contract triage
in buildA tool that sorts incoming commercial contracts into two piles: boilerplate to wave through and ones that need review by a person. Redlines are added automatically for a frictionless review.
- in-person
- cheshire
- fixed price
hand-built AI tools
for your business
. hands on with.ai, Cheshire and the North West.
Less paperwork, more profit. I find the paperwork that drains your week: contracts, quotes, reports. Then I build a tool that handles it in minutes.
Examples of work I have automated: reading a commercial contract for the risky clauses, two hours each, now ten minutes. Checking an NDA against your standard terms, thirty minutes each, now two minutes. Comparing two contract drafts for the changes, an hour each, now seconds. Pulling the key dates out of a contract, an hour each, now thirty seconds. Drafting a first-pass tender response, half a day each, now thirty minutes. Keying order forms into the system, an hour a day, now synced as they land. Summarising a stack of supplier quotes, half a day each, now ten minutes. Writing up meeting minutes and actions, three hours a week, now five minutes. Pulling the figures off a stack of statements, two hours each, now a few minutes. Matching receipts to the bank, two hours a week, now ten minutes.
what I build
I build working tools, not slide decks. Here are some of the tools I have on the books.
GDPR document generator
in buildA chat bot that knows GDPR guidance inside and out. It interviews you to understand your business, determines which documents you need to generate and then makes them for you based on how your business handles sensitive information. Ask it anything, so you can understand your full responsibilities under GDPR and get tailored guidance.
odds engine
runs dailyA bot that scans the odds across 25 books over different markets and baselines them against market prices to identify arbitrage opportunities. Enhanced data collection for advanced analytics and backtesting.
my non-negotiables
how I handle your data
Data protection matters to me, and I treat personal data with the care it requires.
UK GDPRmy builds are designed to meet UK GDPR requirements. As part of each project involving personal information, I carry out a GDPR review
trains your tools, not theirsI’ll use your data to improve your own tools, but I won’t let it be used to train anyone else’s AI models
your choiceyou choose where your tool lives: in your own systems, or hosted and run by me
a full audit trail
No black boxes. Every judgment the tool makes is written down as it happens: exactly what it read, the evidence it found, the rule it applied, and the verdict. You are never asked to just trust it.
every call loggedeach judgment recorded the moment it is made
with the reasoningthe rule it applied and the clause that triggered it
interrogable laterreopen and challenge any decision, months on
how it works
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chat
30 min · freeA short call. You tell me about the business and where your time goes. I tell you honestly whether I can help.
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visit
half a day · on-siteHalf a day on-site to see how the work really flows. Soon after, I send you a written plan and a fixed price, with no obligation to go further.
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build
a week or twoBack at my office, I build the real tool and test it against your actual work. Every step is auditable, never a black box.
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launch
on handoverI come back, walk your team through it and hand it over. It’s yours to use with no lock-in, but if you’d rather I kept it running for you I can.
chris
about me
I’m Chris. I don’t sell AI transformation plans, I build things.
My jobs have had one thing in common: making good enough calls when the information is messy and never going to get better. Quantum chemistry, legacy nuclear waste, company data, betting markets. Very different rooms, but I developed the same skills in each.
That’s what I bring to your business: whatever your industry, whether you’re three people or three hundred, I find the friction fast, build something that works, and explain it plainly enough that you could run it without me. The longer story is in my CV if you’d like more detail.
what it costs
fixed price. fixed scope. working in weeks.
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free
30-minute call
A quick, honest read on whether I can help. No obligation.
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£300
on-site scoping visit
Half a day on site. A written plan and a fixed quote follow soon after, with no obligation to proceed.
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from £1,500
fixed price build
Agreed up front, before a line is written. Most first projects land £1,500–£5,000.
after the build, no lock-in (unless you want it)
we’ve got this
I hand it over, show you exactly how it works, and step back. Nothing more to pay me: the AI usage sits on your own account, costed with you during the build, with spending caps set so there are no surprises. A yearly service visit is there if you want it, like the boiler.
best if someone on your side can keep it going
run it for us
If you would rather not own the upkeep, I’ll maintain it for a small monthly fee. Reach me whenever something needs a tweak.
best if you would rather it just kept working
faq
Why not just use ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a brilliant raw tool, and I use it every day. But a raw tool leaves the hard parts to you: working out which job is actually worth automating, keeping your private documents well away from a public model, and trusting an answer when you can’t see how it was reached. That’s what you’re paying me for. Years of spotting the real bottleneck rather than the obvious one, building it so your data stays yours, and making it something you can see into and check. The result is a tool you can lean on, not a clever-looking prototype you have to second-guess every time.
What would you actually build for us?
I usually begin by looking for the document jobs that quietly eat hours: reading and summarising contracts, drafting proposals, pulling reports together, checking paperwork for the thing everyone misses. I start on one job that matters, small and useful, and ideally make it close to vanish so you feel the difference.
Will the team actually use it?
People use what makes their day better, so that’s what I aim for. I’m not interested in bolting AI onto an old process for the sake of it. AI works differently, and the real win is finding the job someone dreads, the one that eats their afternoon, and making it close to vanish. The good ones feel like a superpower: the work you hated is gone, and the day is suddenly about the parts worth doing. Build something people feel that strongly about, and whether they’ll use it stops being a question.
Is our data safe?
I can build the tool into your own systems so your data stays with you, or host and run it for you if that’s simpler. Either way it runs under enterprise terms that never train a model on your data, and nothing is kept that doesn’t need to be. UK GDPR by default.
What do we actually own?
A tool that’s yours to use for good, on a licence that doesn’t expire, along with your data and anything specific to your business. Built into your own systems, on your own AI account from day one, it keeps running whether or not we stay in touch, and the usage bills you directly, not through me: we cost it during the build and set spending caps, so a busy month can never run away with the bill. If I host it for you instead, the monthly fee is what keeps it live, but you’re never locked in: I’ll always hand it over to run on your side. The generic parts underneath I keep and reuse for others, which is part of how I keep your price down.
What if we’re not sure it’ll be worth it?
That’s what the scoping visit is for. Before you spend anything on a build, you get an honest read on what’s worth doing, what isn’t, and the difference it should make. If I don’t think it’ll pay for itself, I’ll tell you. You commit to the work once the case for it is clear, not before.
How much does it cost?
The 30-minute call is free. The on-site scoping visit is £300; a written plan and fixed quote follow soon after. Builds are a fixed price agreed up front, most first projects £1,500–£5,000. Keeping it running afterwards is optional, from £150 a month.
What happens after you’re gone?
No lock-in, by design. Either I hand it over and step back, or I keep it running for you from £150 a month. Handed-over tools can book a yearly service visit, like the boiler. You decide at the scoping visit, and you’re never tied in.
got a job you dread?
Thirty minutes on the phone. No pitch, no obligation. We find one thing worth trying, and I’ll tell you straight if I don’t think it will pay for itself.