AI and software development in Derby
Augustova builds custom AI systems, websites, web and mobile applications and business automations for companies in Derby and across Derbyshire. Fixed price, agreed against a written scope, typically two to four weeks to a working system. We run our own software in production, so the work is done by the people who carry it.
Working in Derby
Derby is one of the most concentrated engineering economies in the country, built around aerospace and rail manufacturing and the deep supply chain that serves them. Quality, traceability and change control obligations here are set by customers operating to safety critical standards.
Derby holds one of the densest engineering concentrations in the United Kingdom, anchored by aerospace and rail manufacturing with a deep local supply chain feeding both. Because the end products are safety critical, the documentation, traceability and change control expectations that flow down to small suppliers are unusually strict and are contractual rather than advisory.
In safety critical supply chains a change that propagates through some documents and not others becomes a quality failure. Encoding the propagation is a control rather than a convenience.
Who we tend to work with here
Also covering
Burton upon Trent, Ilkeston, Belper, Ripley, Long Eaton, Ashbourne.
What we build for Derby businesses
What Derby businesses keep asking us to fix
Engineering change control by hand
A design change must propagate through documentation, tooling and inspection. When propagation is manual, a missed step becomes a quality escape rather than an inconvenience.
Traceability demanded by a larger customer
Suppliers must evidence materials, process and inspection to their customer standard. Meeting that with spreadsheets is an audit risk as well as an administrative cost.
Expert process held by one person
The person who knows how a part is really made is often approaching retirement, and none of it is written down.
Questions from Derby businesses
Can you improve engineering change control?
Yes. The failure mode is a change that propagates through some documents and not others, surfacing later as a quality problem. Encoding the propagation so each step is recorded turns a memory exercise into a system guarantee.
Our most experienced person is retiring. Can their process be captured?
Usually yes, and it is one of the better reasons to build software. The work is structured interviews to surface the rules, then encoding them so routine cases follow the method and unusual ones escalate to somebody who now has time for them.
Working with Derby businesses
We are London based and work with clients in Derby remotely, with visits when a project needs them. Tell us what your team still does by hand every week.