AI consultancy for UK businesses.
Operator-led, build-first. Senior AI engineers embedded in your team, on a monthly retainer, shipping production systems your team owns — not slide decks your team forgets.
Most UK businesses now have an AI strategy document, a procurement-grade vendor list and almost nothing live. The capability has arrived; the deployment is the gap. Moonlabs is the AI consultancy that closes it.
We are not a strategy house. We are operators. The same team running Homemove, home.co.uk and homedata.co.uk — three operating businesses we have rebuilt around AI over the last three years.
Engagements run on a monthly retainer with transparent hourly delivery. Most pay back in the first quarter. There are no associates, no partner-track sales cycles, and no four-month onboarding before code is written.
Diagnose, then build
A focused diagnostic across your operators and frontline staff. We come back with a shortlist of workflows, a cost case for each, and the order to do them in. Then we build.
Production, not pilots
We design, develop, test and deploy live systems — models wired into your data, your tools and your controls. No proof-of-concepts that quietly die after the steering meeting.
Pay-back in one quarter
We find the workflows draining hours and pounds, then automate them. Most clients save more in the first quarter than the entire engagement costs.
Common questions.
How is Moonlabs different from the Big Four AI consultancies?
We are operators, not consultants. There are no junior account managers and no slide-deck deliverables. James and Louis sit on every engagement personally, ship code, and hand over production systems your team owns. The output is live software, not a programme of work.
What size of UK business do you work with?
Owner-managed SMBs, scale-ups and mid-market firms with real revenue and a real operating model. Property, professional services, finance, recruitment, legal, and ops-heavy industries are the natural fit.
Do you work remotely or on site?
Both. We are based in Derby, Nottingham, Norwich and London and travel nationally. Phil, our delivery lead in Nottingham, covers the Midlands, the North, London and the South on the road. The first diagnostic is almost always in person. Build sprints mix on-site days with focused remote work.
What does an AI consultancy engagement cost?
A monthly retainer reserves capacity and covers the planning, oversight and ongoing thinking. Delivery hours are billed transparently on top. Rate is quoted on the first call once we know the shape of the work.
Are you AI consultants, or an AI agency?
Both labels work, neither is quite right. We are an embedded AI engineering team that thinks like operators. If your shortlist is full of strategy houses or marketing-led automation agencies, we are the alternative.
Forward Deployment
The full Moonlabs Forward Deployment offer — diagnose, build, operate. The detailed page covers how engagements work, pricing structure and locations.
About James & Louis
The operators behind Moonlabs. £5m+ raised for their own companies, ~£10m across their career, AI-native since the week ChatGPT shipped.
More Academy entry points.
The Academy is one course with many doors. Each of these pages is a different entry point into the same twelve weeks.
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