Business technology solutions

Embedded Intelligence

Increase Revenue. Improve Margin. Manage Risk.

Cairn26 is an AI implementation business that delivers tailored Business Technology Solutions. We use your existing technology and data, building only what is needed to make everything work together.

Our software, AI, and business management experience has shaped a faster, more practical alternative that delivers working solutions up to 20x faster than traditional development.

Real business solutions. Delivered in days, not months.

Business technology solutions

Your knowledge. Our platform.
Working value in days

Technology is increasingly a commodity. Business understanding is what makes it valuable.

Our four-stage process turns your business knowledge into a tailored, working solution. Your subject matter experts describe what is needed in plain English, giving them direct input into the build.

A four-stage workflow that turns plain-language requirements into a tailored working solution.

  1. Capture Plain-language requirements become structured requirements.
  2. Build Proven, reusable building blocks assembled into a tailored solution.
  3. Connect Integrate into your existing systems / processes using tailored tools and logic.
  4. Deploy Solutions run within your chosen technology environment

The result is a tailored business solution, powered by AI, built around your existing technology, and your detailed business understanding.

Outcomes

The business outcomes we deliver

We are focussed on delivering what matters to you - every solution we build is designed to deliver clear business value. Critically, everything we build runs within your chosen environment. You retain control of the solution, data and operating knowledge.

Greater Revenue Generation

Respond to customers faster, improve every interaction, identify new opportunities, and convert more business.

Increased Productivity

Simplify complex work, reduce manual effort, remove repetitive tasks, and give your people more time to focus on higher-value activity.

Reduced Operating Costs

Make better use of your people’s time and technology, reduce third-party spend, and avoid unnecessary new spend.

Improved Risk Management

Identify risks earlier, improve visibility and control, and put the right safeguards in place to reduce their impact.

TRQ Assessment

Focus on what matters most to your business

Most organisations already have a long list of ideas for where technology could help. The challenge is deciding which ones are actually worth pursuing.

Using the Cairn26 TRQ Assessment we filter out what’s already solvable with existing tools, what’s best solved through an existing product, and what’s not worth automating.

What’s left are high-value processes specific to your organisation.

Each opportunity is assessed against two dimensions:

  • Business Value — how much commercial, productivity, or risk benefit could it create?
  • Business Specificity — how dependent is it on your organisation’s own processes, knowledge, rules, data, and judgement?
  • USE — standard tools are good enough.
  • BUY — buy a proven product.
  • STOP — do not pursue it.
  • BUILD — create a tailored solution.

Identify. Assess. Decide. Prioritise.

Proven results

Every engagement starts with a business challenge...

Three real business problems. Three practical solutions. Clear, measurable value from day one.

AI-enabled tender production workspace

The challenge: Increase tender capacity without adding headcount or reducing quality.

The solution: We built a tailored, AI-enabled tender workspace that combined augmented authoring, company knowledge, approved processes, and built-in AI review and coaching.

The result: We reduced tender drafting time from three weeks to an average of 26 minutes - while also improving consistency and creating the capacity to pursue more opportunities.

£2m
est. annual value
15 days
delivery time
£50k
investment

Delivered Benefits

Growth
Efficiency
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Offshore operations planning

The challenge: Complex multi-page weather reports had to be manually interpreted and cross-referenced against operating policies. This made planning slow and increased the risk of missed weather windows or activity that was not fully optimised.

The solution: We automated the interpretation of forecast data, applied the relevant operating rules, and produced a clear view of operational capacity across each asset.

The result: We replaced a complex manual assessment with a consistent, policy-aligned view of when operations could safely proceed

£300k
est. annual cost avoidance
8 days
delivery time
£20k
investment

Delivered Benefits

Control
Efficiency
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Automated invoice preparation

The challenge: Increased delivery volumes created a growing backlog of manual verification, discrepancy checks, and invoice preparation. This delayed invoicing, increased administrative effort, and slowed cash collection.

The solution: We automated delivery verification, identified discrepancies, and prepared invoice-ready information for review.

The result: We replaced a fragmented manual process with a consistent, controlled workflow that moved completed work towards invoicing more quickly.

£100k
additional opportunities
2 days
delivery time
£2k
investment

Delivered Benefits

Savings
Efficiency
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Why work with Cairn26

We solve the problem. Others stop at the tools.

Our commitment to every customer is simple: we will provide tailored solutions, delivered quickly, with clear and measurable business value.

Our experience spans software and AI engineering as well as business management and as a result, we understand the cost, complexity, and frustrations of traditional development from both perspectives. This is why we have developed this highly agile approach — minimising new build, involving your subject matter experts throughout, and building clear, measurable ROI into every solution.

Cairn26 avoids the common drawbacks of other approaches: long programmes, platform lock-in, overloaded internal teams, and off-the-shelf products that force the business to adapt.

We focus on the specific problem, use what already works, and build only what is needed — delivering tailored solutions faster, with less cost, less complexity, and clearer value.

The Cairn26 Challenge

One problem. One price. One week.

Choose one clearly defined business problem. We agree the required outcome, delivery scope, success measures and fixed price up front.

We then deliver the agreed solution within one week. If we meet the agreed scope and timescale, the fixed fee applies. If we do not, you pay nothing.

1

You define it

The problem, the outcome, and what success looks like.

2

We agree it

Scope, price and a one-week delivery window — up front.

3

We deliver it

On time — or we don’t charge.

Choose one high-value problem. Solve it in days. Measure the result.

The small print: We are not promising to build your entire enterprise platform in a week! The challenge is designed to tackle one clearly defined, high-value problem and demonstrate the value we can add and the pace at which we can deliver.