SkyStamper product
WhereToCut
A web application for planning flooring layouts and cuts. It turns room and flooring specifications into clear layouts, cut plans and material usage.
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AI should earn its place in the day-to-day.
We help small businesses and organisations move from wondering what AI is for to using it for something that matters.
Our point of view
Start small.
Solve something real.
Agent Umber is built for SMEs and other relatively small organisations that want to operate better without taking on an expensive, vague transformation programme.
There is no single right way to adopt AI. We meet you where you are, work with the systems you already have and focus on making one useful improvement at a time.
Sometimes that means learning together. Sometimes it means building together. Sometimes you would rather hand over the technical work. All three are valid ways forward.
The experience behind the business
Agent Umber is new.
The experience behind it isn't.
Before Agent Umber, the same practical approach was used to build products and improve real working systems. Here are a few examples from SkyStamper product development and freelance delivery.
SkyStamper product
MicCrush
A local-first karaoke repertoire manager for organising songs, tracking what you can sing and getting AI suggestions based on your library.
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Polling Report
A rebuild of an existing political polling and data platform: moving it to Google Cloud, separating public publishing into Ghost while retaining and enhancing the specialist analytical application, and integrating the data flows between them.
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Alexander Hilton
Founder
My work has mostly been about solving problems rather than following a conventional software engineering path. I have worked across communications, campaigning, policy, data and technology, built my own web products and delivered technical work for clients.
I increasingly use AI-assisted development and automation to solve practical business problems. Agent Umber began with a mundane one: I was tired of finding and organising vendor invoices and receipts in email, so I used AI to help build a Google Workspace automation.
That showed me how much AI has lowered the technical barrier to fixing ordinary small-business problems. Start with something real, make it useful, then move to the next one: that is the idea behind Agent Umber.
What guides us
Useful over impressive
We care about a task getting easier, clearer or quicker. The technology is only as valuable as the work it improves.
Understandable by default
People should know what an automation does, where it can fail and how to make a sensible change.
Progress that compounds
A good first step makes the next one easier. We build capability as well as individual solutions.