AI automation agencies in the UK, compared: fifteen firms, their own prices, and who each one suits.

Augustova is an AI automation agency in London, and it is one of the fifteen firms on this page. We wrote it because the question we hear most before anyone buys is not "how much do you charge" but "who else should I talk to, and what do they charge". Most lists that answer it are written by an agency that puts itself first. This one ranks nobody.

We included only UK agencies that publish a price or a clearly scoped fixed package on their own website, and we read every figure on the firm’s own page on 19 October 2026. Where a firm’s page and its blog disagree, we say so. Where a firm we had cited before no longer publishes a price, or its site was down, we left it out and list it in the method section. We have no commercial relationship with any of the others.

Prices are each firm’s own, as published, excluding VAT unless the firm says otherwise. "Not published" means we could not find the figure on the firm’s pages, not that it is expensive. "Best for" is our one-line summary of what each firm says about itself; it is not a ranking, and neither is the order.

Read on 19 October 2026 from each firm’s own pages, linked in the method section. Excludes VAT where stated; The Automation Agency says it is not VAT registered. Firms change their prices; check the linked page before relying on a figure.

The medians below come from the UK AI Price Index, which records each firm’s own published figures. Each firm counts once per tier, at the midpoint of its published range or at its "from" price, so a firm that publishes a wide range is not counted twice. A "from" price is a floor, which pulls the medians down slightly; treat them as the middle of what firms advertise, not the middle of what buyers end up paying.

All figures exclude VAT where the firm states it. Augustova is included in each tier where it publishes a price. The full rows, with sources, are in the price index and its CSV.

Three patterns stand out once the fifteen are side by side, and each changes how you should read a quote.

First, the spread is about the method, not the margin. The cheapest first workflows (Antek from £250, The Automation Agency from £500, Flowio from £750, Crownbot from £800) are mostly simple builds, often on n8n, Make or Zapier, connecting tools that already talk to each other. The dearest (Rocking Tech’s £6,000 workflow, The AI Consultancy’s agentic tiers from £15,000, Ronins’ proof of concept from £12,000) are written in code, read messy inputs and make judgement calls. Both can be the right buy. A quote is only cheap or dear against the job.

Second, running costs are usually outside the price. Crownbot excludes model usage, WhatsApp message fees and any paid tool the build sits on. The AI Consultancy puts inference at typically £200 to £3,000 a month on top of its fee. Softomate excludes licences, hosting and usage, and MQLFlow excludes software fees. Rocking Tech is one of the few to publish a running-cost figure, £40 to £150 a month for a workflow, paid by the client directly. If a quote does not state the monthly running cost at your volume, ask for it before you compare.

Third, credited audits are common and worth having. Five of the fifteen credit the audit fee against the build (Crownbot, The Automation Agency, FiveForward, Rocking Tech and Augustova), with windows of 30 to 90 days. AutoMazen starts with a free audit. Seven of the fifteen do not say whether their prices include VAT, which on a £5,000 build is a £1,000 question.

Grouped by what each firm says it does and who it says it serves. Several firms fit more than one group.

A first automation is one process, connected to the tools you already use, live in one to three weeks, with a few weeks of support. Across the fourteen firms that publish a first-workflow price, the median is £2,125. As a rule of thumb from these prices: under £1,500 buys a low-code workflow between well-supported apps; £1,500 to £6,000 buys a workflow with an AI step that reads, classifies or drafts; above £6,000 buys something written in code that handles messy inputs, several systems and a person approving the risky decisions.

Then add the monthly cost, which is two lines: what the agency charges to look after it (from £99 to £3,500 a month where published, with most under £500), and what the tools and AI usage cost you directly. For a small business the second line is often £10 to £150 a month; the running cost calculator works it out for chat, phone and documents from the providers’ published rates.

Six questions separate these firms faster than any ranking.

Whichever firm you choose, the proposal should let you compare like with like. If any of these is missing, ask for it before you sign.

Published timelines line up with the tiers. Simple low-code workflows go live in one to two working days at Antek and within about a week at Crownbot. A first workflow with an AI step takes one to three weeks at AI Agency Plus and two to three weeks at Rocking Tech. Larger builds take three weeks (Crownbot’s Operations tier) to four to eight weeks (Softomate) and six to ten weeks (Rocking Tech’s Engine and The AI Consultancy’s starter agent). The step that most often slips is not the AI but integration: access to the systems the automation has to read and write.

The question that matters most at the end is who owns what. Ask for the workflows, prompts, code and every platform and AI account to sit in your name from the start, with credentials handed over and a runbook. If the agency holds the accounts, cancelling the retainer can mean losing the system. Where the automation processes personal data, the agency is usually your processor under UK GDPR, so you need a data processing agreement, a list of the sub-processors (the AI provider, the platform), and to know where the data is processed.

Automations that call or message people have extra rules: consent or a lawful basis, an opt-out honoured on every channel, and, for calls, a clear statement that the caller is an AI. Ask how the firm enforces a do-not-contact list across channels.

Augustova sells the audit, the build and the running from one team: the audit and every build at fixed published prices, the running at a price written into the same document before go-live, with the monthly AI running cost stated before anything goes live. We are one of five agencies on this page that credit the audit fee against the build, and we run AI agents in production in two products of our own, Onrolo and GoRizzume. We are one of the fifteen, so this entry is kept apart from the comparison and uses the same terms. We are at 60 Tottenham Court Road, London, and build on n8n, Zapier and Make where they fit and in code where they do not. Every price below excludes VAT and is agreed in writing.

We are not the cheapest at the first rung: several firms above publish a first workflow under £1,000, and for one simple connection between two apps they may be the better buy. The quickest way to find out whether we fit is a free 30-minute consultation; it ends in an audit, a fixed quote, or a recommendation to talk to one of the firms above.

From our own pricing page. We are the wrong choice for enterprise programmes and for one-off jobs that a £300 low-code build would do.

Firms were found through the Google results and AI answers for "AI automation agency UK", "AI automation agency London", "AI automation services" and "automation consultant", through the agencies named in the roundups that rank for those searches, and through firms already cited in our automation cost guide. A firm qualified only if its own site published a price or a clearly scoped fixed package. Every figure was read on the firm’s own page on 19 October 2026; no figure comes from a roundup or a directory.

Dropped since our earlier survey, and why: London Axion (its site returned an error on every attempt), ElevateAI (it no longer publishes its own prices), AI Workforce (the cited page is gone and the site now sells software), Fulminous Software (its figures are market averages, not its own prices) and AI Agency Plus’s cost guide (its table is a market survey; we now cite its own service page). Considered and left out: Automaly (no base or tools stated), OpScaling (an hourly rate of £90 plus VAT only, no packages) and several agencies with no published prices.

Augustova is on this page. To limit the obvious bias we used the same columns and the same sources for every firm, wrote "best for" from each firm’s own description, put ourselves in a separate section, ranked nobody, and named firms that are cheaper than us. If a fact here is out of date, email us and we will correct it.