AI consulting, n8n automation and done-for-you implementation for businesses that are ready to hand their repetitive work to systems they own.
You've already built something that works. The question is why so much of your week still goes on copying, chasing and checking.
I work with founders, marketers and small teams who are already winning, yet lose hours every week to admin that a well-built workflow could run in seconds, day and night, without mistakes.
Leads sit in inboxes. Reports get built by hand every Monday. Tools don't talk to each other, so people do the talking for them.
AI tools promised to fix it. Most businesses ended up with ten subscriptions and nothing joined up. The fix is design, then automation.
Time to bring in an automation partner
Four clear services. Each one ends with something working in your business, documented and handed over to you.
For owners and leadership teams who know AI matters but need a plan that fits their business, budget and data.
For teams with specific workflows to automate: lead handling, onboarding, reporting, content and operations.
For businesses that want the whole system delivered: private AI infrastructure, integrations and ongoing care.
For marketers, creators and teams who want to build and maintain automations themselves.
30 minutes on Zoom
2–4 weeks · quoted after your audit
Retainer · cancel any time
Move the sliders to estimate the time and money a set of automations could return each year.
No pitch. No jargon. Just clarity.
Most consultants offer a quick discovery call that turns into a sales pitch. The audit is a working session. You leave with a short list of automations worth building, whether we work together or not.
of how work moves through your business today
where time, leads and money leak out
automations you could have running within weeks
where AI agents help, and where plain automation is better
what to keep, connect or cancel in your current stack
a fixed-fee proposal within 48 hours if we're a fit
Ownership. Partnership. Experience.
Your workflows run on infrastructure you control, not a platform that could vanish next year. Self-hosted where it makes sense, with the freedom to swap AI models as better ones arrive.
Every build ships with documentation and a handover session. My job is to make your team capable, not to keep you on a retainer forever.
Three decades across network engineering, web development, marketing and AI. I'll tell you plainly when something isn't worth automating.
I'm Craig McIntosh. I help businesses replace repetitive work with AI and automation systems they own.
I started as a freelance network engineer in 1993, working on projects for IBM, Fujitsu Siemens, DEFRA and Midlothian Council. I spent the next twenty years building websites and online businesses, took an MSc in Marketing, and now run my own self-hosted AI infrastructure of servers, agents and n8n workflows. Clients get the same systems I use to run my own companies.
Answer five questions. It takes twenty seconds.
Do you repeat the same task more than 5 times a week?
Do leads or customers ever wait hours for a reply?
Is your data spread across tools that don't sync?
Would 10 extra hours a week change your business?
Do you want to own your systems, not rent them?
Answer the questions above to see your result.
Book your audit →Courses and a members' community for marketers and creators who want to run AI and automation in-house.
A paid community with courses, live sessions and templates for modern marketing with AI.
Join the workshop →Build, host and maintain your own n8n workflows and AI agents, step by step.
View the course →Half-day or full-day sessions tailored to your tools, delivered remotely or in Edinburgh.
Enquire about training →25 workflows every small business should be running, with the trigger, the steps and the time each one saves. Sent straight to your inbox.
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Clear steps, fixed scope and working software at the end.
Send a short note about your business. I reply personally, usually the same working day, with audit times.
A 30-minute working session on Zoom. We map your workflows and find the best opportunities.
Within 48 hours you receive scope, timeline and investment. No surprises and no hourly billing creep.
I build in stages and you see progress weekly. Every workflow is tested against real data before launch.
Documentation, a training session and 30 days of support. Then we decide together what to automate next.
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n8n can be self-hosted, so you avoid per-task pricing and keep your data on your own server. It also handles complex logic and AI agents well. If Zapier or Make suits you better, I'll say so.
No. Every build comes with monitoring, documentation and a handover session. Most clients never touch the workflows unless they want to.
Whichever fits the job and budget: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or open models running on private hardware. Workflows are built so the model can be swapped without a rebuild.
Every sprint is a fixed fee, quoted after the free audit so the price matches the real scope. Retainers are billed monthly and can be cancelled at any time.
Yes. I'm based in Edinburgh and work remotely with clients across the UK and internationally.
Where possible it stays on infrastructure you control. I work to UK GDPR and document every data flow in each build.
One 30-minute audit can show you where the next ten hours of your week are hiding.
Tell me a little about your business and what you'd like to automate. I'll reply personally with times for your free audit.
hello@craigmcintosh.com