Engineering · AI engineering
AI Agent & Automation Experiments
Controlled experiments orchestrating coding and operations agents with explicit human approval gates.
Prototype / Experiment
Jakes
03Automation & Intelligent Systems
We remove repetitive handling between systems and people, and apply AI only where it can be controlled, checked and explained.
Led by Jakes & Alex
Skilled people spend their days copying data between systems.
- Approvals happen over email and get lost.
- Reports are rebuilt by hand every week.
- Events in one system need action in another, and nobody is watching.
- AI is on the agenda, but nobody can say where it is safe to use.
Solution capabilities
Intelligent Automation & AI Integration
- Business workflow automation
- Node-RED integrations
- Power Automate solutions
- n8n workflows
- Event-triggered processes
- Human-in-the-loop approval flows
- Document workflow conceptsAssessed per project
- AI-assisted operational toolsAssessed per project
- Local AI (Ollama) deploymentsPrototype / exploratory
- Controlled agent workflowsPrototype / exploratory
Example use cases
- Exception alerts routed to the right owner with context
- Scheduled report distribution
- Approval workflows with audit trail
- Device events triggering business actions
Implementation approach
- 01
Process mapping
Document the current workflow, the hand-offs and where errors are introduced.
- 02
Automation candidates
Rank steps by volume, error rate and risk; keep judgement-heavy steps with people.
- 03
Controlled build
Automate with explicit validation, retries, logging and a human override.
- 04
Monitor
Track runs, failures and exceptions so automation never fails silently.
Example architecture
Event-driven workflow — illustrative, adapted per engagement.
Business event
Integration API
Validation
Workflow rules
Approval
Notification
Applicable technologies
- Node-RED
- n8n
- Power Automate
- SharePoint
- MQTT
- Ollama
- Claude / OpenAI APIs
Expected categories of benefit
Outcomes depend on each organisation's starting point; we agree measurable targets during discovery rather than promising them in advance.
- Less re-keying and fewer transcription errors
- Consistent execution of routine processes
- Faster response to operational events
- AI applied with explicit human control points
Scope notes
- AI-assisted and agent-based workflows are offered as prototypes or controlled pilots unless agreed otherwise.
- We will not automate decisions that require accountable human judgement without an approval step.
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