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AI Engineering · Sheffield · Canarlo, Leeds
Sheffield builds physical things to tolerances; we build software the same way. An AI agency for manufacturers, engineering firms, and spinouts — under an hour from Leeds.
Working in Sheffield
Sheffield is where 'engineering' already means something rigorous — the AMRC, precision firms, university spinouts. An AI agency pitching here needs test coverage and named failure modes, not adjectives.
The AI work that pays in manufacturing is rarely a chatbot. It's quotation automation that reads engineering drawings and past jobs, document-heavy compliance handled with citations instead of guesses, inspection and defect data finally queryable in plain English, and integration between the MES, the ERP, and the spreadsheet the shop floor actually trusts.
For spinouts and scale-ups the problem is different: a prototype that impressed the grant committee and now has to survive real customers. We take MVPs to production — security patterns enforced on every table, evals gating every model change, infrastructure you own in your own accounts. The audit is often the right first step: a written report on what's worth keeping.
On-site from Leeds
Sheffield is under an hour from Leeds by train. On-site works the way it should: kickoff on your shop floor or in your lab, because the process we're automating is usually visible from there. Regular in-person reviews are easy to sustain at this distance.
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
Yes — that's most of the job in manufacturing. Signed webhooks where the system supports them, resilient polling and file-drop handling where it doesn't, idempotent retries everywhere, and an audit row for every sync. We treat the legacy system as a fact, not an obstacle to complain about.
Your data stays in your own UK-region database, and anything sent to a model is logged — input, output, model version. If commercial sensitivity rules out external models entirely, we scope around self-hosted or fully local approaches and tell you the cost of each.
Fixed scope, written deliverables, milestones your grant reporting can point at. The SOW names the technological uncertainties, which also does most of the work for an R&D tax credit claim. From the £8k audit up to full production builds.
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.