20 hrs/week reclaimed
Northgate Legal
AI intake agent handles initial client qualification, scheduling and document collection. The partners stopped doing administrative work entirely and the firm grew 30% without hiring.
AI Automation
Reduce manual work. Automate repetitive processes. Scale operations.
Practical, deployed AI automations that quietly do the work your team shouldn't be doing manually. No demos, no theatre — systems that run every day and pay back their build cost in weeks.
Save time. Reduce costs. Scale operations.
Common challenges
If any of these sound familiar, we should talk.
Your team spends hours on work no one should still be doing manually.
Quoting, onboarding, data entry, status updates, document processing, chasing emails. The volume creeps up, you hire to absorb it, and margins quietly erode. AI automation removes the work entirely — not by adding another tool, but by replacing the manual step.
Leads sit in inboxes for hours before anyone responds.
Response time is the single biggest predictor of conversion. We build AI agents that qualify, route and respond to leads within seconds — 24/7 — and hand the warm ones straight to your sales team.
Customer support eats every hour of your week.
AI support copilots handle the routine 60–80% of tickets instantly, in your tone of voice, with full audit trails — and escalate the rest cleanly to a human.
Your internal knowledge lives in twelve places and three people's heads.
We build internal knowledge assistants that read your wikis, documents, Slack history and emails — so any employee can get an accurate, instant answer instead of pinging the busiest person in the company.
Our approach
How we solve it.
01
Lead qualification automation
An always-on AI agent that engages new enquiries the moment they arrive, qualifies them against your ICP, books the call and writes the brief into your CRM.
02
Customer support AI agents
Tone-matched support agents that resolve routine tickets instantly, with full handover to humans for the rest. Cuts response time by 90%, cuts ticket volume by 60%.
03
CRM & workflow automation
Removes the swivel-chair work between your tools — leads, deals, invoices, follow-ups, status updates — so your team focuses on the work that actually requires a human.
04
Document processing
Extracts, validates and structures data from PDFs, invoices, contracts and forms. Hours of manual entry become seconds of automated processing.
05
Internal knowledge assistants
Private, secure assistants trained on your own documentation, policies and product knowledge. Every employee gets the answer instantly.
What we deliver
AI Automation services.
Lead qualification automation
Instant 24/7 qualification, routing and CRM handover.
Customer support AI agents
Resolve the routine, escalate the rest, sound exactly like you.
CRM automation
End the swivel-chair work between your sales and ops stack.
Workflow automation
Bespoke automations across your existing tools — Zapier on steroids.
Internal knowledge assistants
A private, secure assistant trained on your own data.
Document processing
Automated extraction and structuring of unstructured documents.
Our process
Discover → Design → Build → Launch → Optimise.
- 01
Discover
We start with a focused discovery session to understand your business, your customers, and the commercial outcome the work needs to drive. No generic templates — every engagement begins with a real conversation about what success looks like.
- 02
Design
We translate the discovery into a clear strategy, scope and visual direction. You sign off on what you're getting, what it costs, and when it lands before a line of code is written.
- 03
Build
Senior practitioners build in tight, weekly sprints with live demos. You always know what's happening, what's next, and what's at risk. No surprises, no scope drift, no juniors learning on your dime.
- 04
Launch
We handle the boring-but-critical launch work — DNS, redirects, analytics, performance, accessibility, monitoring — so the go-live is calm and the day-one numbers are clean.
- 05
Optimise
Launch is a milestone, not a finish line. We measure, learn and iterate so the work compounds month-over-month instead of decaying the moment it ships.
Results
Outcomes our clients can point to.
92% faster onboarding
Atlas Bookkeeping
End-to-end automated client onboarding — document collection, classification, validation, CRM creation, welcome sequence. What took five days now takes under four hours.
60% support ticket deflection
Harbourcraft
An AI support copilot that handles 6 out of 10 inbound queries instantly, in the brand's voice, and escalates the rest with full context. Customer satisfaction up, response time down.
Frequently asked
Questions we get a lot.
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AI Automation
Have a process worth automating?
Bring us the slow, manual or repetitive part of your business. We'll tell you in 30 minutes whether AI can fix it, what it would cost, and what it would pay back.
Testimonials
What founders say about working with us.
4.9 / 5 across 60+ reviews
"Lucida rebuilt our website and our enquiry pipeline tripled in three months. They feel like part of our team."
Hannah Roberts
Founder, Wren & Bell Interiors
"Their AI automations now handle quoting, onboarding and follow-ups. We've reclaimed twenty hours a week."
Daniel Okafor
Director, Northgate Legal
"Strategic, calm and rigorous. The kind of agency you wish you'd hired three years earlier."
Priya Shah
CEO, Meridian Wellness