AI consultancy in Sheffield, built around your business.

Bring us a task that takes too much time, a tool you are considering or a trial that has stalled. We look at the inputs, the people involved and the cost of getting it wrong. Together we choose a useful first measure: time spent checking documents, the number of exceptions or the quality of answers on real examples.

We agree what the tool can read, what it may change and where someone must approve the result. A trial needs a named owner, a cost limit and a way to stop if it does not help. Integration, training, handover and ongoing care are agreed as part of the relevant delivery scope.

Look for a repeated job where better information or less manual handling would help: checking documents, preparing replies, finding an internal answer or sorting exceptions. We compare the current process with a trial, including the time people spend checking and correcting the output, the running cost and the effect on the team. A useful result earns its place in the business.

We help businesses use AI with controls that fit the job. We assess the information a tool can access, its suppliers and permissions, how its answers will be checked and which actions need a person’s approval. We test ordinary cases and failures, prepare staff and agree who monitors the system after launch. The level of access and review reflects the consequences of a mistake.

We can build document classification, retrieval over approved company information and AI tools connected to your existing systems. Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, gives a model relevant source material to work from. It still needs permission checks, useful sources, tests for missing or conflicting information and a way to say when it cannot answer.

An AI agent that can change a record needs more than a good prompt. The application must enforce permissions, validate the proposed action, handle retries and require approval where the consequences demand it. Our Go, PostgreSQL and integration work supports that engineering; model quality, running costs and staff review are part of the same delivery decision.

We compare approaches against the task: model choice, retrieval, embeddings and reranking where useful, or a simpler rule-based process. Quality, response time, running cost and the effort needed to check the result all matter. A larger model is not automatically a better business decision.

Where private deployment is needed, we assess the available hardware, processing location, access, maintenance and operating cost against hosted options. Privacy depends on the complete data path, including connected tools and logs. We agree the requirements and test the proposed arrangement before recommending it.

Sometimes the missing piece is someone taking responsibility across the business: which opportunities to pursue, which suppliers to trust and how the people and systems fit together. Our fractional CTO service gives you an agreed ongoing leadership remit, with Max as your lead and the wider team behind him.

That role includes AI decisions alongside software, hiring, supplier oversight and technical risk. The leadership retainer and any implementation or System Care agreement have separate scopes and prices.

Owner-run and family firms with somewhere between a handful and a few hundred staff. Manufacturers and engineering works in the east end and along the Don valley. Wholesalers and distributors near the M1. Online shops, trade counters and professional firms in the city centre.

The common thread is a business that has grown faster than its systems. Orders are retyped from email into the accounts package. Stock is counted in one place and sold in another. One person knows how the old system works and everyone else leaves it alone.

Seeing the actual work helps us judge what is worth changing. We arrange visits to follow a process through the business and talk to the people who handle it, then combine remote delivery with agreed workshops and training.

The build itself is mostly remote. There is a short call each week and a board you can check whenever you like. The people you meet on the first visit are the people who do the work, and they are still around after go-live.