AI automation for small and growing businesses
From connecting the tools you already use to AI agents that take on multi-step work, we design and build it around your team, starting with one pilot.
We use these tools in client work. The logos belong to their owners. Showing them here doesn't mean we're a partner.
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These are common places small businesses lose hours each week. Each card has a short worked example. The examples are illustrative and are not client results.
New enquiries sit unanswered until someone has a spare minute, and some never get a reply.
Illustrative example: A web enquiry arrives at 9pm. It gets a short reply with your prices and a booking link, and it is logged in your CRM. Anything unusual is flagged for a person to answer in the morning.
Quotes are typed up from scratch and job details get copied between forms, spreadsheets and group chats.
Illustrative example: A customer fills in a job form. A draft quote is built from your price list and waits for you to check it and press send.
Someone retypes invoice details into the accounts system and spends Friday chasing late payers.
Illustrative example: A supplier invoice lands in the inbox. The details are read and a draft bill is created in your accounts software. A person checks anything that does not match the order.
The weekly numbers take half a morning to pull together from different systems.
Illustrative example: Every Monday at 7am, last week's sales and overdue invoices arrive in one email. If a figure looks wrong, you get a message.
If your problem is not listed, ask anyway. If it is a task your team repeats, part of it can often be automated. If automation is the wrong fix, we will say so.
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Not sure which of these you need? Start with the AI Audit. It tells you what to build first and what it will cost. If what you need is not listed, ask us anyway.
We spend 90 minutes with you and your team going through how the work gets done now.
Within five working days you get a written list of the five jobs most worth automating. Each one shows the hours it could save and what it would cost to build.
Automation Audit
From £495 one-off, credited against any sprint
We take one job and build it, usually in n8n, Make or Zapier. Most take about two weeks.
Some are simple, like copying a web form into your CRM. Others use an AI agent that reads an email, checks your diary and drafts a reply for someone to approve.
Automation Sprint
From £2,500 fixed price, about 2 weeks
Sometimes nothing on the market fits. We build it for you instead, for example an internal tool or an assistant that answers from your own documents.
You get a fixed quote first. You own the code when we hand it over.
Most businesses have messages in one app, bookings in another and staff schedules on a spreadsheet. We join them up so you can run the day from one screen, with notifications and weekly reports sent automatically.
Most clients start with an AI front desk. It answers questions on your website, WhatsApp or email and books people into your diary.
AI Front Desk
From £3,500 setup + £300/mo
We run hands-on sessions with your staff, using tasks they already do, such as writing quotes or summarising calls.
We set the tools up with them. Then we check in over the next few weeks to answer questions.
We keep an eye on everything we have built for you. If a connected app changes and something breaks, we fix it.
Each month we also make one small improvement. You can cancel any time.
Care Plan
From £400 per month
Prices exclude VAT where it applies. Tool subscriptions are billed to you at cost. The audit fee comes off the price of a sprint.
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Every project starts with a small pilot on one job. We only roll out what works.
A free 30-minute call about where your team's time goes. If there is enough to work on, we suggest the audit.
We choose one job for a small pilot and write down how we will judge it, for example hours saved each week. You get the price before we build anything.
The pilot runs on your own work for about two weeks, with a person checking what it does. If the pilot doesn't earn its keep, we'll tell you and you stop there.
If it works, we quote a fixed price to roll it out. After that we can look after it on a Care Plan.
Free workflow review
Next step
Pick a slot on GudCal for the review. If you would rather ask about a package or service first, send us a few lines and we will reply by email.
Our team has built software for banks, payment companies and healthcare. We also work with the other businesses below, and with plenty that are not listed.
Including work for an FCA-regulated bank.
Platforms where patient data has to stay private.
For example, answering guest messages and planning cleaning.
For example, logging repair requests and sending owner reports.
For example, keeping staff rotas up to date.
For example, taking on new clients and chasing missing documents.
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Our team has built banking, payments and healthcare platforms, including work for an FCA-regulated bank. We bring the same care to automation, so what we build is secure, documented and owned by you.
A dozen short-let properties, with plans for unstaffed boutique hotels. Cleaners were assigned by text each morning, late checkouts and early check-ins were easy to miss, checklists were on paper and every fault landed on the owner's phone.
A daily cleaning plan pulled from the booking system, with early check-ins first and late checkouts last, sent to cleaners by SMS. A dashboard for the operations lead, a digital room checklist with photos and restock alerts, and faults sent straight to the right tradesperson.
Online booking and self check-in with door codes. An AI phone and chat concierge that answers guest questions day and night and hands anything urgent to a person. Paid late checkouts and extras, room service orders and review replies.
The back office: rent and rates, maintenance scheduling, utilities, supplier invoices and owner reports, with ads and content on top. Everything shows on one dashboard, and anything involving money or safety waits for a person to approve it.
Built on the tools the client already uses, with low running costs. Each phase only goes ahead once the last one is working.
Artificial intelligence
AI product delivery from early build through to a working service.
Fintech / payments
Payments product for a company moving money between businesses and customers.
Fintech / banking
Engineering leadership through FCA approval and connection to the UK banking network.
Fintech / banking
Business banking product delivered alongside the consumer platform.
Delivery
Delivery restructuring across concurrent client programmes.
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Most clients start with automation. If you need more, we also offer part-time technology leadership and custom software.
Service
Some companies need more than one automation project. They need a senior person to set technical direction, help with hiring, keep delivery on track and decide where AI fits.
Our fractional CTO service is usually two to four days a month for a fixed fee. We work with your existing engineers and do not sell open-ended staffing.
Best suited to
Founders who are not ready for a full-time CTO, and businesses whose software has outgrown its first version. We start by talking through the decisions you need help with, then agree a monthly fee.
Service
Sometimes connecting existing tools will not solve it. You need an internal system, a customer-facing product or some code that ties several systems together.
We design and build it with a clear scope and fixed-price stages where we can. You own the code and the documentation at the end.
Best suited to
Teams that have outgrown spreadsheets and patched-together tools, or founders who need a secure first version of a product. We agree what you need, then what to build first.
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Our packages start from £495 for an Automation Audit and from £2,500 for a two-week Automation Sprint. An AI Front Desk starts from £3,500 to set up plus £300 a month, and a Care Plan starts from £400 a month. The final price depends on scope, and we agree it in writing before any work starts. Software subscriptions are billed to you at cost.
A pilot on one workflow usually takes about two weeks. An audit is delivered within five working days. Larger rollouts are planned in stages once the pilot has shown it works.
We use your existing systems where we can and only connect what the workflow needs. Before we build anything, we agree with you where data is stored and which AI services can see it, with UK GDPR in mind. Where a mistake would matter, a person reviews the output before anything goes out.
No. We build, test and document the workflow, then hand it over with a recorded walkthrough. Your team needs to know how to check the output and who to contact if something changes. A Care Plan covers ongoing upkeep if you would rather not deal with it.
Yes. We run practical AI training for owners and staff, based on the work your team actually does. It can be a standalone session or run alongside an automation pilot, with follow-up help as people start using the tools.
Yes. We are based between Liverpool and Warrington and work with businesses across the North West, including Manchester and Chester, and with clients elsewhere in the UK. Most of the work is done remotely, and we can come to you for workshops.
Ask anyway. If it is a task your team repeats, there is a good chance part of it can be automated. If automation is not the right fix, we will tell you.
Book a free workflow review, or email projects@codegarden.site with a few lines about the problem. We will get back to you and say whether we can help.
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Pick a time on GudCal, or send a few lines about the problem. We will get back to you and say whether we can help.
Book a free workflow reviewOr email projects@codegarden.site
Code Garden Services UK Ltd · Based between Liverpool and Warrington, working across the North West and UK-wide.