Do Not Automate the Work. Automate the Hour Either Side of It.
In a firm that sells time, the work itself is the product and nobody sensible wants a machine doing it. What is worth removing is everything wrapped around it — the notes after the call, the follow-up that never went, the CRM entry somebody will do on Friday, the proposal first draft, the file that has to be assembled before anyone can start. Those hours are neither billable nor optional, which is exactly what makes them the target.
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None of these can be skipped and none of them can be charged for, which is a rare and useful combination when deciding what to automate first.
- Writing up the callUsually at seven in the evening
- The follow-up that never wentThe most expensive omission here
- Updating the CRMOr not, which is worse
- Assembling the file to startBefore any real work begins
- The proposal first draftFrom the same eight paragraphs
- Chasing a document from a clientThird time, politely
The second row is worth more than the rest combined. A proposal that went out and was never followed up is work already paid for that produced nothing, and it happens constantly in firms where the person who would follow up is the person doing the billable work. Automated follow-up on a stated schedule is the smallest build on this page and the one that changes revenue, not just hours.
The constraint is real, and it does not rule this out
Anything touching client matter detail is a data decision before it is a technology one, and in this sector that decision has to be made deliberately rather than by whoever installed a tool. That is genuinely the first conversation, and it is the argument our main AI automation page covers properly — where information goes, what is contracted not to be trained on, and where a local model is the right answer because nothing should leave your environment.
What it does not do is rule out the useful cases, because most of them barely touch matter detail. A follow-up schedule needs a name, a date and a subject line. A CRM update needs who was spoken to and about what, not the substance. A file assembly checklist needs to know which documents are missing, not what they say. Scoping around that is usually straightforward once somebody asks the question.
Where the substance genuinely is involved — a proposal draft, a summary of a long call — the honest answer is that this needs the deliberate data decision made first, and for some firms the answer will be a model running somewhere they control. That is a bigger project and it is a real option rather than a reason to abandon the idea.
And the drafts stay drafts. A proposal first draft assembled from your own previous work saves the blank page and nothing else; a person still writes it. The value is in never starting from nothing, which is a smaller claim than the market makes and a true one.
- ✓Data decision first, always — Deliberate, not made by whoever installed a tool.
- ✓Most useful cases barely touch detail — A follow-up needs a name and a date, not the substance.
- ✓Local models where they are needed — A bigger project, and a real option.
- ✓Drafts stay drafts — The value is never starting from a blank page.
- ✓Follow-up is the revenue one — Smallest build here, and it changes more than hours.
A proposal that went out and was never followed up is work already paid for that produced nothing.
What we build for a firm
Six things, and the smallest one is the one that changes revenue.
Follow-Up That Actually Happens
On a stated schedule, from a proposal or a first meeting, without depending on the person doing the billable work remembering. The smallest build here and the one worth most.
Call Notes to Actions
What was agreed, who owes what, by when — drafted immediately rather than written up at seven in the evening. Reviewed by the person who was there, always.
CRM Updated Without Anybody Doing It
Who was spoken to and about what, filled from what already happened. The alternative is a CRM everybody has quietly stopped trusting.
Proposal First Drafts
Assembled from your own previous work so nobody starts at a blank page. It remains a draft and a person writes the version that goes out.
Client Chasing, Handled
The third polite request for a document, sent on time and tracked, so it is not competing for attention with billable work and losing.
Scoped Around Confidentiality
Most of the above needs a name, a date and a subject rather than matter detail. Where substance genuinely is involved, the data decision is made first — deliberately.
Enquiries Sorted Against Your Ideal Client
Sector, size, budget and timescale established before the first call, then ordered against the profile of work you actually want. It sorts and it explains why — the decision to turn anything away stays with the firm, because that judgement is worth more than the time it would save.
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 Professional Services
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 Professional Services, in GBP
Quoted in pounds after the data conversation rather than before it, because in this sector that conversation decides what is buildable at all. Nothing here is professional-conduct advice — we name no regulator on this page because the answer depends on your business, and a sales page is the wrong place to get it from.
Follow-Up
The smallest build, the biggest return.
- Scheduled follow-up from proposals and meetings
- Client document chasing, tracked
- Needs a name and a date, not matter detail
The Unbillable Hour
The usual one. Notes, CRM and drafts.
- Everything in Follow-Up
- Call notes to actions, reviewed by who was there
- CRM filled from what already happened
- Optional: bundle in SEO or Website Development
Firm-Wide
Several practice groups, or local models.
- Per-group workflows with shared standards
- Local model deployment where data must not leave
- Evaluated before anything touches client matter
- 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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