovery

A 60-minute conversation to understand your operations, identify where manual work is the biggest constraint, and assess where automation will deliver the clearest commercial return.

2

Scoping

We define the automation, agree the scope and success metrics, and propose either a fixed-scope project or a retained arrangement. No opaque day-rate padding.

3

Build & Deploy

We design, build, and deploy the automation into your production environment. We target early proof points: working software delivering measurable output, within weeks not months.

4

Handover & Support

Full documentation, team walkthrough, and a clean handover. You own the system and can operate it independently. We remain available for iteration, expansion, or the next initiative.

Verified results

Results, not promises.

Every metric on this site comes from production deployments. Nothing is projected, nothing is a pilot estimate.

Onboarding Automation

Customer onboarding configuration reduced from two weeks to 2.5 days

75%

Effort reduction

2 wks → 2.5 days

Configuration time

An enterprise SaaS provider replaced consultant-led configuration with an AI-powered bot that ingests customer requirements and configures the product automatically, with zero configuration errors in production.

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Process Automation

Hotel channel mapping time cut by 83%, saving 1,625 hours per year

83%

Efficiency gain

1,625 hrs

Saved annually

A hospitality technology provider was spending hours mapping OTA channels manually for each hotel. An automated mapping engine reduced this from three days to same-day, eliminating a single point of failure in their implementation process.

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Data Migration Automation

Venue data migration saving 70–100 hours every month

70–100 hrs

Saved per month

50+

Production runs

Migrating venue booking data from competitor and legacy systems was taking consultants up to an hour per venue. An AI-powered transformation pipeline now completes the same process in seconds, and has run in production over 50 times.

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About us

Built on real delivery, not theory.

We have spent 23 years inside enterprise software organisations: implementing, configuring, and scaling complex products for demanding clients. Our AI and automation work grew from that direct operational experience: we saw where the manual work was, we knew what it cost, and we built the solutions to eliminate it.

We have built and governed 100+ AI initiatives across 10+ software companies. Our portfolio approach tracks every initiative by ROI, effort, and strategic impact. It has been presented to private equity investors and used to shape division-wide automation programmes.

We design and build, not just advise. Every result on this site is from a system we put into production.

We do not displace teams. We free them from the work that machines should be doing, so they can focus on the work only humans can do. AI handles the repetitive. Your people create the value.

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Technologies we work with

Claude API n8n Power Automate Databricks Azure DevOps Salesforce Microsoft 365 SharePoint Python
102+ AI initiatives tracked
PE investor presentation delivered
Hub-and-spoke model proven at scale
Zero configuration errors in production
Common questions

Things businesses ask us.

Do you work with SMEs or only enterprise?
Both. Our methods were developed inside enterprise organisations and we bring that rigour to SME and mid-market engagements. If your team is spending hours on a process that follows a consistent pattern, we can automate it, regardless of your size.
How do you price engagements?
We start with a short discovery conversation to understand your operations and identify where automation will deliver the clearest return. From there, we propose either a fixed-scope project or a retained advisory arrangement. No opaque day-rate padding.
How quickly do we see results?
Our fastest deployments have been operational within days. Our ConfigBot went from design to production in weeks. We deliberately design for early proof points: a working automation delivering measurable output, rather than six-month strategies that produce slides before they produce results.
Do you build the automation yourself, or just advise?
We build. Our team has designed and deployed systems that have freed over 40,000 hours of operational capacity in production environments. We do not produce strategy decks that sit in a drawer. If we engage, we deliver working software.
What sectors do you work with?
Our track record is primarily in enterprise SaaS and hospitality technology. Our methods apply broadly to any business where manual, repetitive, rules-based work is a constraint: customer operations, onboarding, data handling, reporting. We are happy to discuss whether your situation is a good fit.
How do you handle data security?
Security is built into our architecture from the start, not bolted on. Our governance framework includes InfoSec approval gates, and we prefer to work within your existing cloud tenants where possible. No unnecessary data movement, no third-party exposure. All AI processing is handled by enterprise-grade APIs with appropriate data handling agreements.
Do you work remotely?
Yes. We are based in Kent but have delivered programmes across the UK operating fully remotely. For clients in Kent and the South East, we are also happy to meet in person where it adds value.

Ready to find out what's possible?

Book a 60-minute discovery call. No pitch deck. No obligation. Just a straight conversation about your operations and where automation makes commercial sense.

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