The AI consultancy that ships.
Senior AI engineers embedded in your team, in person, on a monthly retainer. We diagnose where AI moves the most value in your business, ship production systems this quarter, and hand over the runbook so your team owns it. Operator-led, UK-based, no four-month onboarding and no slide decks.
Capability is here. Deployment is the gap.
Building powerful models was always going to be the easy part. The hard part is helping a real business actually use them. Wire them into the workflows, the data, the controls, the people. Make them safe, useful, and quiet enough that nobody thinks about them by year two.
Most UK companies have a draft AI strategy, a procurement-grade vendor list, and almost nothing in production. The cost base keeps growing. The competition gets faster. The gap quietly widens every quarter.
We have spent the last three years rebuilding our own companies around AI. Not as a feature, as the operating system. Every workflow, every back office, every customer touchpoint, redesigned around intelligence that can reason, act, and deliver measurable results. We now bring those Forward Deployed Engineers on site to UK businesses that want the same shift.
Diagnose. Build. Operate.
The same shape we use in our own businesses. Tight diagnostic, real production build, durable handover. No pilots, no proof-of-concepts that quietly die.
Diagnose
A focused diagnostic across your leadership, operators and frontline teams. We come back with a shortlist of priority workflows, the cost case for each, and the order to do them in.
Build
We design, develop, test and deploy production systems. Models wired into your data, your tools, your controls and your business processes. Live, not a prototype.
Operate
We hand over the runbook, train your team, and keep iterating. The first workflow pays back in the first quarter. The second compounds on it. By month six the operating model has shifted.
Cost out. Capability in.
Cost-cutting automation
We find the workflows draining hours and pounds, then automate them. Most clients save more in the first quarter than the whole engagement costs.
AI-first operating model
Back office, customer journey, internal tooling, all rewired around models. AI as the default, not the experiment.
Durable production systems
You leave with code your team owns, runbooks they can follow, and a model of working they can extend. Not a slide deck.
On the ground. Four UK bases.
Derby, Nottingham, Norwich, London. Four bases, one team, national reach. We come to you, you come to us, or we work remote — whatever moves the project forward this week.
Derby
East Midlands base. James on site most weeks. AI consultancy in Derby and across the East Midlands — easy reach to Nottingham, Leicester, Sheffield and Birmingham.
Nottingham
Second East Midlands base. Phil, our delivery lead, is based here and travels nationally. AI consultancy across the Midlands, the North, London and the South.
Norwich
East of England base. Louis on site most weeks. AI consultancy in Norwich and across East Anglia — easy reach to Cambridge, Ipswich, Peterborough and the wider East.
London
London base. Shivam on the ground, ex Deutsche Bank, owning the financial and funding side of every engagement. AI consultancy in London and across the South East.
A retainer. Then the hours.
A monthly retainer keeps us holding capacity and thinking about your business between sprints. Delivery hours are billed transparently on top.
A monthly base for continuity, priority access, and the planning and oversight that happen between sprints.
The build work itself, invoiced by the hour. Transparent rate, agreed before we start. Every line itemised.
One clean monthly statement covering the retainer and the hours worked. No mystery line items.
Rate quoted on the first call once we know the shape of the work.
Who it is for.
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UK businesses that want AI shipped, not theorised about. -
Owners and leaders who want cost out of the business this quarter, not next year. -
SMBs, scale-ups and mid-market firms. Property, professional services, finance, ops-heavy industries.
Who it is not.
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Pre-revenue startups. That is what the Incubator is for. -
Buyers who want a slide deck, an AI strategy document, or a steering committee. -
Anyone hoping to add AI to a board paper without changing how the business actually runs.
James and Louis on every engagement.
No associates, no junior account managers, no agency middle layer. You buy our hours, you get our hours. This is the part that does not scale, and on purpose.
Meet James & LouisThe questions buyers actually ask.
How is this different from an AI consultant?
Most AI consultants leave a slide deck. We leave production systems your team owns. We diagnose, build and operate — not advise and exit. If a piece of work cannot be shipped to live in the engagement, we will tell you on the first call.
Do you build, or just advise?
Both, in that order. The diagnostic is the advice. The build is the rest. We do not run multi-month strategy phases. Every engagement is structured so that real code is shipped inside the first quarter.
Is our data safe?
Yes. We default to deployments inside your own cloud and your own controls. We sign NDAs and DPAs as standard, treat your data the way we treat ours at home.co.uk and Homemove, and never train external models on your data without an explicit written agreement.
What kind of UK businesses do you work with?
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. We are based in Derby, Nottingham, Norwich and London, and we travel nationally.
How fast can you start?
Diagnostic typically starts inside two weeks of signing. First production system live inside the first quarter. No four-month onboarding or partner-track sales cycle.
What does it cost?
A monthly retainer keeps capacity reserved; delivery hours are billed transparently on top. Rate quoted on the first call once we know the shape of the work. Most engagements pay back in the first quarter.
Your next chapter starts here.
Tell us about the company you want to build. If we’re a fit, we’ll get back within a week.
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