From “I know AI could improve this business” to “it’s working.”
For founders and owner-led businesses
You already use ChatGPT or Claude. You can see the inefficiency in your own business. What you don't have is three spare months to work out APIs, retrieval, permissions, workflows, model costs and whether the answer is an off-the-shelf tool or something built for you.
You run the business. We'll handle the architecture
We find where AI will save time, remove cost or create revenue, work out the sensible architecture, and build it. Fixed scope and fixed price where the scope is knowable. You shouldn't have to become an expert in LLMs, RAG, model routing, token economics and workflow orchestration to get the benefit of them.
A smaller first step
AI Brief session
£1,250 + VATfixed fee, founder-led
If you need a focused first view, work through the Business Improvement Brief with Dan: a paid, 90-minute session on one recurring piece of work in your business, then a written report within five working days. A build is a separate decision.
- A focused review of the work you want to improve
- A recommendation with the assumptions and limits explained
- A written report within five working days
- No obligation to use TechGuidr for delivery
See what the AI Brief session covers
Check the inputs, outputs and boundaries before deciding.
Fixed-price start
Discovery
from £7,500 + VATfixed scope, fixed price
When several parts of the business need attention, Discovery examines the work, data, systems and people involved. It compares the opportunities, tests the assumptions behind the value and gives you a prioritised plan with a clear decision on what to do first.
- What to automate, in priority order
- What not to automate, and why
- Value and cost estimate per opportunity
- Buy or build recommendation for each
- The implementation roadmap
- Whether we should be the ones building it
Sized for founders and smaller businesses
Bounded work on patterns we have delivered before: one job, the tools you already have, a fixed scope agreed in writing. Larger builds, deeper integration and organisation-wide controls come under Build & Productionise, from £15,000. Every build is scoped separately, and you can take the findings to your own team instead.
Customer enquiry triage & draft responses
Founder scope from £6,000Classify incoming emails and tickets, pull relevant history from your CRM, and draft responses in your brand voice for human review.
Knowledge & document search
Founder scope from £7,500Search across internal documents, policies, guides and case files with citations. Staff get answers in seconds without reading 40-page PDFs.
Report & proposal generation
Founder scope from £6,500Combine structured data from databases with unstructured notes to generate first drafts of client reports, proposals or compliance filings.
Operations & workflow automation
Founder scope from £7,000Automate multi-step processes across systems that don't talk to each other: intake, validation, routing, notification and record-keeping.
Customer data consolidation
Founder scope from £8,000Unify customer data from spreadsheets, CRMs and operational systems into a single clean view for reporting and AI workflows.
AI readiness & roadmap
Founder scope from £5,000Assess your data quality, security, tooling and team capability before committing to major AI investments. Know what will work.
And the right answer is not always to hire us. If an existing product or specialist partner is the better route, we'll tell you and, where useful, help select them or stay involved to protect the outcome.
What eats two days of your team’s week?
Describe the task, the handover, the report or the queue. A couple of sentences is enough. We'll tell you whether it is an automation problem, a process problem or a waste of time.