What we build, what it costs, and what we would talk you out of
Private AI and business automation for small and medium businesses across Sussex, Surrey and the South East. Installed on your premises, owned by you, supported from Horsham. Twenty fixed-price solutions · one appliance · one honest ladder.
Download the catalogue (PDF, 16 pages) No email address, no form. Everything in it is on this page too.
The Inferred ladder
Five rungs. Each one is optional until it earns the next, and you own everything we build at every step. Most people start at rung one or rung two. Some start at Cortex.
| Rung | What | What it is | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qualify | A 15-minute call. Bring one question your business struggles to answer, and we tell you honestly whether we can help. | Free |
| 2 | Operations Audit | A fixed-price look at where the hours actually go and what is worth automating. A written report you keep, whoever you hire next. | £895 |
| 3 | Build | Fixed-price automation projects, quoted from the audit. You own the result outright, code included. | from £1,495 |
| 4 | Cortex | Our private AI appliance, installed in your building. Yours outright — many businesses start here directly. | from £4,950 |
| 5 | Care | Optional support: monitoring, updates, tested backups, small fixes. Rolling monthly, cancel any time. | £195/month |
Prices exclude VAT. Not ready for AI at all? That is fine — a lot of our work is straightforward business automation with no AI in it, and the ladder works exactly the same way.
Cortex — the memory of your business
Your file server already knows the answer. The problem is finding it. Cortex is a private AI appliance that sits in your building, reads the documents you already own, and answers your team’s questions in seconds — in plain English, with the source shown every time.
| Where it runs | In your building, on your network |
|---|---|
| Where your data goes | Nowhere — it stays with you |
| The AI models | Open-weight, installed on your hardware |
| If the internet drops | It keeps answering |
| What it reads | Shared drives, spreadsheets, PDFs, scans, old Word files, email |
| Who owns it | You do — hardware, software and code |
From £4,950 installed. Yours outright, with the first three months of Cortex Care included. After that, Care is optional at £195 a month on a rolling basis — cancel any time. If you never pay us another penny, everything keeps working. That is what owning it means.
Cortex Care — £195 a month, rolling
Optional, rolling monthly, no lock-in. Cancel any time and everything you own keeps working — Care buys attention, not permission to use what you bought.
What’s included
- Monitoring, so we usually know before you do
- Updates and security patching
- Backups, tested by restoring them
- Two hours a month of small fixes and changes
- Next business day response
- An annual review of whether it is still earning its keep
What isn’t
- New features and new integrations — quoted as fixed-price builds
- Out-of-hours work, charged at 1.5×
- Hardware replacement outside the warranty terms
- Third-party software licences and subscriptions you hold directly
A support contract that holds your product hostage isn’t support, it’s a subscription with extra steps. Cortex is yours the day it is installed and keeps working whether or not you pay us again, so Care has to earn its place every month.
Four sectors. Twenty fixed-price solutions.
These are the jobs we are asked for most often, written down with a fixed scope so you know what you are buying before you buy it. Each is quoted as a fixed price from £1,495, usually off the back of an audit that says which of them is worth doing first. Every solution has a written scope and a written list of what it excludes. There is no day rate, and no meter running.
Professional Practices & Consultancies
Architects · Engineers · Surveyors · Law firms · Consultancies
- Fee proposal assembly
- Timesheet chase
- Project profitability brief
- Project document filing
- Variation and unbilled-hours alert
Bespoke Manufacturing, Print & Trade
Sign makers · Printers · Fabricators · Joineries
- Enquiry to quote
- Proof approval chase
- Job ticket generation
- Production status board
- Materials reorder watch
Wholesale, Stock & Distribution
Merchants · Trade counters · Multi-branch distributors · Warehousing
- Order email to sales order
- Supplier price file ingest
- Backorder and shortage chase
- Goods-in and delivery capture
- Stock and site status display
Recycling, Waste & Vehicle Dismantling
Permitted waste sites · Materials recovery · Authorised treatment facilities
- Digital waste tracking readiness review
- Waste record submission bridge
- Weighbridge ticket capture
- Vehicle intake and destruction records
- Permit and duty-of-care pack
Not on this list? The six shapes of wasted time turn up in every trade we have audited — the sector pages simply name them in your own vocabulary. See the six shapes, or ask anyway.
Built once. Still running.
Every vendor says their thing is reliable. The only evidence that means anything is a system somebody is still using long after the invoice was paid. We wrote a works-order system for a Sussex sign maker — build a quote, turn it into a job sheet, produce the invoice when the job is done. It has been running their work through that sequence for more than twenty years. It has never phoned home, never needed a licence renewed, and never stopped because a supplier changed their mind.
We are not holding that up as a technical model — software that old should be modernised, and we have said so to them more than once. We are holding it up as evidence of the commercial promise: it was built once, it was owned outright from day one, and the business kept running it because it kept working, not because it was ever locked in.
What we would talk you out of
A catalogue is a list of things somebody wants to sell you. So here is the other half of it — the work we turn down, and why. We charge for the audit precisely so we can afford to tell you to buy nothing.
If it doesn’t need AI, we won’t sell you AI
Plenty of what an audit turns up is ordinary software with no AI in it at all. When that is the better answer, we say so in writing — and then we build that instead.
We won’t automate rules nobody has written down
If how you price a job lives in one person’s head, automating it copies the guesswork. Writing the rules down comes first — and that part isn’t a software project.
We won’t replace a system that is working
A healthy core system people know how to use is an asset. We would rather connect to it than sell you a migration.
We won’t quote a day rate
Fixed price, fixed scope, written exclusions. If the scope changes, we requote before we start — not after.
Bring one question
The first conversation is fifteen minutes and costs nothing. Bring one question your business struggles to answer, or one job everybody hates doing. We will tell you honestly whether we can help, what we would do first, and roughly what it would cost. You do not need a shortlist, a budget or a plan — and if the honest answer is that you should spend the money elsewhere, that is the answer you will get.
Prefer it on paper? Download the PDF, or read the pricing page.