Solutions

From assessment to automation to ongoing operations

Whether you need to find the right automation opportunities, build AI systems, or keep them running — we cover the full journey. Pick where you are.

Assess

AI Automation Audit

In under two weeks, you get a prioritised shortlist of automation opportunities with hard ROI numbers attached. You'll know exactly which processes to automate first, what savings to expect, and how long each will take to implement.

A mid-sized logistics company used their Automation Audit to pinpoint three invoice-processing bottlenecks. Within six months of acting on the roadmap, they cut monthly close time from 12 days to 4.

Basic Audit

£2,950

Fixed fee · 5–7 days

Get a clear, ranked view of your top automation opportunities in days, not months — so you can focus investment where it counts.

  • Self-service digital assessment
  • Automated workflow mapping
  • Top 5 automation opportunities identified
  • Estimated ROI per opportunity
  • Prioritised recommendation report
  • 30-minute results walkthrough call
Request a Basic Audit
Assessment

AI Readiness Assessment

From £3,500 · 5–7 days

Companies that assess readiness before investing see faster adoption, fewer stalled pilots, and measurable results within the first quarter. In one assessment, you'll know whether your data, infrastructure, and team are ready — or what to fix first.

A 200-person professional services firm used the assessment to discover their CRM data quality was blocking every AI initiative. After a focused 8-week data clean-up, their first automation pilot hit target ROI in 60 days.

Data Maturity Score — Find out whether your data is ready to power AI, or what needs fixing first

Infrastructure Readiness — Confirm your tech stack can handle AI workloads without costly surprises

Team Capability Gap Analysis — See exactly which skills your team has and where to invest in training

Cultural Change Readiness — Understand adoption risks early so rollout doesn't stall at the people layer

A+
Data Maturity
92%
Infrastructure
B+
Team Skills
87%
Change Ready
Tool

ROI Calculator

Free

Get board-ready projected savings, break-even timelines, and payback periods in minutes. Enter your real process numbers and walk out with a business case your CFO can approve.

An e-commerce operations team used the calculator to model automating their returns workflow. The projected £95K annual saving secured budget approval in a single leadership meeting.

Input your process hours, headcount, and error rates

Get projected savings over 12, 24, and 36 months

See break-even timeline and payback period

Projected Annual Savings
£127,400
Based on 5 automated processes
4.2×
ROI
3mo
Payback
Build

Your operations, built to run themselves

We design, build, and deploy AI automation tailored to your operations. From process pipelines to intelligent agents — first system live in weeks.

Core Service

Operations Automation

We map your manual processes and replace them with automated pipelines. Your invoice gets processed, your client gets onboarded, your report gets filed — without anyone touching it.

3 days → 4 hours Invoice processing time for a logistics firm

Invoices processed and matched automatically — no manual data entry

New clients onboarded in minutes with auto-generated documents and accounts

Reports built and delivered on schedule, pulling live data from your systems

Compliance checks and approval chains that run themselves

📥 Invoice received
🤖 AI extracts data
✅ Auto-matched & approved
💰 Payment scheduled
AI Service

AI Agents for Customer Operations

24/7 intelligent agents that handle enquiries, qualify leads, and escalate only when a human is genuinely needed. Built specifically for your business, not off-the-shelf.

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6 hrs → 2 min First-response time reduction
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70% automated Enquiries handled without humans

Customer support agents that answer using your actual product docs and policies

Internal agents that draft reports, flag anomalies, and prep data for your team

Multiple agents working together — e.g. triage → research → draft response

Runs in your environment — your data stays on your infrastructure

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AI Agent Fleet
Support Agent
Analyst Agent
Ops Agent
Content Agent
Integration

Connected Systems

When your CRM doesn't talk to your accounting software, someone on your team is copying data by hand. We connect your tools so information flows automatically — one entry, everywhere it needs to be.

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15 hours/week saved Duplicate data entry eliminated across Salesforce, Xero & PM tools

Sales, finance, and operations data synchronised in real time

Custom connectors built for your exact tool stack — no off-the-shelf compromises

Changes in one system trigger updates everywhere else, instantly

Old systems kept running and connected — no expensive rip-and-replace

Salesforce
Xero
HubSpot
Aptimate
Slack
SAP
Teams
AI Service

Document Intelligence & Extraction

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3 hrs → 8 min per document 96% clause-match accuracy for a 200-person law firm

We built a RAG pipeline using OpenAI embeddings, Pinecone vector search, and a Python extraction layer — replacing manual cross-referencing of clause libraries.

RAG pipelines with OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source LLMs

Vector databases: Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector

Structured data extraction from PDFs, emails, scanned documents

Compliance-ready audit trails and confidence scoring

Deployed on AWS (Lambda, S3, SQS) or Azure

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96%
Clause-match accuracy
3 hrs
Before
8 min
After
Data

Data Strategy & System Integration

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4 databases → 1 unified warehouse Portfolio queries answered in seconds, not days

We consolidated their data into a single PostgreSQL warehouse with dbt transformations, built a natural-language query layer using GPT-4, and gave their advisers a chat interface that answers portfolio questions in seconds.

Data warehouse design (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Snowflake)

ETL/ELT pipelines with dbt, Airflow, or custom Python

Natural-language data querying (text-to-SQL)

API integration across legacy and modern systems

GDPR-compliant data handling and access controls

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4
Databases
1
Warehouse
Portfolio queries answered in seconds
Run

Keep your automation running and growing

Automation needs looking after. With a managed operations retainer, we handle monitoring, fixes, and continuous improvement.

Retainer

Managed Operations

From £2,000/month

Models drift, APIs change, and your business evolves. Your automation should keep up.

💡

With a managed operations retainer, we keep everything running, fix issues before you notice them, and add new automations as your needs grow. A dedicated team that knows your systems inside-out — without hiring one.

We monitor your automations 24/7 and fix problems before they affect your business

Monthly report showing exactly what's running, what it saved you, and what's next

New automations added each quarter as we find more opportunities

One point of contact who knows your business — no support ticket queues

System Health
99.9%
Uptime last 90 days
12 automations running • 3 agents active
How We Work

Pick the format that fits

Technical Review

£1,200

Half-day (4 hours)

Bring a specific problem — "should we build or buy our document processing?" or "is our data architecture ready for AI?" — and get a concrete answer in 4 hours.

  • 4-hour session with a senior engineer
  • Architecture review or vendor evaluation
  • Written recommendation with cost estimates
  • 30-day follow-up call
Enquire

Embedded Engineer

From £8,000/mo

2–4 days per week · Ongoing

A senior consultant joins your team 2–4 days a week. They attend your standups, review your code, mentor your developers, and build alongside your people. Not an outside adviser — a temporary team member.

  • Fractional CTO or senior technical lead
  • Hands-on coding and architecture decisions
  • Team mentoring and code review
  • Monthly progress reports and roadmap updates
  • Flexible commitment — scale up or down
Enquire

All prices are indicative and exclude VAT. Final pricing depends on scope, complexity, and your specific requirements. Book a call to discuss your needs.

The Aptimate Method

Our structured four-phase methodology

Every engagement follows The Aptimate Method — from systems audit to production deployment in weeks. Scoped, measurable, and designed to deliver working systems.

See Our Methodology
Industries

Industries we work in

Every sector has its own bottlenecks. We build automation that tackles yours — here's how we help businesses like yours.

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Legal

Pain Points

Contract review & document bundling

Client intake processing

What We Automate

Automated contract pre-screening

Automated court deadline tracking

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Financial Services

Pain Points

Month-end reconciliation

Regulatory reporting & KYC onboarding

What We Automate

Multi-system reconciliation

Automated compliance checks

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E-commerce & Retail

Pain Points

Returns processing & inventory alerts

Customer query handling

What We Automate

AI returns triage & reorder triggers

24/7 AI customer agent

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Property & Real Estate

Pain Points

Tenant enquiry volume

Maintenance coordination & lease renewals

What We Automate

AI enquiry triage & maintenance dispatching

Proactive renewal workflows

Our Stack

Technologies we work with

We pick the right tool for the job — not the trendiest one. Here's what powers the systems we build.

AI / LLM

OpenAI Anthropic Claude LangChain Pinecone

Automation & Integration

Make.com Zapier n8n

Infrastructure

AWS Python FastAPI

Business Systems

Salesforce HubSpot Xero
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Your data stays yours. Full stop. SOC 2-aligned practices, encryption at rest and in transit, GDPR compliant, no third-party data sharing. Learn more about our security practices →

Not sure where to start?

Book a free discovery call. We'll recommend the right starting point based on your business size, industry, and goals.