Green rolling meadow with scattered pine trees and distant wooded hills

AI automation consultant · UK hospitality & operations-heavy SMEs

You didn't start your business to do admin

Get back
to the
dream.

Custom AI automation and better systems for hospitality and other operations-heavy businesses. Machines take the machine work; your people take the work that grows it — from the Sunday-night rota to the systems a multi-site group runs on.

Book a free readiness call How it works

Start here

£1,500

Discovery Week — a costed plan in five days · money back if there's nothing worth building · builds £3k–£20k

Sound familiar?

The dream is still there. It's just buried.

Whatever you opened your business to do, I'd bet it wasn't this:

Sun · 21:40

Laptop open on the sofa, building next week's rota. Again.

Mon · 07:15

Typing invoices from emails into the accounts system, one by one.

All day · every day

Answering the same customer question for the fortieth time this week.

Thu · 23:05

Copy-and-pasting numbers into a report nobody enjoys making.

Every Thursday

Your best manager builds reports instead of running the floor.

Every new site

Adds admin faster than it adds revenue.

None of that is the business you dreamed of — and none of it is the job your team applied for. All of it can be fixed.

The climb

Same hill. Different summits.

For some, the dream is a Sunday off. For others it's the second site, or a team that loves the work again. Wherever you're starting, there's a next step up.

01 · The Foothills

Breathing room.

The admin, gone. Rotas that build themselves. Invoices that file themselves. An inbox that answers the easy questions and only brings you the real ones. This is where most people start — and for some businesses, it's enough.

Evenings, back.

02 · The Climb

Your best people, back.

Your best people, taken off the work a machine should do and put back on the work only they can do. Managers on the floor instead of in spreadsheets. Systems that handle the routine and interrupt a human only for the exceptions.

More capacity — without more headcount.

03 · The Summit

A business that runs on systems.

Not on your memory and your team's goodwill. Processes that work the same on every shift and every site. Numbers you trust without assembling them by hand. The kind of operation you can grow — or step back from — because it no longer needs you in every decision.

The view.

EVERY ENGAGEMENT CLIMBS AT YOUR PACE. NOBODY'S PUSHED PAST THE SUMMIT THEY CAME FOR.

Wherever you're starting — book a free readiness call

Don't take my word for it.

I'm a new consultancy, so I won't dress up invented case studies. Here's independent, named research instead:

91%

of small businesses using AI say it directly boosts their revenue.

Salesforce — survey of 3,350 SMBs, Dec 2024
45%

of UK hospitality operators already use AI somewhere in their business.

Access Hospitality, 2025
25%

reduction in admin costs is typical when routine processes are automated.

McKinsey, 2024

The first step — and the only one you commit to

The Discovery Week

£1,500 · fixed · five days

Five days inside your operation — on the floor and in the numbers. Some processes shouldn't be automated; some shouldn't exist at all. You get:

  • 01 Every process mapped — and sorted into three piles: automate it, redesign it, or kill it entirely
  • 02 Each one costed in hours per week — yours and your team's
  • 03 A prioritised plan in plain English: what to change first, and why
  • 04 Fixed quotes for each build — no estimates that drift

The plan is yours to keep. Build with me, build with someone else, or build it in-house.

The promise

If there's nothing worth building, I'll tell you — and refund you.

A few days into Discovery, if I can't see changes that will clearly pay for themselves, I'll say so, refund the full £1,500, and we'll part as friends. I don't build things that don't earn their keep.

And if we do go ahead, the £1,500 comes off your build — so Discovery costs nothing either way.

The risk sits with me, not you.

How it works

Three steps. No lock-in.

Step 1

Discovery Week

A week inside your operation. Every time-eating process found, costed and prioritised into a plan with fixed quotes.

£1,500 · backed by the promise
Step 2

The build

I build in the order that gives you the most capacity back soonest — working with the tools you already have: your booking system, Xero, your rota tool, WhatsApp, email. Each piece goes live as it's finished, not all at the end.

£3,000–£20,000 · fixed quote
Step 3

You own it

Everything handed over: systems, logins, documentation, training. Typical running costs are under £200 a month in usage fees — and none of it is paid to me.

Yours outright · forever

Your team

Nobody quits over the cooking.

People leave hospitality over the grind stacked on top of the job they actually wanted — the paperwork, the chasing, the same questions on repeat. Move the machine work to machines and the job becomes the one they applied for.

Happier shifts. Managers managing. Skills used instead of wasted. It's the cheapest staff retention you'll ever buy — and it's how the work becomes a joy again, for them and for you.

The hours-back calculator

How much of your week is buried?

Even five hours a week — one dreaded task automated — is 260 hours a year. Six and a half working weeks, back. And that's before counting your team's hours. Run your own numbers; rough is fine, and no email address is required — this is for you, not my mailing list.

Buried under admin

18 hrs

every single week

936
hours a year
£23,400
of your time, yearly
Get these hours back

Tapping this pre-fills the contact form with your numbers. If you book a call instead, they come along too — either way, nothing is sent until you choose to send it.

A straight answer to a fair question

I'm new. The data isn't.

On The Hill AI opened this year, so you won't find a wall of client logos here — and I'd rather show you nothing than show you something invented.

What I do bring: ten years running multi-site, operations-heavy businesses — rotas, suppliers, margins, the Sunday-night laptop. I've lived every rung of the hill I now guide people up. The research above is published, named and independent, and the refund exists precisely so that being my early client carries no risk for you: if Discovery finds nothing worth building, you get your money back.

Early clients also get more of me — more attention, more care, and a founder with something to prove. And honestly? I love this work — watching a task someone dreads simply disappear never gets old.

AI automation pricing — published, because hiding it wastes your time

What it costs. In full. Before you call.

68% of business buyers say they want pricing published before they'll talk to anyone (McKinsey B2B Pulse, 2025). So here it is:

Start — everyone starts here

£1,500

The Discovery Week. Fixed price, five days — mostly remote, so we start fast wherever you are, with an on-site visit where it earns its place. You get it back two ways: in full if I find nothing worth building, or off your build if we go ahead.

  • Every process mapped — automate, redesign, or kill
  • Prioritised plan — yours to keep
  • Fixed quotes, not estimates

Then — only if the plan earns it

£3,000–£20,000

Implementation, scoped and fixed in the Discovery plan. Foothills builds land at the lower end; multi-site systems work at the upper. The range is the altitude, not the meter running.

  • Fixed quote agreed before any work starts
  • Built, tested and handed over with training
  • No subscriptions, no retainers, no lock-in

Whatever I build, you own it outright. If I disappeared tomorrow, everything keeps working. See the full cost breakdown.

Fair questions

The things you're probably wondering.

Will it work with the systems we already use?

That's the point of the Discovery Week — I build around what you have: your booking system, Xero, your rota tool, WhatsApp, email. No rip-and-replace.

I'm not technical. Is that a problem?

No. You'll never see the plumbing. You get simple tools that just work, documentation in plain English, and training for your team.

We've already automated the basics. What's left?

Usually the expensive part. The basics are the foothills — the bigger wins are in how work flows between your systems and your people: the handoffs, the exceptions, the reports someone still assembles by hand, the processes that shouldn't exist at all. That's what Discovery maps. If you're weighing it against taking on more staff, I've published that comparison in full.

How fast do I see results?

The costed plan lands five days after Discovery starts. Builds are scoped in weeks, not quarters — and each automation goes live as it's finished, not all at the end.

It's just you. What if you're not available?

That's exactly why you own everything. Systems, logins, documentation in plain English — built with your accounts and your providers, so nothing depends on me being reachable. If I disappeared tomorrow, it all keeps working, and any competent developer could maintain it.

What happens to our data?

It stays in your systems and your accounts, under UK GDPR. Everything is built with your logins and your providers — nothing routes through me once it's handed over.

No pitch, no pressure

Start with a conversation.

Tell me what your week looks like — or where the business is stuck. If I don't think there's anything worth changing, I'll say so on the call.

Or skip the form

Fastest replies are usually on WhatsApp — I'm usually on my feet, rarely at a desk.

WhatsApp → 07840 924 978 Call → 07840 924 978 stuart@onthehillai.co.uk LinkedIn → On The Hill AI