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AI AUTOMATION BOSTON

Boston runs on brains — biotech labs, research hospitals, universities and a financial district with old-money standards. AI automation Boston means research workflows with proper provenance, support AI that survives expert scrutiny, and back-office ops with audit trails a regulator would frame.

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BIOTECH & FINANCE

SMART ENOUGH FOR KENDALL SQUARE

Boston buyers are famously unimpressed by hype, which suits us perfectly. The conversation here starts at evaluation methodology: held-out test sets, confusion matrices, error rates stated plainly. Labs need literature triage and data pipelines with provenance; finance needs reconciliations and reporting with controls; everyone needs admin that stops eating expert hours.

Our builds: lab data extraction and literature monitoring ranked by programme relevance; retrieval-grounded assistants over technical documentation with confidence thresholds; grant and reporting pipelines assembled from real data; finance ops — reconciliations, client reporting — running overnight with morning review queues. Engineered, measured, reviewable.

Our engagements start with a workflow audit: we shadow the process, count the hours it actually costs, and price the automation against that number. If the maths doesn't clear, we say so — roughly a third of audits end with 'don't automate this yet', and we'd rather tell you than bill you.

Automation doesn't care where the keyboard is — it cares whether the builder understands your process. We're a Manchester team with a track record across US industries, working in your timezone overlap, documenting everything, and handing over systems your own staff can run without us.

First Automations

WHERE BOSTON STARTS

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LAB DATA WORKFLOWS
Extraction from instruments and papers, literature triage, ELN-adjacent pipelines — provenance on everything.
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EXPERT-GRADE SUPPORT AI
Grounded answers over your docs with cited sources and honest escalation. Survives scrutiny because it's built for it.
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RESEARCH REPORTING
Grant reports, programme updates, board materials from real data — reviewed, not compiled.
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FINANCE OPS
Overnight reconciliations, exception queues, client reporting packs. Controls intact, mornings freed.
Boundaries

WHAT AI DOES NOT DECIDE

Two hard lines for Boston: in research and regulated work, AI prepares and proposes but never certifies or signs off — architectural, not procedural. And your IP stays yours: no training on your data without explicit agreement, your tenancy, documented flows. A city built on intellectual property accepts nothing less.

Second, on decisions: our systems are built to prepare and propose, never to commit. Payments, contracts, hiring calls, anything a regulator or a customer would ask about — a human approves it. We design the approval step into the workflow itself, so it can't be skipped on a busy Tuesday.

For the wider picture, the SBA's small-business technology resources is practical grounding for owners weighing automation spend — national direction shapes what is sensible to build today versus next year.

Indicative Pricing

INDICATIVE PRICING

Boston indicative ranges in USD — Starting ranges, honestly labelled — fixed pricing is set after discovery, not before.

  • Discovery (workflow audit): typically $2,000–$4,500 one-off — we map your highest-cost workflows and price the automation honestly.
  • Single-flow pilot (5–8 weeks): typically $8,000–$20,000 — one workflow automated, running alongside your manual process first.
  • Multi-flow programme: typically $25,000–$80,000+ depending on systems, channels and complexity.
  • Ongoing optimisation: typically $2,000–$5,000/month — accuracy monitoring, retraining, new-flow onboarding.

Biotech and finance scopes carry compliance and evaluation overhead — expect the upper half of the ranges below.

FAQs

AI AUTOMATION BOSTON QUESTIONS

Straight answers to what Boston teams ask us most.

How do you evaluate technical Q&A accuracy?

On your data before deployment: held-out real questions scored against your experts' answers, confusion matrix shown honestly. Miss the bar and we recommend against proceeding.

Can you meet institutional security standards?

Yes — university, hospital and financial security postures are familiar ground: your tenancy, your keys, documented flows, DPIAs where needed.

Will it hallucinate our specifications?

Not on our watch: retrieval grounding with cited sources, confidence thresholds, escalation instead of guessing, adversarial testing with wrong-but-plausible questions.

What about grant reporting?

Pipeline-built from real project data — narrative drafted from milestones, figures reconciled automatically, your team reviews and submits. Days become hours.

Fixed-price pilots?

Yes — fixed price, defined evaluation gate, procurement-friendly. Clear it and we scope production; miss it and you keep the report.

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A fixed-price pilot with stated metrics and a kill threshold in writing before we start — the honest way to buy AI work in Boston.

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