Insights
Custom Agents
Some estate agency CRMs now answer calls themselves, so check yours first. Otherwise you're choosing between a general AI plan, a human answering service and a custom build, and the right one depends on whether calls must land in your diary and CRM, not on price.
Custom Agents
AI consultants in the UK charge by the day, by the project or by the month, and their published prices sit far apart. This guide sets job-ad day rates beside the prices firms publish on their own pages. We sell AI consultancy too, and our prices are marked.
Custom Agents
Hire when AI work will fill a full-time job for years. Book a contractor for a defined stretch inside your own team. Buy from an agency or build firm when you want a finished system at a fixed price. We're a build firm, so we've put our prices beside the cost of every other route.
Custom Agents
Published UK prices for the three ways to get an AI agent: switching one on inside software you already pay for, having one built on your own systems, and a larger multi-system build. Every figure is from the provider’s own page, with the sums shown so you can redo them for your own volume.
Custom Agents
Five kinds of company build AI agents for UK businesses, and each suits a different buyer. This guide sets out what each one sells, what it costs where the price is published, and where it runs out. We wrote it, and we’re in it, marked as ours.
AI Automation
Most UK estate agents already pay for some AI inside their CRM. This guide sorts the rest of the market into three kinds of provider, says what each actually ships and what it costs where the price is public, and helps you work out which one your problem needs.
AI Automation
There are three kinds of company selling AI to UK trades, and they solve different problems. Here is what each one actually ships, who it suits, what it costs where the price is published, and where each kind runs out.
AI Automation
Every automation starts with one question: does your software let anything in? We checked 45 tools UK firms actually run against their own developer pages, so you can see the answer before you pay anyone.
AI Automation
Published UK prices for AI receptionist subscriptions, human answering services, a custom-built receptionist and a hired one, checked on each provider's own page, with the sums shown so you can redo them for your own call volume.
AI Automation
The WhatsApp Business app is free. The API is not: Meta charges per delivered message, a platform usually charges on top, and from 1 October 2026 replies to customers are charged too. Here are the UK rates from Meta's own rate card, a worked monthly bill, and when the free app is all you need.
Custom Agents
There is no single best AI consulting firm for construction. There are four kinds of provider, and each solves a different problem. This guide sets out what each one actually sells, who it suits, what it costs where the price is published and where it runs out, with a section for the subcontractors and trade contractors that most of these guides leave out.
AI Automation
If you’re the person doing the work, you’re also the person not answering the phone. Here are the fixes that exist, what each one actually does, and how to choose between them.
AI Automation
A customer asks for a price, you send it, and then nothing. Here is a follow-up routine that brings back the undecided ones without making anyone feel chased.
Websites
Search for a local service and the map is often the first thing you see. This is how to get onto it properly, what Google says decides who shows up, and the London traps worth avoiding.