AI adoption and automation for SME business
Most AI consultants recommend software and teach people to use it. We start somewhere else. We start by understanding how your business actually works, mapping the processes your team runs every day and finding where the friction sits. Then we digitise what is still manual, automate what is repetitive, and build the systems and agents that make the whole operation run more efficiently.
Sectors we work with
What makes us different
Knowing what a language model can do is the easy part. Knowing which ten minutes of a sales person's day is worth automating, which report the board actually reads, and which process is quietly costing you margin, that takes operational experience. It is the reason our work changes numbers rather than just changing software.
I spent two years consulting on and building an AI powered legal technology platform, then built AI automation into my own recruitment business before advising anyone else. We arrive understanding revenue, cost, capacity and process because we have carried them ourselves.
Nothing here is a template. We build dashboards, tools, automation systems and agents that understand your specific workflow, your data and the way your team already works, so adoption does not depend on people changing their habits.
Security architecture, a data protection impact assessment, an acceptable use policy and a sub processor assessment for your sector are part of the foundation work, not an afterthought once something has already gone wrong.
Built on Claude
Anthropic
For the more technical automation builds, Astraeon.ai works with developers who are authorised and approved on the Claude Partner Network, Anthropic's official programme for firms certified to deploy Claude inside businesses. How we deliver
How we work
We do not start building until we can both point at the same document and agree what good looks like. Foundation establishes the ground truth. Implementation builds against it. Training runs alongside both, so your team grows capability while the systems are going in.
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A structured discovery engagement that ends with a written, costed and prioritised view of where AI belongs in your business, and where it does not.
Assessment and discovery£2,950
fixed price, plus VAT
Typically 1 to 2 weeks
02
Once discovery is complete we build. What we build is decided by the roadmap, which means the solution is shaped by your needs rather than by our product catalogue.
BuildFrom £3,000
plus VAT, scoped against the roadmap
Metric display, data analytics intelligence and reporting built around the decisions you actually need to make, pulling from the systems you already run.
The repetitive, rules driven work that consumes hours each week, moved off your team and into systems that run reliably and log what they did.
AI agents built inside your own systems that understand your process, hold the context of how your business works, and take specific tasks end to end.
The small, specific pieces of software your business needs and no vendor sells, built quickly and fitted to the way your people already work.
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Delivered alongside discovery and implementation, because a system nobody knows how to use is not a transformation. We teach Claude Cowork in action, on your work.
Runs alongsideTraining days are hands on and built around real tasks from your own business rather than generic exercises. Common ground we cover:
Pricing
Assessment and discovery is a fixed price because the deliverables are fixed. Implementation starts from a floor and is quoted against the roadmap discovery produced. Training is priced per session. Engagements typically run on a three month retainer, adjusted to what the business requires.
Assessment and discovery
£2,950
fixed price, plus VAT
Typically one to two weeks. Nine written deliverables including governance, DPIA, acceptable use policy, tooling audit and the AI operations roadmap.
Implementation
From £3,000
plus VAT
Dashboards, internal tools, automation systems and agentic builds, scoped and quoted against the roadmap discovery produced.
Training days
Hourly
£200
per hour, plus VAT
For focused sessions, a single workflow, or follow up support after a full training day.
Half day
£650
up to 10 people, plus VAT
Enough time to take a team through a working use case from their own business and leave them able to repeat it.
Full day
£1,200
up to 10 people, plus VAT
Multiple use cases across departments, with time to build and test alongside the team rather than only demonstrate.
All figures exclude VAT. Full scope and deliverables
Sectors
A recruitment desk, a dental practice and a logistics operation all lose the same hours to triage, chasing, reporting and rekeying. What differs is the regulator, the vocabulary and the system of record. We work across these sectors because the underlying commercial patterns carry, and we take the time to learn the rest.
Why this works
Pilots stall because nobody agreed what success would look like. Tools get bought and abandoned because they were never fitted to an actual process. Staff quietly go back to the old way because the new way was demonstrated once and never embedded. None of those are model problems. They are business problems.
That is why our foundation phase spends its time on metrics, process, spend and governance before anything is built, and why training runs in parallel rather than as a final handover. The technology is the straightforward part.
Start with a conversation
Some processes should be automated. Some should be fixed first. Some should be left alone. A discovery conversation costs you nothing and will give you a straight view of which is which in your business.