AI consultancy · Coventry
We are fifteen minutes down the A429 in Kenilworth. We start with two days inside your business working out what it actually costs to run, then build only what the findings justify.
The Coventry market
Coventry's economy still turns on making things and moving them. The city that built Britain's motor industry now hosts Jaguar Land Rover's engineering base at Whitley, the Manufacturing Technology Centre at Ansty Park, and several hundred smaller firms in the tiers beneath them — machining, tooling, fabrication, coatings, logistics, testing. Most of those firms are between ten and seventy-five people, which is precisely the size where the admin burden becomes visible but hiring a systems person cannot yet be justified.
The pattern we see repeatedly in supply-chain businesses is not a technology problem. It is that the same order exists in four places — the email it arrived in, the spreadsheet someone keys it into, the accounts package, and the customer's own portal that a member of staff logs into separately. Nobody designed that. It accumulated, one customer requirement at a time, and the cost of it is measured in a person's afternoon rather than a line on the P&L.
The second pattern is paperwork that exists purely to satisfy somebody else. Certificates of conformity, material traceability, inspection records, supplier questionnaires, audit evidence. It is genuinely necessary and genuinely repetitive, which makes it some of the most rewarding work to automate — the rules are already written down, because a customer wrote them.
Coventry also has two universities on its doorstep and a steady supply of technical graduates, which changes the calculation on building something bespoke rather than renting it. If you own the system, you can hire locally to look after it. If you rent it per seat, you are paying for it whether the seats are filled or not.
Four service lines, but the order matters — we do not sell you the last one before doing the first.
Two days watching how the work really gets done, then a written report costing every system and subscription, mapping where your data lives, and ranking what to automate by what it saves. Most engagements start here, and some end here.
Before anything is automated, the same customer usually needs to stop existing in four places. Joining your accounts package, your CRM, your website and the spreadsheet that runs the office is unglamorous and it is almost always the step that makes everything after it possible.
Bespoke systems for businesses whose work does not fit an off-the-shelf package — quoting against a rate card, tracking a job through stages, and knowing what it cost when it shipped rather than a month later.
Certificates, inspection records and audit evidence generated from the data you already captured, rather than retyped into a template by whoever is free. The rules are written down by your customer, which makes this some of the safest work to automate.
Sites that load fast, describe technical work in language a buyer understands, and are found by people searching for what you make — not brochureware that nobody updates after launch.
We maintain what we build. That is a deliberate commercial choice: it makes us careful about complexity, because we are the ones who have to live with it.
What this looks like in practice
These are the patterns we expect to find in a Coventry manufacturing or supply business. They are illustrative, not client case studies — the audit tells us which ones are actually yours.
One customer emails a PDF, another uses a portal, a third sends a spreadsheet, and a fourth phones. Someone keys all of them into the same system by hand, and a mistake at that point is not found until the wrong thing is on a lorry.
One entry point, one format, mistakes caught at the door
The person who knows what a job should cost is the person who has been there longest. When they are on holiday, quotes either wait or go out wrong. Neither is acceptable, and both are common.
Consistent quotes without waiting for one person
Material grades, batch numbers and inspection results already exist in your records. Producing the certificate that goes with the goods is a copying exercise, and copying exercises are where transcription errors come from.
Documents generated from the record, not retyped
Labour, materials and machine time land in different places at different times. By the time the picture assembles, the next quote has already gone out based on a guess.
Job cost visible while the job is still open
Four stages. You can stop after any of them.
On site, watching the actual work. Not a workshop, not a questionnaire — we sit with the people doing the job and see where the time goes.
Every system, subscription and licence you pay for, what it does, what overlaps, and where the same information is being held twice.
What to automate first, what to leave alone, and the saving attached to each item. Yours to keep, and yours to take to somebody else if you would rather.
And the audit fee comes off the cost of it if you book within ninety days.
We are based in Kenilworth, so most of Coventry is a fifteen to twenty-five minute drive. On-site work does not carry a travel charge anywhere in this list.
No, and we would rather say so plainly. We are in Kenilworth, about fifteen minutes from the city centre, and we work on site across Coventry constantly. Several of the firms ranking for this search have no presence in the country, let alone the city.
It is mostly for you. The businesses that benefit most from this work are the ones where the process is well understood and repetitive but the systems grew by accident. That describes a lot of engineering and supply-chain firms and very few software companies.
Usually not, and we will argue against it if the existing system works. Most of the value in the first year comes from making things you already pay for talk to each other, not from buying something new.
Then that is the finding, and you have a written picture of what you spend and why. If it does not pay for itself, you do not pay for it — that is the whole point of pricing it the way we do.
The same people who did the audit. Nothing is passed to a delivery team you have not met, and nothing is offshored. That is a deliberate limit on how much work we take on.
Usually within two to three weeks for the audit. Build work depends on what the audit finds, and we will tell you honestly if the queue means you would be better served elsewhere.
Connecting the systems you already pay for, then automating the parts of a process that waste your people's time.
Read moreSoftware built around how you actually work, owned by you, with no per-seat licence waiting at the end.
Read moreSites that load fast, read well and are found by the people looking for what you sell.
Read moreIf the audit doesn't pay for itself, you don't pay for it. Fifteen minutes from Coventry, and we come to you.
