The Cost Problem This Solves
Hiring a senior AI/ML engineer in-house in the UK costs well over £100,000 a year before overhead — before a single feature ships.
The same enterprise-grade AI integration, custom web app, or API build, delivered by our engineering team, typically costs 40–60% less than that in-house hire or a local agency quote, without cutting corners on security or code quality.
Manual workflows and repetitive lead follow-ups are a direct hit to margin every hour your team spends on low-value tasks is an hour not spent on growth. You don’t need to hire locally or search for a “software development company near me” the entire engagement, from scope call to delivery, runs remotely with UK-hours overlap.
Who this is built for
Deliverables
Process
Custom AI Development
- We build the custom AI integrations, web apps, and API systems your in-house team doesn’t have bandwidth for, deployed in weeks, not the 6+ months a domestic dev shop quotes.
- Every project is scoped individually on a free 20-minute call, pricing depends on complexity, from a single automation to a full multi-agent system.
Get a scoped quote before you commit to anything
No fixed delivery date guarantees, no “trust us” pricing. Every quote is scoped against your actual requirement on the call above not a templated package that may not fit what you’re building.
Book a free 20 minute call, we’ll tell you honestly whether a custom build is the right call for your budget, or if an off-the-shelf tool would do the job cheaper.
It’s connecting AI capability into tools you already use, rather than replacing them, examples include a RAG-powered chatbot trained on your knowledge base, an AI agent that qualifies leads inside your CRM, or workflow automation (via n8n, Make.com, LangGraph) that handles multi-step tasks without manual input at each stage.
API development means building the connective layer that lets your systems, your website, CRM, payment provider, internal tools talk to each other securely. You need a custom API when off-the-shelf integrations don’t cover your specific data flow or when you’re connecting proprietary internal systems that no pre-built connector supports.
CMS development means building or customising the system your team uses to manage website content pages, product listings, blog posts without needing a developer for every change. A CMS developer builds that system (or a headless architecture) and connects it to the rest of your stack so content, commerce, and design stay in sync.
It depends on complexity, but as a range: a standard web app or CMS build runs £12,000–£24,000, a proprietary AI integration £16,000–£48,000, and a complex multi-system build £48,000–£120,000+. Full breakdown in the Pricing table above, every project gets scoped individually rather than quoted off a generic bracket.
It’s building AI systems, chatbots, workflow agents, integrations, designed around your specific data, tools, and processes, instead of configuring an off-the-shelf AI subscription tool. The trade-off: more upfront engineering, but the system actually fits how your business runs.
Industry research puts AI project failure rates as high as 85%, usually for the same three reasons: no clear ROI metric defined before the build starts, a tool bolted onto existing systems instead of properly integrated with them, and scope that keeps expanding without a fixed spec. Our process fixes this with a scoped call and signed-off technical spec before a single sprint starts
For a simple use case — a basic chatbot or a Zapier-style automation — yes, off-the-shelf tools can get you there. Once you need it to securely query your own data (RAG), handle multi-step workflows, or integrate with your CRM/ERP, that’s engineering work most in-house teams don’t have the bandwidth or specialised skillset for — which is where a dedicated build earns its cost back.
