Engineering-led AI automation

We find the cash your admin is costing you.

AI automation built for UK SMEs losing money to manual work. Audit, install, maintain. Compliance designed in from day one.

24-hour turnaround. No obligation. Actions to take whether you proceed with us or not.

🏥 Healthcare and professional services

£100K / year

Clinical and admin error reduction through a custom AI case management system.

Problem: Hundreds of spreadsheets holding live project data, hours of admin to reconcile, and skilled clinical time spent on manual case review.

Built: A custom AI case management system that aggregates caseload data, surfaces review thresholds, and runs document QA against clinical frameworks.

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🌿 Wellness

£70K / year

Sales increase from instant AI response to inbound enquiries.

Problem: Solo operator with no time to respond to leads quickly. Enquiries went cold before a reply was sent.

Built: An AI chat agent and workflow that responds to leads in under one minute, qualifies them, and routes booking-ready enquiries directly to the calendar.

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🏭 Manufacturing · Enterprise

£1M+ / year

Mean time to repair reduced across manufacturing operations through structured AI-led fault finding.

Problem: Tribal knowledge held by individual engineers, high repair time on critical assets, and no consistent fault-finding structure across the line.

Built: A multi-agent intelligence system for mean time to repair reduction, interpreting engineer knowledge directly and giving the line team a structured route through fault-finding activities.

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Three sectors. Three live systems. Every number measured, not estimated.

How we work.

Audit

We map every process where time, money, or margin is leaking.

Build

We engineer the automation. No off-the-shelf tools, no templates.

Install

We deploy it into your operation and hand it over with full documentation.

Maintain

We monitor, adjust, and report monthly. Issues are ours, not yours.

Comply

UK GDPR, EU AI Act, and human-in-the-loop designed in from day one.

Three ways to work with us.

Start with the audit. Scale from there.

£1,500

one-off, credited to Sprint within 30 days

AI Operations Audit

A focused diagnostic of your operation. We map workflows, cost the inefficiencies, and hand you a written roadmap with priority order.

  • Discovery call and full operations review
  • Top inefficiencies costed in £ per year
  • Prioritised automation roadmap
  • Compliance flags relevant to your sector
  • Delivered within 24 hours of the discovery call
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From £2,500 / month

12-month term, rolling thereafter

Fractional CAIO Retainer

Senior strategic and technical AI consultancy on retainer. Three contracted automations, full maintenance, ongoing compliance oversight, monthly written summary.

  • Three contracted automations included
  • Quarterly roadmap reviews
  • Monthly written operational summary
  • UK GDPR, EU AI Act, NHS DSPT guidance
  • All third-party infrastructure costs covered
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Built for regulated environments.

Compliance designed in from day one, not bolted on.

Healthcare and data

  • UK GDPR
  • NHS DSPT
  • EU AI Act
  • UK Data (Use and Access) Act
  • NIST AI RMF
  • ISO 42001
  • UK DSIT Responsible AI Framework

Manufacturing and OT cyber

  • IEC 62443
  • NIST CSF
  • ISO 27001
  • NIS2 Directive
  • Purdue Model
  • CIS Controls
  • AI Assurance frameworks

Live in regulated NHS-adjacent operations today. Industrial automation and OT cyber experience from nine years at Unilever.

Common questions.

How is this different from hiring a consultant?

Most consultants hand you a report and leave. We build and install the systems ourselves, then maintain them. You get working automation, not a slide deck. Every recommendation we make is something we have already built and run in a real operation.

What does the audit actually involve?

We start with a discovery call to understand your operation, then map every process where time, money, or margin is leaking. Within 24 hours you receive a written report: your top inefficiencies costed in £ per year, a prioritised automation roadmap, and any compliance flags relevant to your sector. You keep the report whether or not you proceed with us.

Do I need to be technical to work with you?

No. We handle all of the engineering. You describe the problem in plain language and we handle the rest. We document everything we build so your team can understand it, and we stay on hand to maintain it so you never need to dig into the technical detail yourself.

What happens after the 90-Day Sprint?

You own everything we build outright — the code, the IP, the documentation. You can run it independently or move to our Fractional CAIO Retainer for ongoing maintenance, compliance oversight, and continued automation. There is no lock-in; the choice is yours.

Is my data safe?

UK GDPR compliance and data minimisation are designed into every system we build, not bolted on afterwards. We do not train third-party AI models on your data, we document data flows clearly, and we flag any sector-specific requirements — such as NHS DSPT — before we start. If a system handles sensitive data, a human stays in the loop.

Nicky, founder of Reduce Admin, in a recording studio

The engineer who gets it.

Reduce Admin is engineering-led. Nine years of industrial automation at Unilever, then three years building an AI-first business in Cold Hut Recovery, where 80% of operations are now handled by AI agents.

Every system Reduce Admin installs has been tested in a real operation under real constraints before it reaches a client. Not consultancy. Not a tech startup. The engineer in the room who has already built what they are recommending.

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24-hour turnaround. A written map of your admin costs and the automations that would cut them. No obligation to proceed.

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