AI automation for Edinburgh businesses.
Full code custom AI for Scotland’s financial capital.
Edinburgh is the UK’s second financial centre, home to asset and wealth management, a strong fintech cluster, banking, and insurance. That is regulated, document-heavy, high-value work, which is exactly where full code AI automation returns the most. We build private, compliant custom systems for Edinburgh firms and deliver them with on-site visits from nearby Newcastle.
Built for Edinburgh finance.
The expensive part of an Edinburgh firm is its people, and a large share of their week goes on routine, rule-based work. We remove that routine load so senior salaries buy only the judgment that needs a human.
Asset and wealth management
Edinburgh is the largest fund-management centre in the UK after London. We build private research assistants over years of internal research and market data, plus KYC and AML document handling, investor onboarding, and reporting assembly, all kept inside the firm so client data never leaves the perimeter.
Fintech and platforms
Edinburgh’s platform and fintech cluster runs on data pipelines and reconciliation. We automate the document and data flow around the platform, integrating with your systems rather than adding another tool with a ceiling.
Banking and financial services back-office
Operations, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting are document-heavy and rule-based. A custom pipeline removes the routine assembly so the team handles exceptions and judgment, with a full audit trail for every action.
Insurance and pensions
For Edinburgh’s insurers and pension providers: claims document processing, policy administration, and intake from the unstructured documents that break template tools. Vision-language pipelines read intent and structure, not fixed field positions.
Professional services
For Scottish law, accountancy, and consulting firms: proposal generation, report drafting, document review, and data assembly. The routine work that consumes expensive professional hours is exactly what automation removes.
University spinouts and deeptech
Edinburgh has a deep AI and informatics research base. For spinouts and research-driven teams we build private retrieval and processing systems with the engineering depth of our patent portfolio behind them.
Private, compliant, and owned by you.
For a regulated Edinburgh firm, the architecture is the decision. We build private and on-premise systems where data never leaves your environment, which keeps UK data residency under your control and makes an FCA or compliance review far easier to clear.
You own the code outright, running on infrastructure you control, integrated directly with your existing systems. No per-seat licences, no cloud subscription that sends regulated data to a third party.
See the engineering case in full code AI automation, and the regulated-firm framework in private AI for UK regulated businesses.
For the economics, see the true cost of your most expensive roles.
Built to commitment, not to the hour.
A 12-month retainer with a dedicated engineering team, CTO strategy reviews, and monthly delivery sprints. Fixed written scope and fixed price within one week of the discovery call.
From £4,000 / mo
For teams running AI we have already built, or inheriting a system that needs a serious engineering partner.
From £6,000 / mo
A full 12-month delivery pipeline scoped and architected on day one, with capacity for your team’s requests each month.
12-month minimum. Prices exclude VAT. Exact pricing set on consultation. See our services page for the full retainer breakdown.
Relevant to Edinburgh firms.
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Common questions about AI automation in Edinburgh.
Do you offer AI automation in Edinburgh?
Yes. We build full code custom AI for Edinburgh businesses and deliver it remotely from our offices in Newcastle and Dubai, with on-site visits in Edinburgh as the engagement needs them. Newcastle is around two hours from Edinburgh by train, so on-site discovery and review sessions are straightforward, and the signals that matter to a regulated firm, ISO 27001 certification, private architecture, and UK data residency, do not depend on a local office.
Which Edinburgh sectors do you work with?
Edinburgh is the UK’s second financial centre, so the natural fit is finance: asset and wealth management, fintech, banking and financial services back-office, and insurance and pensions. We also work with professional services firms and university spinouts. These are document-heavy, regulated, high-value functions where automating the routine load returns the most.
Can you meet FCA and UK data-residency requirements for Edinburgh financial firms?
Yes. For regulated Edinburgh firms we build private and on-premise systems where data never leaves your environment, which keeps UK data residency a property of your own infrastructure. We are ISO 27001:2022 and Cyber Essentials certified. FCA obligations apply UK-wide and remain the firm’s responsibility; we build auditable decision logic and complete audit trails so those obligations are easier to evidence.
What does AI automation cost for an Edinburgh business?
We work on a 12-month retainer. Existing systems start at £4,000 per month; new-system builds start at £6,000 per month and scale with scope. The retainer buys senior engineering hours against a written scope, not per-seat licences. Exact pricing is set on consultation once the work is sized.
How is this different from ChatGPT or a no-code tool?
ChatGPT is a general assistant and no-code tools are connectors with ceilings. Full code AI automation is custom software that integrates directly with your platform, fund administration, policy, or core banking systems, follows your compliance rules, runs privately, and is owned by you. It is what Edinburgh financial firms need when generic tools cannot meet the volume, the integration, or the regulatory bar.
Do you have an Edinburgh office?
Our offices are in Newcastle and Dubai, and we deliver to Edinburgh remotely with on-site visits as needed. Newcastle is close enough that on-site work is easy. We are deliberately honest about this: what de-risks the decision for an Edinburgh buyer is a private, auditable system built to a documented standard, not a serviced-office address.
Bring us your Edinburgh workflow.
Offices in Newcastle and Dubai. Delivered to Edinburgh with on-site visits from nearby Newcastle.
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