AI · Feasibility

Find where AI agents genuinely help.
Then staff them properly.

Helping a business with AI is two problems: spotting the opportunities that are actually worth it, and sourcing the right actor to run each one. We publish the first openly. The second, the judgement and the staffing, is where we earn our keep.

Owner-managed SMEs 10 to 250 staff Document-heavy operations
Two problems, not one.
01

Opportunity engine

Find and rank where agents credibly help. Sized honestly. This half is open and free.

02

Staffing engine

Match the right actor to each, and stand it up. Judgement plus execution. The half that earns.

Who it is for

Built for owner-managed businesses that run on documents

The sweet spot is simple: enough volume that the work is material, enough mess that there is something to fix, and enough will to act on it.

Transaction and document-heavy SMEs, 10 to 250 staff
Professional services Finance and accounting Distribution and wholesale E-commerce operations Agencies Property and legal admin Healthcare admin
How it works

A few days, not a few weeks

A diagnostic that does in days what a transformation consultant normally takes two to three weeks to do: understand your processes and costs, find where agents credibly help, size the prize honestly, and hand you a costed, staffed, sequenced plan. It runs as two engines.

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Opportunity engine

1
Scope
What the business is, and what you actually want from it.
2
Intake
Your processes, systems, volumes, and numbers, read from what you already have.
3
Interviews
Where time goes, what hurts, and where the constraint really sits.
4
Cost baseline
The fully-loaded cost a saving is measured against. The cost paper
5
Opportunity scoring
Every task scored on impact, and on feasibility and safety. The rubric
02

Staffing engine

6
Actor mapping
The right actor for each: an agent, a human-in-the-loop, or a person. Build or rent. Build vs rent
7
Savings by category
The prize per opportunity, in honest bands, labour and cash kept apart.
8
Roadmap
Sequenced, with the safest measurable pilot first on the critical path.
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Hand-off
Run it yourself, or have us stand it up, at any stage you choose.

Automate last

A clean process first. We never automate a mess, and we will say when a fix beats an agent.

The constraint is a person

Usually a role, a queue, or a sign-off, not a machine. Relief there multiplies.

The saving must reach the P&L

We measure the baseline before we deploy, so a saving can be proven, not assumed.

We say where AI should not go

Some work belongs to people. A credible plan names it plainly.

Proof

A worked example, and the method behind it

Worked example

Glenfield Distribution

A representative 45-person wholesale distributor. The diagnostic mapped the processes, found the constraint (two people, not the warehouse), and produced a costed, staffed roadmap with the safest pilot first.

Representative and synthetic, until the first live engagement replaces it.

£216k
a year of addressable back-office cost
~£98k
a year expected, banded £58k to 141k
8
opportunities, pilot first on the critical path
White paper

The process body of knowledge, admin-first

Read the paper
White paper

Where AI agents credibly help

Read the paper
White paper

The suitability rubric

Read the paper
White paper

Choosing the right actor: build versus rent

Read the paper
White paper

Safe deployment and governance

Read the paper
White paper

The system architecture

Read the paper
Our approach

Everything upfront

We publish the method openly, because the knowledge is not the hard part: choosing the right actor and standing it up is. Read everything here, run the free diagnostic, and engage us at any stage, or not at all.

We give the method away. The body of knowledge is open, on this page.

We say where AI should not go. Judgement, relationships, and physical work stay with people.

We measure before we deploy. A saving that was never baselined cannot be claimed.

We would rather rent you a capability than sell you a build you will come to regret.

We under-promise. Every number is a banded range with its confidence shown.

You stay in control. Every agent runs in shadow first, acts under approval, owned by a named person.

You can read all of it, run the diagnostic, and still choose to do it yourself.

Start where you like

Two ways in, no obligation

Run the free diagnostic

A quick, no-obligation read on where the opportunities are likely to sit in a business like yours. Free, and yours to keep.

Start the free diagnostic

Talk to us

Prefer a person? Contract us at any stage: the full diagnostic, the build, or an interim agent team through GRABS.

Get in touch
Eric McLean · TCEL · eric@tcel.com
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