AI agents, automations & internal tools for Yorkshire businesses
You're the last one in the office most nights, checking the admin the business can't run without you. That's where an AI automation agency like Propel earns its place in Yorkshire: we take the repetitive admin off you and your team, so growth stops meaning another £30k hire to move data between systems.
We start with the one job costing you the most time, connect to the tools you already run, and only replace what you've genuinely outgrown — no big-bang rebuild, no project to babysit.
The business is in your head, and it won't come out
You grew this on hustle and spreadsheets, and it works — until the quarter you miss an invoice, or a job falls through the cracks because the quoting tool, the job tracker and the finance system never spoke to each other. The same data gets re-keyed three times. You can't take a proper holiday because too much of how the place runs lives only in your head. And the answer everyone offers is another coordinator who adds £30k of overhead just to shuffle information between apps. Across Yorkshire — Leeds, the UK's biggest legal and financial centre outside London, Sheffield's advanced manufacturing, Hull's ports and offshore wind, and the towns between — owner-managed firms are growing themselves into more admin, not more margin. That's the job an AI automation company for Yorkshire should be solving: getting the business out of your head and into a system you can step away from.
Who we build for across Yorkshire
- Agencies & professional services
- Recruitment & staffing
- Surveying, lettings & property
- Trades, installations & construction
- Legal & accountancy firms
- Advanced manufacturing & engineering
- Logistics, care & B2B services
You didn't start this business to spend your evenings re-typing data
Four things quietly costing you hours, margin and the odd weekend — and the place we start taking them off you first.
If you stop, the business stops
Too much lives in your head and in spreadsheets only you understand. You check or redo admin every evening, and a week off isn't really a week off — because nothing important moves unless you're the one moving it.
The same data, typed in four times
Quoting, job tracking, invoicing and email don't talk to each other, so you or your team re-key everything by hand. Miss one step and a job slips through the cracks or an invoice never goes out — and you only find out when the client chases.
Growth just means another hire
More work coming in means more admin, so the obvious fix is a £30k coordinator to move data between systems. But margins stall, and every new starter adds management load that lands back on you instead of lifting it off.
You can't tell which jobs actually made money
You're flat out, but the numbers live across apps and trackers that never quite agree. Working out whether a job paid means stitching exports together by hand at month-end — long after you could have done anything about it.
How an AI agency in Yorkshire gets your evenings back
Less time on admin, the same data in one place, and a business that runs when you're not in the room — built on the tools you already pay for.
Get the repetitive admin off your plate
The enquiries to read, replies to draft, leads to qualify, documents to pull together and systems to update — handled by AI agents that do the work you or an admin hire would otherwise do by hand, so your people get back to client work.
Stop re-keying data between systems
We map the one process bleeding the most time — intake, quoting, onboarding, invoicing, follow-up — and automate the handoffs with business automation services so work moves between people and tools without anyone typing it twice.
See the whole business in one place
One clear view of capacity, pipeline, hours, finance and whether a job actually made money — internal tools and dashboards that replace flicking between trackers and rebuilding the same report every month.
Make the tools you already pay for work together
Your CRM, finance, project and email tools sharing one version of the truth instead of fighting each other — ai development services in Yorkshire that connect what you've got rather than ripping anything out.
End the back-and-forth chasing
Branded client portals where clients track progress, share files and approve work themselves — so agencies, surveyors, lettings and construction firms stop drowning in update emails and status calls.
Build the system you've outgrown spreadsheets for
When off-the-shelf has run out, custom software fit to your operation — governed, with clear permissions and audit trails, the way we built our own platform that runs a 26-person agency every day.
We didn't pitch this. We built it, and we run our own business on it every day
You've never heard of us, so a promise is worth very little — which is why we'd rather show you the thing itself. Atlas is a full operating system our founder built from scratch for That Works, a 26-person agency. It runs clients, contracts, tasks, hours, delivery, sales, finance, reporting, portals, permissions, audit trails and governed AI in one platform, in production daily. It's the same business you're running — owner-led, growing, drowning in handoffs — except the admin now lives in a system instead of someone's head. When you ask whether we can get your business out of yours, that's not a slide; it's something we use ourselves, every working day.
1 platform
replacing a stack of disconnected tools
26-person
agency runs on it in production, daily
15+
business functions unified in one system
Built from scratch
not a template or a wrapper
Proof you can see, not a pitch from someone you've never heard of
Your fair question is the right one: I've never heard of Propel, so how do I know you'll deliver and not disappear? Plenty of AI outfits across Yorkshire can talk a good game; far fewer have built something that runs a business every single day. Ours is Atlas — a full operating system our founder built from scratch for a 26-person agency, unifying clients, contracts, tasks, hours, delivery, sales, finance, reporting, portals, permissions, audit trails and governed AI in one place, in production daily. We didn't pitch it, we built it and we live in it. We work right across Yorkshire — Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, York, Hull, Harrogate, Wakefield, Doncaster and Huddersfield — we agree a fixed scope and fixed price before any work begins, we connect to the tools you already rely on rather than trapping you in something you can't leave, and everything we build is governed and visible by design under UK data-protection standards. The first step is small and costs you nothing: a 30-minute audit, no obligation.
Where we cover
We work with owner-managed businesses right across Yorkshire, from the West Yorkshire commercial core to the Humber, with town-level support in the places below.
- Leeds
- Sheffield
- Bradford
- York
- Hull
- Harrogate
- Wakefield
- Doncaster
- Huddersfield
- A real platform behind us, not a portfolio of promises — Atlas runs a 26-person agency in production daily, so you're hiring proof, not personality.
- Fixed scope and fixed price agreed before any work starts, built on the tools you already run — no creeping costs, no lock-in you can't leave.
- Local and accountable across Yorkshire, from Leeds professional services to Sheffield manufacturing and the Humber ports — people you can actually get hold of.
Small, low-risk steps — not a project you have to babysit
You give us 30 minutes, we map where automation would actually pay off, then ship working software in stages while your business keeps running.
AI Opportunity Audit
A free, no-obligation 30-minute session. We find the one process costing you the most time and money, and give you an honest build-or-don't answer either way.
Scope and design
We map the workflow, agree exactly what we'll build and connect, and quote one fixed price — so you know the number before anything starts and nothing creeps up later.
Build and integrate
We build on top of the tools you already run and ship in stages, so you see working software in the first weeks and your operation never grinds to a halt.
Launch and support
We hand over something governed and visible by design, with permissions and audit trails, and stay on hand — so the admin stays off your plate for good.
What an owner wants answered before spending a penny
I've never heard of Propel — how do I know you'll deliver and not disappear?+
It's the right question to ask. Our answer isn't adjectives, it's Atlas: a full operating system our founder built and runs for a 26-person agency every day — clients, finance, delivery, reporting, governed AI, all in one place. We didn't pitch it, we built it and we live in it. We're local to Yorkshire and we agree a fixed scope before any money changes hands.
Is this a huge, disruptive rebuild that grinds my business to a halt?+
No. We're workflow-first: we start with the one process costing you the most time, connect to the tools you already run, and only replace something when you've genuinely outgrown it. You see working software in the first weeks, not a 12-month transformation programme, and your operation keeps running the whole time.
I'm already buried in software — will this just add another tool to manage?+
Usually the opposite. As a business automation services partner in Yorkshire, we connect your CRM, finance, project and email tools so they share data instead of fighting each other — whether you're a Leeds professional services firm or a Sheffield manufacturer. We only replace something when it's holding you back, and we'll tell you honestly if it is.
What does it actually cost, and will the price keep creeping up?+
We don't sell packages or open-ended hourly billing. After the free audit we scope the work and quote one fixed price, so you know the number before anything is built. No retainers you didn't ask for, and no price creeping up mid-project.
I haven't got time to manage a tech project on top of everything else.+
Very little of this lands on you. We do the mapping, the building and the connecting, and we ship in stages so you review small pieces rather than babysitting a project. The biggest ask on your time is the 30-minute audit. After that, the whole point is to give you time back, not take more.
Will it break the tools we rely on, or trap me in something I can't get out of?+
No. We build on top of what you already use, govern everything with clear permissions and audit trails under UK data-protection standards, and we don't lock you into anything you can't leave. You can always see what the system did and why — the same approach we use in Atlas, which handles live client and finance data daily.
AI automation support in towns and cities across Yorkshire
Get your evenings back — start with a free 30-minute audit
A no-obligation 30-minute session for your Yorkshire business that maps where automation would actually pay off — and an honest build-or-don't answer either way, with no pressure to go further.
No obligation, no sales pressure, and a straight answer either way — even if the answer is that you don't need us yet.