AI integration & consultancy
AI that does one job properly, not a subscription nobody opens.
Most businesses do not need an AI strategy. They need one job doing that somebody is currently doing by hand, on their own data, with the training to trust the answer.
Werehouse Media is an AI automation agency and AI consultancy in the UK, based in Sussex. AI integration services here mean three separate things, and most businesses need only one of them. The first is a private assistant trained on the company’s own documents and running on the company’s own accounts, so somebody can ask a question and get an answer with a source rather than searching a shared drive. The second is choosing an off-the-shelf AI product, setting it up against the way the business actually works, connecting it to the systems already in use, and handing it over configured rather than empty. The third is training the people who have to use it, because a licence nobody opens is the most common AI purchase in Britain. Where the work is routing, scoring against fixed criteria, chasing or reporting, ordinary business automation is cheaper, faster and more predictable, and we will say so. A process audit costs £495 and is credited in full against any build over £2,000.
What people actually ask for
Three jobs, and most businesses need one of them.
Nobody arrives wanting “AI”. They arrive with a person spending Thursday afternoon on something a machine could read, or a tool they bought in January that nobody has opened since.
| A private assistant on your own material | Your procedures, contracts, product data, past quotes and specifications, in one place a member of staff can ask a question of and get an answer with the source attached. It runs on accounts in your name, the material stays yours, and it is not handed to anybody else to train on. This is the one people mean when they say they want “our own ChatGPT”. |
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| The right off-the-shelf product, set up properly | Most of the time the honest answer is that a product already exists and costs less than anything we could build. We work out which one, set it up against how the business actually runs, connect it to what you already pay for, and hand it over configured rather than empty. Buying the licence is the easy part and it is not the part that fails. |
| The training that makes it get used | A licence nobody opens is the most common AI purchase in Britain. Training is a session per team, on the jobs those people actually do, with the prompts that work and the things not to put into it written down afterwards. Without this the other two are shelfware. |
Where it is the wrong answer
Half of what gets sold as AI should be a rule.
Routing an enquiry, scoring it against fixed criteria, chasing a quote that has gone quiet, producing the same report every Monday: those are jobs for ordinary logic. It is cheaper, it is faster, it costs nothing per run, and it behaves the same way every single time. Being sold a language model to do them is being sold the expensive version of a rule.
AI earns its place where the input has no structure. Reading a scanned document or an email written by a human being and turning it into fields. Summarising a long thread. Answering a question about four hundred pages of your own procedures. That is work a rule genuinely cannot do, and it is where we would spend your money first. The rest belongs on business automation or in a system built around your process.
Prices
Published, and fixed before anything is built.
| Process audit | £495, credited in full against any build over £2,000. A working session and a written document: which jobs are worth pointing AI at, which should be a rule, which should be an off-the-shelf product you buy yourself, and what none of it should touch. |
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| A single AI job | From £650. One unstructured task handled and joined to what you already run: a document read into fields, an enquiry classified, a long thread summarised into a next action. |
| Tool selection, setup and handover | Quoted after the audit, because it depends entirely on which product and how much of your existing setup it has to meet. You buy the licence directly, in your own name, so you keep it if you ever stop working with us. |
| Staff training | Quoted after the audit. Priced per session and per team rather than per head, and it is worth doing whether or not we built the thing being trained on. |
| A private assistant on your own documents | From £4,500. Your material, your accounts, answers with a source. Priced with the rest of bespoke application work, because that is what it is. |
| Aftercare | From £49 a month, no contract. Monitoring, key renewals and changes when a provider changes something underneath you. See care and support. |
Two of those rows carry no number on purpose. Tool setup and training depend on which product and how many people, and quoting a figure before knowing either would mean overcharging somebody. Both are quoted in writing after the audit, and the audit price comes off the build.
How it runs
The audit first, because most of it should not be built.
An AI automation consultant who has never seen your week cannot tell you what to point it at. The audit is a working session and a written document, and the most common outcome is that one job is worth doing, one is a rule, and one is a product you should buy for forty pounds a month and run yourself.
Then it goes in stages, each one live before the next starts, so you can stop after any of them and keep what is already working. The longer version of how a project runs is on the process page.
Straight answers
The questions we actually get asked.
What does an AI automation agency actually do?
Three things, in practice. It works out which jobs in a business are worth pointing AI at and which are not. It sets the chosen tool up against how the business actually works and connects it to the systems already in use. And it trains the people who have to use it. The part that gets sold hardest, buying the licence, is the easy part and it is not the part that fails. If you are comparing agencies, the three questions worth asking are whether they will name the jobs they think should not use AI, whether they publish a price before a discovery call, and whether what they build runs on your accounts rather than on theirs.
Can we have our own private AI trained on our documents?
Yes, and it is the most common request we get. Your procedures, contracts, product data and past quotes go into one place your staff can ask questions of, and every answer comes back with the source document attached so it can be checked. It runs on accounts in your name, and your material is not handed to anyone else to train a model on. Builds of this kind start from 4,500 pounds.
Should we build our own or just buy a subscription?
Usually buy. A product that already exists is almost always cheaper than anything built to order, and most businesses need it set up and connected rather than invented. Building makes sense when the material is genuinely private, when the answers have to cite your own documents, or when it has to live inside a system you already run. The audit tells you which of those you are, and it is 495 pounds.
How much does AI consultancy cost in the UK?
Day rates from UK AI consultancies in 2026 commonly run from around 800 to 1,500 pounds, and larger firms quote engagements in the tens of thousands. Werehouse Media starts with a fixed 495 pound process audit instead, credited in full against any build over 2,000 pounds, because a day rate rewards the wrong thing when the honest answer is often that you need less than you were about to buy.
Do you train our staff, or just install it?
Both, and we would rather do the training than not. It is a session per team on the jobs those people actually do, with the prompts that work and the things not to put into it written down afterwards. We will run it on a tool somebody else set up, too. A licence nobody opens is the most common AI purchase in Britain and training is the only thing that fixes it.
Is our data safe, and is it used to train models?
Accounts are set up in your name on business or enterprise tiers, which do not use your content for training by default, and we write down in the handover exactly where your material sits and who can reach it. Where that is not good enough, because of a regulator or a client contract, the answer is a private build rather than a subscription, and we will tell you which of those you are in before you spend anything.
Tell us the job, not the technology.
What takes a person the longest, and what they have to read to do it. That is enough to say whether AI is the answer, and we will tell you honestly when it is not.