How much does AI automation cost for a UK small business?
Budget for discovery, implementation, subscriptions, AI usage and support. A practical UK small-business guide without invented market rates.
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Make sense of AI. Choose what to do next.
Buyer guides, briefings and interactive tools for choosing useful automation, connecting business software and putting AI to work responsibly.
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3Field guides
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45Course chapters
For owners and operational teams
Make the buying decision first.
Start with costs, workflow fit and the systems you already use. These guides help you choose whether to simplify, buy, connect or build.
How to connect your CRM to your accounting software
Plan CRM and accounting integration: data ownership, connectors, invoice rules, duplicate prevention, testing and operational handover.
Read the buyer guide ↗Custom software vs off-the-shelf: when is bespoke worth it?
Compare buying, configuring, integrating and building business software using workflow fit, lifetime cost, ownership and maintainability.
Read the buyer guide ↗How to choose your first business process to automate
Choose an automation pilot using frequency, friction, data readiness, risk, ownership and measurable acceptance criteria—not an impressive demo.
Read the buyer guide ↗My view · OpinionAI is not coming. It is already here.Why buying subscriptions is not a strategy, why the real advantage is organisational learning, and why waiting is a choice too.Read my view ↗Guide · Start hereThe AI Mix: what your business actually needsAssistants, workflows, agents, MCP and authority, explained through one Monday-morning customer enquiry. Includes an interactive autonomy matcher.Read the guide ↗Interactive · FreeFind your business’s practical AI opportunityMap one operational bottleneck, the systems involved and a realistic next step. Get your brief before deciding whether to share your details.Start the assessment ↗Interactive · Pricing checked 30 September 2026AI tokens and costs explained for businessesCompare selected provider rates, estimate workflow spend and see why human review and agent loops can matter more than tokens.Use the calculator ↗
New · 30 September 2026The latest in AI: agents, collaboration and business workflowsWhat OpenAI, Meta, Google and Anthropic announced, what is available, and how to turn the noise into one sensible business pilot.Read the briefing ↗
AI / NOW30.09.26
Who is moving?OpenAIDots + workspacesMetaMuse for businessGoogleGemini 4 aheadAnthropicMythos 5.1
4 providers1 practical pilot →
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From AI Demo to Production System
What I learned turning an impressive AI coding demo into an agentic product that users can actually trust, inspect, operate, and return to.
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Managing AI Costs Without Killing the Product
A practical field guide to understanding, controlling, and pricing AI usage before the API bill becomes the business model.
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Using AI Agent Skills in a Business
A practical field guide to turning one-off agent behaviour into reusable, testable, permissioned capabilities that a business can actually operate.
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