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AI Engineering · Leeds · Canarlo, Leeds
Canarlo is an AI development company based in Leeds — production AI, web apps, and automations for technical founders. The engineer who writes the proposal can be at your office today.
Working in Leeds
Leeds is home, not a pin on a service map. We're the AI development company you meet across a real whiteboard — kickoff at your office, no travel on the invoice.
The Leeds market shapes the work. This is the largest financial and legal centre in the UK outside London, NHS England and a large slice of the country's health-data infrastructure run from here, and the fintech and healthtech firms that grew up around both handle regulated data as a matter of course. That is exactly the kind of AI work we build for — decision logs the ICO can read, UK GDPR data residency by construction, evals that fail the build before a regression reaches a customer.
It also means the talent conversation is different. Leeds firms compete with London salaries for senior engineers without London revenue. A fixed-scope build from a local studio — code you own outright, no licence fees, handover doc signed by the engineer who wrote it — is often the honest alternative to a hire you can't land.
On-site from Leeds
Same-day on-site anywhere in Leeds and West Yorkshire. City centre, Leeds Dock, the out-of-town business parks — if you're within the ring road we can be there before lunch. Most of the build still runs from our own desks; on-site is for the moments where a room beats a call.
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
Actually in Leeds. The studio is based here, the engineer on your project works here, and on-site days don't carry a travel charge. Most delivery is remote by default because that's how good engineering runs — but kickoff, architecture reviews, and demos happen at your office whenever in-person is faster.
No. The engineer who scopes the work builds the work. No white-labelling, no body-shop swap at week three, no account manager between you and the person writing the code.
Supabase's London region by default for UK clients. You own the database, you set the region, you control retention. UK GDPR data-residency requirements are honoured by construction, not by promise.
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.
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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.