AI Integration Consultancy · United Kingdom

AI TOOLS BUILT AROUND YOUR GUARDRAILS

Not off-the-shelf. Every tool we build is scoped to your data policies, your approval chains, your business rules — from day one.

Working with UK
Professional Services Legal Manufacturing Financial Services SMEs
April 2026 signal

The 15 April 2026 Microsoft Copilot licensing change reshuffled the UK M365 AI stack overnight.

Copilot Chat no longer includes in-app Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote for free users — full in-app Copilot now requires a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) licence. If your AI strategy assumed "everyone gets Copilot Chat for free", it needs revisiting. Our new UK AI Consultancy Buyer's Guide walks through what to ask a consultant before committing, and our Microsoft 365 AI consultant page covers the post-15-April economics in detail.

54%
The 2026 Shift

More than half of UK firms now actively use AI — and the conversation has moved on.

Adoption is no longer the story. The businesses pulling ahead aren't buying more subscriptions — they're building agentic AI: autonomous tools that execute multi-step workflows on their behalf, inside their own policies.

Up from 35% in 2025 · UK Government AI Activity Survey

Generic AI tools have the features. They don't have your guardrails.

Off-the-shelf AI tools are built for everyone — which means they're built for no one in particular. They don't know your data policies, your approval workflows, or your compliance requirements. That's not a feature gap — it's a risk.

Bespoke AI tools are scoped to your business from day one. Every automation, every workflow, every data interaction runs inside the guardrails that matter to you.

Off-the-Shelf
  • No data policies
  • No approval chains
  • No audit trail
  • Generic workflows
Bespoke
  • Your data policies
  • Your approval chains
  • Full audit trail
  • Your workflows

Built around your business

AI Readiness & Strategy

We assess where AI fits, what governance you need, and build a clear roadmap before anything gets built.

2–4 week engagement

Bespoke AI Tools

Custom email, document, meeting, and workflow automation — scoped to your specific business rules and data policies.

From pilot to production

Microsoft 365 AI

Unlock the AI already built into your Microsoft stack. Most businesses aren't using a fraction of what's available.

Copilot deployment & training

From assessment to ongoing support

Step 01

Assess

We audit your processes, data, and team readiness to find where AI genuinely helps.

Step 02

Govern

Policies and guardrails get written first — not retrofitted after the fact.

Step 03

Build

Bespoke tools scoped to your business rules, shipped as pilots before production.

Step 04

Support

Ongoing optimisation and managed service as your needs — and the tech — evolve.

Dean Kewley, founder of Utilis Technologies
Founder-led · Hands-on

You don't fix a governance problem with a subscription. You fix it by building AI that respects your business from the first line of code.

Dean Kewley Founder, Utilis Technologies
25+ Years in IT
UK Based & regulated
Experience 25+ Years of hands-on IT experience behind every engagement
Compliance 100% UK GDPR compliant — every tool, every data flow, every audit trail
Delivery 0 Off-the-shelf products sold. Every build is scoped to one business.

Let's have a conversation.

No pitch, no jargon. An honest discussion about where AI could make a real difference in your business — and where it shouldn't go near.