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            <h1>About UK AI Automation</h1>
            <p class="hero-subtitle">AI Automation Consultant — Helping Legal & Consultancy Teams Since 2013</p>
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                    UK AI Automation was founded in 2013 by an automation consultant who had spent years building data pipelines and automation systems for financial services clients in London. The insight was simple: businesses — particularly in legal, consultancy, and financial services — were spending enormous amounts of time on manual data work that could be automated.
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                    Over the past decade the focus has shifted from general data collection toward AI-powered automation: extracting structured data from documents, automating research workflows, building data pipelines that connect existing systems, and creating custom AI agents that handle multi-step tasks autonomously. The clients are the same — legal firms, consultancies, financial services businesses — but the tools have moved on significantly.
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                    <p>Data protection is built into every project from the start — not added at the end. I provide full documentation for your compliance records.</p>
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                    <span class="stat-number">10+</span>
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                    Manual data work is a tax on skilled people's time. A paralegal spending two days extracting data from contracts, a consultant manually compiling a competitor report, a compliance officer trawling through regulatory updates — none of that needs to be done by hand anymore.
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                <h3>ICO Registered</h3>
                <p>UK AI Automation is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as a data controller. All data handling practices are fully compliant with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.</p>
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                <h3>Founded 2013</h3>
                <p>Over a decade of AI automation experience, working with legal firms and management consultancies across the UK.</p>
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                <h3>&#163;5M Professional Indemnity</h3>
                <p>Fully insured for professional indemnity and public liability. Enterprise clients can work with us with confidence that their projects are covered end to end.</p>
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                <h3>UK-Based Team</h3>
                <p>All work is done by me, in the UK. No offshore handoffs, no subcontractors. You deal directly with the person writing your code.</p>
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                <h3 style="color: #7c3aed; font-size: 1.6rem; margin-bottom: 24px;">Founder &amp; Lead Engineer — UK AI Automation</h3>
                <p style="font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.7; color: #444; margin-bottom: 20px;">I founded UK AI Automation in 2013 after spending several years building data pipelines and automation systems for financial services firms in London. I kept seeing the same problem: highly skilled people spending hours doing work that automation could handle in minutes.</p>
                <p style="font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.7; color: #444; margin-bottom: 20px;">For the first decade I focused mainly on AI Automation and data collection. Over the last few years the work has shifted substantially toward AI-powered automation — using LLMs to extract data from documents, building research agents that monitor and summarise information automatically, and creating data pipelines that connect systems that were never designed to talk to each other.</p>
                <p style="font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.7; color: #444; margin-bottom: 20px;">I work primarily with law firms and management consultancies. These are organisations where the cost of skilled people's time is high and the volume of manual data work is significant — which makes automation genuinely valuable rather than just interesting.</p>
                <p style="font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.7; color: #444; margin-bottom: 30px;"><strong>Technical background:</strong> .NET/C#, SQL, REST APIs, LLMs and RAG pipelines, ETL and data pipeline tooling, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure). Based in North Walsham, Norfolk.</p>
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