The Enquiry Arrives as a PDF Somebody Photographed at an Angle
Almost every process in this sector starts with a document: a specification, a drawing, a tender pack, a form filled in by hand and scanned crooked. Reading those reliably is the genuine automation opportunity here — and it is also the one most often sold badly, because the demo runs on a clean PDF and what actually arrives is a photograph of a page with a thumb in the corner.
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Six documents that break a clean demo
Every extraction tool works on the first of these. What separates a useful build from a disappointing one is what it does with the other five.
- A clean, generated PDFEvery demo · rarely reality
- A photograph of a printed pageAt an angle, with a shadow
- Handwriting in the marginWhich is the important part
- A drawing with the spec in itNot text at all
- A tender pack of forty pagesSix of which matter
- A spreadsheet with merged cellsAnd a heading row on page three
The third row decides whether the whole thing is trustworthy. Handwriting in a margin is frequently the amendment — the changed quantity, the added condition, the note that reverses what the printed form says. A system that reads the form and misses the annotation has produced a confident, wrong answer, which is worse than not reading it at all.
Every field has to point back at where it came from
The single feature that makes document extraction usable in this sector is source referencing: every extracted value linked to the page and the region it was read from, so a person can verify it in two seconds instead of re-reading forty pages. Without that, checking the output takes as long as doing the job manually did, and the automation quietly stops being used within a month.
The second is confidence that means something. Fields the system is unsure about are marked and go in front of a person; fields it is confident about pass. That sounds obvious and almost nothing does it — most extraction returns everything with equal certainty, which forces a human to re-check all of it and removes the entire benefit.
Then the honest scope. Printed text is reliable. Handwriting is variable and has to be flagged rather than trusted. Values inside drawings are usually a person’s job today. Saying which is which before the build, rather than discovering it in month two, is the difference between a tool people use and one they work around while telling you it is fine.
And where this genuinely pays is speed to a quote. A tender pack that takes a day to read and summarise, reduced to a checked summary in an hour, means responding while the buyer is still assembling the shortlist. That is a commercial outcome rather than an efficiency one, and it is the case worth building for here.
- ✓Every field links to its source — Two seconds to verify, not forty pages to re-read.
- ✓Confidence that routes, not decorates — Unsure fields go to a person. Most tools mark everything equal.
- ✓Say what it cannot read — Handwriting flagged, drawings usually human. Before the build.
- ✓Annotations are often the amendment — Missing one produces a confident wrong answer.
- ✓Speed to quote is the real return — Responding while the shortlist is still open.
If checking the output takes as long as the job did, the automation stops being used within a month.
What we build for an industrial firm
Six things, and all of them assume the documents are messy.
Extraction With Source References
Every value linked to the page and region it came from. It is what makes checking take two seconds, and it is what keeps the tool in use past month one.
Confidence That Routes
Unsure fields flagged and put in front of a person; confident ones pass. Marking everything with equal certainty forces a human to re-check all of it, which removes the point.
Annotations Treated as Important
Handwriting in a margin is frequently the amendment that reverses the printed form. Flagged for a person rather than read confidently and folded in.
Tender Packs Reduced to What Matters
Forty pages narrowed to the six that decide whether to bid, with references so somebody can check the narrowing rather than trust it.
A Quote Draft, Not a Quote
Assembled from what was extracted and priced by a person. The judgement stays where it belongs; the day of reading and typing does not.
A Written List of What It Cannot Read
Drawings, poor scans, certain forms. Agreed before the build rather than discovered in month two, because that discovery is how a tool gets quietly worked around.
Installer and Partner Routing
An enquiry sent to the right installer or channel partner by region, capability and current capacity, rather than to whoever answers first. Includes telling the sender who now has it, which is the part usually skipped.
Compliance Documentation, Assembled
The recurring pack built from your own approved templates and the values already extracted, with sources attached so a person can check it. We assemble documents; we do not determine whether anything complies — that judgement stays with the people qualified to make it.
What clients say
Real clients, quoted in their own words — published with their permission.
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— Our Proprietary Methodology —
The Visibility Framework™, applied in Energy & Industrial
The method doesn’t change by market. What it’s pointed at does.
Audit The Hours
Where time actually goes, task by task, scored on volume, repetition and the cost of getting it wrong. Ends in a ranked blueprint with estimated hours saved — yours to keep either way.
Design The Guardrails
Before any building: what the agent may touch, where a human must approve, what happens when it is unsure, and which data is never allowed near a third-party model.
Build & Evaluate
One workflow at a time, in your accounts, scored against real examples from your business before it touches live work. Shipped early so it meets reality while it is still cheap to change.
Run & Improve
Monitored for cost, failures and quality drift. Models change, your business changes, and an automation nobody tends becomes a liability rather than an asset.
Honest, No-Nonsense Commitment
If the audit concludes that a task is not worth automating, we will tell you and refund the difference rather than build it anyway. And if a workflow we built does not hit the outcome we agreed in the blueprint, we keep working on it at no extra cost until it does or we take it out.
AI Automation pricing for Energy & Industrial, in GBP
Quoted in pounds after we have seen a genuine sample of your worst documents rather than your tidiest. That sample decides the scope, and looking at the clean ones first is how these projects end up promising something the paperwork will not support.
One Document Type
Your most common inbound form.
- Extraction with source references
- Confidence routing to a person
- A written list of what it cannot read
Enquiry to Draft
The usual one. Document in, draft out.
- Everything in One Document Type
- Tender packs reduced to what matters
- Quote drafts assembled, priced by a person
- Optional: bundle in SEO or Website Development
Multi-Division
Several document families or sites.
- Per-family extraction rules
- Routing to the right division automatically
- Evaluated against real documents before each rollout
- Optional: combine all 4 services for full-funnel growth
Every plan is scoped around your market — start with a free first look and we’ll recommend what fits, priced in GBP.
What you’re actually committing to
Most agencies keep this in a contract you only see after the sales call. We would rather you knew now, because it is the question everyone asks second — right after the price.
- The audit is credited, not sunkPay for the audit, and the full amount comes off the build if you proceed. If you don’t, the blueprint is still yours to hand to anyone else.
- A fixed build price after the auditQuoted once we know what we are building. If it takes longer than we estimated, that is our risk — the price only moves if you change the scope.
- You own everythingAccounts, API keys, workflows, prompts, evaluation sets, logs and documentation — all in your name from day one, and still yours if we never work together again.
- Running costs are yours and visibleAPI usage is billed by the provider directly to you. We never resell tokens or mark up usage, and you see the real number.
- The retainer is month to month30 days’ notice, no exit fee. Stop it and your automations keep running — you are simply maintaining them yourself.
- Human approval is the defaultAnything customer-facing or irreversible needs a person until the evaluation data justifies otherwise, and that decision is yours to make, not ours.
These are the terms as they appear in the agreement itself — nothing here is softened for the website. The full wording lives in our terms and conditions, and you get the agreement to read before anything is signed or invoiced.
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