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AI Engineering · Huddersfield · Canarlo, Leeds
Canarlo builds websites, WordPress sites, and production AI systems for Huddersfield's manufacturers and professional-services firms. Fixed scope, honest pricing, and an engineer from Leeds at your office in half an hour.
Working in Huddersfield
Huddersfield's economy runs on precision engineering and textile-trade know-how that predates the internet — manufacturing alone accounts for close to 16% of jobs in Kirklees. A web development agency that doesn't understand what a shop floor actually needs shows within the first project. We're a web development and digital agency that also happens to do the AI and automation work the rest of this site is about.
Most of what we build here is unglamorous and load-bearing: a WordPress site that loads fast and doesn't need a developer on retainer to edit a paragraph, a customer portal that replaces the spreadsheet three departments fight over, quoting tools that read an engineering drawing instead of a rep's guesswork. The National Health Innovation Campus and the University of Huddersfield's research spinouts add a second strand — health-tech and life-sciences teams that need production-grade web apps and document-heavy AI, not agency slideware.
Being a proper web development agency here means building on WordPress when WordPress is the right tool, and on Next.js and Supabase when it isn't — instead of forcing every brief through one CMS because that's what we sell. Kirklees manufacturing and its supply chain still run a lot of integration by email attachment; closing that gap is usually the fastest-paying project on the list.
On-site from Leeds
Huddersfield is around 25 minutes from Leeds by train or car — comparable to Wakefield and Bradford. Kickoff, design reviews, and demos happen at your office when a room beats a call; most of the build still runs from our own desks.
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; /services/ai-engineering is the place to start.
AI Engineering
Agents, RAG, evals, MCP — shipped with audit trails. Every automated decision logged with input, output, and model version.
Web Apps
Next.js + Supabase, per-row security at the database, UK-hosted. Eighteen security patterns enforced by default.
Automations
Webhook-triggered workflows that replace manual ops. Signed webhooks, idempotent retries, audit row per attempt.
From the £8k AI System Audit to £100k production builds. Fixed scope, GBP invoicing, no day-rate dance.
How much does AI engineering cost? →Frequently asked
Both, and we tell you which fits before we quote. WordPress for a content-led marketing site your own team needs to edit; a custom Next.js build when the product needs logins, billing, or workflow logic that WordPress plugins end up duct-taping together. No plugin-stack-first sales pitch either way.
No — most of our Huddersfield clients aren't tech companies either. You own the process knowledge; we own the build. Briefs are written in plain English, and every project ends with a handover a competent engineer — ours or your next hire — can pick up.
Yes — health-tech and life-sciences spinouts need the same production discipline as everyone else: UK data residency, audit logs on every automated decision, and code you can hand to your next hire. We've built for regulated teams before and know what a DPIA conversation actually requires.
Fixed-fee tiers from the £8k AI System Audit to £100k production builds, 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.
Start here
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.