AI & Automation · Essex

AI and automation for Essex businesses.

StellaIQ works with Essex businesses between £1m and £20m turnover — wholesalers and distributors along the A12 and M11, construction firms, recruitment agencies, manufacturers and professional firms. We connect AI to the systems you already run so your team can ask your business a question and get the answer from your own data, and we take the retyping and chasing off their desks.

Who we work with
On site across Essex Colchester to Chelmsford Operations audit from £2,500

Where does the time go in an Essex business?

In the gaps between systems.

A wholesaler's stock is in the ERP, the delivery date in a supplier's email and the credit limit in the accounts. A contractor's quote is in one spreadsheet and the purchase orders in another. A recruiter's call notes stay in a consultant's head until someone types them up. Each system works; people do the passing between them.

We come to you for the part that has to happen in person. Colchester is about an hour and a half from our Norwich base, and Chelmsford, Harlow and Basildon are within about two hours.

Who we work with in Essex

The kinds of Essex business where the answers are spread across several systems, and what changes when they are joined up.

Wholesalers and distributors

Staff ask whether something is in stock, when it is due in, what the customer was quoted and whether they have credit, and get the answer from your own systems in seconds.

Construction firms and contractors

Quotes, purchase orders and supplier invoices are matched line by line, and the chaser for an overdue invoice is drafted for someone to check and send.

Recruitment agencies

Call notes are written up into the CRM automatically, follow-ups are drafted for a consultant to check, and “who have we sent to this client?” is answered in seconds.

Manufacturers

Orders arriving by email and PDF are entered into the ERP without retyping, with only the uncertain lines left for a person.

Installers and field teams

Job sheets photographed on a phone are read and entered into the CRM and diary, so nobody in the office types them up again.

Professional firms

Law firms, accountants and brokers get answers from their own files, each linked to its source, and a shared inbox sorted before anyone opens it.

What do we build?

An AI brain on the systems you already run, and agents that take the repetitive work off your team.

The brain is one system connected to the software you already use, with an agent on every PC that anyone can ask in plain English. Is that part in stock? When is it due in? What did we quote them? Have they got credit? The answer comes back from your own data, with the record it came from, and when it cannot find something it says so rather than guessing.

Around it, the same agents reply to routine emails in draft, file incoming paperwork, enter photographed and emailed documents, and chase what is overdue — leaving anything that matters for a person to check. See how the AI brain works.

How does it work in Essex?

It starts with a conversation, then two days on site in your building, watching how the work is actually done rather than how it is described. Within ten working days you get a written report: where your team's time goes, what the AI brain would connect to, and a first build scoped at a fixed price.

A first build runs fifteen days from kickoff to a working system, with your team trained in person.

What does it cost?

Fixed prices, stated plainly, before you commit to anything.

An operations audit costs £2,500 plus VAT. It belongs to you whether or not you build anything with us afterwards. A first build starts at £5,000 plus VAT, with your team trained and thirty days of support included, and a full engagement across several workstreams starts at £12,500 plus VAT. A discovery call costs nothing and is a conversation with the founder rather than a salesperson.

Has this actually worked anywhere?

Yes, in two builds we can describe but not name. For a national industrial services company, manual document processing fell by roughly 80% in fifteen days (read the case study). For an installer taking seventy appointments a day, three to four hours of typing a day disappeared (see how). We do not publish client names, and we will not publish yours either.

Questions Essex businesses ask

Do you work with businesses in Essex?

Yes. StellaIQ is based in Norwich and works on site across Essex. Colchester is about an hour and a half away, and Chelmsford, Harlow and Basildon are within about two hours.

Which Essex businesses is this for?

Businesses between roughly £1m and £20m turnover whose answers are spread across several systems: wholesalers and distributors along the A12 and M11, construction firms, recruitment agencies, manufacturers and professional firms.

Can it help a recruitment agency?

Yes. Call notes are written up into your CRM automatically, follow-ups are drafted for a consultant to check, and questions such as who you have already sent to a client are answered in seconds.

Do you come on site?

Yes. The audit is two days in your building, and the build is handed over and your team trained in person.

What does it cost?

An operations audit costs £2,500 plus VAT. A first build starts at £5,000 plus VAT, and a full engagement across several workstreams at £12,500 plus VAT. A discovery call costs nothing.

Do you also work outside Essex?

Yes. We work on site across Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire too, and remotely across the rest of the UK.

Talk to us about your Essex business.

Forty-five minutes, no obligation, and an honest answer about which of your problems is worth automating and which is not.

contact@stellaiq.co.uk

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