We build and run AI automations for manufacturers, contractors and distributors in Ashton-under-Lyne. Most of the town’s industrial work sits in two places: the Kayley Industrial Estate on Richmond Street, about a mile from M60 junction 23, and the distribution units at Ashton Moss off Alexandria Drive. We’re 20 minutes away, so scoping happens on your shop floor rather than on a video call.
What we automate in Ashton
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Manufacturing and engineering
Works orders, goods-received notes and supplier certificates matched against purchase orders, with exceptions queued for a person.
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Construction and trades
Subcontractor insurance, RAMS and card expiry tracked automatically, and quotes chased until someone answers.
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Logistics and distribution
Delivery bookings, carrier updates and proof-of-delivery matching for the Ashton Moss sheds.
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Health and care providers
Rota gaps, mandatory training and inspection evidence pulled together from the systems you already run.
Business in Ashton, briefly
- Tameside Council’s 2024 Ashton Mayoral Development Zone prospectus lists Brother UK, Whitecroft Lighting, HB Fuller, Scapa, Apollo Scientific and Hills Biscuits among Ashton-based employers. Ashton MDZ prospectus, 2024
- The Ashton Moss development framework, approved in January 2024, covers about 70 hectares aimed at advanced manufacturing. Tameside Council
- Plot 3000 on Lord Sheldon Way, an 8.75-hectare employment site next to Ashton Leisure Park, is being marketed for 100,000 to 305,000 sq ft of new space. JLL listing
An example automation
Engineering firm example. An illustration, not a client result.
Questions from Ashton-under-Lyne businesses
Do you come out to Ashton?
Yes, it’s 20 minutes from us. For manufacturers we’d rather see the paperwork arrive in person: the delivery note in the van, the certificate in the drawer. That’s where the real process is, and it rarely matches the one on paper.
We’re a small engineering firm. Will the numbers work?
Most firms in Tameside are small, so that’s the normal case. What decides it is how many hours the task eats, not how many staff you have. If the payback runs much past a year, we’ll tell you and suggest a better first job.
Our job system runs on an old server in the office. Can you connect to it?
In most cases. If it has no API we work from scheduled exports or query the database directly. We check which during scope, before the build is quoted.
We use Sage. Is that a problem?
No. We connect AI automations to Sage for purchase invoice posting, sales invoice generation and ledger reconciliation. Our Sage integration page has the detail.