Workflow Value Blueprint
Map one priority workflow, quantify its first-year value and risks, and leave with a fixed implementation proposal. £1,500 is credited to a build commissioned within 30 days.
Zeno · AI & automation consultancy
Practical AI for owner-led businesses.
Stop running your business on messy spreadsheets and manual data entry. We design and build custom automation systems that connect your existing tools, remove operational friction, and give you back control of your time and margins.
£3,500 fixedA five-business-day blueprint for the workflow with the clearest business case.
8–14 weeks to productionOne production system, including integrations, controls, rollout and stabilisation.
3× first-year value gateWe only recommend implementation when conservative first-year value clears this threshold.
Services & pricing
Start with one valuable workflow. Scale what proves its value.
Every engagement is tied to measurable capacity, cash, decision speed or risk. We only recommend implementation when conservative first-year value is at least 3× the investment.
Business-Critical Workflow System
A production system for one core workflow, including integrations, controls, rollout, training and 30-day stabilisation.
Connected Operations Programme
Connect multiple workflows or teams through a shared data and automation layer, with governance, rollout and measured benefits.
Managed Improvement & Assurance
Monitoring, maintenance, incident response and two small improvement days each month for systems built or approved by Zeno.
Prices exclude VAT and third-party software, hosting and AI usage.
A practical path from idea to operating system.
Diagnose
Mapping current state friction.
Design
Architecting the data flow.
Deliver
Building and shipping the working system.
Embed
Training your team and improving the system in use.
Example scenario
Sales up 12%, cash down £42k.
An illustrative example with sample figures: a Zeno insight system connects sales, invoices, supplier costs, refunds, and stock data, then explains the gap in plain English before month-end reporting.
£28k unpaid
Three overdue invoices explain £28k of the cash pressure.
Supplier costs up 9%
Costs rose on fast-selling items, adding roughly £9k and squeezing margin despite higher sales.
Refunds up 18%
Refunds rose on one product line, adding roughly £5k and pointing to a quality or fulfilment issue.
About Zeno
Practical AI built on decades of systems experience.
Zeno combines modern AI capability with decades of pre-AI experience building business systems, automation tools, databases, integrations, and operational software. We focus on practical systems that actually work for customers, not AI features for their own sake.
Where appropriate, we avoid unnecessary vendor lock-in and build with mature, well-supported open-source tools. The aim is to keep your business in control of its data, workflows, costs, and long-term technology choices.
Decades of pre-AI systems experienceAutomation that removes real frictionWell-supported open-source toolsLower long-term vendor riskCustomer-owned workflows and dataBusiness value before AI hype
Decades of systems experience
Our experience did not begin with the recent AI boom. We bring decades of pre-AI experience building business systems, databases, dashboards, integrations, and automation tools.
Automation before AI hype
We understand how real work moves through a business: where manual handoffs happen, where errors enter, and where well-designed automation can remove friction.
Built to work for customers
The goal is not to impress people with a demo. The goal is to build a system that saves time, reduces mistakes, fits the way your team works, and keeps proving its value.
Vendor-neutral by design
We avoid unnecessary lock-in and build with open standards and mature, well-supported open-source tools where appropriate, so your business keeps control of its data and options.
Practical technical judgment
Not every problem needs a large language model. Sometimes the right answer is a simple automation, a better dashboard, a database integration, or a clearer workflow.
Safe, maintainable delivery
We build human review points, access controls, privacy guidance, audit trails, testing, and monitoring into the system so adoption is controlled and dependable.