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AI Engineering · Barnsley · Canarlo, Leeds
A Yorkshire AI development company for Barnsley's manufacturers, packaging and glass firms, and the digital businesses growing around the town centre. Remote-first, fixed scope.
Working in Barnsley
Barnsley's economy turned over when the pits closed, and it never stopped making things. Glassmaking, packaging and engineering have been part of the town's industrial mix for generations, and a long supply chain still feeds the M1 corridor. These are firms that run tight batches against tight margins, where the only honest question about new software is whether it shortens a shift or doesn't.
Barnsley also has a digital side that surprises people. The town centre has a purpose-built Digital Media Centre and a cluster of web and software businesses around it. So there's an odd and useful mix here: a shop floor and a software desk within a short walk of each other. The same town can need quote automation for a fabricator on Monday and an evaluation harness for a product team on Tuesday.
The AI that fits Barnsley is practical. Supplier certificates and delivery paperwork read into your ERP instead of re-keyed. Repeat jobs quoted from price history, with the estimator approving the number. Traceability records you can search in plain English when a customer rings about a batch. Nothing that needs a data science team on your side, and nothing you'd have to rip out if a vendor changes a model next year.
Where AI pays off
Read supplier certificates, delivery notes and batch sheets into your ERP instead of re-keying them, with exceptions flagged for a person.
Price repeat and near-repeat work from your own history, so the estimator reviews a draft instead of starting from a blank sheet.
Search batch and quality records in plain English when a customer rings about a delivery, with every answer pointing at the record it came from.
For a software team shipping an AI feature: prompts, retrieval and outputs under test in your own pipeline, so a change that makes answers worse fails the build.
Working with Barnsley
Barnsley is about 40 minutes from Leeds by road or train, just south of Wakefield on the M1. We work with Barnsley firms remotely from Yorkshire and make the trip for a proper kickoff. If your process lives on a shop floor, we'd like to see it once before we draw anything, because the real workflow is rarely the one in the procedure manual.
Delivery itself runs remote-first — weekly demos on a real preview URL, readable diffs, UK office hours. The engineer who writes the proposal writes the code and takes the call when something breaks.
What we build
The full detail — what we build, how it works, pricing — lives on the service pages. They cover the whole of the UK; AI Development & Automation is the place to start.
AI Development & Automation
Agents, document AI, RAG and workflows — shipped with audit trails. Every automated decision logged with input, output, and model version.
Custom Software
Next.js + Supabase, per-row security at the database, UK-hosted. Eight security patterns enforced by default.
Ongoing Support
Security patches, dependency updates and monitoring from the engineer who built it. Month-to-month, from £500/month.
A Blueprint from £4,500, builds from £18,000, AI development from £1,200/month. Fixed scope, GBP invoicing, no day-rate dance.
How much does AI engineering cost? →Frequently asked
Usually not. We read what the ERP can export, put AI on the messy documents around it — supplier certificates, delivery notes, emails — and write the clean result back. A Blueprint tells you what's worth replacing and what's cheaper to wrap.
Sometimes it isn't, and we'd rather say so on a 20-minute call than sell a build. What pays back for a small manufacturer is one painful process with a measurable cost: hours of re-keying, days off a quote. If you haven't got one, you probably don't need us yet.
Yes. For product teams the useful help is engineering more than strategy: an AI feature with a test set that runs on every change, so a regression turns up in CI before a customer finds it. We work alongside your developers, and the code lands in your repo under your conventions.
A Blueprint from £4,500, builds from £18,000 and AI development from £1,200/month, with scope written down before billing starts. Invoiced in GBP, VAT itemised. The SOW names the technological uncertainties so your accountant can file the R&D tax credit claim without rewriting anything.
You. The repo, the schemas, the eval set, the runbook. No Canarlo SaaS in the loop, no licence fees — plain TypeScript any competent engineer can pick up. Vendor swap is a config change, not a re-architecture.
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Twenty minutes, UK office hours. If the work fits, we’ll say so. If you’re better served by an audit first — or by not hiring us at all — we’ll say that too.