Sticklebrick is a small, senior team of operators who help established UK businesses adopt AI — carefully, credibly, on top of what they’ve already built. We use the AI partners we trust. We harmonise their work with the data, the processes and the people you already have. And we hand it back with a plan your team can defend.
The first conversation is about your operation, not our technology. What does your team already use. Where does the friction live. What does the board want by the end of the year. We listen. We map. No deck.
By the end of week one we have a one-page picture of the operation and a short list of places AI could earn its keep — and an equally short list of places it can’t.
We do not build foundation models. We have built working relationships with the AI partners that have — the global model labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google), the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and the specialist vertical platforms relevant to your sector.
We pick the right tool for each problem. We are not loyal to a single vendor. We are loyal to the outcome.
Every Sticklebrick engagement extends an existing system. We connect the AI of choice to your ERP, your WMS, your CAFM, your trade counter, your customer portal, your finance system — through their existing APIs, with no rip-and-replace.
Sage, Xero, Elogbooks, Joblogic, BigChange, Mintsoft, Magento, Shopify, Geotab, ABAX, Salesforce, HubSpot — we connect, we don’t compete.
The integration is never a stack of disconnected demos. It is one harmonised solution your operations team can run, your finance team can defend, and your auditors can sign off.
We work with specialist security partners to harden every join — encryption, access control, audit trails. Designed to sit cleanly alongside the ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 you already hold.
A good consultancy makes itself increasingly unnecessary. We deliver, we train, we hand over — and we leave behind a roadmap your team owns.
We remain on call for the next brick when you’re ready. We do not occupy your business indefinitely. We do not bill for hours that aren’t earning their keep.
We map your data, systems and readiness — and tell you honestly where AI can earn its keep, and where it can’t. Starts with the free 10-minute Data Readiness Score; deepens into a half-day on-site audit with a written report and a prioritised list of pilots.
One workflow at a time, with the right AI partner for the job. An OTIF risk monitor, a substitution agent at the picker, an SLA radar at the reactive desk, a customer-pricing assistant at the trade counter, a quoting assistant on the inbox. Six weeks. Defined scope. Measurable result.
We connect the chosen AI into the systems your team already runs — ERP, WMS, CAFM, trade counter, customer portal, finance — through their existing APIs, with a hardened security layer and a full audit trail. Designed to pass an auditor’s review on day one.
Your team operates, monitors and extends what we’ve built — because the brick belongs to you, not to us. We run the sessions, write the runbooks and stay on call until your team is confident. No vendor lock-in. No mystery.
The next bricks, sequenced by value, sized by absorption capacity, defendable to your board. Light-touch monthly retainer for the quarters that follow. You set the pace; we surface the next opportunities.
If AI isn’t the right answer for your problem, we say so. Sometimes a better process, a better system, or a better hire is the right brick. We’d rather you have the truth than the project.
A regional trade distributor came to us with one specific pain: short-picks on next-day orders were eroding OTIF and irritating their largest accounts. We picked a single AI partner suited to the job, connected it to their WMS and ERP through the existing APIs, and built a substitution agent that surfaced approved alternatives at the picker the moment a short was detected.
Six weeks. One workflow. Three trained operators. OTIF up by four points. No new platform. No staff to retrain. The brick went into the wall that was already standing.
We are vendor-independent by design. We’ve built working relationships with the model labs, the cloud providers, and the specialist platforms most likely to be the right brick for a UK operational business.
When the right answer is a small open-source model on your own VPC, we tell you that. When the right answer is a frontier model with zero-retention contracts, we tell you that too. The decision is grounded in your data, your residency requirements, your budget and your risk tolerance — not our partnership economics.
And the next one, as soon as it earns the trust to be added.
We have run the kind of business you run. We know what a real Tuesday morning looks like. The advice you get is grounded in thirty years each of running real operations, not in a research lab.
We are not selling you our own model or our own software. We use whichever AI partner is right for your problem — and we will tell you when AI is the wrong answer altogether.
We move at the speed your business can absorb. We do not promise to transform you in ninety days. We promise to leave you better off than we found you, with a plan you can defend.
For the security posture in detail — encryption, audit, data handling, sub-processors — see Trust & Security.
The fastest way to evaluate us is the 10-minute Data Readiness Score, followed by a 20-minute call. We’ll tell you straight whether AI is the right brick for the next thing you want to build — and which partner we’d use to build it.
