Market snapshot
Pricing for AI Automation agencies in the UK
Of the 11 ai automation agencies on this page, 7 publish 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 (27 rated).
European AI agency hourly rates by country and region →
| Tier | Hourly rate | Agencies |
|---|---|---|
| Budget | €50–99/hr | 6 — iCentric Agency, Found, Opinov8, Softblues, Transparity, Molo Agency |
| Mid-tier | €100–149/hr | 1 — Brainpool |
Team capacity in the UK
Of the 11 agencies on this page, 10 disclose team size. The distribution breaks down as:
- Boutique (<10)2 agencies — 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 — Opinov8, Transparity
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.
iCentric Agency
#4London, 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.
Found
#5London, United Kingdom
Found is a London performance-marketing agency with a data and AI practice covering AI-search visibility, data science and marketing automation, built on its own Luminr and Everysearch tooling.
Opinov8
#6London, United Kingdom
Opinov8 is a London-headquartered engineering firm founded in 2017, running an AI consulting and data practice and its own agent deployment platform alongside cloud and modernization services.
Softblues
#7London, United Kingdom
Softblues is a London AI implementation firm founded in 2014, building multi-agent pipelines, retrieval-augmented support agents, and voice agents for mid-market companies. It is a registered Anthropic Partner Network member.
Transparity
#8London, United Kingdom
Transparity is a UK Microsoft partner running an AI consulting practice across agentic AI, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry. It holds the AI Platform on Microsoft Azure Specialisation and Microsoft Frontier Partner status.
App Web Dev
#9Manchester, 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.
Molo Agency
#10London, United Kingdom
Molo Agency is an AI automation shop on the northern edge of London building agents and workflow automation into the systems small and mid-sized businesses already run.
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.
Industry experience among UK AI Automation agencies
Of the 11 agencies on this page, 10 publish their industry focus. Among those:
| Industry | Agencies with stated experience |
|---|---|
| E-commerce | 7 of 11 — Brainpool, Tom & Co, iCentric Agency, Found, Opinov8, Softblues, Molo Agency |
| SaaS & B2B | 7 of 11 — iCentric Agency, Found, Opinov8, Softblues, Transparity, App Web Dev, Molo Agency |
| FinTech | 5 of 11 — Faculty, Brainpool, Found, Opinov8, Transparity |
| Healthcare | 3 of 11 — Faculty, Softblues, Transparity |
| Public Sector | 2 of 11 — Faculty, Transparity |
| Legal | 2 of 11 — Faculty, Softblues |
| Manufacturing | 2 of 11 — Brainpool, Opinov8 |
Services frequently bundled with AI Automation in the UK
Beyond AI Automation itself, agencies on this page most commonly offer:
- AI Development9 of 11 — Faculty, Brainpool, Tom & Co, iCentric Agency, +5 more
- AI Consulting7 of 11 — Faculty, Brainpool, iCentric Agency, Opinov8, +3 more
- AI Agents7 of 11 — Faculty, Opinov8, Softblues, Transparity, +3 more
- Generative AI4 of 11 — Faculty, Tom & Co, iCentric Agency, Opinov8
- AI Marketing2 of 11 — Found, Opace
- AI SEO1 of 11 — Found
Frequently asked questions — AI Automation in the UK
- How much do AI Automation agencies in the UK charge?
- Of the 11 AI Automation agencies on this page, 7 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 (27 rated). 6 agencies operate under €100/hr: iCentric Agency, Found, Opinov8, Softblues.
- 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, iCentric Agency.
- How recent are these AI Automation agency reviews?
- 6 of the 11 agencies on this page have been editorially reviewed between Aug 4, 2026 and Sep 10, 2026 — the most recent being Opace. See our review methodology for how scores are calculated.
- What's the smallest team size available for ai automation in the UK?
- 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. The automation-first entries are smaller: Molo Agency on London's northern edge, and App Web Dev in Manchester, a single founder whose published evidence is entirely self-built, with no client reference to check. 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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