AI SYSTEMS & AUTOMATION // EDINBURGH · UK
for UK operatorsThe Industrial OS — engineered in Edinburgh.
Forth Systems designs, builds and ships custom AI agents, workflow automation and operational platforms for UK businesses doing £250k–£50M. Seven live platforms, one Copilot, one compliance spine — engineered in Edinburgh, deployed across Scotland and the UK.
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PLATFORMS
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INDUSTRIES
UK
ENGINEERED
90-MIN AUDIT · REPORT IN 5 DAYS · CREDITED IF YOU PROCEED
AI SYSTEMS FOR
- Manufacturing
- Logistics & Fleet
- Energy & Renewables
- Healthcare & Clinics
- Legal & Professional Services
- Accounting & Finance Ops
- Property & Lettings
- Recruitment
- Insurance
- Construction & Trades
AI SYSTEMS WE BUILD
shipped in weeks not quarters.
Everything below is engineered, deployed and supported by Forth Systems from Edinburgh — for UK operators who want real production AI, not a demo.
AI Agents
Custom agents that read, decide and act inside your existing tools — with a human always in the loop.
Learn more →Workflow Automation
End-to-end automations that remove copy-paste between systems and free hours every week.
Learn more →Document AI
Extract, classify and route invoices, dockets, contracts and PDFs at scale.
Learn more →Voice AI
Inbound reception, triage, follow-up and outbound calling — trained on your business.
Learn more →Custom Copilots
Domain-specific copilots that sit on your data and answer the questions your team asks daily.
Learn more →Data Pipelines
Live pipelines connecting your ERP, CRM, spreadsheets and field data into one source of truth.
Learn more →AI Integrations
Wire GPT, Claude, Gemini and open-source models into Xero, Sage, HubSpot, Zoho, Slack and beyond.
Learn more →AI Readiness Audits
5-day fixed-price audit of your systems, data and top automation opportunities. £499.
Learn more →THE GAP
Where Forth fits.
THE PROBLEM
- Ops data trapped in spreadsheets, WhatsApp threads and email
- 5–10 disconnected SaaS tools, none of them talking to each other
- No single source of truth for jobs, costs, compliance or crew
- AI experiments that never make it into daily operations
- Reporting takes days — decisions get made without it
THE FORTH INSTALL
- One shared operational spine — jobs, sites, crews, costs in one schema
- Custom AI agents wired into the actual workflow, not bolted on
- Signed dockets, WTNs and audit trail as the proof layer beneath every job
- Live dashboards and Copilot that draft decisions — humans still sign
- Fixed-scope pilots in weeks, not multi-quarter transformation programmes
01 / THE SPINE
One spine underneath.
Every Forth platform plugs into the same operational rail — so quoting, dockets, compliance, AI and reporting are one system, not five.
FORTH COPILOT
AI operator that sits across every platform, drafts decisions, never acts without you.
NOPRINT COMPLIANCE
Signed dockets, WTNs and audit trail — the proof layer beneath every job.
SHARED DATA MODEL
Jobs, sites, crews, vehicles, costs — one schema, every platform speaks it.
AI GATEWAY
Models, prompts, evals and credits — the brain shared across the portfolio.
PARTNER RAILS
Xero, Sage, WhatsApp, fleet GPS, weighbridges — wired in once, used everywhere.
ARCHITECTURE
the Forth Spine.
Seven platforms on top. One shared operational rail underneath. The spine is what makes Forth different from a folder of unrelated SaaS apps — and what makes every new platform we ship faster than the last.
02 / PLATFORMS
One operating system for industry.
Landscape Flow
Software for landscaping and construction companies. Quoting, scheduling, site updates, materials, workflows, client communication and operational control.
GoMuc
A live marketplace for construction logistics, skips, Hiabs, plant, aggregates, drivers and on-demand site support.
MOVVI
AI-powered commercial and film production systems for brands, projects and marketing teams.
Eleki
Software and intelligence systems for energy, infrastructure, grid demand, cooling, data centres and future construction opportunities.
02 / PROOF
measured on real sites.
−80%
PLANT-HIRE ADMIN
17 → 3
DAYS TO INVOICE
+35%
DRIVER UTILISATION
−70%
QUOTE TURNAROUND
2d → 15m
RE-PLAN TIME
£420k
OVERRUN AVOIDED
GROUNDWORKS & CIVILS
Caledonian Contractors
42 staff · £6.4m turnover
From six phone calls to one tap: how a mid-sized contractor cut plant-hire admin by 80%.
OWNER-DRIVER FLEET
Angus Tipper Hire
9 vehicles · 11 drivers
Killing dead mileage: how a tipper fleet turned empty runs into billed hours.
COMMERCIAL LANDSCAPING
Lothian Landscapes
28 staff · £3.1m turnover
From spreadsheets to a single operational backbone: a landscaping firm gets its evenings back.
ENERGY & DATA-CENTRE CIVILS
NorthGrid Infrastructure
120 staff · £24m turnover
Programme intelligence for a data-centre build: cutting re-plan time from days to minutes.
TRUSTED ACROSS
CUSTOMER VOICES
once the spine is live.
Quotes shown with role and company profile while named case studies are being approved for publication.
"The audit paid for itself in the first week. Forth mapped three automations we'd been trying to build internally for two years — and shipped the first one inside a month."
Operations Director
UK plant-hire operator · 60 vehicles
"We stopped chasing paper dockets. Every job now closes with a signed WTN in the system, and our finance team invoices the same day instead of the following week."
Managing Director
Scottish civils contractor · £8M turnover
"Forth felt like hiring an ops engineer, not a software vendor. They understood the workflow before they wrote a line of code."
Head of Logistics
National waste & recycling operator
03 / SOLUTIONS
Systems for every operational layer.
AI Automation
Custom automations that remove manual coordination across teams and tools.
Operational Dashboards
Live visibility across jobs, sites, resources, costs and performance.
Construction & Trade Software
Built for how trade businesses actually quote, schedule and deliver.
Logistics Marketplaces
Two-sided platforms connecting demand, supply, drivers and assets.
AI Media Systems
Pipelines for production, post, storytelling and brand-grade output.
Infrastructure Intelligence
Data systems for energy, grid, cooling and large-scale infrastructure.
Workflow & CRM Systems
Pipelines, jobs and customer ops engineered around your real process.
Client Portals
Branded portals that give your clients clarity, updates and control.
HOW WE WORK
Every one fixed-scope and signed.
No open-ended discovery. No 12-month transformation. You know the cost, the timeline and the exit criteria at every stage.
- 01
01 · AUDIT
£499 AI Ops Audit
90-minute deep-dive with your ops lead. We map workflows, data, tools and the 3 highest-ROI automations. Report in 5 days.
- 02
02 · DESIGN
System Blueprint
Architecture, integrations, spine mapping and a fixed-scope pilot proposal. Signed before a single line of code is written.
- 03
03 · PILOT
4–6 Week Pilot
One workflow, live in production, on your data. Success criteria agreed upfront. You keep everything we ship.
- 04
04 · SCALE
Platform Rollout
Extend across teams, sites and sister platforms via the Forth Spine. Copilot, dashboards, compliance rails switched on.
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05 · RETAINED
Managed Operations
Ongoing model tuning, workflow evolution, integrations and support. Monthly retainer, quarterly ROI review.
04 / WHY FORTH
Engineers always.
Built by operators
Engineered by people who have run the operations we're now automating.
Real industry knowledge
Construction, logistics, energy and media — not generic SaaS.
Systems that remove friction
We design out the busywork, not just digitise it.
Automation that saves time
Hours back to your team, every week, on every job.
Visibility across the business
Teams, jobs and resources in one operational picture.
Designed around your workflow
Software shaped to how your business actually works.
WHO BUILDS IT
ship software.
Forth is founded and run by people who have carried radios on sites, chased signed dockets, argued with weighbridges and shipped production software for the industries we now automate.
Meet the team & partners →15+ YEARS
Operating construction, plant-hire and logistics businesses across the UK
SHIPPED 4
Production platforms — Landscape Flow, GoMuc, MOVVI, Eleki — plus Copilot
COMPLIANCE-FIRST
WTN, CIS, GDPR, ISO-aligned data handling baked into every build
EDINBURGH-BUILT
In-house engineering — no offshore handoffs, no white-labelled agency work
05 / INDUSTRIES
The sectors we engineer for.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What UK operators ask before hiring an AI systems company.
- Who builds custom AI systems in Edinburgh?
- Forth Systems is an Edinburgh-based AI systems and automation company. We design, build and deploy custom AI agents, workflow automation, document AI, voice AI and operational platforms for UK operators — from our base in Newbridge, west Edinburgh.
- What does an AI automation company actually do?
- We take a real business process — quoting, invoicing, compliance, reception, reporting — and replace the manual, copy-paste parts of it with AI agents and automation. You keep human approval on every decision. Typical outcomes: 60–80% less admin time, 3× faster response times, and cleaner data across every system.
- How much does a custom AI system cost in the UK?
- Forth Systems starts with a fixed-price £499 AI Ops Audit delivered in 5 working days. A first production build (a Sprint) is £2,500 over two weeks. Ongoing embedded build partnerships are £6,000/month, rolling. All prices are exclusive of VAT.
- How long does it take to build and deploy an AI system?
- First useful automation typically ships in two weeks from the end of the audit. A full operational platform (multiple integrated workflows, dashboards, integrations) usually ships in 6–12 weeks. We ship in production from day one — no year-long implementations.
- Which industries do you build AI systems for?
- We build for manufacturing, logistics and fleet, energy and renewables, healthcare and private clinics, legal and professional services, accounting and finance operations, property and lettings, recruitment, insurance, and construction and trades. If your business runs on operational data and repeatable decisions, we can automate it.
- Do you work outside Edinburgh?
- Yes. We're based in Edinburgh and serve clients across Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee and the whole of the UK — including London, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol and Birmingham. Most delivery is remote with on-site visits for discovery and go-live.
06 / EDINBURGH & NEWBRIDGE
The landscape around us.
Edinburgh Castle
Photo: Kim Traynor / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Queensferry Crossing
Photo: M J Richardson / CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Pentland Hills
Photo: Jim Barton / CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Newbridge
Photo: M J Richardson / CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
07 / LOCATION
west Edinburgh.
Forth Systems is based near Newbridge, on the western edge of Edinburgh — within sight of the Forth bridges and the Pentlands. Close to the operators, yards and infrastructure we build for.
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- UK
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- TIMEZONE
06 / GET STARTED
Behind Your Business.
Whether you need a custom internal platform, AI automation, operational software or a scalable marketplace, Forth Systems designs and builds systems that make businesses run better.