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AI inside the systems your business already runs.

Not chatbots for the sake of it. We build AI into real business processes to handle work that used to need a person: qualifying leads, reading emails and documents, writing follow-ups. Every AI step has validation, logging and a person in the loop where it matters.

Example: AI with guardrails

Example workflow. Switch between a clear and an unclear enquiry to see the guardrail route uncertain results to a person.

Where AI helps

Specific jobs, not "AI transformation".

AI inside the processes you already run, doing work that used to need a person.

AI lead qualification

Enquiries read, scored and routed by what they actually say.

AI email handling

Inbound email sorted, summarised and drafted for a reply.

Document processing

Data extracted from PDFs, forms and attachments into the right fields.

AI-assisted follow-up

Follow-ups written from call notes and conversations. In production for conveyancing teams.

Customer support

Common questions answered from your own information, with a hand-off to a person.

Classification

Requests, replies and documents tagged and sent to the right place.

AI agents

Where an agent is genuinely the right design, with clear limits on what it can do.

Decision support

AI weighs up the inputs and recommends. Rules and people decide what happens.

Knowledge systems

Answers to internal questions from your own documents, with the source attached.

In production

A sales call ends. The follow-up writes itself.

From our conveyancing system: when a call finishes, the call data goes to OpenAI, which writes a follow-up email based on what was actually discussed.

call-to-follow-up Follow-up ready Illustrative
JustCall · call ended
Lead #482136m 42sPurchase
  • Buying a leasehold flat, agreed at £285,000
  • Mortgage agreed in principle
  • Asked what the leasehold supplement covers
  • Would like the quote by email today
Follow-up email
ToClient A
SubjectYour conveyancing quote for the flat purchase

Hi Client A,

Thanks for your time on the phone just now. Here's a quick summary of what we covered.

You're buying a leasehold flat at £285,000 with your mortgage agreed in principle. The leasehold supplement covers the extra work on the lease: reviewing it, raising enquiries with the managing agent and checking the ground rent and service charge.

Your itemised quote will follow by email shortly. If you're happy to go ahead, just reply and we'll open your file.

Generated from the call · added to the lead timeline
Anonymised example. The workflow is real; the client, call and email shown here are illustrative.
Guardrails

How we keep AI steps honest.

  • Structured output. AI returns defined fields, not free text, so the next step knows exactly what it's getting.
  • Validation. Results are checked against rules before anything happens. Failures route to a person.
  • Human approval. Anything customer-facing is approved before it's sent, unless you decide otherwise.
  • Logging. Every AI call is recorded with what it saw and what it returned.
  • Fallbacks. If the model is slow or down, the workflow degrades gracefully instead of failing silently.
Questions

AI systems questions.

Which AI models do you use?

Usually Claude or OpenAI models through their APIs, called from inside n8n. We choose per task: some steps need careful reasoning over long documents, others just need fast, cheap classification.

Is our data safe?

We send only the data a step needs, choose providers and settings to suit how sensitive it is, and keep a log of what the AI saw and returned. For data that can't leave your control, we'll design the workflow so it doesn't.

Will AI send things to our customers on its own?

Not unless you want it to. Our default is that AI drafts and a person approves anything customer-facing. Internal steps like classification and extraction can run unattended, with validation.

Do you build AI agents?

Yes, where an agent is genuinely the right design. Most business processes are better served by a clear workflow with one or two AI steps, which is easier to test, cheaper to run and simpler to trust.

Start here

Got a process that's mostly reading and sorting? Show us.

Describe the process in a few sentences. We'll tell you what can be automated, what shouldn't be, and what it would take. In writing, within one working day.

  1. You send a messageA few details and what you need. Plain English is fine.
  2. We reply in writingWhether it's worth automating, how we'd approach it and what we'd need to know.
  3. A 30-minute call, if it makes senseWe map the process with you and agree what a first build would include.
  4. A fixed quoteScope and price agreed before any work starts.
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