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AI consultancy

Aston
Street


We enable cost effective, secure and observable AI in your business.

Capability

What we improve

The controls that make AI safe, efficient, and operable in a real business.


01

AI security

Hard gates around models and tools: redaction, allowlists, egress control, and injection defence.

security · gatehardened
POST /v1/chat
inbound · scrubbed
{ "msg": "Call [REDACTED]…" }
policy ok
model · allowed
response streamed · logged
  • PII redactionpass
  • Tool allowlistpass
  • Egress controlpass
  • Prompt injectionpass
02

Cost effectiveness

Right-sized models, routing, and caching so you keep quality while cutting waste.

spend · control−77% waste
Blind SaaS wrap92 / 100
Right-sized model38 / 100
Cached + routed21 / 100
tokens
−64%
latency
stable
quality
held
03

Observability

Traces, tool calls, and eval scores that surface drift early, before it reaches customers.

trace · liveobserved
ingress
retrieve
reason
tool:crm
14:02:01trace opened · req_8f2a
14:02:01rag hit · 4 chunks
14:02:02tool crm.update · ok
14:02:02eval score 0.91
04

Reliable operations

Fallbacks, human approval gates, and clean rollbacks so production systems stay available.

ops · pipelinesla 99.9%
ingest
guard
agent
human
uptime
99.9%
fallbacks
armed
approvals
gated
rollback
ready

Signal

AI adoption is high. Scaling it is still rare.


Adoption
88%

of organisations now use AI in at least one business function.

Scale
1 in 3

have scaled it beyond experiments and pilots.

High performers
~6%

qualify as AI high performers in McKinsey’s survey.

Source: McKinsey, The State of AI - Global Survey, November 2025

Protocol

How it works

From how you work today to a solution that fits.


  1. 01

    We analyse your business

    We come to you - your office, your warehouse, wherever you work - and take a close look at how things run. We talk to your team, learn the day-to-day, and identify where AI can help.

  2. 02

    We present the best solutions

    You get a clear walkthrough of what we found, which AI approaches fit your business, and how each one would improve it.

  3. 03

    If you choose to go ahead, we implement

    If you want to proceed, we build it securely and around how your team already works.

  4. 04

    We support you

    Once the solution is live, we stay involved: fixing issues and helping your team get comfortable with it.

Criteria

Why Aston Street

Effective, secure AI needs more than a tool pick. We work with you on the full path from fit to production.


01

The right tools for the job

The AI landscape moves quickly. We stay current and recommend what fits your business, constraints, and risk profile.

02

Security first

Your data and your customers’ trust come first. Every solution we build is designed to be secure from day one.

03

Built to last

We design for stability and maintainability, so what we hand over keeps working as your team and stack evolve.

04

A clear case for change

Every recommendation needs a concrete improvement to how you work. If it doesn’t fit, we won’t suggest it.

Briefing

About us


Aston Street is a Birmingham-based AI company, founded and led by Idris - a software engineer with experience building and running technology, and hands-on knowledge of applying AI in real organisations.

We work with businesses of any scale where processes are slow, or AI is still a question rather than a clear next step. We come to you, anywhere in the UK, sit with your team, and find where it can make a difference.

No packaged product. Every solution is built around how your business works, and every recommendation needs a clear reason to exist.

ASEst. Birmingham

Aston Street


  • On-site · UK-wide
  • Bespoke AI systems
  • Security-first build
  • Clear case for change

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FAQ


What do you need from us?+

Access to the people and information that show how your business runs: day-to-day processes and time with the team who own them. We work around your schedule.

Where do you work?+

We’re based in Birmingham and travel to clients anywhere in the UK - offices, warehouses, clinics, or businesses that operate mostly online.

Do we need to be technical?+

No. We’ll cover what each solution does and how it helps, and you can stay as close to the technical detail as you like.

What happens after the presentation?+

If you want to proceed, we agree the scope, build the solution, and support you as it goes live. If not, you keep the findings.

Channel

Contact us


Tell us about your business and what you’re looking at. We’ll reply with next steps.

idris@astonstreetconsultancy.com

Birmingham, UK - we travel to you, anywhere in the UK.

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