An AI consultant in Nottingham who actually ships.
Phil lives and works in Nottingham. James is in Derby thirty minutes away. Moonlabs is the operator-led AI consultancy with our delivery lead on your doorstep and the wider team backing every engagement.
Most AI consultancies treat Nottingham as a day-trip from London. We treat it as home. Phil — our operator and delivery lead — is based in Nottingham with two decades of operational scale behind him at Dell, GoDaddy and Foodhub. He travels nationally for the bigger engagements; Nottingham gets him most weeks.
Behind Phil: James in Derby (commercial and capital), Louis in Norwich (technical architecture), and Shivam in London (financial and funding). Four UK bases, one team, shipping production AI into the workflows of Nottinghamshire and the wider Midlands.
Easy reach from Nottingham across the East Midlands: Derby, Leicester, Mansfield, Loughborough, Newark; further out to Sheffield, Birmingham and the rest of the Midlands. Monthly retainer plus transparent hourly delivery; most engagements pay back inside the first quarter.
In Nottingham, not flying in
Phil is in Nottingham most weeks — on site at your office, in the Lace Market, or at the Moonlabs space when you come to us. James in Derby is thirty minutes up the A52. Real in-person work, no travel-day overhead.
Build, not advise
No Nottingham workshop and a deck. We diagnose with your operators, design on the whiteboard, build 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 whole engagement costs. The second workflow compounds on the first.
Common questions.
Why a Nottingham-based AI consultant rather than London?
Because the work happens in the room. A Nottingham AI consultant who travels from London bills the train, the hotel and a half-day of dead time. Phil is already here; James is thirty minutes away in Derby. The first diagnostic is almost always in person.
How is Moonlabs different from a Nottingham AI agency?
Most Nottingham AI agencies are marketing-led automation shops — chatbots, content tooling, off-the-shelf integrations. Good work but a different shape from ours. We are senior engineers building production AI into the systems your business actually runs on.
Who is Phil and why does he live in Nottingham?
Phil is our operator and delivery lead. Two decades of operational scale at Dell, GoDaddy and Foodhub. Trained AI-native by James and Louis, he runs the delivery engine of the consultancy and travels nationally. Nottingham is where he lives and where you will see him most.
What sectors do you cover from Nottingham?
Owner-managed SMBs, 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 Midlands manufacturing and logistics base is well-served too.
What does AI consulting in Nottingham cost?
A monthly retainer reserves capacity and covers planning and oversight; delivery hours are billed transparently on top. Rate quoted on the first call once we have seen the shape of the work. Most engagements pay back inside the first quarter.
The full Forward Deployment offer
How engagements work: diagnose, build, operate. The detailed page covers engagement structure, pricing model, 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.
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.
AI consultancy from Nottingham, on site most weeks.
Tell us where AI could move the most value in your Nottingham or East Midlands business. If we’re a fit, we’ll come back inside the week with a build plan.
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