AI consulting that delivers live systems.
A different shape of AI consulting service: diagnostic, build, and operate as one engagement. Senior engineers on the desk, code in production, results in the quarter. Four UK bases, national delivery.
Most AI consulting in the UK stops at the recommendation. A discovery phase, a workshop or two, a strategy document, a handover to someone else for delivery that takes another year. We do it as one continuous service.
Moonlabs is an operator-led AI consulting service. We diagnose where AI moves the most value in your business, design the workflows around it, and ship the production systems — on the same engagement, with the same people, on a monthly retainer.
The team is James (Derby), Louis (Norwich), Phil (Nottingham) and Shivam (London). Four UK bases, national delivery, no associates, no offshore handoff. The hours you buy are the hours we ship.
A diagnostic that earns its keep
Two weeks at the desk with your operators and frontline staff. We come back with a shortlist of priority workflows, the cost case for each, and the order to do them in. The output is a build plan, not a board pack.
Build, on the same engagement
No re-bid, no new partner, no fresh sales cycle. The team that diagnosed is the team that builds. Live systems wired into your data, your tools and your controls.
Operate and hand over
We run the system with you, train your team, and write the runbook. By month six the operating model has shifted. The systems remain yours.
Common questions.
What is an AI consulting engagement with Moonlabs?
A continuous service running diagnostic, build and operate as one engagement, on a monthly retainer plus transparent hourly delivery. There is no separate "implementation partner" handover. The team that recommends is the team that ships.
How does this compare to traditional AI consulting services?
Traditional AI consulting tends to split discovery from delivery, often with different teams and a long gap between them. We collapse that into one engagement. Our deliverable is live software your team owns, not a strategy report.
What does AI consulting cost in the UK?
Day rates for UK AI consulting typically sit in the £500–£1,200 a day range. We work to a monthly retainer that reserves capacity, with delivery hours billed transparently on top. The rate is quoted on the first call once we know the shape of the work.
Are you AI consultants or an engineering team?
Both. The diagnostic and shaping work look like consulting. The build looks like senior product engineering. The point of the model is that the same people do both, so nothing gets lost in translation.
Where in the UK do you operate?
Four bases — Derby, Nottingham, Norwich and London — with national delivery via Phil’s travel and Shivam in London. The first diagnostic is almost always in person.
The full Forward Deployment offer
Diagnose, build, operate. Pricing structure, locations and the shape of every engagement 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 consulting that ends with live systems.
Tell us about the workflows you want to attack. If we’re a fit, we’ll come back inside the week with a build plan, not a programme of work.
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