Workflow Design
We discover and define the core workflows your business runs on, then work out how to optimise and scale them with AI. We help you define what to build, what to buy, and how to scale it in-house.
Services
We shape, ship, & deliver outcomes with AI.
64%
Time saved by the 5,000 Google Cloud sellers using our agent system
4 weeks to days
Tesco's retail-ad approval cycle, after our AI creative studio
78%
Upstix's operating cost reduction with instant AI house valuations
AI Workflows & AgentsImprove and automate how your team works.
AI in most businesses is individual. People sat next to each other are building the same prompts, workflows and agents in different tools. Company knowledge lives in people's heads, disparate hubs and disconnected systems, so AI starts from a blank slate every time. And everything built inside one model provider is stuck there. Individuals are getting smarter. The organisation isn't. We turn that into a system your company owns: the processes your business runs every week, built into agents that work from what your business already knows. We don't just place engineers, we deliver working AI.
Every engagement is scoped around a workflow and the result it has to produce, and we're accountable for that workflow running in production. Building in-house is the right instinct, and your workflows and company knowledge are IP you should own, not rent from a third-party platform. The burden is what stops it: hiring is slow, managing pulls your people off the day job, and internal builds are quick to start and slow to finish. We carry both, and capability transfers to your team as the work ships. See our forward-deployed engineers, AI agency and AI agent development services.
How we help
- AI workflows for your business
- Personal & custom agents for your team
- Skills & routines, promoted from individual wins to company standard
- Business logic, permissions & guardrails
- Company knowledge & memory connected
- Tools like Slack, CRM & your marketing stack
- Know what's working & optimise it
- Capability transfer to your team
Forward Deployed Engineers
Senior AI engineers dedicated to your business, building on your tools and data, scoped against your workflows and the change they have to make. They work within the &above engineering ecosystem, recruited, managed and quality-assured by us, so you get the best of what we've got without the hiring risk or the management load.
Agent Mesh
Our connected agent framework, deployed as a service and owned by you. It's the pipework you need to scale your workflows and IP from individual to company-wide: knowledge, tools and routing in one system that sits above the model providers and runs on your own keys. Portable across providers and extendable by your own team.
Recent
Sales Agent System that supports 5,000 Google Cloud sellers
Google Cloud needed a scalable way to support its global sales team with real-time guidance, deal intelligence, and knowledge retrieval. Our embedded engineers built an agent system that transformed the way sales teams uncover and progress opportunities.
Read more"Having the &above team embedded meant we moved at a pace that would have been impossible otherwise. They became part of us - not a vendor."
VP, Sales Enablement
Google Cloud
AI Product DevelopmentShip and scale what your customers value.
Prototypes are easy now. Anyone can get a demo working in a weekend. The gap is between that demo and a product your customers rely on: evaluated before it ships, and still improving a year after launch. Crossing that gap takes more than a good demo. We close it with one embedded squad: strategy, design and engineering working together from concept to production and beyond. We build proof of concepts on sample data fast, so the best approach is evaluated before the investment.
For Tesco, that meant proving which model caught compliance issues with the highest confidence before building the product around it. And we design for humans and AI agents at the same time, so the product is ready for how people and systems will actually use it. The first version is never the point. For Upstix we had an MVP live in three months, then spent a year compounding it with AI-generated offers and AI call agents. Homeowners now get an offer on their home in seven days, and the business runs on 7x the qualified leads. What we build is yours: your roadmap, your IP, your team learning as it ships.
How we help
- AI-native products for your customers
- Mobile and web applications
- Product strategy, design & engineering
- Enterprise software
- Iteration once real users arrive
- Digital brand, web & marketing experience
Proof of Concept
A working technical prototype that validates feasibility and proves business value before any larger commitment. We integrate sample data, test assumptions and evaluate real-world impact, so you leave with a working prototype and a clear go or no-go on the business case.
AI Product Squad
Designers, engineers and product managers embedded in one team - the same senior engineering as a forward-deployed engagement, plus the product and design judgement to own the result end to end: shaping what to build from the business outcome you need, then shipping it to production and improving it once it's live.
Design Squad
We design the digital brand & website experience for your product, with the same embedded model that builds it. We help you launch, then scale your product in market.
Recent
Tesco's AI Creative Studio - getting ads live from four weeks to days
Tesco needed to dramatically accelerate the approval of retail ads. We designed and built an AI-native studio that brought together brand assets, creative generation, compliance review and approval in a single product.
Read more"I would recommend &above to anyone who's got ambitious plans to accelerate their roadmap, or is looking to build an AI-powered product from scratch."
Global Head of Product
Tesco
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers for teams evaluating an AI consultancy or product partner.
What kind of company is &above?
&above is an AI consultancy and product development agency based in London. We work across two pillars: AI Workflows & Agents, automating the processes your team runs every week, and AI Product Development, building the products your customers use. The same embedded model builds both.
What AI consulting services does &above offer?
Our work splits by what you are buying. AI Workflows & Agents automates the work inside your business: it starts with Workflow Design, then embedded forward-deployed engineers building on Agent Mesh. AI Product Development builds what your customers use: a Proof of Concept, an AI Product Squad to ship it, and a Design Squad to take it to market.
Does &above build AI products as well as advise on them?
Yes, building is the core of what we do. Our AI Product Squads are embedded cross-functional teams of AI engineers, product managers, designers and strategists who ship AI-native products to your customers, and our AI Workflows & Agents pillar covers the systems your own team uses. See our digital product agency services for how we take products from idea to production.
How does &above compare with large consultancies like Accenture or Deloitte for AI work?
We ship working products, not slide decks. Clients work directly with senior practitioners in small embedded squads that move at startup speed. Tesco went from four-week ad approval cycles to days, and Google Cloud's agent system is used by 5,000 sellers. You get enterprise-grade delivery without enterprise-consultancy overhead. If you're comparing firms before you shortlist, see our review of the best AI consulting firms in London and the UK, and the questions worth asking in how to choose an AI consultancy.
Should we hire an AI agency or build an in-house AI team?
Building in-house is the right instinct, and it's what we set clients up to do. The difference is the burden: an embedded &above team feels in-house but we hire, manage and take accountability, and capability transfers to your people as we go. You get the owned system without the hiring risk, and without pulling your staff off the day job while an internal build stalls.
Which companies has &above worked with?
Recent work includes Google and Google Cloud, Tesco, Sage, Revolut, Oxford Quantum Circuits, Upstix and YourAvatar, spanning internal AI workflows and customer-facing product builds.
How quickly can an AI project deliver value?
Fast, because the first steps are deliberately small. Workflow Design maps where AI pays back before anything is built, and a Proof of Concept validates a product idea before major investment. Build engagements are iterative, shipping working software from the first sprints.
We don't know where to start yet. What then?
Start with Workflow Design. We discover and define the core workflows your business runs on, and help you decide what to build, what to buy, and how to scale it in-house. If it shows something worth building, we scope the build around it with success measures agreed upfront.
Where is &above based?
Our HQ is in Southwark, London (The Binary, 27 Copperfield Street, SE1), and we work with clients across the UK and internationally - from scale-ups to global enterprises.