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AI Engineering · Doncaster · Canarlo, Leeds
A Yorkshire AI development company for Doncaster's distribution, rail and manufacturing firms. Remote-first, fixed scope, and a visit when it saves time.
Working in Doncaster
Doncaster sits where the A1(M) and the M18 cross the East Coast Main Line, with the M180 running east to the Humber off the M18, which is why so much of the region's warehousing ended up here. A big estate of distribution centres means a lot of businesses wrestling with the same handful of problems: carrier portals that don't talk to the order system, returns that arrive as a pile with no record of why, and an exceptions report that someone builds by hand every Monday morning.
The other Doncaster is a railway town. The Plant Works built locomotives here for more than a century, the Flying Scotsman among them, and the town still has rail engineering and a rolling-stock supply chain. Rail work is document-heavy by nature: maintenance histories, safety cases, standards that change. That suits AI that finds, quotes and cross-checks, and it punishes AI that guesses. We build the first kind and say so in the brief.
Around those two anchors there's a wide spread of manufacturers, food and packaging firms, and the usual professional services. The projects that pay back here are rarely clever. A quote that takes two days because it needs three people. Supplier onboarding that lives in somebody's inbox. A customer question that waits until the shared mailbox gets checked. Pick one, put a price on it, and check the result a month later.
Where AI pays off
Log returns, damages and short deliveries from emails and photos into one queue, with the reason coded, in place of a spreadsheet nobody trusts.
Read proof-of-delivery, rate cards and carrier invoices and match them to orders. Anything that doesn't reconcile goes to a person with both documents side by side.
Search a decade of maintenance records and standards in plain English with the exact page cited, for the engineer who needs the answer before the next shift.
Draft first-pass quotes from past jobs and drawings for fabricators and engineers, priced by your rules and checked by your estimator.
Working with Doncaster
Doncaster is roughly 40 minutes from Leeds on the East Coast line, and about the same by road. We work with Doncaster firms remotely from Yorkshire by default and come over for kickoff, and for any process that is easiest to understand on a warehouse floor or in a workshop.
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. Carrier APIs where they exist, EDI or file exchange where they don't. Every sync writes an audit row, so a failed transfer becomes a line in a log rather than a mystery on Monday. We check what your WMS exposes before we quote.
Near them, yes. Inside the safety decision, no. We use AI to find, summarise and cross-reference, with the source paragraph shown, and leave sign-off with the competent person. That boundary goes into the written brief.
Your choice. Take the code and a runbook and run it yourselves, or keep us on a monthly retainer from £500. Either way it's the engineer who built it, and the code is yours.
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.