Business consultancy and AI partner
AI and automation services for SMEs
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01Operations
Operations and efficiency
The systems that run the business day to day.
- AI consultancy and strategy
- Process mapping
- Proposals and roadmaps
- CRM, ERP and business systems
- Apps and internal tools
- Automated workflows
- Reporting and dashboards
- Data cleansing
02Sales
Sales and customers
Turning activity into booked, won work.
- Automated outbound
- Cold calling systems
- SDR cockpits
- Lead scoring and enrichment
- AI-personalised outreach
- Pipeline and follow-up automation
- AI sales agents and chatbots
- Shopify and ecommerce
03Marketing
Creative and marketing
On-brand content and reach, at volume.
- Brand identity and brand kits
- Websites
- SEO and GEO
- Content apps for image and video
- Email and outreach campaigns
- Explainer videos
- How-to guides and videos
- UGC and influencer marketing
- Product and business videos
- Social media content
How we work with you
From first chat to proven results.
- 1Step 1
Free consultation
A relaxed chat about how you work, and where time and money are being lost.
- We learn how your business runs
- We find where time and money leak
- AI insights for your business
- An AI roadmap
- A proposal to work from
- 2Step 2
Map and plan
We map your processes, tools and data, then agree a clear plan with you.
- We map how work really flows
- We review your tools and spend
- The highest-return moves first
- A phased plan in plain English
- Targets agreed before we build
- 3Step 3
Build and prove
One small, affordable project first, measured in numbers. Then we scale what works.
- One focused, affordable first project
- Shipped in weeks, not quarters
- Measured in hours and pounds saved
- Your team trained to run it
- Then we scale what works
- gain in process efficiency
- 80%+
- a week handed back from manual work
- 20+ hrs
- cheaper than agency content rates
- 94%
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Working in the West Midlands? See our Birmingham page.
Free consultation
Discover your AI potential.Book a free consultation.
A free session to map where AI can take your business, and the plan to get there.
You leave with:
A taste of how we work: meet us, see how we approach your business, and leave with something to consider.
- A chance to meet Mark and Tom
- AI insights for your business
- A phased AI roadmap
- A short written report to take away
- A strategic business proposal
- Your AI questions answered
- Pick it up again whenever you're ready
No obligation. The only cost is your time.
Mark Blake · Strategy and systems
Thomas McElroy · Creative and AI