AI agency · Yorkshire

AI agency in Leeds

Leeds moves goods and money : hauliers and warehouses where the M1 meets the M62, retail head offices and the online brands born from them, contractors, and a financial and legal district second only to London. The task that costs most here is the availability request — « can you do a load from Wakefield to Glasgow on Thursday? » — answered forty times a day from a whiteboard and a phone call to the planner. We survey your ten systems, quantify what each one costs you, and open only one. The survey is free and delivered within 72 hours.

Transport hauliers and warehouses at the M1–M62 crossroadsRetail and online brands head offices and their customer serviceConstruction a city centre rebuilt every decadeFinance and law the largest hub outside London
Answer the availability request
Reply to the returns question
Extract the tender requirements

The tasks we remove first in this area

Leeds: the city-centre skyline from above
Leeds — the city skyline at sunsetPhoto Manikuttan TK — 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

Hauliers and transport

Availability requests, transport documents, customer replies.

A customer asks whether you can take a load on Thursday. The office checks the whiteboard, calls the planner, calls the customer back — twenty minutes, forty times a day.

No price, no date committed by the agent. It reads the plan and prepares the answer ; the planner decides.

AI for transport

02

Retail and e-commerce

Customer service, returns, multilingual product pages, review replies.

A brand born in a Leeds head office sells across Europe. The same returns question arrives three hundred times a week, with a November peak nobody absorbs.

No refund or goodwill gesture decided by the agent, and no review written in a customer's place.

AI for e-commerce

03

Construction and contractors

Tender responses, pre-quoting, valuations, site reports.

The estimator is on site, the quote waits five days in the inbox, and the client has signed elsewhere. Behind it, the monthly valuation is done on the last day, from memory.

No decision on safety, compliance or price is taken by the agent. It prepares ; the contracts manager validates.

AI for construction

04

Financial and legal services

File preparation, missing documents, first-level answers.

A 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

Those four do not cover everything : Leeds also has law firms for whom AI for legal teams describes the hour before reading a contract, insurers, manufacturers, letting agents and restaurants. The survey starts from your business, not from a list.

We are also called here for : AI for legal teams, AI for insurance, AI for manufacturing, AI for real estate, AI for hospitality, AI for logistics, AI for recruitment, AI for solicitors, AI for pharmacies.

A case — a scenario, not a real client

A haulage firm of forty vehicles

General haulage across the north of England and Scotland, two planners, a transport management system used for invoicing, and a whiteboard that is the real plan. The task that cost : Answer availability requests from the plan, without calling the planner.

Before
1
What comes in

Forty to sixty requests a day by phone and email : « can you do a load from A to B on day D », « have you got a curtainsider free Thursday », « what would it cost ».

2
What happens

The office looks at the whiteboard, cannot tell, calls the planner — who is on another call — and calls the customer back twenty minutes later. By then the customer has booked elsewhere.

3
What it costs

Three to four hours a day of office time, a planner interrupted thirty times a day, and loads lost because the answer came twenty minutes after the competitor's.

After
1
What we surveyed

The whiteboard held the truth and the TMS held the past. Nobody kept the plan in the system because it took longer than the marker pen.

2
What we opened

The plan moved into the TMS first — a morning's work, then a habit. Then an agent reads each request, checks vehicle and driver availability against the plan, and prepares the answer : available, available with a condition, or not — with the comparable rate from the last similar job. The planner confirms in one click ; only the exceptions reach the phone.

3
The measured gap

Availability requests are answered in minutes instead of twenty. The planner is interrupted a handful of times a day instead of thirty, and loads stop going elsewhere for lack of a quick answer.

What we did not do

The agent never commits a vehicle, a date or a price : it reads the plan and drafts. The planner confirms every answer, because a lorry promised twice costs more than twenty minutes of delay.

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 availability request scenario — a diagram, not a screenshot
1Request received by phone note or emailtrigger
2Route, date and vehicle type identifiedreading
3Availability checked against the plan, comparable rate foundobservation
4Answer drafted: yes, yes with a condition, or nodraft
5The planner confirms in one click, the office sendshuman 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
Time to answer an availability request20 minutes
Planner interruptions per day20 to 30
Office hours per day on availability questions3 to 4
Loads lost for lack of a quick answer, per week2 to 5
Plan kept in the systemno — on the whiteboard
The planning system, opened
Time to answer an availability requesta few minutes
Planner interruptions per day3 to 5, the exceptions
Office hours per day on availability questionsunder 1
Loads lost for lack of a quick answer, per week0 to 1
Plan kept in the systemyes — it is the plan
Questions we get here

What we are asked before we start.

Our plan is on a whiteboard. Is that a problem ?

It is the first job, and the one that changes everything : the plan goes into the TMS you already pay for. Half a day to set up, then it is faster than the marker pen because the agent fills most of it from the requests.

Our customers want a price with the answer.

The agent finds the rate of the last comparable job and puts it next to the answer. The planner confirms or changes it. What goes out has always been seen by a person — a rate promised by a machine is a dispute waiting to happen.

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. For a haulier, moving the plan into the system is what takes the time — not the technology.

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

Yes, for the survey workshop : we need to see the screens and the tools. The rest runs remotely, with a weekly call. Leeds and West Yorkshire 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.