Turn AI ambition into shipped, measured systems. In weeks.
Tech Alchemy is the AI rollout partner for the UK mid-market. We're a product engineering studio — so every engagement ends in a working system with a measured before/after baseline, not a deck.
You don't have an AI strategy problem. You have a shipping problem.
Pilots that stalled before production
A promising proof of concept, a demo everyone liked, and nothing running in the business.
Copilot licences nobody uses
Paid per seat, rolled out per department, adopted by almost no one. Nothing measured.
A board asking for an AI plan by next quarter
And they will ask what it returned, in numbers, the quarter after that.
No internal team to build one
Your engineers are busy keeping the core systems running. This work needs its own capacity.
Three ways this usually goes
Big 4 consultancy
The build gets subcontracted to someone you didn't choose.
Hire a Head of AI
A single point of failure, with no build capacity around them.
DIY
Pilot purgatory. Nothing integrated, nothing secured, nothing measured.
Or: a 300-person engineering studio that ships your first production AI system in weeks — and measures it.
Four rungs. Published prices.
AI Readiness
Scorecard
Free10 minutesA self-serve assessment with an instant report.
Where you stand on data, process and sponsorship — and the one thing to do first. No call required.
AI Opportunity
Audit
£18k fixed3 weeksEverything you need to decide what to build, and proof it works.
- Ranked use-case backlog with a per-use-case ROI model
- Data and readiness assessment
- 90-day build plan
- A working demonstration of your top use case, on representative data
50% credited against a Pilot started within 60 days.
AI Pilot
Sprint
£45–75k fixed6–8 weeksOne use case taken all the way to production.
- Integration, security and adoption instrumentation
- Against a success metric and a baseline measured in week one
AI Rollout
Pod
From £25k / monthQuarterly minimumAn embedded team, with build capacity always included.
- New workflows and training cohorts
- Governance and adoption dashboards
Fixed prices · No day rates · No time-and-materials
We ran it on ourselves first
Tech Alchemy's own AI rollout, measured before and after
The same method we sell: baseline in week one, one workflow at a time, adoption instrumented.
Web3Payments
Fintech · Digital payments & AI automationImproved efficiency across digital payment gateway operations, including faster merchant onboarding, AI-powered transaction monitoring to flag anomalies, and automated customer support — reducing manual effort and helping teams resolve issues faster. 40% reduction in manual operational workload across onboarding and support.
Mercore
Fintech · KYC & compliance automationMapped complex due diligence workflows and built a KYC lifecycle platform that streamlined customer onboarding, screening, case management and ongoing reviews. Supported the UK’s first digital bill of exchange transaction, backed by 150+ experts.
An engineering firm, not a consultancy
What lands on your desk in week three
Per-use-case ROI model
Volumes, handling time, error rates and cost per case, with every assumption visible and editable. Redacted sample from a live audit.
The working demonstration
Ninety seconds of your top use case running on representative data. Not a mockup — the thing itself, on a real workflow.
The people who will actually build it
Who this is for, and who it isn't
- +UK and EU companies, 100–1,000 people
- +£20m–£250m revenue
- +Operations- or document-heavy work
- +An executive sponsor who wants a system live this quarter
- –Enterprise RFP processes
- –Companies under £20m revenue
- –Anyone who wants a strategy deck without a build
FAQs
1/
Why not the Big 4?
They sell roadmaps; we ship systems. A Big 4 engagement typically runs £250–500k over nine months and ends in a strategy document, with the build subcontracted onwards. We start with a three-week, £18k audit that ends in a working demonstration on your data — and the engineers who built it carry it into production.
2/
Why not hire in-house?
A Head of AI costs £180k+ and takes around six months to land, and they still need engineers, data work and integration around them. A pod gives you that capacity now. Most clients do hire in-house eventually — it is a far easier role to define once something is live, and we will help write the brief and hand over.
3/
What if the audit finds nothing worth building?
We tell you, and you keep the analysis. That is why the audit is a standalone product rather than a sales device: the use-case backlog, the ROI models, the data assessment and the 90-day plan are yours whether or not you build with us. We would rather say so in week three than sell you a pilot that shouldn't exist.
4/
How do you measure ROI?
A baseline is written into every SOW and measured in week one, before anything is built — cycle time, cost per case, error and rework rates, volume handled per head, whichever fit the process in scope. Success is a movement in that number, agreed with your sponsor up front and reported on an adoption dashboard you keep.
5/
What about our data security and privacy?
Your data stays in your tenancy. We build inside your cloud accounts and your identity provider by default. Where a model provider is involved we use enterprise terms with zero data retention and no training on your content. Processing regions are pinned in the SOW, in the UK or EU, and we sign your DPA and complete the DPIA with you: you remain the controller, we act as processor.
- Access is least-privilege and named — individually vetted engineers under NDA, scoped per use case, logged, reviewed and revoked at engagement close. The audit runs on representative data, redacted or synthetic unless you decide otherwise.
- Security is a work package, not an afterthought — every pilot includes threat modelling, prompt-injection and data-exfiltration testing, evaluation and guardrail coverage, human-in-the-loop design for anything consequential, and an audit trail your risk function can read.