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№ 01 / AreaBasingstoke · Tameside studio, working UK-wide

AI & Digital Solutions in Basingstoke

AI automation and web work for Basingstoke's industrial and professional businesses — straight-talking, fixed price.

№ 02How we work

How we work

5 hours 5 minutesfrom our Tameside studio
114kpeople served
2founders · one direct line
UK-wideclients from King's Lynn to Rotherham
№ 03About Basingstoke

About Basingstoke

Local context, not stock copy.

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Basingstoke is a genuinely industrial town tucked inside its motorway-accessible location — there's a strong manufacturing and engineering base alongside the better-known insurance and financial services sector around Basing View. Firms like Motorola Solutions have operated here for decades, and the Houndmills and Viables industrial estates support a long tail of engineering, maintenance, and specialist manufacturing businesses that don't get the press that the corporate HQs do. It's those smaller firms — the ones running on spreadsheets, chasing paper invoices, and managing complicated job sheets manually — where we do our most useful work. We've built AI document processing and workflow automation tools for exactly that kind of operation.

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Basingstoke is about five hours from Tameside via the M6, M25, and M3. We work remotely as standard — it suits the kind of projects we take on — but we make the trip when an on-site briefing, a process walkthrough, or a photography day needs doing in person. What you're getting is an agency with real AI Ops engineering experience, not a design studio that's added a chatbot to its service list. Fixed price from £2,000 for AI work, £2,500 for websites. No retainer required unless you want ongoing monthly support.

№ 05Questions

Questions

Working with Basingstoke businesses.

01 Are you able to work with Basingstoke businesses given the distance?

Absolutely. Basingstoke is around five hours from our Tameside base via the M6, M25, and M3. Most of our project work is remote, which works well for digital and AI projects, and we drive down for visits when there's a genuine reason to be on-site.

02 What do you charge for web or AI work?

Websites start at £2,500, AI automation projects at £2,000, and monthly support packages at £175. Fixed price means exactly that — you know what you're paying before we start, and that number doesn't move.

03 There are agencies much closer to Basingstoke — why go to Manchester?

Because proximity doesn't equal suitability. Most local agencies are web generalists. We specialise in AI automation and digital work for SMBs — particularly businesses in manufacturing and engineering — and we've got the real project history to back it up. We also don't carry the overhead of a large local agency, which means better value for the same quality.

04 We're a manufacturing or engineering firm in Basingstoke — what AI work have you done for businesses like ours?

We've built invoice and purchase order matching tools, engineering drawing extraction systems, QC inspection AI for welded parts, and operational dashboards for manufacturers. If your team is managing complex job sheets or supplier documents by hand, there's almost certainly a faster way to do it.

Let's see if we can help.

A 15-minute chat with Chris & Kay. No slides. No pitch deck. You tell us what's on your plate; we follow up by email with real thinking.

Studio81 Penny Meadow, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6EL
HoursMon–Fri · 09:00–17:00 GMT