AI app development Yorkshire
Beyond chat assistants: we design and build AI apps that do real work — drafting quotes, reading spec sheets, routing jobs, answering bookings. Built in Knaresborough, scoped and priced in writing, and owned by you when it is done.
Every app we build starts from a real job someone on your team dreads. These are the shapes that keep coming up across Yorkshire trades, hospitality, manufacturing and professional services — pick the one closest to your bottleneck, or bring us one we have not thought of yet.
The apps that pay back are rarely sprawling platforms. One job, done brilliantly, used every day — that is what beats a half-used dashboard with forty features nobody asked for.
Your rate card, your product library, your booking rules. The app answers with your facts, and cites where each answer came from — so your team can check it in seconds.
AI drafts, decides and flags; your people approve. Every app we build has a clear line where the machine stops and a human signs off — because that is where trust comes from.
Code, prompts, data and logins belong to you, with plain-English documentation. If you ever want to run or extend it in house, you can — we do not build lock-ins.
In your pocket, not on a whiteboard
No forty-screen dashboards. Each app we build does one job brilliantly in the browser on any phone — here is the shape of three we have built for Yorkshire businesses.
Trades & construction
VoiceQuote
Quote #1042 — Halloran Draft
30 sqm grey porcelain patio£2,340
Closeboard fence panel + posts£486
Total£2,826
Quote drafted · 42 seconds
Hospitality & holiday lets
BookingBrain
Saturday · live availability
7:30 held · anniversary noted · confirmation sent
Table held · 11:42 pm
Manufacturing & mills
SpecReader
Matched to your stock
DN80 PN16 · S/S 316In stock · 42
DN100 PN16 · S/S 316In stock · 18
DN150 PN25Supplier · 10 days
3 matches · reply drafted
App ideas from real work
Not concepts — the shapes of jobs we see week after week in trades, hospitality, manufacturing and professional firms from Harrogate to Leeds and across the Vale of York. Yours will be built around your own rates, documents and systems.
Trades & construction
A Knaresborough builder photographs the job, talks for thirty seconds about what needs doing, and the app drafts an itemised quote in the company's own format, priced from their rate card, ready to approve and send before the van door is shut.
Hospitality & holiday lets
For a Harrogate restaurant or a Yorkshire coast holiday let: an app that reads incoming enquiries across email and social, checks real availability, answers the guest, holds the slot and hands the edge cases to a human — at 11pm, when the manager is asleep.
Manufacturing & mills
Yorkshire's mills and manufacturers live on technical documents. An app that reads an incoming spec sheet or fabric enquiry, matches it against your product library, flags what you can supply and drafts the response with the right part numbers attached.
Retail & beauty
An app that watches what actually sells in an independent shop or salon, predicts the run-up to a Harrogate event weekend, and quietly suggests what to reorder and which staff rota to flex — before the gaps happen rather than after.
Field services
For a plumbing or heating firm covering the Vale of York: an app that takes each incoming job, checks engineer location, skills and the day's existing bookings, and proposes the sensible round — saving the fuel, the driving and the double-bookings.
Professional services
For solicitors, accountants and consultants in Leeds and Harrogate: a secure app that turns client notes into first drafts of the letters and summaries that eat fee-earner hours — with every source checked by a human before anything leaves the building.
How we build
We build apps the way we have built websites since 2002: scoped, fixed-price, delivered, then measured against something you care about. No transformation programme, no discovery phase that eats the budget.
Book a free 30-minute review at our Knaresborough studio or on a call. We map how the work actually flows through your business, then tell you the one app worth building — and, just as importantly, the ones that are not.
We build a working prototype against your real documents, rates and systems — not a slide deck. You use it on real jobs in week two and we tune it around what you actually did with it.
The finished app goes live in four to eight weeks. We watch it through the first month, show you what it saved, then hand over everything — code, prompts, data and logins — documented and yours.
Our studio is in Knaresborough, a short drive from Harrogate, Ripon and the Vale of York, and we build for firms across Leeds and wider Yorkshire. Clinic calls can be on site, on the phone or on video — whatever gets you answers fastest.
It is a piece of software with a brain built in. Instead of a form that just stores what you type, an AI app can read documents, understand questions, draft the reply, check the rules and tell you what needs a human decision. The best ones are usually small: one job, done brilliantly, in a browser on your phone.
Most businesses we meet need the assistant first — it answers customers on the website you already have. An app earns its keep when the job is internal and repeated: quoting, job scheduling, document checking, stock decisions. Book the free review and we will tell you honestly which side of that line you sit on — sometimes the answer is that an app would be expensive theatre.
A focused single-purpose app is typically live in four to eight weeks: a fortnight to scope and prototype, a few weeks to build against your real data, then a month of careful use before we hand over the keys. You see a working prototype early — not a big reveal at the end.
You do — completely. The code, the prompts, the data and the logins all belong to you and live on infrastructure you control. If you ever want another developer to take it over, everything is documented so they can. We do not build lock-ins.
We only build on tools with proper data controls, keep your customer records out of anything that trains a public model, and keep sensitive data in your own systems wherever possible. You also get a short plain-English policy so your team knows exactly what is safe to put in and what is not.
Almost always. We connect to the email, calendars, spreadsheets, CRM, booking and trade platforms small businesses actually use, rather than asking you to migrate anything. If a system genuinely cannot be connected safely, we will say so before you spend a penny.
Browse the towns and villages we cover across North and West Yorkshire, or jump straight to the service you need.
We build specialist sites for trades, professional firms and studios — each one written around how that sector actually wins work.
Start with the resources hub for our plain-English guides to search rankings, fixed-price builds and government website grants.
Book a free 30-minute app clinic. We will map how the work actually flows through your business, and tell you the one app genuinely worth building — including the ones you should leave alone.