Senior delivery, on the ground in Cardiff
No graduate sandbox. We bring the same senior team that runs Manchester engagements into Cardiff as often as the work demands, including kick-off workshops, milestone reviews, and stakeholder sessions.
AI & automation · Cardiff
AI &automationforCardiffbusinesses
Workflow automation, custom AI, and strategy engagements for Cardiff teams who want to stop drowning in manual work and start operating like an AI-first business.
- Region
- Wales
- HQ
- Manchester, UK
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Trusted by Cardiff teams
Quietly rebuilding ops at companies you have heard of.
Northwind
Vortex
Lumen Co.
Hexline
Quanta
Riverdale
Services available in Cardiff
Nine ways to work together.
Pick what fits the problem in front of you, or talk to us about a combined engagement that strings several together.
01
AI Strategy & Readiness
Stop guessing which AI bet to make first; leave the sprint with a costed 12-month plan.
Learn more02
Workflow Automation
Reclaim a day a week from manual triage and approvals with n8n, Make, and Zapier builds that handle real edge cases.
Learn more03
AI Chatbots & Assistants
Cut support response time without hiring more agents; AI assistants grounded in your real data, not hallucinated answers.
Learn more04
Custom AI Solutions
Get the AI system no SaaS vendor will sell you; RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, AI-powered internal tools.
Learn more05
Data & Analytics Automation
See what is working tomorrow morning, not at the end of the quarter; automated reporting, live dashboards, predictive models.
Learn more06
AI-Powered Sales & Marketing
Score every inbound lead before your SDR opens it; AI lead scoring, outbound automation, CRM enrichment, personalisation.
Learn more07
AI Content & SEO Systems
Compound organic traffic without scaling the writing team; programmatic content engines built on real Search Console data.
Learn more08
Integration & API Development
Make your stack talk to itself before the next migration; custom APIs, webhook architectures, legacy bridges.
Learn more09
AI Training & Enablement
Get your team operating, not just attending workshops; tailored Claude Code, prompt engineering, and AI workflow training.
Learn moreLocal context
Why we focus on Cardiff.
Cardiff is the largest economy in Wales and home to a growing cluster of fintech, digital, creative, and public sector adjacent organisations. We work with Cardiff-based clients across the city, from the financial and professional services district at Cardiff Central to the creative scene in Pontcanna and the digital community around Cardiff Bay. Cardiff University and the Welsh Government's strong technology and innovation programmes have built a real applied scene.
Cardiff engagements typically involve professional services firms automating back-office workflows, digital and creative agencies scaling content operations, and a steady flow of B2B SaaS and fintech scale-ups. We also see consistent demand from public sector adjacent organisations looking to apply AI carefully and at pace.
Cardiff is one of the warmest commercial markets we work in: clients are deliberate about supplier choice, place a premium on long-term relationships, and reward agencies that show up. Our Cardiff engagements are usually multi-phase rather than one-and-done because the relationship is built to last.
Cardiff has Wales' largest tech cluster, supported by Tramshed Tech, Cardiff Capital Region's strong innovation programmes, and the city's universities. The applied AI scene here is pragmatic and increasingly serious.
Where we work
Areas of Cardiff we cover.
Most engagements are remote-first with on-site days when the work calls for it. These are the parts of Cardiff our clients tend to operate from.
- ⌐Cardiff Central
- ⌐Cardiff Bay
- ⌐Pontcanna
- ⌐Cardiff Capital Region wider
- ⌐Newport and South Wales
- ⌐Tramshed Tech
Why Cardiff businesses choose us
Six reasons Cardiff teams pick AI Advisory.
We compete with London consultancies and global agencies for Cardiff work. Here is what Cardiff clients consistently tell us made the difference.
UK GDPR and data residency by default
Cardiff clients in regulated sectors set the bar for data handling. We architect with UK residency in mind from day one, document data flows before any code is written, and self-host models when the engagement requires it.
Built for the Wales mix
Professional services and fintech dominate our Cardiff pipeline. We have shipped engagements for businesses in both, and we know what good and bad look like in this market.
Build, not just advise
Strategy that does not turn into shipped software is incomplete. Every Cardiff engagement we run produces working systems alongside the recommendations, with milestone-based payments tied to delivery.
Owns the handover
Code, accounts, and IP are yours from day one. Documentation and runbooks ship with every project so your Cardiff team is never locked in by tribal knowledge that lives only with us.
Outcomes, measured
Hours saved, response times, conversion lifts, error rates. We instrument what we ship in Cardiff the same way we do in Manchester, so success is visible from week one.
Recent Cardiff use cases
What we typically build in Cardiff.
Examples of engagements that fit the Cardiff market. Each one is a real shape of project we have shipped for clients in this region.
Workflow automation for a Cardiff professional services firm
Multi-step automation across CRM, billing, and document drafting, replacing manual handoffs that delayed new client onboarding by days.
Compliance assistant for a Cardiff fintech
RAG-driven internal assistant over regulation, internal policy, and precedent decisions, with citations on every answer and refusal when sources are missing.
Citizen-facing assistant for a public-sector vendor
Grounded conversational interface over policy and guidance, deployed as a website widget with strict scope and clear escalation paths.
Services available in Cardiff
Nine ways to work together.
Pick what fits the problem in front of you, or talk to us about a combined engagement that strings several together.
01
AI Strategy & Readiness
Stop guessing which AI bet to make first; leave the sprint with a costed 12-month plan.
Learn more02
Workflow Automation
Reclaim a day a week from manual triage and approvals with n8n, Make, and Zapier builds that handle real edge cases.
Learn more03
AI Chatbots & Assistants
Cut support response time without hiring more agents; AI assistants grounded in your real data, not hallucinated answers.
Learn more04
Custom AI Solutions
Get the AI system no SaaS vendor will sell you; RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, AI-powered internal tools.
Learn more05
Data & Analytics Automation
See what is working tomorrow morning, not at the end of the quarter; automated reporting, live dashboards, predictive models.
Learn more06
AI-Powered Sales & Marketing
Score every inbound lead before your SDR opens it; AI lead scoring, outbound automation, CRM enrichment, personalisation.
Learn more07
AI Content & SEO Systems
Compound organic traffic without scaling the writing team; programmatic content engines built on real Search Console data.
Learn more08
Integration & API Development
Make your stack talk to itself before the next migration; custom APIs, webhook architectures, legacy bridges.
Learn more09
AI Training & Enablement
Get your team operating, not just attending workshops; tailored Claude Code, prompt engineering, and AI workflow training.
Learn moreCardiff AI integrations
Powerful AI integrations.
Whatever your Cardiff build needs, we have the right model for the right job. Blended behind a single internal interface so you are never locked in.
OpenAI
GPT and embeddings. Broad ecosystem, strong structured-output and tool use, the safest default for general production.
Claude
Anthropic's frontier model. Our default for agents and long-context work where reasoning matters more than raw speed.
Gemini
Google's long-context multimodal family. Excellent for document and video pipelines, especially at scale.
Grok
xAI's model with live-web reasoning and a different blend of strengths. Useful for research-style and edge-case workloads.
DeepSeek
Open-weight models with strong cost-to-performance. We use it self-hosted when residency or unit economics demand it.
Perplexity
Citation-grounded search API for live-web augmented agents. Drops cleanly into RAG pipelines that need fresh sources.
Let's scope something for Cardiff.
30-minute call. We share what we would build, what it would cost, and how fast it would ship.
Cardiff testimonials
Trusted by Cardiff teams.
Selected feedback from clients in and around Cardiff.
“We were spending 14 hours a week on manual lead qualification. Within a month they had built a system that does it in under 30 minutes a day, and the leads are better qualified than before.”
Head of Operations
B2B SaaS, Cardiff
“They actually understood our business before suggesting tools. That alone put them ahead of every other vendor we spoke to. The build was on time and on budget.”
Founder
Professional services, Wales
How we work
Same process, whatever the build.
01
Discovery
We map your workflows, talk to the people doing the work, and identify where time and money is leaking.
02
Strategy
We design the system. Tools, integrations, build vs buy, and a roadmap costed and tied to outcomes.
03
Build
We build the workflows, automations, and AI systems iteratively, with working software every week.
04
Optimise
We monitor, measure, and improve. Most clients keep us on a retainer to extend and tune the systems.
FAQ
Working with us in Cardiff.
The questions Cardiff teams ask before our first call.
Do you actually meet clients in Cardiff?
Yes. Most engagements are delivered remotely, but kick-offs, milestone reviews, and senior workshops happen in person in Cardiff when that adds value. We are happy to come on-site as often as the work needs.
How fast can a Cardiff project go live?
Discovery sprints take a week and produce a roadmap you own. From there, simple workflow automations are typically in production within 2 to 3 weeks; deeper custom AI builds run 4 to 8 weeks for a first pilot. Cardiff clients usually see something working inside the first month.
Are you set up for UK GDPR and data residency?
Default yes. We architect with UK and EU data residency in mind, document data flows before any code is written, and use models or self-hosted deployments that keep sensitive data inside your tenancy when the work demands it.
Do you work with our existing Cardiff suppliers and tools?
We integrate with whatever the team already uses. Most Cardiff clients arrive with a stack of CRMs, ERPs, support desks, finance systems, and bespoke internal tools. We meet them there rather than asking for a wholesale platform replacement.
Will the systems you build for us be ours, or yours?
Yours. Code, configurations, accounts, and IP all sit in your tenancy from day one. We document everything and can hand off to your internal team in Cardiff, or stay on a retainer to operate and extend the systems as your business changes.
Can we start with something small to evaluate fit?
Absolutely. The discovery sprint is designed exactly for that: a fixed-fee one-week engagement that produces a roadmap valuable on its own, even if you take the build elsewhere. Most Cardiff clients use it to de-risk the relationship before committing to a build engagement.
Ready when you are
Let's build something that runs itself in Cardiff.
A 30-minute call to map the highest-impact automation and AI opportunities in your business. You leave with a prioritised list, whether you hire us or not.
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