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Automation, robotics, and AI support designed for SMEs
Automation, robotics, and AI support designed for SMEs
Automation, robotics, and AI support designed for SMEs
Solihull Robotics & AI provides structured, vendor-neutral services that help you identify, design, and deliver automation in a measured, commercially grounded way.
Solihull Robotics & AI provides structured, vendor-neutral services that help you identify, design, and deliver automation in a measured, commercially grounded way.
Solihull Robotics & AI provides structured, vendor-neutral services that help you identify, design, and deliver automation in a measured, commercially grounded way.
Core Services
Core Services
Core Services
Each engagement is built from a set of core capabilities, tailored to where you are on your automation journey.
Each engagement is built from a set of core capabilities, tailored to where you are on your automation journey.
Each engagement is built from a set of core capabilities, tailored to where you are on your automation journey.
Automation Opportunity Audit
Automation Opportunity Audit
Automation Opportunity Audit
A structured assessment of where automation could make a practical difference in your operations.
A structured assessment of where automation could make a practical difference in your operations.
A structured assessment of where automation could make a practical difference in your operations.
Robotics Feasibility & Roadmapping
Robotics Feasibility & Roadmapping
Robotics Feasibility & Roadmapping
Independent guidance on if, where, and how robotics should be introduced.
Independent guidance on if, where, and how robotics should be introduced.
Independent guidance on if, where, and how robotics should be introduced.
Applied AI for Operations
Applied AI for Operations
Applied AI for Operations
Practical use of AI tools to automate digital workflows and support front-line teams.
Practical use of AI tools to automate digital workflows and support front-line teams.
Practical use of AI tools to automate digital workflows and support front-line teams.
Fractional Head of Automation
Fractional Head of Automation
Fractional Head of Automation
Ongoing leadership for organisations building a portfolio of automation initiatives.
Ongoing leadership for organisations building a portfolio of automation initiatives.
Ongoing leadership for organisations building a portfolio of automation initiatives.
Automation Opportunity Audit
Automation Opportunity Audit
Automation Opportunity Audit
A practical starting point for most SMEs to understand where automation can deliver real value before spending on equipment or software.
A practical starting point for most SMEs to understand where automation can deliver real value before spending on equipment or software.
A practical starting point for most SMEs to understand where automation can deliver real value before spending on equipment or software.
The Automation Opportunity Audit is a focused piece of work that maps selected processes, highlights bottlenecks, and identifies where automation, robotics, or AI could create measurable improvement.
The Automation Opportunity Audit is a focused piece of work that maps selected processes, highlights bottlenecks, and identifies where automation, robotics, or AI could create measurable improvement.
The Automation Opportunity Audit is a focused piece of work that maps selected processes, highlights bottlenecks, and identifies where automation, robotics, or AI could create measurable improvement.
What’s Included:
What’s Included:
What’s Included:
Discovery sessions with key stakeholders and operational teams.
Discovery sessions with key stakeholders and operational teams.
Discovery sessions with key stakeholders and operational teams.
Review of 3–5 representative processes or workflows.
Review of 3–5 representative processes or workflows.
Review of 3–5 representative processes or workflows.
High-level mapping of current state and pain points.
High-level mapping of current state and pain points.
High-level mapping of current state and pain points.
Identification of specific automation concepts or approaches.
Identification of specific automation concepts or approaches.
Identification of specific automation concepts or approaches.
Simple estimates of potential time, cost, or error reduction.
Simple estimates of potential time, cost, or error reduction.
Simple estimates of potential time, cost, or error reduction.
Prioritised list of opportunities with recommended next steps.
Prioritised list of opportunities with recommended next steps.
Prioritised list of opportunities with recommended next steps.
Typical Outcomes:
Typical Outcomes:
Typical Outcomes:
Clearer view of where to focus initial automation efforts.
Clearer view of where to focus initial automation efforts.
Clearer view of where to focus initial automation efforts.
Shared understanding among decision-makers and operations.
Shared understanding among decision-makers and operations.
Shared understanding among decision-makers and operations.
A lightweight roadmap that can feed into pilots or vendor discussions.
A lightweight roadmap that can feed into pilots or vendor discussions.
A lightweight roadmap that can feed into pilots or vendor discussions.
Who it’s for:
Who it’s for:
Who it’s for:
SMEs with manual processes, growing volume, or recurring bottlenecks seeking clarity before investing. Engagement style: Short, focused work—on-site, remote, or hybrid.
SMEs with manual processes, growing volume, or recurring bottlenecks seeking clarity before investing. Engagement style: Short, focused work—on-site, remote, or hybrid.
SMEs with manual processes, growing volume, or recurring bottlenecks seeking clarity before investing. Engagement style: Short, focused work—on-site, remote, or hybrid.
Engagement style:
Engagement style:
Engagement style:
Short, focused work, on-site, remote, or hybrid.
Short, focused work, on-site, remote, or hybrid.
Short, focused work, on-site, remote, or hybrid.
Robotics Feasibility and Roadmapping
Robotics Feasibility and Roadmapping
Robotics Feasibility and Roadmapping
An impartial, realistic view of whether robotics is a good fit for your processes, along with a path to implementation if it is.
An impartial, realistic view of whether robotics is a good fit for your processes, along with a path to implementation if it is.
An impartial, realistic view of whether robotics is a good fit for your processes, along with a path to implementation if it is.
Robotics projects can be highly valuable, but they also introduce cost, complexity, and risk. This service helps you understand where robots might add value, how they would integrate with people and existing equipment, and what kind of investment and payback you should expect.
Robotics projects can be highly valuable, but they also introduce cost, complexity, and risk. This service helps you understand where robots might add value, how they would integrate with people and existing equipment, and what kind of investment and payback you should expect.
Robotics projects can be highly valuable, but they also introduce cost, complexity, and risk. This service helps you understand where robots might add value, how they would integrate with people and existing equipment, and what kind of investment and payback you should expect.
What’s Included:
What’s Included:
What’s Included:
Site and process review
Site and process review
Site and process review
Definition of candidate tasks for robotics
Definition of candidate tasks for robotics
Definition of candidate tasks for robotics
High-level cell or system concepts
High-level cell or system concepts
High-level cell or system concepts
Cycle time, throughput, and utilisation estimates
Cycle time, throughput, and utilisation estimates
Cycle time, throughput, and utilisation estimates
Indicative cost and payback analysis
Indicative cost and payback analysis
Indicative cost and payback analysis
Roadmap options (e.g. pilot, phased deployment, or no-go)
Roadmap options (e.g. pilot, phased deployment, or no-go)
Roadmap options (e.g. pilot, phased deployment, or no-go)
Typical Outcomes:
Typical Outcomes:
Typical Outcomes:
Go/no-go decision based on evidence
Go/no-go decision based on evidence
Go/no-go decision based on evidence
Clear understanding of integration challenges and change impact
Clear understanding of integration challenges and change impact
Clear understanding of integration challenges and change impact
Stronger position when talking with integrators or vendors
Stronger position when talking with integrators or vendors
Stronger position when talking with integrators or vendors
Typical focus areas
Typical focus areas
Typical focus areas
Pick-and-place and light assembly operations
Pick-and-place and light assembly operations
Pick-and-place and light assembly operations
Machine tending and materials handling
Machine tending and materials handling
Machine tending and materials handling
Packing, labelling, and end-of-line tasks
Packing, labelling, and end-of-line tasks
Packing, labelling, and end-of-line tasks
Independence is key
Independence is key
Independence is key
The aim is to determine if robotics makes sense at all, and if so, where. Vendor-neutral advice helps you avoid over-specification or underestimating complexity.
The aim is to determine if robotics makes sense at all, and if so, where. Vendor-neutral advice helps you avoid over-specification or underestimating complexity.
Applied AI Operations
Applied AI Operations
Applied AI Operations
Use AI as a practical tool for your teams: automating digital work, improving visibility, and supporting decision-making.
Applied AI for Operations focuses on using AI in tightly scoped, low-risk ways that help existing staff do more with less friction. The aim is to remove repetitive digital tasks and improve the quality and speed of information flowing through the business.
Use AI as a practical tool for your teams: automating digital work, improving visibility, and supporting decision-making.
Applied AI for Operations focuses on using AI in tightly scoped, low-risk ways that help existing staff do more with less friction. The aim is to remove repetitive digital tasks and improve the quality and speed of information flowing through the business.
Use AI as a practical tool for your teams: automating digital work, improving visibility, and supporting decision-making.
Applied AI for Operations focuses on using AI in tightly scoped, low-risk ways that help existing staff do more with less friction. The aim is to remove repetitive digital tasks and improve the quality and speed of information flowing through the business.
Example use cases
Example use cases
Example use cases
Automated extraction and processing of data from documents or systems
Automated extraction and processing of data from documents or systems
Automated extraction and processing of data from documents or systems
AI-assisted report generation, summaries, and briefings
AI-assisted report generation, summaries, and briefings
AI-assisted report generation, summaries, and briefings
Support tools for frontline teams to answer questions or follow procedures
Support tools for frontline teams to answer questions or follow procedures
Support tools for frontline teams to answer questions or follow procedures
Internal knowledge search and retrieval based on your own documentation
Internal knowledge search and retrieval based on your own documentation
Internal knowledge search and retrieval based on your own documentation
What's included
What's included
What's included
Discovery sessions to find high-value, low-risk AI opportunities
Discovery sessions to find high-value, low-risk AI opportunities
Discovery sessions to find high-value, low-risk AI opportunities
Selection of appropriate tools or platforms
Selection of appropriate tools or platforms
Selection of appropriate tools or platforms
Pilot design and support with configuration/integration
Pilot design and support with configuration/integration
Pilot design and support with configuration/integration
Guidance on governance, data use, and risk considerations
Guidance on governance, data use, and risk considerations
Guidance on governance, data use, and risk considerations
Approach
Approach
Approach
AI is treated as one tool among many. The focus is on solving specific problems, not deploying AI for its own sake
AI is treated as one tool among many. The focus is on solving specific problems, not deploying AI for its own sake
AI is treated as one tool among many. The focus is on solving specific problems, not deploying AI for its own sake
Who it benefits
Who it benefits
Who it benefits
AI is treated as one tool among many. The focus is on solving specific problems, not deploying AI for its own sake.
AI is treated as one tool among many. The focus is on solving specific problems, not deploying AI for its own sake.
AI is treated as one tool among many. The focus is on solving specific problems, not deploying AI for its own sake.
AI is treated as one tool among many. The focus is on solving specific problems, not deploying AI for its own sake.
AI is treated as one tool among many. The focus is on solving specific problems, not deploying AI for its own sake.
AI is treated as one tool among many. The focus is on solving specific problems, not deploying AI for its own sake.
Businesses unsure how to move from "AI in theory" to AI in day-to-day use
Businesses unsure how to move from "AI in theory" to AI in day-to-day use
Businesses unsure how to move from "AI in theory" to AI in day-to-day use
Fractional Head of Automation
Fractional Head of Automation
Fractional Head of Automation
Ongoing leadership support for organisations treating automation as a strategic capability, not just a one-off project.
The Fractional Head of Automation service provides consistent, senior-level guidance across your automation and AI initiatives. It fills the gap between ad hoc project support and hiring a full-time Head of Automation or similar role.
Ongoing leadership support for organisations treating automation as a strategic capability, not just a one-off project.
The Fractional Head of Automation service provides consistent, senior-level guidance across your automation and AI initiatives. It fills the gap between ad hoc project support and hiring a full-time Head of Automation or similar role.
Ongoing leadership support for organisations treating automation as a strategic capability, not just a one-off project.
The Fractional Head of Automation service provides consistent, senior-level guidance across your automation and AI initiatives. It fills the gap between ad hoc project support and hiring a full-time Head of Automation or similar role.
What's included:
What's included:
What's included:
Ownership of an automation and robotics roadmap aligned with business goals
Ownership of an automation and robotics roadmap aligned with business goals
Ownership of an automation and robotics roadmap aligned with business goals
Regular engagement with leadership teams or boards
Regular engagement with leadership teams or boards
Regular engagement with leadership teams or boards
Support with building and managing a pipeline of initiatives
Support with building and managing a pipeline of initiatives
Support with building and managing a pipeline of initiatives
Coordination with vendors, integrators, and internal teams
Coordination with vendors, integrators, and internal teams
Coordination with vendors, integrators, and internal teams
Structured reporting on performance, lessons learned, and next steps.
Structured reporting on performance, lessons learned, and next steps.
Structured reporting on performance, lessons learned, and next steps.
Typical outcomes
Typical outcomes
Typical outcomes
More coherent, joined-up automation efforts across the organisation.
More coherent, joined-up automation efforts across the organisation.
More coherent, joined-up automation efforts across the organisation.
Better prioritisation and fewer stalled or misaligned projects.
Better prioritisation and fewer stalled or misaligned projects.
Better prioritisation and fewer stalled or misaligned projects.
Improved internal understanding of how automation supports strategy.
Improved internal understanding of how automation supports strategy.
Improved internal understanding of how automation supports strategy.
Engagement models
Engagement models
Engagement models
Fixed monthly advisory time with defined outcomes.
Fixed monthly advisory time with defined outcomes.
Combination of on-site visits and remote collaboration.
Combination of on-site visits and remote collaboration.
Tailored cadence for reporting and leadership updates.
Tailored cadence for reporting and leadership updates.
When it helps most
When it helps most
When it helps most
When automation is becoming a recurring theme in board or SLT discussions, but there is no single person with the mandate and experience to own it.o determine if robotics makes sense at all, and if so, where. Vendor-neutral advice helps you avoid over-specification or underestimating complexity.
When automation is becoming a recurring theme in board or SLT discussions, but there is no single person with the mandate and experience to own it.o determine if robotics makes sense at all, and if so, where. Vendor-neutral advice helps you avoid over-specification or underestimating complexity.
When automation is becoming a recurring theme in board or SLT discussions, but there is no single person with the mandate and experience to own it.o determine if robotics makes sense at all, and if so, where. Vendor-neutral advice helps you avoid over-specification or underestimating complexity.
Not sure where to start?
Not sure where to start?
Not sure where to start?
A conversation helps you decide which service makes the most sense for your needs.
A conversation helps you decide which service makes the most sense for your needs.
A conversation helps you decide which service makes the most sense for your needs.
Solihull
Robotics & AI
Solihull
Robotics & AI
Practical automation, robotics, and AI leadership for UK SMEs. We help growing businesses adopt technology with confidence and clarity.
Practical automation, robotics, and AI leadership for UK SMEs. We help growing businesses adopt technology with confidence and clarity.
Practical automation, robotics, and AI leadership for UK SMEs. We help growing businesses adopt technology with confidence and clarity.
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Company
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Company
© 2025 Solihull Robotics & AI. All rights reserved.
Solihull Robotics & AI is a trading name of the Robotics & AI Consultancy Ltd (Company No: 16865524), registered in England & Wales with its registered office at 1711 High Street, Knowle, Solihull, B93 0LN, England.
© 2025 Solihull Robotics & AI. All rights reserved.
Solihull Robotics & AI is a trading name of the Robotics & AI Consultancy Ltd (Company No: 16865524), registered in England & Wales with its registered office at 1711 High Street, Knowle, Solihull, B93 0LN, England.
© 2025 Solihull Robotics & AI. All rights reserved.
Solihull Robotics & AI is a trading name of the Robotics & AI Consultancy Ltd (Company No: 16865524), registered in England & Wales with its registered office at 1711 High Street, Knowle, Solihull, B93 0LN, England.