The AI architecture review.
A fixed-scope diagnostic of how work actually moves through your organisation — what it costs, where it breaks, and which parts are safe to automate. Ten working days, defined deliverables, from £7,500 + VAT.
How we work
Six steps. Three of them cost nothing.
You should not have to spend £7,500 + VAT to find out whether we are worth it. Every engagement follows the same ladder — and you can step off at any rung.
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Free · 30 minutes
Scoping call
A short call about the process that hurts. We check whether automation — and we — are a fit. If not, we say so and you lose thirty minutes, nothing more.
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Free · 2 hours · no commitment
Automation feasibility session
A structured working session with your operations and IT leads. The questions we ask are published below — the session itself is the demonstration of how we work.
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Fixed price · from £7,500 + VAT
AI architecture review
The ten-working-day diagnostic described on this page: current-state map, risk register, prioritised roadmap and scoped pilot proposal — all yours to keep.
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Included
Consensus & commitment
We help your internal champion build the business case — the numbers, the risk framing and the answers sceptical stakeholders ask. HE procurement lives or dies on consensus; we build it with you.
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Scoped separately
Pilot delivery
A defined workflow, success criteria agreed up front and a fixed price — approved with the roadmap in hand, not before.
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Included in every build
Capability transfer
Runbooks, training and audit access so your team operates the system after handover. The capability stays in the institution.
The feasibility session, in the open
The questions we will ask — published before you book.
Two hours, no commitment. Bring an operations lead and someone who knows the systems. If the honest answer is “not yet” or “a simpler tool would do this”, that is what you hear.
- Which processes consume the most staff time in manual handoffs and re-keying?
- Which systems do those processes touch — SITS, Salesforce, Canvas, finance, HR?
- Where does work stall: approvals, exceptions, or waiting on another team?
- What has been tried before — and why did it stop?
- Which data must never leave your tenant, and who owns it?
- What would a demonstrable win look like within 90 days?
- Who will own the outcome internally — and who might block it?
What you receive
Four deliverables, all yours to keep.
There is no obligation to proceed to a build. The roadmap and risk register are written to be usable by any competent delivery team — including your own.
Current-state map
Your processes, systems, data flows and manual handoffs documented as they actually run — not as the org chart says they should.
Risk register
Data sensitivity, compliance constraints and failure modes for each candidate workflow, with the controls each would require.
Prioritised roadmap
Automation candidates ordered by payback and risk — including the honest cases where a simpler tool or no automation is the right answer.
Scoped pilot proposal
Where a pilot makes sense: a defined workflow, success criteria agreed up front, a fixed price and a delivery plan your team can scrutinise.
How it runs
Three steps, ten working days.
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Scoping call — free, 30 minutes
We check the review fits your situation and you get a fixed quote. If it is not a fit, we say so.
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Review — ten working days
Workshops, systems mapping and analysis, run by the engineer who would lead any resulting build.
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Findings session
We walk your team through the roadmap, risk register and pilot proposal — and answer the hard questions on the record.
What we need from you
Light-touch for your team.
- A named sponsor who can unblock access and answer questions.
- Two workshops of around 90 minutes with operations and IT staff.
- Existing architecture or process documentation where it exists — read access only.
- No system changes, no data extraction and no production access are required for the review itself.
Investment
Reviews are priced from £7,500 + VAT, quoted as a fixed fee after the scoping call. A typical pilot that follows runs four to eight weeks and is priced separately — you approve it with the roadmap in hand, not before.
Who delivers it
Reviews are led by Brad McAllister, Founder & director, Real Code Ltd — currently the integration developer on the University of London's Global Digital Campus programme, connecting Salesforce, SITS and Canvas. You can read the delivery record in our case studies.