Custom AI solutions from Augustova are bespoke AI systems designed, built and deployed for a specific business problem, priced at £8,000 to £25,000 as a fixed price and delivered in two to four weeks. The client owns the code and the provider accounts from day one. We deliver this for businesses in York and across North Yorkshire.
Price range£8,000 to £25,000
TimelineTwo to four weeks to a working system
ServingYork and North Yorkshire
How this usually starts in York
York projects frequently handle customer communication and booking at volume, so a peak season is absorbed by the system rather than by temporary staff.
Why York businesses ask for this
York combines a large visitor economy with rail engineering, bioscience and a professional services base serving North Yorkshire. Businesses here trade against a pronounced seasonal pattern while carrying year round administrative obligations.
Seasonal trade with year round overheads means the quiet months are when the process should be fixed and the busy months are when it fails. Building for the peak is the only honest brief.
Sectors we work with in York
Tourism and hospitalityRail engineeringBioscienceProfessional servicesEducation
What this covers
Natural Language ProcessingComputer VisionRecommendation EnginesPredictive AnalyticsDocument IntelligenceConversational AI
How it runs
01Discovery and scoping workshop
02Architecture design and data audit
03Iterative build with weekly demos
04Testing, deployment and monitoring
05Ongoing iteration and support
What you receive
✓A working system in production, not a prototype on a laptop
✓The repository, the provider accounts and the credentials, in your name
✓Cost instrumentation per request, per feature and per model, with enforced ceilings
✓A runbook, written documentation and a recorded walkthrough
✓A training session for the people who will use it daily
✓A written support arrangement that starts at go live rather than being negotiated afterwards
What this does not include
✗Training a model from scratch when an existing one does the job for a fraction of the cost
✗Data cleaning at a scale that should be its own project, which we scope and price separately
✗A guarantee of accuracy we have not measured on your own data first
Signs this is the right call
Somebody spends hours a week reading, sorting or retyping information that arrives in a predictable shape
A decision gets made the same way every time by a person who has to be available for it to happen
You have been quoted for an AI project and cannot tell whether the number is reasonable
Where projects like this go wrong
The demo that never becomes a product
A model that works on ten hand picked examples usually fails on the eleventh. We test against a sample of your real inputs, including the messy ones, before agreeing that a system is finished.
Cost that scales faster than usage
AI spend fails quietly, because nothing breaks until the invoice arrives. Cost is attributed per request and per feature from the first day, and spending ceilings are triggered deliberately in production before anyone relies on them.
Accuracy nobody agreed on
Good enough has to be a number written down before the build starts. We agree the acceptance threshold and how it will be measured, so finished is a fact rather than an opinion.
Common questions
How much does a custom AI system cost in the UK?
Augustova prices custom AI builds between £8,000 and £25,000 as a fixed price, agreed in writing before any work starts, with an explicit list of what is not included. Larger platform work is quoted per phase so the budget cannot drift mid project.
How long does it take to build a custom AI system?
Two to four weeks from agreed scope to a working system in production. Most delays on projects like these are decisions waiting on somebody rather than engineering time, which is why the scope and the acceptance criteria are agreed in writing before anything is built.
Who owns the code and the accounts?
You do, from day one. The code, the repositories and the provider accounts are yours, and at go live you receive documentation, credentials, a runbook and a recorded walkthrough so another developer could pick the work up.
What if AI is not the right answer to our problem?
We say so. Plenty of problems are better solved with ordinary software, a process change, or nothing at all. The discovery step is paid and its output is yours to keep, so an honest no still leaves you with a written scope you can take anywhere.
custom ai solutions for your York business
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