Your team is spending half their week
on things AI should do.

We build the automations and custom software that take it off their plate. Work that used to take a developer days now lands in hours. Fixed-quote pricing, project work or ongoing tech partnership.


How much could automating one of your processes save?

Pick a single manual process the team does every week. Five questions, then the annual cost of doing it the manual way, the annual savings if you automate it, and the payback period in months. Honest numbers, no inflation.

Add up everyone touching it. Include the chasing, the rework, the reporting on it.
Includes salary, NI, pension and overhead. If unsure, mid-level office staff is around £35/hr in 2026.
Mistakes that cause rework, customer complaints, financial corrections or audit issues.
The downstream multiplier varies by task. Customer comms and judgement work carry more downstream value than pure data entry.
Larger builds automate more of the task and reduce more of the error rate. Smaller builds are focused and pay back fast.
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How the current cost breaks down

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Errors (frequency × 12 × 2hr × £60)£0
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This is a 60-second estimate based on the inputs above. Real automation builds are scoped over a 20-minute conversation, free, with a fixed quote before any work starts.

Want the full version with the explainer? Open the standalone calculator.


A team of agents doing the work that used to need people.

Data entry, document processing, invoice handling, customer questions, scheduling, reporting. The repetitive work eating your team's week, now done by AI directed and quality-checked by twenty years of software delivery experience.

The build agents

Websites, new pages, customer portals, back-office tools, integrations with Xero and the systems you already run. Work that used to take a developer days now lands in hours.

The automation agents

The repetitive admin eating your team's week, data entry, invoice chasing, scheduling, report generation, turned into workflows that run themselves.

The search agents

SEO and search visibility. Keeping you found on Google and in AI search, tracking competitors, fixing the silent failures that quietly drop you out of the results.

The watch agents

Monitoring, backups and security around the clock. Catching the broken form or the dead page before it costs you customers.

How much work is that? A single developer ships one or two changes in a week. A directed team of agents gets through the equivalent of several, in the same time. What used to take two or three developer-days lands in a single delivery cycle.

The agents are new. The experience directing them is not.

Digital Signet is run by Oliver Wakefield-Smith. The agents do the volume of the work. The direction, the judgement and the quality control come from more than twenty years of building and shipping software for real businesses, long before AI agents existed.

20+ years
building and shipping software
8 sectors
from utilities to broadcast to finance
Broadcast scale
platforms run live, where downtime is not an option
Built a software engineering function from the ground upTook a fragmented team at a UK media broadcaster to Agile and CI/CD as standard practice.
Architecture for a satellite communications platformLed prototyping and architecture on a strategic programme alongside two of the world's largest enterprise vendors.
Two sports-rights platforms at broadcast scaleShipped and run live during international fixtures, where downtime is not an option.
A field survey platform still running dailyBuilt for a UK engineering firm, in production every day through a corporate acquisition of the business.
Tech lead on critical water-utility servicesTechnical architecture and delivery for national infrastructure systems.
A public benefits platform for a UK charityA high-traffic greenfield service, built for people having the worst day of their year.
Utilities Satellite communications Broadcast media Sports Retail Finance Manufacturing Public sector

"He played a pivotal role implementing a new software engineering function and team within the business. His technical knowledge on coding best practice was excellent, and his capabilities implementing the right culture to enable a previously fragmented team, with limited Agile exposure, to trust and learn from each other was truly exceptional."

Director of Systems, Software and Platform Engineering, UK media broadcaster

Real software, shipped and run.

A sample of delivered work. Client names anonymised, the work is real.

Field engineering

Tablet survey platform at national scale

A tablet-first replacement for a paper-and-laptop survey workflow, with browser-rendered AutoCAD drawings and a master-merge sync portal. Still running daily through a corporate acquisition.

Strategic architecture

Architecture for a satellite communications platform

Six months as Technical Architect on a strategic programme, prototyping the riskiest decisions in code and delivering defensible team-scale estimates.

Sports broadcasting

Two sports-rights platforms at broadcast scale

A five-year embedded engagement. A multi-tenant broadcast events platform, and the public-facing website for a national sports body.


We build the kind of tools we recommend.

Alongside client work we build and run our own production software: independent buyer-research tools, live on the public web. No login walls. Click through and judge the build quality yourself.

itbudgetcalculator.com

Benchmark an IT budget against revenue, headcount and sector data.

siemcostcalculator.com

Model SIEM licensing and operations cost across the major platforms.

mdrcost.com

Managed detection and response pricing, benchmarked across six vendors.

benchmarkingagents.com

Research on how to evaluate and benchmark AI agents.

aijobimpactcalculator.com

What AI changes about a workforce, built on WEF, OECD and BLS data.

worldtrademarksearch.com

A searchable global trademark database, built and run at scale.


Two ways to work with us.

Whether you need a tech function you do not have, or a specific thing built, the same team of agents does the work.

Ongoing

A tech partnership

We become your tech function. Your website, customer portal, back-office tools and automations, built and run for a flat monthly fee. The fastest way for a small business to get a whole tech team without hiring one.

See the tech partnership →
One-off

A bigger build or project

Have a specific system to build, or a larger project in mind? We scope and build it as a one-off piece of work. No retainer required, and existing partnership clients can commission bigger builds alongside their plan.

See project work →

Keen to find out what agents can do for your business?

Let's talk for twenty minutes. No pitch and no obligation. We will look at your business, your tools and where the easy wins are. If it is a fit, brilliant. If not, you will still leave the call with something useful.

Email oliver@digitalsignet.com