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Trades and home services A Midlands home-services business

Recovering missed enquiries for a home-services business

54 missed or after-hours enquiries captured in the first month
81% enquiries logged with complete job details before human review
Challenge

The owner and engineers missed calls while on jobs. Enquiries arrived across voicemail, SMS, WhatsApp and email, with no single queue and no structured quote information.

What we built

A Voice AI and intake workflow that replies to missed calls, captures job type, postcode, urgency, photos and preferred appointment windows, then creates a structured lead record for review.

Result

The business stopped losing high-intent enquiries while engineers were on site, and the owner received quote-ready job summaries instead of raw missed calls.

Live in 7 working days; monitored for the first 30 days before adding follow-up automation. More in Trades and home services →
“We were not calling people back cold anymore. The system gave us the job context first.”Owner
Estate agents and lettings A London estate agency

Turning after-hours property enquiries into booked viewings

46 after-hours and weekend enquiries captured in the first month
78% viewing requests structured before negotiator review
Challenge

Viewing enquiries arrived outside office hours and over weekends. Applicants often waited until Monday, by which point some had booked elsewhere.

What we built

A voice, email and web-form workflow that qualifies applicants, captures property interest, availability and affordability basics, then books or queues viewing requests in the CRM.

Result

Negotiators started each morning with qualified viewing requests, not a missed-call list and an inbox backlog.

Live in 2 weeks, with routing and viewing rules tuned during week 3. More in Estate agents and lettings →
“Weekend enquiries stopped disappearing into Monday morning.”Lettings Manager
Lettings and property management A South East lettings and property-management firm

Structured maintenance intake for a lettings firm

74% fewer incomplete maintenance tickets reaching staff
86% requests classified before property-manager review
Challenge

Maintenance emails were incomplete, with staff repeatedly asking tenants for photos, access details and urgency before a contractor could be instructed.

What we built

A maintenance intake agent that classifies the issue, asks missing questions, collects photos, checks urgency and routes the job to the right property manager or contractor.

Result

Tenant requests became structured jobs, with cleaner contractor handover and far fewer repeated follow-up emails.

First workflow live inside 2 weeks; full triage live in 3 weeks. More in Lettings and property management →
“The agent did the boring questions before the team picked it up.”Property Manager
Accountancy A Surrey accountancy practice

Removing repetitive client-chasing from an accountancy practice

85% fewer manual chaser emails drafted by staff
4 working days earlier visibility of missing documents before month end
Challenge

Staff spent recurring time chasing bank statements, payroll files, receipts and tax documents. The blocker list lived across inboxes and spreadsheets.

What we built

An email and document-intake workflow that identifies missing files, drafts client reminders, files attachments, updates the tracker and flags incomplete submissions.

Result

Client chasing became systematic, and month-end blockers were visible early enough to act on them.

Installed in 10 working days; measured through the next month-end cycle. More in Accountancy →
“It gave us the blocker list without someone rebuilding it every week.”Practice Manager
Bookkeeping A Manchester bookkeeping firm

Replacing manual invoice re-keying with an exception queue

84% less invoice and receipt re-keying
91% documents classified before bookkeeper review
Challenge

Receipts and invoices arrived through email, WhatsApp and shared folders, then had to be renamed, classified and entered by hand.

What we built

A document workflow that reads attachments, extracts supplier, date, amount, VAT and category, then pushes clean items forward and sends uncertain items to an exception queue.

Result

Bookkeepers moved from typing and renaming everything to reviewing the exceptions that actually needed judgement.

Live in 2 weeks, with exception categories tuned over the first month. More in Bookkeeping →
“We moved from typing everything to checking the few things the system was not sure about.”Bookkeeping Lead
Recruitment A London recruitment agency

Giving recruiters their time back from coordination

68% less scheduling back-and-forth
9 hours recruiter admin removed per consultant per month
Challenge

Recruiters were spending too much time summarising CVs, coordinating availability and updating candidate status across email and CRM.

What we built

A candidate workflow that summarises CVs against role criteria, drafts screening notes, proposes interview slots and updates CRM fields for review.

Result

Recruiters spent more time speaking to candidates and clients, and less time coordinating diaries and rewriting the same notes.

Live in 2 weeks for one role family; expanded after recruiter review. More in Recruitment →
“Consultants could start from the shortlist, not from the inbox.”Recruitment Director
Legal services A regional law firm

Structured matter intake for a law firm

72% fewer incomplete intake packs
90 minutes average time to first internal summary, down from 24 hours
Challenge

New enquiries arrived with incomplete facts and inconsistent documents, delaying fee-earner review and file opening.

What we built

A matter-intake assistant that asks structured follow-up questions, collects documents, identifies matter type and prepares a first-pass summary for fee-earner review.

Result

Fee-earners received cleaner intake packs while legal judgement stayed with the lawyer.

Pilot live in 3 weeks with human approval from day one. More in Legal services →
“The file arrived in a shape a lawyer could actually review.”Operations Partner
Regulated advice A UK mortgage and regulated advice firm

Compliant enquiry intake for a regulated advice firm

41 after-hours enquiries captured in the first month
96% enquiries logged with consent status and source
Challenge

The firm needed faster enquiry capture but could not let an automated system give regulated advice or make suitability statements.

What we built

A voice and web intake workflow that collects basic facts, records consent, books adviser calls, avoids advice and logs every step for compliance review.

Result

More enquiries were captured without crossing advice boundaries.

Live in 2 weeks; compliance wording approved before release. More in Regulated advice →
“It captured the enquiry without pretending to be the adviser.”Compliance Manager
Insurance A UK insurance broker

AI-assisted renewal follow-up for an insurance broker

88% renewals tracked without manual spreadsheet checking
45 days advance alert window for at-risk renewals
Challenge

Renewal reminders, missing documents and follow-up notes were checked manually across inboxes, spreadsheets and policy systems.

What we built

A renewal workflow that tracks upcoming renewals, drafts reminders, flags missing information and pauses for approval before client-facing messages go out.

Result

The broker had a live renewal-risk view and stopped relying on manual spreadsheet checks to chase revenue.

Live in 3 weeks, with approval gates retained for all client messages. More in Insurance →
“The team could see what was at risk without rebuilding the renewal tracker.”Broking Manager
Construction services A Yorkshire construction services firm

Faster quote generation for a construction firm

63% faster first quote draft
76% fewer quote requests returned for missing information
Challenge

Quote requests were slow because staff had to gather scope, site notes, pricing rules and photos before producing a draft proposal.

What we built

A quote workflow that collects scope information, checks for missing details, applies approved pricing logic and creates a first-draft quote for review.

Result

Quote turnaround improved materially, and fewer requests stalled because of missing information.

Live in 2 weeks for one service line; expanded after pricing review. More in Construction services →
“It did the first pass, and our team still signed off the final number.”Commercial Director
Dental and healthcare A private dental practice

After-hours call handling for a dental practice

39 after-hours calls captured in the first month
74% eligible appointment requests structured before reception review
Challenge

The practice missed appointment requests outside reception hours and needed a safe way to capture non-urgent enquiries without giving clinical advice.

What we built

A voice assistant that captures appointment intent, answers approved FAQs, books eligible slots and escalates urgent or sensitive calls.

Result

After-hours responsiveness improved without replacing reception or clinical judgement.

Live in 5 working days with approved FAQ boundaries. More in Dental and healthcare →
“Patients were acknowledged after hours, and the team still controlled the clinical decisions.”Practice Manager
Marketing and creative A Bristol creative agency

Automating project status for a creative agency

11 hours account-management admin removed per week
82% recurring project updates drafted automatically
Challenge

Project updates, client requests and deliverables were spread across email, Slack and spreadsheets, so account managers repeatedly rebuilt the same status view.

What we built

An internal workflow that summarises client requests, updates project trackers, flags overdue tasks and drafts weekly client-status notes.

Result

Account managers spent less time assembling status updates and more time managing client work.

Live in 3 weeks for active client projects. More in Marketing and creative →
“The status pack stopped being a Friday afternoon rebuild.”Client Services Director
Professional services A UK professional-services firm

Removing weekly re-keying from a services firm

78% less manual re-keying
100% system updates linked to a source record
Challenge

Operations staff copied the same information between email, spreadsheets, CRM and finance software every week.

What we built

A workflow that reads incoming forms and emails, extracts structured fields, updates systems and flags uncertain entries for review.

Result

The operations team handled exceptions rather than acting as the copy-paste layer between systems.

Live in 2 weeks; expanded after exception rules were stable. More in Professional services →
“The team stopped moving the same fields between four places.”Operations Manager
Finance A UK SME finance team

AI-assisted month-end reporting for an SME finance team

4 working days earlier first draft management pack
18 hours finance admin removed per month
Challenge

Month-end packs were assembled manually from exports, spreadsheets and commentary from department heads.

What we built

A reporting workflow that pulls approved inputs, identifies variances, drafts commentary and creates a review-ready management pack.

Result

Finance delivered the pack earlier, with less time spent on copy-paste preparation.

First reporting workflow live in 4 weeks; tuned through one month-end cycle. More in Finance →
“We still review the pack, but we stopped assembling it by hand.”Finance Lead
Recruitment A UK staffing and recruiting firm

Cleaner CRM data without more recruiter admin

71% CRM updates drafted from email and call context
58% fewer stale next-step fields after the first month
Challenge

CRM data was incomplete because consultants did not consistently update notes, next steps and candidate status after calls and emails.

What we built

An agent that summarises emails and calls, proposes CRM updates and creates follow-up tasks for consultant approval.

Result

Pipeline visibility improved without asking consultants to spend more time on CRM admin.

Live in 10 working days; rolled across the team after the first role desk. More in Recruitment →
“The CRM reflected the conversation without the consultant typing the whole story again.”Operations Lead
Legal services A UK legal services firm

Building matter chronologies from unstructured documents

80% documents classified before paralegal review
4 hours first chronology draft, down from roughly 2 days
Challenge

Case documents were being renamed, filed and summarised manually before a useful chronology could be created.

What we built

A document workflow that classifies documents, extracts dates, builds a chronology and flags missing evidence.

Result

Matter files became easier to review and chronology preparation moved from manual drafting to exception checking.

Live in 4 weeks for one matter type. More in Legal services →
“The chronology was no longer a blank-page exercise.”Senior Associate
Short-let property A UK short-let property operator

Payout reconciliation, run unattended

94% payout lines auto-matched before review
0 manual hours spent on matched payout lines after go-live
Challenge

Marketplace payouts had to be manually matched against booking records, with discrepancies hard to spot until month end.

What we built

A reconciliation workflow that parses payout statements, matches them to the ledger and queues mismatches with the money at risk attached.

Result

The team reviewed only exceptions rather than manually checking every payout line.

First reconciliation live in 3 weeks; exception reporting added during week 4. More in Short-let property →
“We could finally see the exceptions instead of checking every transaction.”Finance Manager
Shared services A UK shared-services team

Shared-services inbox triage with an exception queue

69% fewer emails manually sorted
Under 2 hours average first-response target, down from next-day handling
Challenge

A shared inbox handled finance, HR, supplier and internal requests, but emails were manually sorted and urgent items were easy to miss.

What we built

An inbox triage workflow that classifies messages, extracts request type, assigns priority, drafts responses and updates the team tracker.

Result

The inbox became an operating queue with priorities, ownership and faster first response.

Live in 2 weeks for one inbox; extended to additional queues after review. More in Shared services →
“The inbox became a queue we could manage, not a pile of emails.”Shared Services Manager
IT services An Oman-based IT services firm

Proposal drafting that stops blocking the sales cycle

24 hours first proposal draft, down from 5 working days
70% follow-up emails drafted automatically
Challenge

Sales opportunities were delayed because proposal drafts, scope notes and follow-up emails were handled manually after discovery calls.

What we built

A proposal workflow that converts discovery notes into proposal outlines, drafts follow-ups, updates CRM next steps and flags missing commercial inputs.

Result

The sales team moved from call notes to a usable proposal draft in the same day.

Live in 3 weeks for one service line, then extended to repeat proposal types. More in IT services →
“The first draft stopped blocking the sales cycle.”Commercial Lead

Product-led startups

SaaS A UK SaaS business

A cited support assistant for a SaaS business

58% fewer repetitive support replies drafted from scratch
100% AI answers linked to an approved source or refused
Challenge

Support questions repeated every week, but answers were spread across help docs, release notes and internal product notes.

What we built

A support assistant that retrieves approved answers, cites source documents and escalates account-specific or uncertain cases.

Result

Common support questions were answered faster while sensitive or customer-specific issues stayed with the team.

Live in 4 weeks after knowledge-base cleanup. More in SaaS →
“The citations mattered because support could check the answer before sending it.”Head of Customer Success
SaaS A B2B SaaS startup

Shipping an AI feature without derailing the roadmap

4 weeks AI feature MVP shipped
2 engineering sprints avoided by using a focused external build
Challenge

The product team wanted to ship an AI feature quickly without pulling engineers away from the core roadmap for months.

What we built

A scoped AI feature with prompt logic, fallback behaviour, data controls, usage monitoring and handover documentation.

Result

The company shipped a usable AI feature while retaining ownership of the code and configuration.

MVP live in 4 weeks; monitored through the first usage cycle. More in SaaS →
“What we got was a feature we could ship, rather than a prototype we would have rewritten.”Head of Product
Fintech A UK fintech startup

A private knowledge assistant for a fintech team

Under 2 minutes average policy-answer retrieval, down from 20 minutes
100% answers required an approved source or refusal
Challenge

Product, compliance and customer-success teams relied on scattered documents and informal Slack knowledge.

What we built

A permissioned knowledge assistant over policies, FAQs, product notes and process documents, with citation and refusal logic.

Result

Staff could answer internal policy and product questions faster with source traceability.

Live in 4 weeks after document indexing and permission setup. More in Fintech →
“It made the policy answer findable without turning Slack into the source of truth.”COO
SaaS A UK SaaS founder team

Founder workflows for a scaling SaaS business

7 hours founder time saved per week
75% investor-update first draft produced automatically
Challenge

Founders spent recurring time pulling KPIs, meeting notes and customer updates into investor and board communications.

What we built

A founder workflow that summarises calls, tracks follow-ups, pulls approved KPIs and drafts weekly or monthly investor updates for review.

Result

Founder time was recovered without hiring extra operations support.

Live in 10 working days; refined over the next reporting cycle. More in SaaS →
“The investor update went from a Sunday-evening job to a twenty-minute review.”Founder
Healthtech A UK healthtech startup

A governed onboarding assistant for healthtech

44% faster first onboarding response
100% high-risk questions escalated to a person
Challenge

Customer onboarding was inconsistent because product guidance, compliance notes and support scripts were split across systems.

What we built

A governed onboarding assistant that answers from approved materials, escalates high-risk questions and logs every response for review.

Result

Onboarding became more consistent while high-risk questions remained gated.

Live in 4 weeks with review gates agreed before rollout. More in Healthtech →
“It standardised the safe answers and knew when to stop.”Customer Operations Lead
Marketplace A marketplace startup

Seller-support automation for a marketplace

56% faster first-response preparation
87% requests classified without manual triage
Challenge

Seller support requests were repetitive but policy-sensitive, with teams manually classifying, drafting and escalating cases.

What we built

A support workflow that classifies seller requests, drafts policy-backed responses and escalates refunds, disputes or marketplace-rule exceptions.

Result

Support response preparation became faster and policy-sensitive cases stayed controlled.

Live in 3 weeks for priority support categories. More in Marketplace →
“It helped the team answer faster without losing control of policy decisions.”Support Manager

For larger and regulated teams

Financial services A UK financial-services firm

A governance-first AI rollout for financial services

18 AI use cases mapped and risk-scored
100% approved live workflows designed with audit trails
Challenge

Staff were already experimenting with AI, but leadership needed a controlled rollout model acceptable to compliance, audit and the board.

What we built

An AI readiness assessment, approved-use matrix, audit-trail design, human-approval gates and rollout roadmap.

Result

The firm moved from informal AI usage to a controlled rollout model with clear ownership.

Readiness and control pack completed in 6 weeks. More in Financial services →
“It gave us a way to say yes to AI without losing control.”Head of Digital
Manufacturing A Midlands manufacturing group

Finding the first AI workflow worth building

16 workflows scored for payback and risk
3 priority builds selected for the first roadmap
Challenge

The business had many possible AI use cases across procurement, finance, sales and operations, but no clear first build.

What we built

A workflow audit and prioritisation model ranking each use case by hours saved, operational risk and implementation complexity.

Result

Leadership received a practical first-build recommendation instead of a generic AI strategy deck.

Written audit delivered in 2 weeks. More in Manufacturing →
“It separated the useful workflows from the interesting distractions.”Operations Director
Retail A UK retail operator

Governed customer-service triage for a retail operator

76% messages auto-classified into the correct queue
100% refund and complaint replies held for approval
Challenge

Customer messages were high-volume and repetitive, but refunds, complaints and public responses needed approval controls.

What we built

A triage agent that classifies messages, drafts replies from approved policies and escalates refunds, complaints and edge cases.

Result

Response preparation became faster, with approval controls before customer-facing action.

Live in 3 weeks for the highest-volume categories. More in Retail →
“The team got a draft, not an uncontrolled bot talking to customers.”Customer Operations Manager
Insurance A UK insurance business

A cited policy assistant for an insurance team

Under 90 seconds average policy-answer retrieval, down from 12 minutes
100% answers linked to source documents or refused
Challenge

Staff needed quick answers from policy documents, procedures and compliance guidance, but the source material was spread across folders.

What we built

A permissioned RAG assistant that answers only from approved documents, cites sources and refuses unsupported questions.

Result

Staff found policy-backed answers faster with source traceability.

Live in 4 weeks after document clean-up and permissions setup. More in Insurance →
“The value was not just the answer; it was knowing where it came from.”Risk Manager
Fintech A Swiss-headquartered fintech

Controlled AI operations for a fintech team

65% faster routine response drafting
100% consequential actions gated by human approval
Challenge

Customer operations involved repeated checks across policy documents, CRM notes and internal procedures, but sensitive actions required strict human control.

What we built

A controlled operations assistant that retrieves policy-backed answers, drafts responses, logs decisions and escalates money, complaint or regulatory-sensitive cases.

Result

Routine work moved faster while consequential decisions stayed with humans.

Controlled workflow rollout completed in 4 to 6 weeks. More in Fintech →
“The controls made the workflow usable in a regulated environment.”Operations Director
Funds and family offices A UK investment fund

A cited investment memo assistant for a fund team

60% faster first-draft memo preparation
100% memo claims linked to source material
Challenge

Analysts were reviewing decks, market notes and diligence documents manually before drafting investment memos.

What we built

A memo assistant that summarises source materials, flags missing diligence points and drafts memo sections with source citations.

Result

Analysts prepared first drafts faster while partners could inspect the evidence behind the memo.

Pilot live in 3 weeks; partner-review workflow retained. More in Funds and family offices →
“It did not replace judgement; it made the first review pack faster to prepare.”Investment Principal
Professional services A UK-based professional-services firm

Client reporting that becomes a review task

75% recurring reporting preparation automated
3 working days earlier client-report first draft
Challenge

Monthly client reports were assembled manually from CRM notes, delivery updates and financial information, then rewritten into partner-ready language.

What we built

A reporting workflow that pulls approved inputs, drafts status commentary, highlights risks and creates a review-ready client update.

Result

Reports were produced earlier with less partner and manager time spent on assembly.

First reporting workflow live in 4 weeks. More in Professional services →
“The report became a review task, not a rebuild task.”Managing Partner

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