We help organisations plan, build and deploy AI that people actually use.
Consulting, UX Design, engineering and managed services. Over 130 projects delivered across ten sectors since 2018.
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Barkers EPM0
Established, building and shipping ever since
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Projects delivered for clients
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Sectors, from care homes to custody banks
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Delivery and cost efficiency
What our clients get out of it.
Four results we deliver again and again, each one named against the client project you can read.
Decisions in seconds, not weeks
Six-week feasibility studies now come back the same day, with the working out attached.
EVOLVERecords you can search and trust
130 years of instrument archive available in seconds, with no risk of a wrong attribution.
J & A BeareAI around people who need protecting
Residents stay known as staff change, with clinical judgement left to people.
DotCompliance teams can evidence
School trusts show where they stand against the DfE standard and what to fix next.
Barkers EPM
Ten sectors, and the same way of working in each.
Care workers, procurement directors, marketers, estate managers, investors, students and instrument dealers. We start with the decision they are making and design back from it.
- Social care
- Procurement & sustainability
- Fine instruments
- Custody banking
- Education estates
- Leisure & wellbeing
- Publishing & research
- Private markets
- EdTech
- Venture capital
Six weeks of analysis, answered the same day.
EVOLVE holds 12,406 facilities and 8.2 million member records. We designed and built the layer their customers use to turn that into a site decision they can put to a board.
“We used to spend six weeks on a feasibility. With EVOLVE, we get a defensible answer before lunch. And the working out is auditable.”
Eighteen products, live with clients.
6 weeks → same day
Feasibility turnaround
EVOLVE
Site feasibility answered the same day instead of six weeks later.
130+ yrs
Of archive in one system
J & A Beare
130 years of instrument records searchable in seconds, with no risk of a wrong attribution.
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User groups in one product
Dot
One shared record that keeps residents known as staff change.
3
Membership audiences served
Propolis
A membership community three audiences stay in, launched in 2021 and still growing.
3-level
DfE standard mapped end to end
Barkers EPM
School trusts can evidence their estate against the DfE standard without an estates team.
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Dashboards
Need 2 Know
Category managers get a supplier briefing in seconds, with no dashboard to learn.
AI around people who did not choose the software.
Three of our products put AI near vulnerable or protected users — elderly residents, people managing their eating, children. In each one we agreed what the system is not allowed to do before we designed what it does, which is what gets a product through a buyer's own review.
Five ways to work with us.
Most clients start with one and end up using three. Fractional leadership is usually the way in.
- [01]AI EnablementAI running in production, with the operational gain to show for it.
- [02]User ExperienceResearch, structure and interface design that gets a product used.
- [03]DevelopmentProduction builds, from platform work to enterprise integration.
- [04]Managed ServiceA standing design and development team for a live product.
- [05]Fractional LeadershipSenior digital leadership, two to four days a week.
Starting prices, published.
From£5,000
Feasibility
You end up with a costed, written answer on whether to build it, what it will do for the business, and what it costs to run.
From£15,000
Design & build
Design and engineering run as one team, from the first interface to a live release your own team can maintain.
From£2,000/month
Managed service
A standing design and engineering team keeping a live product improving, priced by capacity rather than by ticket.
Tell us what you are trying to fix.
Thirty minutes with the people who would do the work. You will leave with a view on whether it is worth building and roughly what it costs.