An AI automation agency UK businesses actually keep, because we ship real software not a Zapier board with a monthly invoice attached. Workflow automation, document processing, support AI, and data pipelines built into the product you already run.
Plenty of new agencies will hand you a chain of Zapier steps calling an LLM and invoice you monthly to maintain it. It works in the demo. Then a step silently fails at 2am, nobody is watching the queue, and you find out from a customer. You do not own it, you cannot debug it, and you cannot extend it.
An automation that is right most of the time is worse than no automation, because someone still has to check every output. Without evaluation, confidence scoring, and a human-in-the-loop path for the hard cases, your team quietly goes back to doing it by hand.
Most automation sits outside the software, shuffling data between SaaS tools. The compounding value is inside the product: the matching engine, the onboarding flow, the review queue. That is where automation changes your unit economics, and that is where a plugin cannot reach.
We are an AI automation agency UK teams call after the no-code board breaks, and we build automation that lives inside your product, monitored, evaluated, and owned by you.
See what you get →Every build ships with the same core package. It is the baseline any AI automation agency UK businesses hire should meet, whether it is one workflow or a pipeline running across the business.
Deployed in your infrastructure with retries, error handling, dead-letter queues, and alerting when something needs a human.
How often the automation is right, where it fails, and what it costs per run. Measured on your real data before it goes live.
Confidence thresholds that route edge cases to a person instead of guessing. You decide where the line sits.
Your database, your APIs, your CRM. No rebuild, no migration, no rip and replace.
Caching, model routing, and usage controls so the inference bill stays predictable as volume grows.
Tuning, edge case fixes, and drift monitoring after go-live, from the team that built it.
If any of these describe you, we will tell you on the first call rather than waste your time or ours.
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Working with Foundry 5 to create the Ove app has been an absolute pleasure. Their professionalism, work ethic, and willingness to always go the extra mile has really impressed me. I would recommend them to anyone.
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| Feature | Foundry 5 | Wrapper agency | In-house |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automation built into your product | |||
| You own the code and can extend it | |||
| Accuracy measured before go-live | |||
| Human-in-the-loop for edge cases | |||
| Error handling, retries, and alerting | |||
| Cost per run monitored | |||
| No monthly fee to keep it running | |||
| Honest assessment of what to automate |
Pricing an AI automation agency UK founders can plan around: we scope the work, agree a price, and stick to it. No surprise invoices. No scope creep charges. You get a written scope document before code starts, and there is no monthly fee to keep the automation running afterwards.
For automating a process end to end, one workflow at a time. You reprioritise at the start of each sprint as you learn which automations actually move the numbers.
Anything else? Just book a call. We'd rather talk than write another FAQ entry.
✓Risk-free first project · Full refund if you’re not satisfied
No, and we would push back if someone told you otherwise. Most of our automation work goes into products that already exist. We integrate with your current database, APIs, and infrastructure. If a part of your backend genuinely blocks the automation, we will tell you exactly which part and what it takes to change, rather than quoting a rebuild you do not need.
A single workflow automation is typically two to three weeks from scope to live. A full pipeline with document processing, evaluation, and monitoring runs four to eight weeks. We agree the timeline in writing before any code is written, and you see a working prototype benchmarked on your real data in week two or three, before you commit to the full build.
Workflow automation, document and form processing, customer support triage and drafting, internal tooling, and data pipeline work are the common ones. The real test is not whether AI can do the task, it is whether the task is repeated often enough and defined well enough to be worth automating. We work that out in the process audit in week one.
It will, occasionally, and the system is designed for that. We set confidence thresholds so uncertain cases route to a person instead of being guessed at, log every decision so you can audit what happened, and alert someone when a job fails rather than letting it die silently in a queue.
We use Make and Zapier where a light workflow genuinely is the right answer, and we will say so rather than overbuild. But when the automation needs to live inside your product, handle real volume, or make decisions you have to stand behind, it needs to be software: Python, proper error handling, and code you own. That is the difference.
Caching, prompt optimisation, model routing, and usage controls, with cost per run tracked from day one. You can see exactly what each automated task costs and what it replaced. Nobody should be surprised by their inference bill at the end of the month.
Yes. Some steps are cheap for a human and expensive for a machine to get right, and some processes are too undefined to automate until you have agreed how they actually work. We would rather scope out half of what you asked for than ship automation your team stops trusting.
Book a 30-minute scoping call with an AI automation agency UK businesses trust with the process nobody wants to do. No pitch. We will map it, tell you which parts are worth automating, and be straight with you about the parts that are not.
✓Risk-free first project · Full refund if you’re not satisfied
