Find the hours hiding in your week.
Practical AI and automation for small businesses losing time to admin, reporting, emails, spreadsheets, and follow-up.
Start with a free mini-assessment: two 15-minute calls, and you leave with your fix written up step by step, so you can set it up yourself. Whether you work with us after that is up to you.
Two short calls. One real answer. Free.
Call one.
You talk, we listen. How the business runs, where the time goes, what keeps getting pushed to Sunday evening. No prep, no slides, no jargon.
Your solution, by email.
We take the most painful thing you told us and verify a fix for it properly. What tool, what it costs per month, how long it takes to set up, what could go wrong. We check it against what you already use rather than assuming you'll buy something new. Then it lands in your inbox, written up, with the steps to set it up yourself.
Call two.
We walk you through what we sent: why this fix, what it will take, where it could trip you up. Build it, ignore it, or ask what else we found. It's yours either way.
Half an hour of your time. If the recommendation is worth nothing to you, you have lost thirty minutes. That hasn't happened yet.
Book your free mini-assessmentWhat this looks like in practice.
The weekly sales and production numbers took someone half a day to pull together from three systems. Now a scheduled report assembles itself and lands in the right inboxes on Monday morning.
Customer follow-up lived in one person's WhatsApp and happened when they remembered. We set up automated follow-up sequences for enquiries and post-visit messages, so it happens every time, including the weeks they are flat out.
Quotes and samples went out, then months passed with no record of what happened to them. Now a simple pipeline tracks every one.
Parents were happy but reviews were rare, because asking felt awkward and always got forgotten. A review-request workflow now goes out at the right moment, automatically. Reviews are the main way new parents find a nursery, so this one pays for itself quickly.
A 15-step approval process that everyone hated. We cut it to 7 steps before automating anything, because automating a broken process just gives you a faster broken process.
// Sometimes the fix is the process. We'll tell you when it is.
Your systems should talk to each other.
Most small businesses don't have a software problem. They have a gap problem: the online shop doesn't talk to the accounts package, the booking system doesn't talk to the spreadsheet, and a person sits in the middle re-typing numbers from one screen into another.
A lot of our work is connecting different platforms you already pay for, so information moves on its own. Orders flow into accounts without re-keying. Bookings update the schedule. The numbers in the report match the numbers in the till, because they came from the till.
Where the platforms won't connect (and some genuinely won't, we check before we promise anything), the report says so, and says what to do instead.
Where the quick wins live.
Every recommendation in the report lands on this matrix, costed. We start top-left.
Three lines. Nothing hidden.
- Mini-assessment
- Two 15-minute calls. Your fix, written up step by step, yours to keep.
- Free2 × 15 min
- Full assessment report
- Every recommendation costed and prioritised on the effort vs impact matrix, plus a day-by-day plan for the quick wins you green-light. Also the point where we tell you what not to buy.
- £499Fixed · within a week
- Implementation
- Optional. Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed up front. Most clients do the quick wins themselves with the plan in hand.
- Per projectScoped from the report
Who you would be talking to.
Most small businesses don't need an AI strategy. They need someone honest to tell them which three tools to use and which ten to ignore.
Test Card AI is run by Jake Lea-Wilson. Before this he spent years inside small businesses watching good people lose whole days to admin that a tool, or a better process, could have handled.
The rule the business runs on: we do not take referral fees from any tool we recommend, ever. If the honest answer is "you don't need AI", that's what the report says, and it has before.
There is always a human in the loop. Automation drafts, reminds, moves data and assembles reports. Decisions stay with people.
What clients say.
"The AI suggestions he came back with were practical and presented in a way that made it easy to see how much time we could save. We have already implemented some of them."
"Jake asked thoughtful and detailed questions to get a clear picture of how my business operates. I found the whole process really valuable and was impressed at how quickly he understood our processes. He also provided really useful guides for the more complex recommendations."
Sound familiar?
- Spending hours each week on a report that should write itself?
- Drafting the same email for the hundredth time?
- Sitting on a customer list you've never properly used?
- Watching a member of staff do something a tool could do in seconds?
- Putting off a task because it'll take half a day you don't have?
- Multiple platforms that don't speak to each other and require manual copy and paste?
If any of these sound familiar, the mini-assessment is free and takes half an hour of your time in total.
Book your free mini-assessmentFrequently asked.
Anything not covered here, ask us on the call.