AI automation agency UK
Automation does the repetitive jobs in your business without anybody typing them: chasing invoices, filing enquiries, sending the same email, moving numbers between systems. These are the jobs that eat evenings and where mistakes creep in. The work still gets done, it just stops being done by you.
What the admin is really costing you
The admin is never one big job. It is forty small ones: retyping an enquiry, chasing an invoice, answering the same question again, moving a number from one place to another. None of it is hard, all of it is time, and none of it is time anybody is paying you for.
It lands on your evening
The day is full of actual work, so the admin waits. It gets done at nine at night, or it does not get done.
It is the first thing dropped when you are busy
Which is exactly when chasing the invoice or following up the quote would have been worth most.
It never gets better on its own
More work means more admin, in direct proportion, until somebody changes how it is done.
What changes when the admin runs itself
You get your evenings back. The enquiry that came in at seven is already filed with everything you need to reply, the invoice reminder went out on time, and Monday's report was ready before you opened the laptop. The questions you used to answer forty times a week get answered without you.
- The follow up goes out when you meant to send it.
- The five questions answer themselves.
Tell us what you need and a fixed price comes back the same working day.
What is worth automating
Automation pays when a job is repetitive, has clear rules, and happens often enough that the hours add up. For most small businesses that is a handful of things, and they are usually the ones eating the evenings. Here is what an automation build consists of.
The jobs you hate, listed
You tell us what eats your evenings, in plain terms. You do not need to know what is technically possible; we work backwards from the jobs rather than forwards from the tools.
The ones that pay, chosen
We say which are genuinely worth automating and which are cheaper to keep doing by hand. You get that answer before you spend anything, which is most of the reason to ask a person rather than buy a subscription.
Enquiries that file themselves
A message arrives and lands in the right place, tagged, with the details pulled out and a draft reply ready for you to check. That alone is often the biggest hour saved.
Reminders, follow-ups and chasing
Appointment reminders, the follow-up you meant to send, the invoice nudge on day thirty. They go out on time, in your voice, and you see every one.
Reports that arrive written
The numbers you check on Monday, already pulled together and explained, in your inbox before you sit down.
One job first, then the next
A single thing working properly beats a plan for everything. Once one is running and trusted, the next one is obvious and considerably cheaper.
Know what you need already? Tell us in a couple of lines and you get a fixed price against a written scope, the same working day.
One we built
UK Homesteading
Media brandA publishing brand of ours whose research and production we automated end to end, because doing it by hand at that scale was never going to happen.
What we did
- 16,326 keywords researched and mapped automatically for one brand
- Content pipeline built to run without a person driving it
- Human review kept on anything that goes out under the brand name
- 291 pages live, built on the system rather than by hand
16,326 keywords researched and mapped by a system we built and run ourselves.
See the full case studiesWhat tends to be worth automating
The jobs worth handing over are usually the ones you repeat. Enquiries arrive and file themselves where you need them. Invoices get chased without you having to be the one doing the chasing.
The questions you answer over and over get answered for you, and reports write themselves and land in your inbox on Monday morning. Data moves between two systems that will not talk to each other, follow-ups go out when you meant to send them rather than a week later, and appointment reminders go out so fewer people forget. Anything that goes out in your name passes a human check first.
Have you done this before?
Fixr Systems automates its own lead handling, research and publishing before selling any of it, which is how we know which parts are worth the money and which are not.
Every business has a list of jobs that have to happen and that nobody should be doing by hand. Automate those and the work still gets done. You just stop being the one doing it at nine at night.
Ben Criddle, who builds everything Fixr Systems ships
Seen enough? Tell us what you do and where you work, and a fixed price against a written scope comes back the same working day.
What happens next
You tell us which jobs you hate, in plain terms. We come back with which ones are genuinely worth automating and which are cheaper to keep doing by hand, before you spend anything. Then we build one and you watch it run before it touches anything that matters.
Most projects take up to two weeks. Some are quicker, some take longer, and the scope decides which.
The ICO sets out what UK businesses must consider when using AI on personal data, which shapes what we will and will not automate. ICO guidance on AI and data protection
What it costs
Automation starts from £1,000 for a first piece that does one job properly.
You get a fixed quote before anything starts, and the price you agree is the price you pay. Pay up front, a deposit, or 50/50 depending on the project, and Klarna is available on most. Smaller and larger projects are priced appropriately.
What if it embarrasses us?
- Anything a customer reads gets a human check before it sends.
- Anything running unattended is a job where a slip is harmless and easily undone.
- We start with one small piece, so the worst case is small.
Before you ask
How much does automation cost?
From £1,000 for a first piece that does one job. If we can see it paying for itself we say so, with the working, and if we can see it would not we say that too, before you spend. If you have one small job in mind rather than a project, ask about that too, because it is often the best place to start.
Will it embarrass us?
Not if it is built properly. Anything that goes out in your name with a customer reading it gets a human check first. The parts that run unattended are the ones where a slip is harmless.
Is this only for big companies?
The opposite. A big company has staff to absorb the admin, while a business of one or two feels every hour of it, which is exactly where this pays back fastest. That is the whole reason to be an AI automation agency UK small businesses can actually afford, rather than one built for enterprise budgets.
Do I need to understand AI to use it?
No. You need to be able to say which jobs you hate doing. We work out whether a machine can do them and whether it is worth it.
What if it goes wrong?
Everything gets built so that failing is safe: nothing sends without a record, and anything important tells you it did not work rather than failing quietly.
Ready when you are.
Written and kept up to date by Ben Criddle, who builds everything Fixr Systems ships.Last reviewed 2 September 2026