We write up what we learn building software and advising UK companies on adopting AI safely.
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UK first-look prices for an AI-built app run from £250 to £4,500. Hardening takes two to four senior engineer weeks and a rebuild £35,000 to £80,000.
12 November 2026 · 10 min read · product
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Where AI pays in a UK business, and the rules that come with it.
What goes wrong in apps built with Lovable, Bolt.new or Replit, and how to put it right.
What investors check before a round, and how to be ready when they do.
Offline field apps, marketplace payments and the decisions that are hard to undo.
10 November 2026
9 min read
Scheduling, evidence capture, report drafting, anomaly flagging and chasing pay for themselves in field work. Autonomous customer messaging never does.
industry · ai
5 November 2026
9 min read
Harden it, usually. A decision table for a vibe-coded app: what forces a rebuild, when refactoring one area is enough, and what each path takes and costs.
product
3 November 2026
10 min read
An agent reaches your systems through named tools you wrote, not a database connection. How we scoped each tool by mutation class, and when we skipped MCP.
ai · engineering
29 October 2026
10 min read
Since 5 February 2026, UK GDPR Articles 22A to 22D govern automated decisions. What changed, where the old limits still bite, and the safeguards to build.
ai · regulation
27 October 2026
10 min read
Health data is special-category data, so an AI feature needs a lawful basis and an Article 9 condition. Five questions to answer before writing a prompt.
industry · regulation
22 October 2026
13 min read
UK AI consultancy prices read on 28 October 2026: assessments from £997 to £10,000, pilots from £15,000, day rates by provider type, and when to buy none.
ai
20 October 2026
11 min read
A guardrail is code that holds when a model ignores its instructions. Six patterns from a public assistant we build, and how to pick which rules get code.
ai · engineering
15 October 2026
11 min read
Start with who can read whose data. The checks we run on apps built with Lovable, Bolt.new or Replit, in the order they hurt, and how to run each yourself.
engineering
13 October 2026
9 min read
AI can read, draft and flag in regulated inspection work; the pass or fail stays with a named person. Where the line sits, and the audit trail behind it.
industry · ai
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