AI consultancy across the North West.
Manchester. Liverpool. Cheshire. Lancashire. One team, on the road from Nottingham, on site in your business when it matters. Operator-led production AI for North-West firms, without the London or Big Four mark-up.
The North West is a big patch and most of the AI consultancies serving it are either local marketing shops or London firms billing for the train up. We are neither. Phil, our delivery lead, travels in from Nottingham for on-site days across Manchester, Liverpool, Chester and the wider region. James, Louis and Shivam back every engagement from Derby, Norwich and London.
We have spent the last three years rebuilding our own businesses around AI — Homemove, home.co.uk and homedata.co.uk. We bring that stack and that way of working into North-West businesses ready to ship rather than strategise.
Easy reach across Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Liverpool, the Wirral, Chester, Warrington, Preston and the wider region. Monthly retainer plus transparent hourly delivery; most engagements pay back inside the first quarter. We do not lease offices in the region — we travel to you.
One team across the region
Manchester one week, Liverpool the next, Cheshire after that. Phil is on the road; the rest of the team joins remotely or on site. The same operators behind every engagement, wherever in the North-West the work is.
Build, not advise
No North-West workshop and a deck. We diagnose with your operators, design the systems, build them on your stack, deploy into your environment, and hand over the runbook to your team.
First-quarter pay-back
We start with the workflow that pays back fastest. Most clients save more in the first quarter than the entire engagement costs. The second workflow compounds on the first.
Common questions.
What does the North West cover for you?
Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire as the core. Cumbria is reachable too, mostly as a remote-first engagement with planned on-site days. The further you get from the M6 the more we lean on remote work between visits.
Do you have a Manchester or Liverpool office?
No, and we will not pretend we do. Phil travels in from Nottingham for on-site days. Engagements run in your offices, in shared workspaces in the city, or in a coffee somewhere central. The saved overhead comes back to you as a more honest rate.
Who comes to North-West engagements?
Phil from Nottingham leads delivery and is on site most often. James from Derby joins for the commercial and capital side; Louis (Norwich) for the technical architecture; Shivam (London) for financial diligence and any investor-facing work.
What kinds of North-West businesses do you take on?
Scale-ups and mid-market firms with revenue and a real operating model. Property, professional services, finance, recruitment, legal and ops-heavy industries are the natural fit. The North-West manufacturing, logistics and life-sciences bases are well-served too.
What does AI consulting in the North West cost?
A monthly retainer reserves capacity and covers planning and oversight; delivery hours are billed transparently on top. Rate quoted on the first call. We are cheaper than the equivalent London or Big Four engagement because we are not paying for a city lease.
The full Forward Deployment offer
How engagements work: diagnose, build, operate. The detailed page covers engagement structure, pricing, and the four UK bases on one page.
About James, Louis, Phil & Shivam
The operators behind the work. £5m+ raised for their own companies, ~£10m across their broader career, AI-native since the week ChatGPT shipped.
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AI consultancy across the North West.
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