Market snapshot
Pricing for AI Automation agencies in the UK
Of the 12 AI automation agencies on this page, 8 carry complete hourly rate ranges. Across them, rates span €45–€175, with a median around €108/hr. Across the register, rated agencies in the UK bill €65–110/hr (28 rated).
“Of the 12 AI automation agencies in the UK on AIAgencies.eu, 8 carry an hourly rate range, from the agency itself or a third-party directory; the median of those 8 is about €108/hr (November 2026).” https:/
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European AI agency hourly rates by country and region →
| Tier | Hourly rate | Agencies |
|---|---|---|
| Budget | Under €100/hr | 3—Softblues, Opinov8, Molo Agency |
| Mid-tier | €100–149/hr | 3—Found, iCentric Agency, Transparity |
| Premium | €150–199/hr | 2—Brainpool, Kelriva AI |
Team capacity in the UK
Of the 12 agencies on this page, 11 disclose team size. The distribution breaks down as:
- Boutique (<10)3 agencies—Kelriva AI, App Web Dev, Molo Agency
- Small/mid (10-49)4 agencies—Brainpool, iCentric Agency, Softblues, Opace
- Mid studio (50-99)2 agencies—Tom & Co, Found
- Large studio (100+)2 agencies—Transparity, Opinov8
Ranked agencies
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Faculty
#1London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 3 documented clients overall
Best for: Enterprises and public bodies that need AI deployed under regulatory or safety scrutiny.
Brainpool
#2London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 3 documented clients overall
Best for: Operators with a measurable production bottleneck AI can remove—from timber design queues to e-commerce pipelines.
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Tom & Co
#3London, United Kingdom
Tom & Co is a London e-commerce agency building Adobe Commerce and headless storefronts for retail brands, with a separate AI practice covering generative imagery and workflow automation.
Found
#4London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 8 documented clients overall
Best for: UK consumer brands in retail, insurance and hospitality that want AI applied inside paid search, SEO and campaign data.
iCentric Agency
#5London, United Kingdom
iCentric Agency is a London and Bedfordshire digital consultancy building custom platforms for enterprise clients, with machine-learning pricing, document processing and agentic tooling among its published specialisms.
Transparity
#6London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 8 documented clients overall
Best for: UK enterprises, charities and public bodies already on Microsoft 365 and Azure that want Copilot adopted and governed.
Softblues
#7London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 5 documented clients overall
Best for: Early-stage B2B product teams and smaller UK or Irish firms scoping a first voice agent, agent pipeline or Claude rollout.
Kelriva AI
Verified: the agency confirmed ownership from a company email address, and the listing passed editorial review#8London, United Kingdom
Kelriva AI is a London AI consultancy that builds document processing systems and AI agents for UK businesses, with a focus on regulated sectors such as financial services. We automate the extraction, checking and routing of data from contracts, KYC files, compliance filings and invoices, and build LangGraph agents that take over multi-step approval and review workflows. Every engagement is scoped in writing and delivered at a fixed fee. We work vendor-neutral and build on the systems a business already uses.
Opinov8
#9London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 6 documented clients overall
Best for: Teams adding cloud, data or modernization engineers who want AI coding tools applied to that delivery.
App Web Dev
#10Manchester, United Kingdom
App Web Dev is a Manchester practice building autonomous agent systems and workflow automation for UK businesses, run by a single founder who brings in collaborators per project.
Opace
#11Birmingham, United Kingdom
Opace is a Birmingham digital consultancy running an AI practice across chatbots, agents, process automation and AI-driven marketing for UK businesses.
Molo Agency
#12London, United Kingdom
Molo Agency is a north London digital studio designing websites and running SEO and paid media for small and mid-sized UK businesses, with AI agent and automation services on offer.
Industry experience among UK AI Automation agencies
Of the 12 agencies on this page, 11 publish their industry focus. Among those:
| Industry | Agencies with stated experience |
|---|---|
| E-commerce | 7 of 12 — Brainpool, Tom & Co, Found, iCentric Agency, Softblues, Opinov8, Molo Agency |
| SaaS & B2B | 7 of 12 — Found, iCentric Agency, Transparity, Softblues, Kelriva AI, Opinov8, App Web Dev |
| FinTech | 6 of 12 — Faculty, Brainpool, Found, Transparity, Kelriva AI, Opinov8 |
| Healthcare | 3 of 12 — Faculty, Transparity, Softblues |
| Public Sector | 2 of 12 — Faculty, Transparity |
| Legal | 2 of 12 — Faculty, Softblues |
| Manufacturing | 2 of 12 — Brainpool, Opinov8 |
Services frequently bundled with AI Automation in the UK
Beyond AI Automation itself, agencies on this page most commonly offer:
- AI Development10 of 12 — Faculty, Brainpool, Tom & Co, iCentric Agency, +6 more
- AI Consulting8 of 12 — Faculty, Brainpool, iCentric Agency, Transparity, +4 more
- AI Agents8 of 12 — Faculty, Transparity, Softblues, Kelriva AI, +4 more
- Generative AI4 of 12 — Faculty, Tom & Co, iCentric Agency, Opinov8
- AI Marketing2 of 12 — Found, Opace
- AI SEO1 of 12 — Found
Frequently asked questions — AI Automation in the UK
- How much do AI Automation agencies in the UK charge?
- Of the 12 AI Automation agencies on this page, 8 publish complete hourly rate ranges. They range from €45 to €175, with a median around €108. Across the register, rated agencies in the UK bill €65–110/hr (28 rated). 3 agencies operate under €100/hr: Softblues, Opinov8, Molo Agency.
- Which are the top-rated AI Automation agencies in the UK?
- Based on our editorial scoring (portfolio quality, business credibility, and case study depth), the top-ranked AI Automation agencies in the UK are Faculty, Brainpool, Tom & Co. See the full review on each agency's profile.
- Are there UK AI Automation agencies specializing in E-commerce?
- Yes — 7 agencies on this page list E-commerce experience. Top examples include Brainpool, Tom & Co, Found.
- How recent are these AI Automation agency reviews?
- 11 of the 12 agencies on this page have been editorially reviewed between Aug 4, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026 — the most recent being Molo Agency. See our review methodology for how scores are calculated.
- What's the smallest team size available for ai automation in the UK?
- Kelriva AI, App Web Dev, Molo Agency are the boutique studios (under 10 people) on this page, ideal for projects needing senior-level attention without large-team overhead.
Local Insight
AI Automation Agencies in the UK
Most of the UK firms selling AI automation do something else for a living, and that is the first thing to notice here. Found is a London performance-marketing agency with automation built on its own Luminr and Everysearch tooling. Tom & Co is an e-commerce shop first—Adobe Commerce and headless storefronts for LeMieux, Oliver Bonas and Agent Provocateur—with an AI practice behind it. iCentric is a platform consultancy whose automation evidence is a carrier rate-card system that replaced a twenty-year-old spreadsheet process, with a full audit trail over approvals. Transparity comes at it as a Microsoft partner through Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry, and Opace runs automation inside a wider Birmingham digital practice. App Web Dev in Manchester is smaller and automation-first, a single founder whose published evidence is entirely self-built, with no client reference to check. Molo Agency, a north London studio whose published case studies are websites, SEO and paid media, offers automation without a published client AI deployment. Faculty AI and Brainpool treat automation as applied AI rather than as a service line.
That mix decides how to read a quote, because a platform configuration and a custom build never price alike—published bands here run €45-175 an hour, and the gap is operating model more than skill. Screen on three things: who operates the system after handover, what a month of running it costs, and where the human sits. Tom & Co queue every generated image for manual approval before it goes live, and that approval step is what separates a working automation from a demonstration; any candidate should be able to describe its equivalent without preparation. If nobody can say what happens when the automation is wrong on a Saturday night, the thing being sold is a subscription to its builder.
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