An AI agency in London that tells you what to build, then builds it at a fixed price.

An AI agency builds and runs AI systems for other businesses: agents that read, decide and act inside the tools a business already uses, automations that take repetitive work off people, and products with AI inside them. An AI consultancy decides what is worth building, and whether to build anything at all, before money is committed.

In London the two labels are used loosely, and many firms only do one half. Augustova does both, in order: a fixed-price audit when the right first step is not obvious, then the build, by the same people, at the price the audit quoted. When the job is already clear, we skip the audit and quote the build.

Two narrower labels are worth separating out. An AI automation agency builds agents and workflows around processes a business already runs; that is the largest part of our work and it has its own page. An AI marketing agency uses AI to produce campaigns and content, which is a different trade. We do not run advertising or write content; we build the systems that run inside the business.

We work with owner-managed and mid-sized businesses in London and across the UK, and with founders building their first product. The common thread is a job that people do by hand, again and again, where the input arrives in a predictable shape even if it is messy.

We are the wrong agency for a large enterprise programme that needs a bench of data scientists, for training a model from scratch on proprietary data, or for running paid advertising and content. Larger firms and specialist marketing agencies do those jobs, and a comparison of London firms by type is linked below.

We are also the wrong answer when a subscription already does the job. If you only need calls answered and messages taken, self-serve AI receptionist plans start at about £39 a month on published pricing, and building one would waste your money. If you have fewer than ten staff and no repetitive work that costs real hours, give the team a paid ChatGPT or Claude account and three rules about what may not go into it. We will tell you either of those on the first call.

The quickest way to work with us is a Starter package: one problem, one fixed price, live in five to ten working days, running in accounts in your name. Each one has a written scope with acceptance tests. If it is not live within the stated working days of you giving us access (and any third-party approval, such as a phone number check or Meta verification), you do not pay the second half; if it cannot pass the agreed acceptance tests, you get a full refund. We never guarantee hours saved, revenue or conversions.

Two packages are credited forward. The £495 AI Quick Audit is credited in full against a Starter build of £695 or more, or any main service, booked within 90 days of the report. The £995 Find and Fix is credited against a first automation build signed within 60 days of go-live. Care plans are optional; if you stop one, the system keeps running and you pay the vendors directly. Prices exclude VAT.

Above the Starter range, every build is quoted as a fixed price against a written scope, with an explicit list of what is not included. The ranges are wide because scope is wide. What moves a quote within its band is how many systems the work has to talk to, how messy the inputs are, how many types of user there are, and whether it has to run unattended without failing quietly.

Published UK prices for the same kind of work run from roughly £800 to £5,000 for a first workflow and £20,000 to £50,000 and up for multi-system programmes, and several larger London firms will not take a project under £25,000. Our prices sit inside those bands, and we start where most small and mid-sized businesses start: one problem worth £4,000 to £15,000 to solve.

All prices exclude VAT. Market figures are published UK ranges gathered in September 2026, from the surveys linked below.

Onrolo is our own applicant tracking system, used by UK recruitment agencies. It captures applications from job boards and email, screens every CV against the role and explains the score in writing, contacts applicants by SMS and email within minutes of applying, and books interviews straight into the interviewer’s calendar. The published outcomes: more than 90 hours of manual CV screening removed per office each month, and 8 in 10 applicants reaching a booked appointment rather than being lost.

GoRizzume is our careers platform for UK students and graduates. It scores a CV against a specific job advert and rewrites the weak sections, runs spoken interview practice with structured feedback, and turns the public register of licensed visa sponsors, more than 120,000 organisations refreshed daily, into something searchable. It runs on the web, iOS, Android and a browser extension, and is licensed to institutions by seat.

For The UK Driving School in London we built a management platform with AI inside it: a school portal for calls, diary, instructors, pupils and payments, a mobile app for instructors, and an AI voice assistant that answers in the school’s name, quotes the real prices, checks the caller’s area and books into the real diary. Reschedules, complaints and refunds always go to a person, and the assistant must pass 174 scripted test calls before any change goes live. It is live in pilot.

Running our own products means we pay the same per-message and per-model costs our clients will, which is why every quote we write states the running cost at your volume.

It starts with a free 30-minute call with a founder, which ends in one of three answers: an audit, a fixed quote, or an honest reason not to build anything yet. If the right first step is unclear, the audit settles it: the £495 Quick Audit for a small business, or a full AI adoption audit at £2,500 to £6,000 over one to two weeks, credited in full against the build that follows.

The build is fixed price, agreed in writing before anything is built. You see working software on your own real inputs within the first week and a demo every week after, because the messy tenth example teaches more than the ten clean ones. Integration with your systems starts first, since it is usually the longest job. Anywhere money, a person’s rights or regulated data are involved, the agent proposes and a person approves. Cost ceilings are triggered once on purpose before go-live, so you know they fire.

At handover you hold everything: the code, the repositories, the provider accounts and the credentials, all in your name from day one, with documentation, a runbook and a recorded walkthrough so another developer could pick it up without us. Support, if you want it, is a separate monthly line priced in the same document as the build. You can stop paying it and keep the system.

The build price is only half the budget. Every agent has a cost per task, and the model is usually the smallest line: messages, call minutes and platform fees are the ones that grow with volume. A first agent or automation typically costs £50 to £250 a month to run. We state the figure at your volume before go-live and cap it in production.

On the Starter packages the monthly side is fixed and optional: £39 a month for Care Essentials on a single automation, £79 a month on the receptionist (300 AI minutes included, then 20p a minute) and on the website and WhatsApp assistants, and £149 a month for Care Plus on Find and Fix. Everything runs in your accounts, so you see the vendor bills yourself.

Ask every agency the same questions, us included. The answers separate firms that run AI in production from firms that demonstrate it.

Augustova is registered with the ICO (ZC152144) and a data processing agreement is signed before any personal data moves. Each build states which data is processed, by which provider, in which region and on what lawful basis. Where data can stay inside the tools you already use, the design keeps it there.

Agents that talk to customers say they are AI, honour opt-outs on every channel, and never contact anyone on your do-not-contact list. WhatsApp assistants only answer about your own business, as Meta’s terms require, and always offer a route to a person.