ArchelWhere most businesses are
Most businesses have tried AI. Few have it doing the work.
A few people use ChatGPT. Nobody can see what's working. The systems still don't talk to each other, so the admin hasn't gone anywhere.
Scattered
A few AI tools, used by a few people, each on their own.
Joined up
One process at a time: mapped, simplified and signed off before anything is automated.
Running
AI doing the work across the business, with a person deciding where it matters.
What we build
The systems, in plain English.
"AI and automation" can mean anything. These are the systems we design, build and run. Each one has the same job: give your team their hours back.
Back-office automation
The admin that fills your team's week: invoices, scheduling, approvals, CRM updates, data entry. Done from start to finish, with a person signing off where it matters.
Website AI agent
Answers your visitors from your own information and sends you the enquiry.
Quotes and proposals
Drafted from your own templates and prices, then chased until the customer answers.
Document handling
A voice note from the van becomes finished paperwork the same day.
Reporting that sends itself
The weekly numbers, pulled from the systems you already run, ready before the meeting.
Company brain
Ask your business a question. Get the answer, with the source.
The answers already exist. They're in the CRM, the accounts, a shared drive and someone's inbox. A company brain connects them, so your team asks once instead of asking each other.
- What did we quote that customer in March?
- Which quotes have gone quiet this week?
- Which supplier has the shorter lead time?
- What's booked in for tomorrow?
- What's our policy on deposits?
Your systemsCRMAccountsShared driveInbox and diary
Company brainAnswers from your own records
Your peopleSalesQuotes and customersFinanceInvoices and paymentsOperationsJobs and the diaryNew starterProcedures only
Each person sees only what you allow. It finds and drafts. A person still decides, and nothing goes to a customer on its own.
Where to start
The AI audit. An assessment of where AI pays for itself.
- A 30-minute callFree. We work out whether the problem is not enough work, or not enough hours for the work you have.
- The auditWe follow real jobs through the business and talk to the people who do them.
- A written planYour top three opportunities, costed against your own numbers and ranked by payback.
- Build and handoverIf it's worth doing, we build it, train your team to use it and stay on to support it.
We don't start with AI
First we ask whether the job needs doing at all. Then we simplify it. We automate last.
Hours are not money
Saved hours only count if spend stops, a hire is avoided, or waiting work gets done.
Fixed fee, money back
If the audit doesn't pay for itself, you get your money back.
What it's costing you
If 5 people each lose 6 hours a week to work a system could do, at £25 an hour, that's a year.
Change the blue numbers to yours. That's 1,380 hours a year, on 46 working weeks. Not all of it can be handed over. The AI assessment tells you how much can.
Who it's for
Built for businesses with moving parts.
Archel is for you if
- Staff and departments hand work to each other
- Your software doesn't talk to your other software
- Someone senior is still doing admin at night
Archel Systems
Run a local service business?
Archel Systems is the ready-made version: website, Google listing, review requests, missed-call text-back and follow-up, live in 14 days. If it's you and a small team, start there.
Local business systemsInsights
Straight answers on AI at work.
Planned
Planned
Hours are not money: working out what automation is worth
Planned