AI Consulting · UK
Enterprise AI Consulting Services that ship working ROI, not just roadmaps
AI systems, voice agents, automations and custom AI apps that integrate with the business you already run. Strategy, build and deployment under one accountable team, at startup speed with enterprise rigour.
- Engineering teams that ship working AI, not external slide decks
- 62% average efficiency improvement on the targeted workflow
- Custom AI agents, voice agents and automations built around your stack
- ISO 27001 secured, backed by 40 years of Transputec IT delivery
AI-NATIVE ENGINEERING TEAM · ISO 27001 · 100+ CLIENTS
ISO 27001
Secure-by-design AI
100+
Satisfied AI engagements
7x
Average AI investment return
62%
Average efficiency improvement
Why AI projects fail
Three reasons AI ends in slideware instead of P&L.
We have seen every flavour of AI theatre. Procurement-led tool selection. 90-day strategy phases that produce a deck. Consultants who ship insights, never code. Each one is fixable, most by changing where the work starts.
Most AI pilots start at tools
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Tools without a target outcome are theatre. The first question is not which model, but which pound on the P&L is being moved, measured and improved.
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Outcome-first audit. We pick the workflow, then the model.
POCs never reach production
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The clever AI demo sits in a sandbox. It never reaches the CRM, ERP or helpdesk. Without integration there is no operational impact, just a tab opened once a fortnight.
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We integrate AI into the apps your team already uses. No new tabs.
Consultants ship decks, not code
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Hire a Big-4 partner, get six months of discovery. The output is a 90-page strategy nobody operationalises. Meanwhile your competitor started week one and is shipping.
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Working pilot in week 4. Production typically by week 12.
What we build
Four practices. One AI engine, Kuhnic AI.
From an inbound voice agent that answers in three rings to an AI system that decides claims in 2.4 seconds, every Kuhnic engagement is built, shipped and operated by a single team. No handovers between strategy and engineering.
INTEGRATED, NOT DEMO
AI Systems
Operational AI that decides, processes and learns. Integrated into your CRM, ERP, ticketing and data warehouse, not a sandbox demo. Adjusts to new data, optimises behaviour, and produces audit-grade decision logs.
AI Systems →24/7 INBOUND CALLS
Voice Agents
AI that handles inbound calls, qualifies leads and updates your systems in real time. Plugs into the CRM, the calendar and the helpdesk. Works 24/7 at human-level naturalness, with measurable payback inside the first months of operation.
Voice Agents →FAST TO PAY BACK
Automations
Remove operational friction from repeatable workflows: document extraction, intake routing, response drafting, vendor due-diligence. Quick to deploy, fast to pay back, easy to scale once the first one lands.
Automations →BESPOKE FIT
AI App Development
Custom internal tools, dashboards, workflow managers and customer portals, with AI built in from the architecture up. Bespoke fit to your data, your processes and your brand. Owned outright by you.
App Development →How we work
Enterprise AI strategy at startup speed.
Three weeks to audit. Six weeks to working pilot. Twelve weeks to production. We bill against outcomes, not hours, and ship working software at the end of every two-week sprint. No "phase-two" surprises.
01
Weeks 1 to 3
Audit
AI audit at audit.kuhnic.ai. We baseline your workflows, identify the three highest-ROI AI opportunities, and produce a costed pilot proposal with quantified outcomes, before you commit a penny.
- Outcome-first scoring
- Quantified ROI model
- Costed pilot proposal
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Weeks 4 to 8
Build
Two-week sprints with a working demo at the end of every one. Integrated with your CRM, ticketing or data warehouse from Sprint one. Pilot users on board by week 4. Refined against the real signal.
- Two-week sprints
- Real-user pilots
- ISO 27001 from sprint 0
03
Weeks 9 to 12
Deploy
Production rollout under one accountable team. Adoption coaching, monitoring, model tuning. ROI verified at the 90-day checkpoint, and reported quarterly against the audit baseline.
- Production deploy by week 12
- 90-day ROI verification
- Quarterly model review
Transputec's dedicated AI division
Meet Kuhnic AI, our dedicated AI division.
Kuhnic is the specialist AI engine inside Transputec, a focused team that does nothing but ship working AI for UK mid-market businesses. The depth of a specialist AI company, backed by 25+ years of enterprise IT operations. The combination is the unfair advantage.
- Outcome-led engagements scoped to your highest-ROI workflow first
- Engineering teams that ship, not consultancies that present decks
- Backed by Transputec ISO 27001 controls
- AI audit at audit.kuhnic.ai
Industries we know
Sectors where Kuhnic AI is already in production.
UK mid-market specialists
Our portfolio skews to UK mid-market organisations where a single workflow consumes a meaningful share of operating cost, and where AI moves that needle directly. Every sector below has live deployments behind it.
Legal
Contract review, due-diligence, and case research, automated.
Healthcare
Clinical documentation, claims triage, patient routing.
Real Estate
Tenant lifecycle automation and property data extraction.
Financial Services
Vendor due-diligence, claims processing, risk decisioning.
Property
Lease review, valuation modelling, portfolio analytics.
Professional Services
Knowledge management, proposal generation, onboarding.
Case study · AI platform security
Discover Beagle: a generative AI eDiscovery platform shipped with verified security.
Discover Beagle · generative AI eDiscovery · web app, network, and API tested
From three attack surfaces to a clear, prioritised remediation roadmap, in a single engagement.
Discover Beagle is transforming document review with generative AI for eDiscovery. Their CTO needed a comprehensive penetration test across network, web application and API surfaces, with practical remediation paths the engineering team could act on. Transputec delivered a prioritised remediation plan paired with proof-of-concept exploits, in a format the whole team could follow.
"Their team was professional, easy to communicate with, and provided clear, actionable recommendations to improve our security."
Maksim Ivanov · CTO, Discover Beagle
Scoped
Network, web app, and API tested end-to-end
GenAI
eDiscovery platform secured for production
PoC
Exploits proven and paired with remediation paths
High
Client satisfaction rating from Beagle CTO
Why Kuhnic AI
Why UK organisations choose Kuhnic AI as their enterprise AI partner.
A specialist AI division with the speed of a startup and the rigour of a 25-year enterprise IT operator. Four reasons Kuhnic AI delivers production AI where most consultancies deliver decks.
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Specialist division
A focused team that does nothing but ship working AI.
Kuhnic AI is Transputec's dedicated AI division, not a side project. The engineering bench is purpose-built for AI delivery, with focused depth in voice agents, automations, AI systems and custom app development.
- Focused AI engineering bench
- Specialist depth in voice + AI systems
- No handovers between strategy and code
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Enterprise muscle
Backed by 40 years of UK enterprise IT delivery.
Every Kuhnic engagement is delivered under Transputec's ISO 27001 controls. Same security posture, same change management, same UK account team that runs 100+ enterprise estates today.
- ISO 27001 controls
- UK enterprise IT track record for decades
- 100+ live enterprise clients today
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Outcomes, not hours
We bill against outcomes, not consulting hours.
Every engagement is scoped against a measurable business outcome before contract signature, with the ROI model published up front. The audit is no-commitment. The pilot is scoped to an agreed price. The deployment is reviewed against the baseline at 90 days.
- Outcome-first AI audit
- Agreed-price pilot with ROI model
- Quarterly review against audit baseline
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Security embedded
ISO 27001 from sprint 0, not a tick-box at the end.
Every Kuhnic system ships with audit-grade decision logs, prompt-injection defences, data-handling controls and an explicit ISO 27001 alignment. Reviewed by Transputec's in-house security team before any production deployment.
- Audit-grade decision logs
- Prompt-injection defences built in
- In-house security review pre-deploy
Insights & Resources
Latest AI insights from Kuhnic AI and Transputec.
Frequently asked
Answers to what UK leaders ask us most.
What is AI consulting?
AI consulting is the practice of identifying where AI can deliver measurable business outcomes, then designing, building and deploying the systems that get there. A good AI consulting partner combines strategy (what to do), engineering (how to build it) and operations (how to run it). Kuhnic AI, Transputec’s dedicated AI division, delivers all three under one accountable team.
How much does AI consulting cost in the UK?
UK AI consulting is typically priced on outcome-led engagements. A focused AI audit runs £6,000 to £18,000. A working production deployment, automation, voice agent or AI system, typically lands between £35,000 and £140,000 over 6 to 12 weeks. Custom enterprise AI applications follow software development pricing. We publish indicative scope before contract signature and bill against outcomes, not hours, in line with the principles set out in the UK National AI Strategy. Talk to a UK AI consultant for a costed estimate.
What is a voice agent?
A voice agent is an AI system that handles voice conversations, inbound calls, outbound qualification, and scheduling, at human-level naturalness. It plugs into your CRM, ticketing and calendar in real time, qualifies leads, books meetings and updates records without a human agent. Done well, it works 24/7, never gets tired, and converts in line with or above a trained human team. See Kuhnic AI voice agents.
How long does an AI implementation take?
Most Kuhnic AI engagements move from audit to working pilot in 4 to 6 weeks, and to a production deployment in 8 to 12 weeks. We build in two-week sprints with a working demo at the end of every sprint, no waiting for a “big reveal” at the end of a six-month strategy phase.
What is the ROI of AI for a mid-size business?
It depends entirely on what you automate and how. Across the Kuhnic AI client base the average return on AI investment is approximately 7x, with an average efficiency improvement of 62% on the targeted workflow, in line with the patterns we see in our AI strategy for UK SMEs guide. Voice agents tend to deliver the fastest payback (typically under 4 months); custom internal AI tools land at 6 to 9 months; full AI systems pay back over the first year and compound from there.
What is the difference between AI automation and AI systems?
AI automation removes friction from a repeatable workflow, extracting data from documents, routing tickets, drafting responses. AI systems are operational AI that decides, processes and learns over time, they adjust to new data, optimise their own behaviour, and integrate decisions into your business processes. Most engagements start with automation (quick ROI) and scale into systems (long-term advantage).
What is generative AI?
Generative AI is a category of AI that creates new content, text, images, code, audio, video, in response to a prompt, by drawing on patterns learned from very large training datasets. Examples include ChatGPT and GPT-4 (OpenAI), Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini and Meta Llama. In a UK business context, generative AI typically powers four workflows: drafting (emails, summaries, proposals), Q&A over internal documents, code generation, and customer-facing voice or chat agents. The commercial value comes from picking the right workflow first, not the model first. Read our AI strategy guide for UK SMEs, or the UK National AI Strategy for policy context.
How is the UK regulating AI?
The UK follows a pro-innovation, principles-based approach rather than a single AI Act. Regulators in each sector (the FCA for financial services, the ICO for data protection, the MHRA for medical devices, Ofcom for digital services) apply five common AI principles: safety, transparency, fairness, accountability and contestability. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) coordinates UK AI policy, and the AI Safety Institute (AISI) tests frontier model risks. For a regulated UK business this means: document the use-case, prove decision logic is explainable, keep humans in the loop for material decisions, and maintain an auditable trail. See the official UK AI Regulation white paper for the full framework.
AI consultation
Book an AI audit with Kuhnic AI.
A focused conversation with a Kuhnic AI engineer. We baseline your highest-ROI workflow, model the AI opportunity, and share a one-page audit report with quantified outcomes, even if we do not end up working together.
- Outcome-first AI audit, not a sales pitch
- Quantified ROI model before contract signature
- Agreed-price pilot scope, no T&M creep
- ISO 27001 secured by Transputec