What Build is

A prioritised opportunity becomes a working improvement.

We design the smallest useful version of the thing, test it with real examples and real users, measure the outcome against a baseline we agreed beforehand, document how it works, and put a clear support and handover route around it.

Sometimes that is automation. Sometimes it is AI. Often it is both, plus a fair amount of unglamorous work on the data and the process underneath. What it is never is a prototype described as a supported service.

Built in your systems, on your accounts, with the documentation to match. The ownership and licence position is set out in writing before work begins.

How we build

Eight rules we hold ourselves to

Scope and sequence

  • Start small enough to finish
  • Use existing systems well before adding another platform
  • Separate rules-based automation from work that genuinely benefits from AI
  • Establish a baseline before claiming any value

Safety and supportability

  • Human review where an output is uncertain, visible or consequential
  • Testing, exception handling, documentation and named ownership included
  • Never call a prototype a supported service
  • Never sell an abstract capability without a concrete example and named deliverables

What we build

Six capability families

Most engagements draw on two or three of these. Which ones depends entirely on what the Consult found.

Automation

Workflow and process automation

  • Approvals, reminders and routing
  • Repeated document and email workflows
  • Scheduled jobs and notifications
  • Data movement between systems
  • High-volume administration
  • Exception handling and human-review checkpoints
CRM

Connected customer workflows

  • CRM configuration and workflow improvement
  • Sales follow-up and pipeline alerts
  • Call or meeting information into the CRM
  • System-to-system synchronisation
  • Data-quality and completeness checks
  • User-experience and process improvement
Data

Reporting and decision support

  • Data preparation and mapping
  • Metric and definition design
  • Dashboards and reporting packs
  • Scheduled pipelines and distribution
  • Threshold alerts
  • Management commentary and decision support
AI

AI and unstructured information

  • Call and meeting transcript summaries
  • Action, risk, objection and theme extraction
  • Customer feedback analysis
  • Document and email summarisation
  • Classification and triage with human review
  • Internal knowledge search and assistants
Microsoft 365

Workplace automation

  • Power Automate workflows
  • SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, Excel and OneDrive processes
  • Document generation
  • Internal approval and administration workflows
  • Graph and API-based integrations where appropriate
Integration

Lightweight internal tools

  • API integrations
  • Webhook handlers
  • Cloud functions and scheduled services
  • Custom scripts
  • Small internal applications built around one clear business problem

Being straight with you

Why we do not publish a product catalogue yet

Plenty of consultancies list packaged products with a price on day one. We would rather not name something a product until we can answer every one of these questions about it honestly. Until then it is a capability, and we will scope it with you.

  • Who is it for?
  • What problem triggers the purchase?
  • Exactly what is included?
  • What is excluded?
  • How long does it take?
  • What does the customer receive?
  • Who delivers and quality-assures it?
  • What access and input are needed?
  • How is value measured?
  • What happens after delivery?
  • Is there a real example?
  • Can scope and price be published honestly?

Measure before claiming

We agree how we will know it worked

The baseline, the outcome and the owner are agreed before the build starts, not reverse-engineered afterwards to make the result look good.

Time released

Hours returned to the people who were doing it by hand.

Error rate

How often the output was wrong, before and after.

Cycle time

How long the work takes end to end.

Adoption

Whether people actually use it once we have gone.

Decision quality

Whether better information changed what somebody did.

Time released, error rate, cycle time, conversion, adoption and decision quality are all more useful than a vague transformation claim.

Tell us what is getting in the way.

You do not need a finished brief or a preferred technology. Tell us what is slow, repeated, difficult to trust or harder than it should be. We will arrange a short conversation and tell you whether we think there is a useful next step.

  • A conversation, not a pitch
  • We will say if we are not the right fit
  • No obligation to buy a build