A private AI advisory·West Midlands, United Kingdom
Done-for-you AI, built on your own accounts, at a fixed fee.
Pathways Intelligence deploys AI inside owner-managed businesses — quietly, properly, and without disruption. We build on your own systems, explain everything in plain English, and agree the fee before we begin.
Fixed fees Your accounts, your keys, your data No lock-in
IThe position
Most firms are dabbling with AI. Almost none have deployed it properly.
The rest are experimenting in the margins — a trial licence here, a chatbot there — with little to show for it. Pathways Intelligence exists to close that gap for you: to take AI from something you have been meaning to look into, to something quietly at work in your business. Properly deployed. Without disruption.
IIEngagements
Three ways to engage us — each at a fixed fee, agreed in writing.
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The Audit
£1,500 fixed
One to two weeks. We identify three to five quantified opportunities in your business and set them out in a plain-English report, with the one worth starting first.
The fee is credited in full against a subsequent build — and refunded entirely if we cannot find five opportunities that would pay for themselves.
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The Build
£3,000–£6,000 fixed, per solution
We build and configure a single solution on your own accounts, live within weeks. One contained problem, properly solved — not a year-long project, and never a day-rate.
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The Retainer
£450 per month
Quiet, continuous stewardship: monitoring, refinement, and quarterly counsel on what to consider next.
No lock-in — thirty days’ notice, whenever you wish.
IIIThe Pathways principles
How we work. Stated plainly, and kept.
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Your accounts, your keys, your data — always.
We build on your own systems. Nothing of consequence ever rests on ours.
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Fixed fees, agreed in writing.
You know the cost before we begin. There are no day-rates and no surprises.
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A human signs off everything.
Every engagement is checked and approved by a person before it reaches you.
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We are open about using AI to deliver — that is the point.
It is how we work quickly and hold our fees fixed. We would far rather say so.
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No lock-in. Everything we build remains yours.
Should we part ways, you keep every account, workflow and record. Nothing switches off.
IVSectors
The businesses we serve — and one thing we would do for each.
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Manufacturing & Engineering
Turning a specification into an accurate quotation — drafted automatically for you to check, rather than compile.
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Construction & Trades
A missed call is a missed job. An assistant that answers, books the work in, and hands to a person the moment it matters.
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Wholesale & Distribution
Invoices and reconciliation prepared in advance, so the books begin tidy rather than in a shoebox.
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Professional Practices
Client intake, contracts and case papers read, sorted and summarised the moment they arrive.
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Healthcare Practices
Appointment reminders that quietly reduce no-shows, without anyone having to ring round.
VThe principal
Jacob Putt
Pathways Intelligence is led by Jacob Putt, who works with a small number of owner-managed businesses across the West Midlands and, from there, the wider United Kingdom.
He scopes, builds and signs off every engagement personally — there is no account manager, and no offshore team.
VIIn plain terms
A few questions, answered plainly.
Will this suit my business?
That is precisely what the Audit is for. In a week or two we identify real, quantified opportunities in how you actually work — not a generic pitch. If we cannot find at least five worth doing, the fee is returned.
What will it cost to run afterwards?
Only your own subscriptions — typically £20 to £100 a month, and held in your name — together with the retainer, should you choose it. There is no platform fee payable to Pathways Intelligence.
Is our data secure?
Structurally, yes. We build on your own accounts and your own storage, so your data never passes through ours. You decide, at all times, who may see it.
Do you use AI to do the work?
Yes — plainly and deliberately. It is how we keep fees fixed and turnaround in weeks rather than months. Every engagement is checked and signed off by a person before it reaches you.
What if something needs attention later?
On the retainer, we attend to it — that is its purpose. Without one, you are welcome to call and we charge for the time. Either way you own the whole of it, so you are never left waiting on us.