AIAS

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Frome · Somerset · South West

AI consultancy in Frome.

We’re a small team based in Swindon, within easy reach of Frome, working with businesses across the South West and beyond. We build AI systems that run every day in real companies — no hype, no PowerPoint, just working software.

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UK-basedSwindon HQ, UK team
WeeksTo first live system
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Real clientsYou can call and ask them

Close enough to work with you

We’re based in Swindon, around 30 miles from Frome — an easy trip for scoping sessions, training days and any conversation that works better in person. Between visits, delivery is remote using video and screen-sharing, so progress never waits for a diary slot.

We know the UK market from the inside. When you need to talk through a problem, you’re not waiting for someone in a different country to come online.

We know what Frome businesses are working with.

Frome has built one of the South West’s most distinctive independent economies — artisan food producers, makers and creative businesses, a fiercely independent retail scene, and a growing professional community that moved out of Bath and Bristol and brought its work along.

Independent businesses guard their character, so we build systems that are invisible to customers: order processing that happens instantly behind the scenes, wholesale enquiries answered in your voice, stock and production admin that stops stealing making-time. The craft stays human; the paperwork doesn’t.

Most of the businesses we talk to have similar problems.

It usually goes like this. The business is doing well. The team is busy. There’s a job: quoting, lead handling, document review, weekly reporting, small repetitive tasks — that someone is doing manually because nobody has been able to fix it. It used to be a small job. It isn’t anymore.

Whoever is doing it has built up so much working knowledge that nobody else can take it off them, which means they can’t take a day off without something falling over. The owner knows it’s a problem. They’ve looked at off-the-shelf software and it doesn’t quite fit. They’ve talked to a consultant who showed them an impressive presentation and didn’t change anything. They’ve considered hiring someone, but it isn’t really a job — it’s a sequence of small decisions that compound.

If any of that sounds familiar, you’re who we built this consultancy for.

Real Client
TWC Home Improvements
Windows, doors, conservatories & extensions · Swindon
“AIAS looked at how we were handling leads and showed us exactly where we were losing time. They built a system that now does in seconds what used to take us hours every week. No fuss, no jargon — just a practical solution that works.”

— Andrew Hill, Director, TWC Home Improvements
Hours → secPer lead processed
WeeksFrom first call to live
0New tools for staff to learn

Six things we build over and over.

Lead management & follow-up

Capturing leads from every channel, deduplicating, scoring, routing, and following up automatically when humans don’t have time.

Document intelligence

Reading contracts, invoices, spreadsheets, planning notices, supplier quotes — anything where the information is in a document and needs to be pulled out as structured data.

Process automation

The repetitive work that’s eating into someone’s time. Pulling reports, reformatting, sending, chasing, reconciling. The work nobody wants to do and nobody can stop doing.

AI business assistant

A system that reads your inbox, your pipeline and your calendar and tells you what needs your attention today. Built and tuned to how your business actually works, not someone else’s.

Data capture & cleanup

Information coming from web forms, emails, phone calls and PDFs, all in different shapes, none of it ready for the CRM. We get it clean and into one place.

Bespoke integrations

Two systems that should talk to each other but don’t. We build the bridge. Usually deterministic; sometimes the bridge needs an AI layer in the middle to handle messy real-world data.

We work with UK businesses every day.

You don’t have to spend the first hour of every meeting explaining how your business works. We know what UK SMEs look like from the inside. We know how the work gets done, how invoices flow, how a quote turns into a job, how the team handles a busy Friday afternoon.

That kind of context doesn’t come out of a brochure or translate from a consultancy that started in California. It comes from years of working with businesses like yours, on real problems, and it shapes every system we build. When something goes wrong at nine o’clock on a Tuesday morning, you can call a person you’ve already met, in a UK time zone, who already knows your setup.

Covering Frome and the towns around it

SwindonFromeWestburyWarminsterTrowbridgeBradford-on-AvonBathMelkshamDevizesChippenhamBristolLondonCardiff

What businesses in Frome ask us

“Are you only for tech companies?”

No. Most of our clients are not tech companies. They’re home improvements firms, professional services, trades, lead-gen businesses, retailers. The reason we exist is that those businesses are the ones who need this work done and don’t have an in-house team to do it.

“We’re a maker business — where does AI honestly fit?”

Not in the making. It fits in wholesale orders arriving as emails and PDFs, stockists chasing availability, invoices, and the market-stall-to-Shopify reconciliation. The admin around the craft, never the craft.

“Does working with you mean endless video calls?”

One good scoping session — we’ll come to Frome for it — then short weekly check-ins while we build. Most clients spend less than an hour a week on us, which is rather the point.

“Can we start small?”

Yes. In fact we prefer it. The first engagement is usually a small, well-scoped piece of work that proves the approach. If it goes well, we can scale up.

“How do we know you actually understand our business?”

Because we’ll spend time in it before we propose anything. The paid assessment exists exactly to make sure we’re not selling you a generic solution. By the end of it you’ll know whether we get it or not.

“What about my data?”

Your data always belongs to you. You can export it, move it, or hand it to another team at any time — no restrictions, no complications.

“Do you do training so our team can run it?”

Yes, as standard. Every system we hand over includes a training session and written documents. In practice, most clients come back for more — not because they have to, but because they can see other problems worth solving.

Start with a 30-minute conversation.

No sales pitch, no commitment, no slides. We’ll listen to where the time is going in your business and tell you honestly whether there’s something worth building.

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