AI agency · Scotland

AI agency in Edinburgh

Edinburgh runs on files : asset managers and banks along Lothian Road and in the New Town, insurers, law firms working under Scots law, and a hospitality trade that fills up every August. Everything arrives as a document, and every document waits for someone to read it. The task that costs most here is the hour a solicitor spends preparing a contract — structure, cross-references, departures from the house precedent — before reading a single billable line. We survey your ten systems, quantify what each one costs you, and open only one. The survey is free and delivered within 72 hours.

Financial services asset managers, banks, insurersLaw firms Scots law, commercial and private clientAugust a hospitality season that decides the yearUniversities and tech spin-outs and software firms
Prepare the contract for review
Chase the missing document
Quote the Festival group booking

The tasks we remove first in this area

Edinburgh: the Old Town skyline and its spires seen from Calton Hill
Edinburgh — the Old Town skyline from Calton HillPhoto Oriel Frankie Ashcroft — Pexels
The local fabric

Four sectors, four tasks that cost.

A city page is worth nothing if it could be the page of the next city over. Here are the sectors we are most often called for here, the task that keeps coming back in each, and the limit we set from the start.

01

Law firms and in-house legal

Preparing contract review, assembling bundles, keeping up with changes.

An eighty-page contract arrives. One hour of preparation — structure, cross-references, departures from the precedent — for one hour of useful, billable reading. The first hour is not billable.

No legal advice, ever. The agent flags a departure from the precedent ; whether it is acceptable stays with the solicitor.

AI for legal teams

02

Asset management and banking

File preparation, missing documents, first-level answers.

An onboarding file sits for ten days before anyone notices a document is missing. The client thinks it is moving — and calls, three times.

No decision, no refusal, no advice from the agent. It chases documents, nothing more.

AI for banking

03

Insurance and brokers

Claims files, missing evidence, first-level answers.

A claim is reported on the 3rd. On the 15th, the handler notices the report is missing. In between, the policyholder has called four times.

No settlement, no refusal, no cover interpreted by the agent. It checks completeness, chases, and answers by quoting the policy.

AI for insurance

04

Hospitality and events

Group and event enquiries, bookings, review replies.

In August, a group enquiry waits two to three days for a proposal — the time it takes the manager to finish service. The customer has written to four venues meanwhile.

The agent drafts the proposal from the menus and the diary. Final availability and price stay with the manager.

AI for hospitality

Those four do not cover everything : Edinburgh also has sales teams for whom AI for sales teams describes the Thursday-evening lead, letting agents, clinics and software firms. The survey starts from your business, not from a list.

We are also called here for : AI for sales teams, AI for real estate, AI for healthcare, AI for e-commerce, AI for solicitors, AI for accountants.

A case — a scenario, not a real client

A law firm of thirty-five fee earners

Commercial and property work, a house precedent bank built over twenty years, three partners who review everything, and a matter-management system nobody keeps up to date. The task that cost : Prepare a contract for review against the house precedents.

Before
1
What comes in

Ten to fifteen contracts a week for review — leases, supply agreements, shareholder agreements — from clients and from the other side.

2
What happens

A junior solicitor reads the whole document to map its structure, finds the relevant precedent from memory, and marks the departures by hand. An hour to two hours before the partner reads anything.

3
What it costs

One to two hours of non-billable time per contract, precedents that drift because nobody knows which version is current, and departures missed when the junior is in a hurry.

After
1
What we surveyed

The precedent bank existed — in four folders, with three versions of the main lease, and no date on any of them.

2
What we opened

A precedent bank cleaned and dated first. Then an agent that reads each incoming contract, maps its structure, matches every clause to the current precedent, and puts the two texts side by side wherever they differ — with no opinion on whether the difference matters.

3
The measured gap

Preparation drops from one to two hours to ten minutes of checking. The partner reads a marked-up document, not a raw one, and no departure is missed because the junior was tired.

What we did not do

The agent never gives an opinion : « this clause differs from the precedent » is a fact, « this clause is risky » is advice, and it stays with the solicitor. That line is written into the quote.

This case is a working scenario, built from tasks we meet in this area. It is not the engagement of an identifiable client, and no figure above is presented as a result measured at a third party.

The circuit

What the machine does, step by step.

There is nothing magical about an automation scenario : it is a sequence of steps you can read, stop and correct. Here is the one for the case above, in the order it runs.

The contract review scenario — a diagram, not a screenshot
1Contract received, applicable precedent identifiedtrigger
2Structure, definitions and cross-references mappedreading
3Each clause matched to the current precedentobservation
4Departures shown side by side, no opinion attacheddraft
5The solicitor reads, assesses, adviseshuman validation

Schematic drawing. The real scenario is built in your automation tool and stays editable by you.

The method, in one sentence

Ten systems, one survey, one system opened at a time — the one with the shortest payback. Read the full method, or go back to the AI agency page.

The figures for this case

What the closed system costs, what the open system returns.

Ranges, not promises : the real gap depends on your volumes and the state of your documents. That is exactly what the survey measures before we commit.

Today, changing nothing
Preparation time per contract1 to 2 hours
Non-billable hours per fee earner per month15 to 30
Precedent versions in circulationseveral, undated
Departures missed at first readunknown — found later
Internal « which precedent do we use » questions per week10 to 20
The preparation system, opened
Preparation time per contract10 minutes of checking
Non-billable hours per fee earner per month5 to 10
Precedent versions in circulationone, dated
Departures missed at first readnone — every clause matched
Internal « which precedent do we use » questions per week2 to 5
Questions we get here

What we are asked before we start.

Our files are privileged. How does an agent fit with that ?

It lives inside your perimeter, on infrastructure you control, with named access and nothing used to train any model. That is the first decision of the workshop. If it does not suit you, we stop there.

Flagging departures — isn't that already advice ?

No : a departure is a fact, checkable in one click. Saying whether the departure is acceptable is the advice — and the agent never gives it, technically as well as by rule.

How long before it is useful ?

The survey of the ten systems is delivered within 72 hours. Opening the first system takes two to six weeks. In a law firm, cleaning the precedent bank is usually what takes the time — not the technology.

You are based in France. Do you come to Edinburgh ?

Yes, for the survey workshop : we need to see the screens and the tools. The rest runs remotely, with a weekly call. Edinburgh and the Lothians are covered with no travel surcharge.

First call — fifteen minutes

We will tell you which system to open first.

Describe the task that costs you the most. We will tell you what is feasible, how long it takes and what it costs. If the answer is no, you will leave with the two reasons why.