AI engineering for businesses without an AI team
We find the work AI can take off your staff, set the tools up safely, connect them to the software you already use, and build what's missing. The engineer who scopes your project is the one who builds it.
Tools we work with
Each one is a fixed piece of work with a written scope and price, and each is useful on its own. If it goes well, the next project tends to be obvious.
Not sure where to start
2–3 weeks · Fixed fee
We look at how the business runs and hand you a ranked, costed list of what's worth doing with AI. You can act on it with us, with someone else, or on your own.
Your team already uses AI
2–6 weeks · Fixed price
Move everyone off personal accounts and onto ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini on a business plan, configured properly, with a policy and training.
You know what's wasting time
4–10 weeks · Fixed price, quoted after a call
Pick the process that costs you the most hours. We automate it inside the tools you already use, with a person approving anything that matters.
We also do Custom AI toolsTrainingOngoing supportWebsitesSoftware migration
These are simple on purpose. For most small businesses they're also the projects that make the biggest difference, which is why they usually come first. The more involved work tends to follow once they're running.
Automation
Replies go out in minutes instead of days, and nothing sits unread in a shared inbox.
Typically 3–5 weeks
Custom AI tool
Fewer interruptions for senior staff, and new hires get up to speed faster.
Typically 5–8 weeks
Automation
Hours of manual keying gone each week, with a person still signing off.
Typically 4–6 weeks
Common project types, not specific clients. Yours would be built around your systems and how your team reviews work.
A few patterns that come up again and again in this work. If they match what you're seeing, we should talk.
In most businesses, someone is pasting client details into a personal ChatGPT account. Banning it rarely works. Giving people a business account with sensible settings and clear rules does.
The best returns usually come from dull back-office work: reading emails and forms, keying data, chasing follow-ups, assembling reports. It's less impressive in a demo and pays back far sooner.
Today's models are good enough for most business tasks. What holds projects up is getting clean, permissioned access to the data the AI needs. We check that in the first week, before anyone writes a prompt.
Before launch we run anything we build against a set of real cases from your business, and we leave you that test set. When a model is updated, you can rerun it and see whether anything got worse.
Seat licences are predictable. The bills that jump come from automations calling a model thousands of times a day. Everything we build has logging and a spending limit from day one.
Some problems that look like AI problems are really a missing field in the CRM or a process nobody wrote down. If that's the case, we'll tell you, and it'll cost you a lot less.
Projects we've built, some before Jaxley Group existed. Client names are left out, but we're happy to talk through any of them on a call.
Large engine manufacturer
An application for onboarding suppliers, and the data pipeline that takes what they submit and feeds it into the manufacturer's existing systems.
Consulting firm
Pulling structured data out of long, unstructured documents, review screens that let specialists check AI output quickly, and pipelines connecting several existing platforms. Several were in technical fields we had to learn from scratch.
Global steel manufacturer
A custom web page built for the manufacturer's team.
Client in Toronto
Moving a business off its existing system onto a new platform, including its data.
Moving company, Indianapolis
Website for a newly launched local moving company, built to bring in enquiries from day one.
Jaxley Group is two people. You won't be passed to an account manager or a junior team: the person who scopes your project builds it.
More about usLeads every engagement and does the engineering. Builds production AI systems for larger organisations, and brings the same standards to smaller businesses here: tested against real data, secured properly, and documented so someone else can run it.
Usually the first person you'll speak to. Runs intro calls and proposals, keeps projects on schedule, and makes sure what we build fits how your team works day to day.
Something not covered here? Email us and you'll get a straight answer.
It's 30 minutes: you tell us how the business runs and where time goes, we dig into the processes that cost the most, and we give you our honest view, including rough costs. Within two business days you get a short written summary to keep. There's no obligation and no follow-up pressure. If there's a sensible project, we'll offer a proposal; if not, you still have the summary.
The assessment is a fixed fee. Setups and builds are quoted at a fixed price once we understand the scope, so you know the full cost before agreeing to anything. What drives the price is mostly the number of systems involved and how messy the data is. The AI itself is rarely the expensive part. Ongoing support is a flat monthly fee.
On business and enterprise plans, the major providers don't train their models on your data by default, and you get admin controls over retention and sharing. Consumer and free accounts are a different story, which is why staff using personal accounts is a real risk. Part of every setup is checking those settings one by one.
No. Many of our clients have no IT team. We do the technical work, explain decisions in plain language, and train whoever will own the tools day to day. If you do have IT people, we work alongside them.
Usually the one that fits the software you already run. A business on Microsoft 365 has different sensible options from one on Google Workspace. We don't take commissions or referral payments from any software company, so our recommendation is based only on what suits you.
An assessment takes two to three weeks. A company-wide AI rollout is usually two to six. Automations and custom tools run from four to twelve weeks depending on how many systems are involved. Your proposal will give a specific timeline.
You do. Code, automations, configurations, prompts, and documentation built for you are yours, and everything runs in accounts you control. If you stop working with us, it keeps running.
Yes. Most of the work happens remotely, and we come on site for workshops and working sessions when that helps.
Book a free 30-minute call, or send us a note about what's taking up your team's time. We reply within one business day.