Jōshi Systems - 'superior' in Japanese, Cambridge Dictionary

We automate the work your team keeps putting off.

A boutique AI agency based in Manchester, UK. AI SDKs, MCPs, developer tooling - or building websites or web applications at a rapid pace. All of these are things we've done in the past.

Boring problems, measurable outcomes.

Data trapped in documents, extracted into your system of record

Claims forms, certificates, inspection sheets — read, structured, and filed automatically. The three-hour retyping job becomes a ten-minute review.

Supplier and customer email routed before anyone opens it

Every message classified, matched to the right account, and raised in your ticketing system with the details already filled in. Your team handles exceptions, not volume.

Weekly rollups compiled from the folders nobody wants to open

The Friday ritual of pulling numbers from six SharePoint folders and two spreadsheets, done by a script before you sit down. Same format, every week, no chasing.

Inspection notes and photos turned into a searchable dataset

Years of site reports sitting in PDFs and camera rolls become something you can actually query — by site, by defect, by date — when the auditor asks.

Weeks, not quarters.

  1. 01 / Discovery

    Two-week paid audit

    We map every manual process worth automating, prioritise by hours saved, and pick one to ship first.

  2. 02 / Build

    Fixed scope, fixed price

    Shipped in two to six weeks. Boring tech where it works, LLMs only where they earn their keep.

  3. 03 / Handover

    Yours, documented, running

    Tested and running on your infrastructure. No lock-in, no retainer trap.

You might be a fit if…

  • You have three people whose main job is copy-pasting between two systems.
  • Your compliance reporting eats a full day of someone's week, every week.
  • You paid a consultancy for an AI strategy deck last year and nothing shipped.
  • Your data lives in PDFs, inboxes, and spreadsheets — and your software can't see any of it.
  • You want one accountable engineer, not a bench of juniors on a six-month programme.

I've spent my career shipping AI products inside serious engineering organisations, most recently at Meta and a Cambridge AI lab. I started Jōshi Systems because the most useful AI work isn't happening at hyped-up startups — it's waiting inside operations teams at real companies, and it mostly needs someone to just build the thing.

Akash Joshi / Founder

Tell us what your team dreads.

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