AI Consultancy · Inverness · Est. 2026

Strategic AI,
made operational.

B.G.E.V is an AI consultancy for ambitious small and mid-sized businesses across the Scottish Highlands. We help growing companies move from buzzword to working system, with strategic clarity, disciplined execution, and outcomes that can be measured.

Start the conversation ↗ What we do

Focus

Strategy, automation & implementation.

Clients

Ambitious SMEs across the Highlands.

Method

Scoped engagements. Defined outcomes.

Based

Inverness, Scotland.

§ 01 · Thesis

Most businesses don't need more AI. They need the right AI, in the right place, doing the right job, and a plan for what happens after it ships.

Our position · every engagement begins here.

Discipline

Strategy before tools. Tools before scale.

Measurement

Every project has a defined outcome.

Stewardship

Systems that survive the handover.

§ 02 · Services

Three disciplines. One working system.

We work in three practice areas, deployed independently or in sequence. Every engagement is scoped around a defined business outcome, never the technology itself.

AI Strategy & Advisory

Diagnostic work to identify where AI actually earns its keep in your business. We audit processes, size opportunities, and deliver a prioritised roadmap with clear first-steps, not a 50-page deck.

Discovery · Roadmap

Automation & Workflow Design

Where repeat human effort meets systems that don't talk to each other, we design and build the connective tissue, agents, pipelines and integrations that handle the unglamorous middle of your operation.

Build · Integrate

Implementation & Handover

Production-ready systems deployed into your environment, with documentation, guardrails and training so the people who run the business afterwards actually own what was built.

Ship · Transfer

§ 03 · Approach

A four-phase method. No surprises.

Every engagement follows the same rhythm. Clear phases, defined deliverables, no mystery about what happens next or what it costs. Scope adjusts; the method doesn't.

Phase i.

Frame

We sit down, understand the business, and agree a scope with measurable outcomes before a line is written.

Phase ii.

Design

A short, tight design phase: the system on paper, data, logic, integration points, signed off before build.

Phase iii.

Build

We build in the open, in small working increments, so nothing is a black box and no one loses track of progress.

Phase iv.

Hand over

Documentation, training, and a clear operating model, so the system outlives our involvement from day one.

§ 04 · Principles

How we work, in six lines.

What we believe, expressed plainly, the rules we won't bend regardless of project, budget or timeline.

Outcome before tool

We start with the business result and work backwards. The technology is a consequence, not the starting point.

ii.

Small, then right, then fast

We prove the thing works on a small surface before we scale it. Scale on top of a weak foundation compounds problems.

iii.

Documented, not magical

Every system we build is explainable. If we can't describe how it works in plain English, it isn't finished.

iv.

Transferable ownership

We engineer for handover from day one. Your team should be able to operate, extend and fix what we leave behind.

Honest scope

We'd rather decline a project than stretch a method that won't fit. A disciplined "no" protects both sides.

vi.

Local, serious, measured

We're based in the Highlands, we show up in person, and we care about the businesses here getting this right.

§ 05 · Frequently asked

Questions we get, answered plainly.

Almost always yes. SMEs often see the sharpest gains from AI because the business is still small enough to change in a single quarter. The trick is picking the right thing to automate first, which is exactly what a proper strategy engagement is for.

It depends on scope, and we'd rather give you a real number than a made-up one. Engagements are priced per project, with a fixed fee agreed upfront once scope is clear. A short strategy audit is much smaller than a multi-month implementation; we'll tell you which one you need.

It's our focus. We're based in Inverness and our practice is built around SMEs in the Highlands, that's who we understand best and who we want to serve. We'll take work elsewhere in Scotland when there's a strong fit, but the home market comes first.

You own it. Every engagement ends with proper documentation, training for whoever runs the system internally, and a clear operating model. We're available for continued support on a separate agreement, but nothing we build requires us to be present.

We're deliberately platform-flexible. The right model and the right vendor for the job depends on the job, we've no interest in being locked into one ecosystem. Most of our work sits somewhere across the major LLM providers, automation platforms, and whatever already lives in your stack.

A short conversation, no commitment. We'll ask a few questions about the business and what you're trying to move, and if there's a fit we'll suggest the shape of a first engagement. If there isn't, we'll say so.

Strategic AI,made operational.