“We haven't really started.”
Maybe a few people have tried ChatGPT. We'll sit with your team one-to-one, understand the work, and find where AI genuinely helps — and where it doesn't.
A field guide to AI for small teams
AI that fits how your team actually works.
For small teams with big ambitions. We sit with your people, find the few changes that really pay off, and build whatever's missing — at a pace you're comfortable with.
← no jargon, promise
Trusted by teams like
- David A. Fields Consulting Group
- Lab Grown Technologies
- Loopli
- Younger Homes
§1 — Where you're starting from
Every team starts somewhere different.
“We're dabbling, but it's not sticking.”
Some tools, some enthusiasm, not much change. We'll connect what you already use, pick the changes worth making, and help them spread across the team.
“It's working — we want to go much further.”
You've seen the value. We'll build it into how you work properly: deeper integrations, your know-how packaged so everyone can use it, and people building their own tools.
§2 — How it spreads
AI that reaches the whole team, not just the enthusiasts.
There's a name for this: AI diffusion — AI spreading beyond a few keen people into the everyday work of a whole organisation. It doesn't happen by buying a licence. It happens person by person.
- 1
Sit with your people
One-to-one conversations to understand how each person actually works.
- 2
Pick the few that pay off
High-return changes, not AI on everything.
- 3
Connect & build
Wire up the tools you already have, and build what's missing.
- 4
Package your know-how
Turn how your team works into reusable AI skills everyone can use.
- 5
Your team takes it further
People start building their own tools and assets.
§3 — What we build
And when it needs building, we build it.
For anyone who wants the detail — this is the hands-on side of the work.
Custom connectors & integrations
When your systems don't talk to your AI tools and nothing off-the-shelf exists, we write the connector.
Packaged knowledge
Skills and plugins that put your firm's methods, templates and expertise inside the AI tools your team already uses.
Better software delivery
For software teams: bringing AI into how you plan, build, review and ship — your whole development lifecycle (SDLC).
Tools people build themselves
Setting your team up to safely create their own small tools and digital assets.
§4 — A worked example
A leading US consultancy, from zero to building their own tools.
- Before
No AI use at all, on a dated Microsoft setup.
- Then
A connected AI toolkit — Claude, Notion and SharePoint working together.
- Then
The firm's knowledge packaged as skills and plugins anyone can pick up.
- Now
Team members building their own tools and digital assets.
§5 — How we think
Rules of thumb.
- A few changes that pay off beat AI on everything.
- Your security concerns set the pace.
- Plain English, always.
- No long contracts.
- We build what's missing, not what's fashionable.
§6 — About
We want AI to be an equaliser for small organisations — not a threat.
The Automiko Team
Guides & builders
Automiko was founded by Cambridge University alumni, with around 15 years of experience across software engineering, architecture, AI and technical consultancy.
We've worked with consultancies, construction companies, charities and security firms. What they share isn't an industry — it's being too small for an AI team of their own, and wanting to get it right rather than chase the hype.