--- title: "AI and custom software by industry" description: "Where the margin goes in construction, manufacturing, professional services and logistics, and how the £2,000 AI audit applies. For UK businesses." canonical: https://agmm.co.uk/industries/ updated: 2026-10-13 updated_basis: the date the page itself states publisher: AGMM (https://agmm.co.uk/about/agmm.json) lang: en-GB --- AGMM / Industries # AI by industry: where the margin goes in your sector AGMM does not sell a different product per industry. As an [AI consultancy](https://agmm.co.uk/ai-consultancy/) it finds the constraint that costs the most and builds the system that removes it. What changes by sector is the vocabulary, the documents and which process carries the money, in every department. By [Sam Wall](https://agmm.co.uk/about/sam-wall/) and [Adam Gillett](https://agmm.co.uk/about/adam-gillett/) · Checked on 13 October 2026 Greater Manchester / UK and international delivery Two of the papers these businesses handle. Demonstration with sample documents. Pick your sector below. Proof of delivery **Job**: DEL-5180 **Pallets**: 6 of 6 **Condition**: Good **Received by**: S. Whitlock Signed*S. Whitlock* Captured on the driver’s phone Four sectors, written down ## Where does the margin go in your sector? Each page names the processes that carry the time and the cash, draws the sector's own work across several departments as it runs now, organised and agentified, and says what it touches. - **Construction** The margin leaks between the site and the office: site records, variations agreed and never priced, subcontractor packages in six inboxes, and the priced bill. Touches: Sales, Operations, Finance, Suppliers **Operations* Site records* **Finance* Variations* **Suppliers and procurement* Subcontractor packages* **Sales* Enquiry to priced bill* [Open](https://agmm.co.uk/industries/construction/) - **Manufacturing** Works orders keyed once, supplier paperwork matched to the order, complaints followed to a cause, and job costs ready without a week of digging. Includes what Made Smarter will pay for, sourced and dated. Touches: Operations, Suppliers, Customer service, Finance **Operations* Works orders* **Suppliers and procurement* Supplier documents* **Customer service* Quality and complaints* **Finance* Month-end job costing* [Open](https://agmm.co.uk/industries/manufacturing/) - **Professional services** Accountancy, law, surveying and consultancy in one page: onboarding and KYC, engagement letters, chasing, time capture and the monthly pack, with the regulator surface linked rather than summarised. Touches: Customer data and privacy, Customer service, Finance, Leadership **Customer data and privacy* Onboarding* **Customer service* Chasing documents* **Finance* Time and WIP* **Leadership* Billing and reporting packs* [Open](https://agmm.co.uk/industries/professional-services/) - **Logistics** Job intake, dispatch and driver allocation, proof of delivery and the subcontractor reconciliation that eats the margin at the end of the month. Touches: Operations, Finance, Customer service, Suppliers **Customer service* Proof of delivery* **Operations* Job intake* **Customer service* Exceptions* **Finance* Subcontractor reconciliation* [Open](https://agmm.co.uk/industries/logistics/) Now picture yours ## Pick the sector closest to yours. Watch the work change state. The same engagement everywhere; what changes is which process carries the money. Each drawing starts as most businesses run it, then organised, then agentified, with a person kept on every decision that matters. Customer data and privacy From yes to billing Email Mon 12 Oct, 11:05 **From**: Ardent Foods Ltd **Subject**: **Yes, please go ahead with the year-end accounts** We would like to appoint you from this month. What do you need from us? 1. The start of the fortnight that costs you. 2. Identity, source of funds and ownership documents, gathered in one place. 3. Checks run and logged. The judgement stays with the firm. 4. Drafted from your precedent, scope stated plainly. 5. Complete before work starts. 1. **As it runs now** A fortnight between the client saying yes and anybody billing, somebody asking politely for the third time, time recorded from memory on a Friday, and a monthly pack rebuilt by hand. 2. **Organised** One file per matter that is complete before work starts, a clear list of what each matter waits on, and time captured as the work happens. 3. **Agentified** Chasers sent on time, narratives and packs drafted from the facts, and every draft reviewed by the person whose name goes on it. *A person decides Runs on its own Back with notes Demonstration. Sample documents, no client data. Timings compressed.* How a sector page is used ## Does the engagement change by industry? No. Every engagement runs the same three steps, and a build only where the economic case justifies one. The sector page tells you which processes we would expect to find the money in, and which of the five [service families](https://agmm.co.uk/services/) is the likely shape of the answer. 1. **Free** A 30-minute fit call 2. **£2,000** A 14-day [constraint audit](https://agmm.co.uk/ai-constraint-audit/) 3. **By proposal** A build, only if the evidence supports one The audit looks across [every department](https://agmm.co.uk/services/#departments) , not only the ones a sector page leads with. What you can check today is how we run our own business, on [Inside AGMM](https://agmm.co.uk/evidence/) . Not written, and why ## Which sectors do not have a page here? Every one not listed above. Accountancy and law are sections inside [professional services](https://agmm.co.uk/industries/professional-services/) , because the processes are the same. If your sector is missing, we have nothing specific to say about it yet, and a generic page with your industry’s name swapped in would be worse than none. The fit call is the faster route. Software after an acquisition is not a sector, so it lives in the Library: [post-acquisition software and AI for UK businesses](https://agmm.co.uk/learn/post-acquisition-software-and-ai/) . Every sector page carries a section headed “What we cannot show you yet”. There is no case study in your sector here, and the section says so plainly. Start with the constraint ## Find what is worth changing before you fund a build. Thirty minutes to test the fit, free, nothing bought on the call. The fourteen-day audit is £2,000 if it fits. [Book the free fit call](https://agmm.co.uk/ai-constraint-audit/#book) [Call 0161 543 7189](tel:+441615437189) Leadership and decisionsboard packs, management reporting, the calls only you can make Salespipeline, proposals and follow-up Marketingcampaigns, ads and the content line Operations and deliveryscheduling, hand-offs and getting the work outStart here Customer servicecomplaints, renewals and retention Financemonth-end close and cash collection Peoplehiring, onboarding and training staff Privacy and securitycompliance and data requests Customer dataone true record of every customer Knowledge and learninghow you do things, written down and taught Custom systemsthe parts generic software cannot fit Suppliers and procurementstock, suppliers and buying decisions 1. **Messy** Hand-offs lost in inboxes 2. **Organised** Each job has a clear owner and step 3. **Running** Routine hand-offs run; exceptions reach a person ***Lit: Operations and delivery, where the call starts.** The audit then looks across all twelve departments for constraints, weak points and money to save or earn.* --- Source: https://agmm.co.uk/industries/ · AGMM, a UK AI consultancy · company facts: https://agmm.co.uk/about/agmm.json · every page: https://agmm.co.uk/llms.txt