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AI automation & systems for York businesses

When your team spends more time chasing updates than moving work forward, the systems need attention. We help businesses in York connect their tools, reduce repetitive admin and get a clearer view of the work.

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Without Propel

Copy it across

Chase the handover

Check it again

With Propel

  1. Connected records
  2. Clear next step
  3. Your team in control

Built around the work you do.

Client documents, bookings, approvals and job updates can become a second workload. We help York businesses organise that information around the people who need to act on it, with clear ownership and fewer loose ends.

Businesses we can help

Insurance & claims
Law & accountancy firms
Professional & B2B services
Bioscience & Science Park firms
Rail & engineering
Trades & construction
Logistics & distribution
Recruitment & agencies

Where the hours and the margin quietly leak out

Winnable work slips before anyone owns it

Enquiries and quotes arrive by email, phone and form with no single owner. Response times stretch, follow-up runs on memory, and work you'd all but won quietly goes elsewhere — while your best people are buried in admin.

Your team is the integration layer

The same client, job or matter gets opened in one tool, copied into the CRM, chased by email and re-keyed into finance. Nothing reconciles, and good people spend the day moving data between systems instead of doing the work you pay them for.

Onboarding and checks scattered across tools

New client or job onboarding — conflict checks, AML where it applies, engagement letters, setup — lives across the CRM, email and spreadsheets with no single thread. A missed step is one compliance or quality gap away, exactly the kind an audit is built to find.

You find out too late to fix it

There's no live view of what's profitable, what's behind or what's been under-recorded until year-end or an audit makes it plain. By then the leaked margin and the risk are already baked in, and the conversation with the client has already gone the wrong way.

Give the work a better way through.

Start with what is slowing the team down. We agree the scope, connections and checks before building.

Capture the work, and the hours, without nagging

Time and jobs land against the right client or matter without anyone chasing the team to record them, because we take the friction out of capture and automate the re-keying that currently swallows the day.

One clean onboarding thread

New client and job onboarding — checks, engagement, setup — pulled into a single controlled workflow instead of four disconnected tools, so the file is complete and reconciled before work starts.

See the true position in real time

Owners and heads of operations see live workload, utilisation, pipeline and finance without stitching exports together by hand — dashboards that show the slip while you can still do something about it.

Controlled AI-enabled workflows that do the grunt work

Enquiries triaged, routine correspondence drafted, long documents summarised and the right answer pulled from your own records — with a person in control, full permissions and an audit trail of every action.

Your systems finally talk to each other

Less duplicate entry and fewer logins, because business automation in York connects the CRM, accounting, e-signature and case or job systems you already run into one workflow rather than half a dozen.

Software built around how you actually run

When off-the-shelf no longer fits, custom software development in York gives you the operating system your business actually needs — including document processing and data tooling for insurance, rail-engineering and bioscience teams on York Science Park.

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A conversation. A clear scope. A working system.

  1. 1

    Tell us what’s happening

    Bring your goals, frustrations or a project idea to a free discovery call. You don’t need a technical brief.

  2. 2

    Agree what is worth building

    We work through the requirements, supported connections and exceptions, then set out the scope and responsibilities.

  3. 3

    Test it with the people using it

    We check the agreed workflow, include human review where needed, and hand over with practical guidance.

Across York and beyond.

We work with businesses across York and the surrounding North Yorkshire towns, so an in-person conversation is never far away.

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What a cautious York owner needs answered before committing

Can I trust you with sensitive client and business data?

We start with your business, agree a scope we can test and explain what your team needs to provide. Our reporting example uses fictional information to show how we approach missing updates, conflicting records and human review. Your proposal sets out responsibilities, ownership and handover before work starts.

We're a regulated firm — is this compliant, and where does liability sit?

For regulated firms we design around SRA, ICAEW, FCA and AML expectations and UK GDPR: permissioned access, a full audit trail of every action, and human-in-the-loop sign-off so a named person stays accountable for decisions. We scope each build so responsibilities are explicit before any work starts — no uncontrolled automation acting on its own.

AI hallucinates — how do I keep a person in control and an audit trail of every action?

We start with your business, agree a scope we can test and explain what your team needs to provide. Our reporting example uses fictional information to show how we approach missing updates, conflicting records and human review. Your proposal sets out responsibilities, ownership and handover before work starts.

How is this different from just hiring another admin?

A hire adds cost and still moves data by hand; a system removes the moving. We start where the admin is worst — enquiry handling, onboarding, time and job recording, document chasing — automate the re-keying and make capture effortless, so the work lands in the right place without anyone chasing the team. That's capacity you don't have to keep paying for.

Do you only work with professional and regulated firms?

No. The insurance base around Aviva, Hiscox and NFU Mutual means a lot of our York work is controlled, auditable admin — but the same handoffs, re-keying and slow follow-up show up in trades, logistics, manufacturing, agencies and bioscience firms on the Science Park. The pattern is the same; the workflow is what changes.

We've been burned by tech that got abandoned — why is this different?

Your agreement defines launch, handover, correction and support arrangements. Ongoing monitoring and improvements require a separately agreed scope. Ownership, account access and third-party licences are explained before you commit.

A closer look at the work.

Let’s talk about your business.

A free 30-minute conversation about what you want to improve and where we might be able to help.

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