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Practice · 03 of 06

AI, Automation & Data

Work that a machine should be doing, done by a machine — and the data underneath it made trustworthy first.

An AI project on bad data produces confident nonsense. These three belong on one page because they are one job: get the data right, automate the routine, then let a model do the part that needs judgement.

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Every service on this site is delivered by senior developers with ten to fifteen years in that niche. Whatever the brief asks for, it gets built.

01

AI & Machine Learning

17 services

  1. 01

    AI customer-support chatbot

    A website or WhatsApp bot that handles tier-one questions itself.

    For
    Any business
    From
    $800–$8,000 + $150/mo
    Time
    2–5 weeks

  2. 02

    RAG knowledge assistant

    An assistant trained on company documents — accurate, and it cites.

    For
    Ops-heavy teams
    From
    $2,000–$18,000
    Time
    3–8 weeks

  3. 03

    AI agent / multi-agent workflow

    Autonomous agents running a whole business process.

    For
    Scaling companies
    From
    $3,000–$35,000
    Time
    1–4 months

  4. 04

    LLM integration into a product

    AI features inside an existing app — summarise, draft, classify.

    For
    SaaS products
    From
    $1,500–$20,000
    Time
    3–10 weeks

  5. 05

    Fine-tuning & model customisation

    Domain-specific model training, with evaluation.

    For
    Data-rich clients
    From
    $3,000–$30,000
    Time
    4–12 weeks

  6. 06

    Prompt engineering & prompt library

    Reusable, tested prompts and the guardrails around them.

    For
    Teams adopting AI
    From
    $500–$5,000
    Time
    1–4 weeks

  7. 07

    AI voice agent

    A voice bot that handles inbound or outbound calls.

    For
    Clinics, dealerships
    From
    $2,000–$20,000 + usage
    Time
    3–8 weeks

  8. 08

    Computer vision solution

    Detection, OCR, quality control and counting.

    For
    Manufacturing, retail
    From
    $3,000–$40,000
    Time
    2–5 months

  9. 09

    Recommendation engine

    Personalised product or content suggestions.

    For
    E-commerce, media
    From
    $3,000–$25,000
    Time
    6–14 weeks

  10. 10

    Predictive analytics & forecasting

    Demand, churn and revenue forecasting models.

    For
    Data-mature clients
    From
    $2,500–$25,000
    Time
    6–14 weeks

  11. 11

    Document processing & extraction

    Structured data pulled out of invoices, contracts and forms.

    For
    Finance, legal, logistics
    From
    $1,500–$15,000
    Time
    3–10 weeks

  12. 12

    AI content generation pipeline

    Bulk content in a brand voice, with review and QC steps.

    For
    Publishers, e-commerce
    From
    $1,000–$10,000
    Time
    2–6 weeks

  13. 13

    AI SDR / lead qualification bot

    Leads researched, scored and approached, automatically.

    For
    Sales teams
    From
    $1,500–$15,000 + $200/mo
    Time
    3–8 weeks

  14. 14

    MLOps & model deployment

    Serving, versioning, monitoring and drift alerts.

    For
    ML teams
    From
    $3,000–$30,000
    Time
    1–4 months

  15. 15

    AI readiness & strategy audit

    Where AI belongs and where it does not — ranked by return.

    For
    Mid-size companies
    From
    $1,000–$10,000
    Time
    2–4 weeks

  16. 16

    AI governance & compliance

    Policy, risk register, and the EU AI Act and data rules.

    For
    Regulated industries
    From
    $2,000–$20,000
    Time
    3–8 weeks

  17. 17

    Synthetic media production

    AI avatars, voice clones and localised video at scale.

    For
    Training, marketing
    From
    $500–$6,000
    Time
    1–4 weeks

02

Automation & No-Code

8 services

  1. 01

    Workflow automation (Make / n8n / Zapier)

    Manual tasks turned into connected automations.

    For
    Every SME
    From
    $400–$6,000
    Time
    1–5 weeks

  2. 02

    CRM automation & pipeline setup

    Stages, triggers, follow-ups and reporting — the sales engine.

    For
    Sales teams
    From
    $600–$6,000
    Time
    2–5 weeks

  3. 03

    Robotic process automation (RPA)

    Bots driving legacy software through repetitive work.

    For
    Enterprises, BPOs
    From
    $3,000–$30,000
    Time
    1–4 months

  4. 04

    Internal tools (Retool / Airtable / Notion)

    Custom dashboards and ops apps without a full build.

    For
    Ops teams
    From
    $500–$8,000
    Time
    1–6 weeks

  5. 05

    Scraping & monitoring pipelines

    Competitor prices, listings and leads on a schedule.

    For
    Analysts, sellers
    From
    $400–$6,000
    Time
    1–5 weeks

  6. 06

    WhatsApp / Telegram bots

    Booking, orders, support and notifications inside chat.

    For
    Local businesses
    From
    $400–$5,000
    Time
    1–4 weeks

  7. 07

    Document & reporting automation

    Proposals, invoices and weekly reports that build themselves.

    For
    Agencies, finance
    From
    $400–$4,000
    Time
    1–4 weeks

  8. 08

    Ops audit → automation roadmap

    Where the team’s hours go, what can be automated, in order.

    For
    Growing SMEs
    From
    $500–$5,000
    Time
    1–3 weeks

03

Data & Analytics

10 services

  1. 01

    Analytics implementation (GA4 / GTM)

    Events, goals and e-commerce tracking — data worth trusting.

    For
    Any business
    From
    $300–$3,000
    Time
    1–3 weeks

  2. 02

    BI dashboards

    Looker, Power BI or Metabase — views you can decide from.

    For
    Management teams
    From
    $800–$10,000
    Time
    2–8 weeks

  3. 03

    Data warehouse setup

    A single source of truth in BigQuery or Snowflake.

    For
    Data-mature clients
    From
    $2,500–$25,000
    Time
    1–4 months

  4. 04

    ETL / data pipelines

    Data pulled from systems, cleaned, and scheduled.

    For
    Data teams
    From
    $1,500–$20,000
    Time
    3–12 weeks

  5. 05

    Data cleaning & migration

    Duplicates, formats and legacy migrations put right.

    For
    Any company
    From
    $400–$8,000
    Time
    1–6 weeks

  6. 06

    Customer data platform setup

    Unified customer profiles across tools and channels.

    For
    Retail, SaaS
    From
    $3,000–$30,000
    Time
    1–4 months

  7. 07

    Attribution modelling

    Which channel is actually bringing the revenue.

    For
    Ad spenders
    From
    $1,000–$12,000
    Time
    3–8 weeks

  8. 08

    Automated KPI reporting

    Weekly or monthly packs that build and deliver themselves.

    For
    Leadership teams
    From
    $400–$4,000 + $150/mo
    Time
    1–4 weeks

  9. 09

    Data strategy & governance

    Ownership, quality rules, access and retention policy.

    For
    Mid and large firms
    From
    $2,000–$20,000
    Time
    3–10 weeks

  10. 10

    Survey & market research analysis

    Collection, statistical analysis and an insight report.

    For
    Product, marketing
    From
    $500–$6,000
    Time
    2–6 weeks

Not sure which of these you need?

Start with the audit. It measures what is already there and says plainly what it could not check — which is usually the shortest route to knowing what is worth building.

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