AI Chatbots & Knowledge Assistants
Trained on your own content — docs, pricing, policies. Accurate answers, 24/7. Not a decision tree, not a GPT wrapper.
from £1,500Open for new projects
AI integration &
automation.
Most businesses don't need a six-figure AI strategy. They need one well-built automation that saves the team eight hours a week — and a developer honest enough to say so.
The Honest Version
What AI can actually do, right now.
There's a lot of noise. Most of it is hype from consultancies selling roadmaps, or cheap tools that don't do what they claim. The honest version: AI is genuinely useful for a specific set of problems — repetitive tasks, predictable inputs, clear outputs. Applied there, it saves serious time and money. Bolted onto the wrong process, it wastes everyone's.
My job is to tell you the difference — and only build what's worth building.
Customer-facing
- Answering the same questions over and over
- Capturing and qualifying leads at 11pm
- Booking and appointment handling
- Onboarding and information delivery
Internal operations
- Processing invoices, contracts, and forms
- Routing and triaging emails and tickets
- Updating CRMs from conversations
- Summarising and extracting from text at volume
Workflow & integration
- Connecting systems that don't talk to each other
- Automating multi-step manual hand-offs
- Scheduled reports, alerts, and data pipelines
- Brief → draft → review → publish content flows
What I Build
Specific, deliverable things.
Not "AI strategy". Not roadmaps. If you can describe the problem, I can tell you whether AI fixes it and roughly what that costs.
RAG Pipelines
Your document library, queryable in plain English — answers with source references, without the hallucinations.
from £2,000Lead Gen & Qualification Bots
Engages visitors, asks the right qualifying questions, routes hot leads to you instantly. Never sleeps, never misses one.
from £1,200n8n Workflow Automation
Self-hosted pipelines connecting your tools. Zapier-class power without the per-task tax — documented and handed over.
from £500 / workflowOpenAI / Claude API Integration
Real AI features inside your existing app — summarise, classify, extract, search. With proper error handling and cost controls.
from £800AI Document Processing
Contracts, invoices, and forms in; structured data out. Manual data entry, eliminated from the workflow.
from £1,500Voice AI Agents
Inbound calls, reminders, out-of-hours capture. An emerging field — I'll be straight about what works yet and what doesn't.
from £2,500AI Strategy & Audit
Two to three focused hours on your workflows, then a plain-English prioritised roadmap you can take to anyone.
£350–£600The Right Fit
Who I work best with.
AI integration isn't the right answer for everyone. I do my best work with:
- Businesses drowning in repetitive work — hours a week spent copying data or answering the same questions is a strong ROI case.
- Businesses losing leads after hours — the enquiry that arrives at 11pm and waits until morning often goes to a competitor.
- Businesses sitting on unused documents — if the answer exists but nobody can find it fast enough, a RAG system fixes that.
- Developers and agencies who need a senior AI implementation partner for client projects.
- Curious businesses unsure where to start — the strategy & audit session exists exactly for you.
Process
How a project works.
Problem first, technology second
We start with the problem — your workflow, your data, what “good” looks like. The right tool emerges from that conversation. I don't arrive with a solution looking for a problem.
Scoping & proposal
Fixed scope, fixed price: what gets built, what it connects to, what it costs, and a realistic timeline. AI projects carry more uncertainty than web builds — where it exists, I'll say so.
Build & iterate
Most implementations have a working prototype within 1–2 weeks. We test against real data and tune the behaviour until it does what you actually need. You're involved throughout.
Handover & support
Full documentation, monitoring, and cost controls — no surprise API bills. Ongoing support on retainer or ad-hoc, your call.
The Self-Hosted Advantage
Why self-hosted matters.
Most AI tools — Zapier, Make, ChatGPT plugins, chatbot SaaS — process your data on their servers. You pay per use, and your business data flows through third-party infrastructure. For many businesses that's fine. If you handle client confidentiality, legal privilege, or sensitive personal data — it isn't.
- Self-hosted n8n — your automation, on your server, under your control
- Private LLM deployments — for workflows where data cannot leave the premises
- Private RAG systems — documents indexed and queried on your own infrastructure
It costs more than the SaaS route. For law firms, healthcare, and financial services, it's the right call.
Tooling
What I work with.
The tools depend on the problem — there's no single AI stack that fits everything. This is the landscape I work across.
LLMs & APIs
OpenAI Anthropic Claude Google Gemini Mistral / Llama (self-hosted)
Automation & Orchestration
n8n Make LangChain / LlamaIndex Python / FastAPI
Vector Databases & RAG
Pinecone / Qdrant / Chroma pgvector Embedding pipelines Semantic search
Agents & Bots
Custom LLM agents Voiceflow Botpress
Infrastructure
Docker Cloudflare Workers Hetzner / self-hosted Webhooks & event-driven APIs
Integrations
HubSpot / Salesforce / Zoho Slack / Teams / email WhatsApp Business Xero / Sage / QuickBooks Calendars & booking systems Anything with an API
Investment
What does it cost?
AI projects vary enormously by complexity, data volume, and integration depth. As a guide:
- AI chatbot (knowledge base, FAQ) From £1,500
- Lead generation / qualification bot From £1,200
- RAG pipeline (documents + LLM) From £2,000
- n8n workflow automation (per workflow) From £500
- Full automation stack (n8n + workflows) From £1,500
- OpenAI / Claude API integration From £800
- AI document processing pipeline From £1,500
- Voice AI agent From £2,500
- AI strategy & audit session £350–£600
These are starting points — everything is quoted at a fixed price after a scoping conversation, no hourly billing surprises. Ongoing API costs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) are separate and depend on usage; you'll get a realistic running-cost estimate before you commit.
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