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For owner-led businesses in South London & Kent

You can see AI could help your business — you're just not sure where to start, or what's worth doing.

That's where I come in. I sit down with you and work out where AI genuinely helps — what to use, what to ignore, and what could go wrong if staff use it the wrong way — then set up the first practical routine that gives you real control, with you approving what goes out. And because it keeps changing, I stay on as your AI advisor. Built locally, in person.

First call free. In-person mapping free. Nothing chargeable until we both agree there's real value to build.

Stuart Shaw, founder of GenAgentik
“AI is not waiting for small businesses to catch up.” Stuart Shaw · 25 years running businesses · Bexley, London

01The gap

Right now, the thing joining your tools together is you.

The follow-ups live in your head. Information sits in inboxes, spreadsheets and people's memory — things move forward because you remember them. It works, until you're stretched or away. Then the gaps show: the quote that went cold, the renewal that crept up, the certificate that lapsed.

And the tools themselves are changing. Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Microsoft 365, your job system — each is adding AI of its own. Most of it sits switched off. And each one only sees its own box: none of them makes the call that needs three systems and your judgement at once.

Owner view ONE PLACE, ABOVE THE TOOLS EMAIL ACCOUNTS CRM JOBS SPREADSHEET WHATSAPP You BY HAND APPROVING WHAT GOES OUT Owner view ONE PLACE, ABOVE THE TOOLS EMAIL ACCOUNTS CRM JOBS SPREADSHEET WHATSAPP You BY HAND APPROVING WHAT GOES OUT
The owner view is set up above the tools you already run — it joins them up, and you approve what goes out.

40,000 given.
11,000 using it. Sage's own first-year figures for its AI assistant

UK government research puts the top reason owners hold back not at cost — but that no one has shown them what it's for.

So the first win — often the cheapest — is switching on the AI you already pay for and showing your team how to use it well. Joining it up into one owner view, and keeping it working as the tools change, is the part that doesn't come built in. That's the part I work in.

02Who I help

Owner-led firms where good software still leaves people joining the dots by hand.

I work best in and around the built environment — firms where work moves through several systems and the owner still joins the dots. The pattern is the same everywhere: each tool is getting smarter on its own, and no one tool is getting smarter about the business as a whole.

Property & lettings Every tool handles its own messages; none watches the whole picture.

Arthur, Fixflo and your CRM are adding AI to handle repairs and messages inside each tool. None of them watches key dates, contractor silence and landlord-visible risk across all of them at once. The owner view is set up to see those together — before they become a problem.

Discuss property →
Surveyors, QS & planning The report tool drafts; it doesn't keep your record straight.

Your report and valuation software is adding its own AI. When reports, valuations or submissions are prepared with AI support, the firm wants its own record of how it was used — and the professional's judgement kept visibly theirs. I set up that internal AI-use oversight, and the firm-wide view your report tool doesn't give you. Here, the record matters as much as the workflow.

Discuss surveying →
Construction & trades The margin leaks between the tools, not inside them.

Your job software and your accounts are both adding AI. In many small firms neither catches the variation, the supplier price rise and the invoice position together early enough — so margin leaks before the job ends. The owner view watches those together, and flags it while you can still act.

Discuss construction →
Building services — fire, security, M&E, facilities The job system runs the job; it doesn't watch the firm.

Simpro, Joblogic, Commusoft and the like are adding AI to write up jobs and schedule engineers. What they don't give you is the view outside the job tool: which certificate records, service visits and follow-ups need attention, which jobs are slipping, what the owner needs to see across all of it. I set up that firm-wide view, on top of the system you already run.

Discuss building services →
B2B distribution & signage The quote goes cold in the gap between systems.

Your EPOS, ERP or accounts software is adding AI. None of it joins up the quote nobody chased, the order waiting on a customer reply, and the account that quietly stopped buying. The owner view watches quotes, orders and follow-ups across your tools so fewer slip through unseen.

Discuss distribution →
Accountancy & bookkeeping The software handles more of the routine; it doesn't show the margin.

Your ledger software ships its own AI now. What it won't show is which clients have quietly become unprofitable to serve under MTD — or give you an internal record of how your staff use AI on client data when someone asks. I set up the margin view and the internal record your software leaves out.

Discuss accountancy →

03In practice

One morning, seen through the owner view.

Friday · 07:42 — after the morning sweep

Illustrative · fictional firm & data

Three things need you today. Everything else is quiet.

Landlord update waiting — repair done, not yet toldDraft update ready for your approval

Maintenance

Electrical certificate due in 19 days — mid-renewalChase drafted to the contractor

Key date

Arrears case drifting — chased once, 8 days quietNext step drafted for your say-so

Money

Nothing sends without you — every draft waits for your yes.

Shown in lettings; the pattern is the same in any sector. It reads across the tools you already run, drafts the next move, and never sends anything without you.

1What lands this week

A variation agreed with the client over WhatsApp. A supplier PDF with a quiet price rise. An invoice still sitting unpaid. Three places — none of them talking to the others.

2The owner view reads across

It reads across your job software, your accounts and the messages you've chosen to connect — with the access you approve. It spots the variation never made it onto the quote, and the margin on the Oakmere job has dropped below your line.

3Ready for your approval
“Oakmere margin down to 6% — unbilled variation £2,400 plus a supplier rise of £1,800. Draft variation invoice ready for your approval.” In front of you — nothing sent

No single tool could catch this — it lives in the gaps between them. Common first builds: inbox triage and follow-up · a chasing layer for quotes, enquiries and overdue invoices · a weekly owner briefing.

No new dashboard. No system swap. Just less time bridging the gaps between the tools you already use.

Free · 6 questions · 90 seconds

Not sure where AI fits? Find out in ninety seconds.

Six questions, no sign-up wall. You get an honest readiness score, a sensible first place to look for a business your size, and a one-page report to keep. If AI isn't worth your time yet, it will say so.

See where you stand

04How I work

I don't start with software. I start with how your business actually runs.

Most AI advice is given from a desk. I come to your premises, record the conversation with consent, and map how work actually moves between the tools you already use.

1

Listen — in person

We sit down and walk through how work really moves through the business — the tools you already use, where information gets repeated, where people bridge the gaps by hand, and where follow-up slows down.

2

Map the gaps

I turn the conversation into a one-page AI Opportunity Map: what's already working, where the gaps are, where AI could help first — and what's not worth doing yet.

3

Set it up properlyThe first paid step

I set up your owner view using the right mix of automation and AI tools — n8n, Claude, ChatGPT, Make or Zapier where appropriate. No new dashboard, no platform to learn, no replacement software: your team keeps the systems they already trust.

4

Stay as your AI advisor

This is where most of the value is. AI keeps changing and so will your business, so I stay on — reviewing what's working, keeping the setup sharp, and bringing you the next move worth considering, always scoped and priced on its own. The longer we work together, the sharper the advice gets.

Free On-Site Mapping — 45 minutes at your business. You leave with a one-page AI Opportunity Map: where AI can connect the gaps and reduce manual chasing, before anyone signs off on a build.

See a sample map →

05Pricing

Start small. Prove the value first.

Launch pricing — I'm taking on my first UK clients now. Prices will rise as the case studies build; founding clients keep their launch rate.

Not every business needs a large AI build. The On-Site Mapping tells us the smallest useful first step, and scope and price are agreed before any work begins.

Step 1 · In person

Free On-Site Mapping

45 minutes in person with the owner, recorded with consent. We walk through where time is being lost, where admin builds up, and what's slowing the business down.

You leave with a one-page AI Opportunity Map — where AI can genuinely help, where it can't, and what implementation would look like. Honest answer either way: if AI isn't the right move right now, I'll say so.

Step 2 · Implement

Bespoke AI Implementation

Based on what the mapping finds, I recommend the smallest useful first build — from one focused setup (a prompt pack, document check or inbox workflow) to multi-system workflows that run on their own once you've approved them. Clear scope, price and timeline agreed before work begins; most first builds are live within 2–3 weeks of sign-off.

Something genuinely custom — multi-site, deeper data? I bring in specialist build capability, scoped and quoted after the mapping.

£750–£2,500 typical projects · smaller focused setups where scope is genuinely limited
Step 3 · Ongoing

AI Operator Retainer

Where the real value is

Each month we look at what AI could do next for the business, and I keep what we've built sharp as the tools change.

  • A monthly working session on what AI could do next for you
  • Monthly AI digest: what has changed and what actually matters for you
  • Up to 2 hours of small changes and tuning per month
  • New automations or builds are scoped and priced separately — never bundled in
  • Email response within 2 working days · 30 days' notice · no long contract
  • Quarterly AI review included while you're on ongoing support

06About

Most AI advice isn't from people who've actually run businesses.

Access to AI is no longer rare — your competitors can reach the same models you can. So the tool isn't the edge; it can't be, when everyone can reach it. The edge is judgement: knowing where to point AI, what's worth doing, and what to leave alone.

That judgement comes from having actually run businesses — a payroll to meet, a margin to protect, customers to keep, staff to manage. I've done that for 25 years: media companies in the UK and Singapore, an outsourcing operation in the Philippines, and eight years in Cebu — where I helped design and build a 108-unit serviced apartment development with commercial tenants, then helped run it.

I keep the AI moving parts practical, so they serve the business rather than distract from it — brought back to the real world of staff, customers, follow-up, cashflow and daily pressure. The tool is not the starting point. The business is.

Based in Bexley. Working in person across South London and Kent — Greenwich, Lewisham, Bromley, Sidcup, Dartford, Sevenoaks, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells.

“If there's no clear fit, I'll say so.”

— Stuart Shaw, Founder
BuildIntel360 — a demonstration build by GenAgentik
BuildIntel360 demonstration dashboard: active jobs, margin intelligence, cashflow forecast and a daily briefing for a fictional construction firm
Demonstration · representative data

BuildIntel360 is an owner-view system GenAgentik designed and built to show what fits a mid-size construction firm — jobs, subcontractor invoices, quotes, compliance and margin in one place, with an AI briefing the owner and manager each see from their own angle. It's a demonstration of the standard of work, not a live client system — and not something I'd push on every client.

07Your data

Your data stays yours.

If GenAgentik is connecting up the tools your business runs on, the first thing you'll want to know is what happens to your data. Here's the plain answer.

Your data stays in your own tools and accounts.

GenAgentik connects to them — it doesn't move your data somewhere new or take ownership of it.

Nothing goes out without your approval.

No email, message or update leaves your business until a person has signed it off.

Established tools, named up front.

GenAgentik uses established, mainstream tools, and you're always told exactly which ones are involved.

No lock-in.

If you ever want to stop, the tools and the access stay with you.

Regulated work stays with your advisors.

Anything regulated — legal, financial or medical — stays with your professional advisors. GenAgentik sets up the workflow; it doesn't replace your accountant or solicitor.

Only what actually connects.

Some tools join up cleanly; others — personal WhatsApp, for one — simply don't. GenAgentik uses what each one genuinely allows, and you'll always know what's truly connectable before anything is built.

08Get started

Start with a free call. If there's a real opportunity, I'll show you the next step.

Tell me what your business does, where work gets stuck, and where you think AI might help. I'll come back within one working day. If there's a fit, we'll arrange your free On-Site Mapping — 45 minutes at your business, and you leave with a one-page AI Opportunity Map.

If you're outside South London or Kent, I can still help — but the in-person model works best when I can sit across the table with you.

  • UK-based · Bexley, London
  • Built with GDPR and client-data handling in mind, with human approval on every outbound action
  • In-person where practical · remote when needed
  • Clear scope and price agreed before work begins · no software lock-in
  • Clients on ongoing support receive a quarterly AI review as tools change

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