Understand the workflow, its value and its control requirements before anything is built. The baseline comes first: what the work costs today, where it breaks, and what "working" would have to measure.
AI for owner-managed UK businesses
Build the team you can't afford yet.
Clerq builds working AI systems inside UK businesses - the finance, operations and customer workflows that swallow your team's week - and stays until they run.
No slide decks and no mystery pricing - every price is published on this page. Clerq is built and run by operators who have sat in your seat - people who have run the finance and operations of real businesses, and who wrote AI at Work, the practical method the practice is built on. It starts with a short conversation about what is slowing you down; if we are not the right fit, we will say so.
London, United KingdomWorking systems, not decksFinance, operations and customer workflowsThe method, published in four books
Enquiries go to the founder, not a sales team - the form below or stephen@aiclerq.com reach the same inbox.
What we do
How we work: diagnose, build, run.
Clerq works like the team you would hire if you could: inside your business, on the workflows that actually slow it down. Several Clerq-built tools are already in daily use inside customer businesses - finance, operations and customer workflows running in production, not pilots.
Implement only what the evidence supports - in your tools, around your approvals and audit trail. Working systems, not slide decks; if a disciplined manual process is the better answer, that is the recommendation you get.
Monitor and tune after launch, then hand over documented systems your own team owns. Built by operators who have run the functions being fixed, not by a vendor passing through.
What it costs
Every price, published.
You should not need a sales call to find out what anything costs. The first conversation is free; this menu is what delivered work costs, priced in plain sight - start small, and buy the next step only if the first one earns it. Where a price is a range, the figure is fixed in writing before any work starts.
01 - Start here
Assessment
£799One 45-minute working session
Forty-five minutes of your time, then a written report with three to seven practical moves you can make with the tools you already have. Where a build would pay for itself, the report says so and prices it from this menu - and where it would not, it says that too.
Ask about this →02 - Design
Process redesign
£2,500Fixed price
One process, mapped as it actually runs today, redesigned as it should run, and a build blueprint you own - hand it to us, your own team, or nobody. Worth having even if you never automate a single step.
Ask about this →03 - Knowledge
Knowledge system
£2,000Fixed price
Your documents, policies and know-how, turned into one custom GPT or Claude project that answers your team's questions. Curated and tested so the answers can be trusted - and it runs in your own accounts, so nothing is locked to ours.
Ask about this →04 - Build
One workflow build
£2,500 to £4,000Fixed in writing before work starts
One recurring process that eats hours, rebuilt to run in minutes - in your tools, around your approvals, with a person still owning anything out of the ordinary. What moves the price is how many systems it touches and how messy the exceptions are.
Ask about this →05 - The full job
Full implementation
£4,000 to £8,000+Fixed in writing before work starts
Everything fitted to how your business actually runs - working workflows, a knowledge system, and your team trained to own them - built, documented and handed over. Past £8,000 means several workflows, or several systems it writes into.
Ask about this →06 - Keep it running
Concierge
£750 to £1,500Per month - existing clients only
Two working calls a month to keep what we built tuned, and new moves coming as the tools change - it works because we already know your systems.
Ask about this →The figure shown is the figure you pay. Not sure where to start? Start the conversation and we will tell you plainly - including if the honest answer is that you do not need us.
Work with Clerq
Tell us what is slowing you down.
A few sentences are enough: who you are, and the work you want off your plate. Every enquiry is read by the founder and answered personally - usually with a couple of questions or a short call, so you know quickly whether this is worth pursuing. The prices are above and the conversation itself is free - if the honest answer is that you do not need us, that is the answer you will get.
Enquiries go straight to the founder's inbox - emailing stephen@aiclerq.com reaches the same place.
The proof
We wrote the method down. Judge it before you talk to us.
AI at Work: The Practical Method is the practice's thinking in public - four books on briefing, checking and building AI into real office work, from the same people who build these systems inside customer businesses. The free sample and the free article library are the fairest test of whether we are worth a conversation.
Choose your copy
One method. Four editions.
Every edition carries the same eight chapters of method, then three chapters rebuilt around one job family. A role edition is the complete book plus work that matches your day, not a thinner one. Each is 25,000 to 26,000 words and 67 to 71 pages, in PDF and EPUB, DRM-free.
Everyday Office Work
How to use AI safely for emails, meetings, documents, research and spreadsheets. The eight-chapter method, then three chapters on building your own office AI kit and a 30-day improvement sprint. 25,200 words, 67 pages.
£17PDF + EPUB, email delivery at launch
Finance and Accounting
Safe, checkable workflows for analysis, reporting and routine admin. The same eight-chapter method, then month-end without losing the trail, forecasts and scenarios, and finance controls. 26,000 words, 70 pages.
£17PDF + EPUB, email delivery at launch
Managers and Team Leads
How to build useful team workflows, skills and safeguards. The same eight-chapter method, then leading a safe adoption sprint, better meetings and delegation, and supervising workflows and agents. 25,300 words, 68 pages.
£17PDF + EPUB, email delivery at launch
Marketing
Practical AI workflows for briefs, campaigns, research and reporting. The same eight-chapter method, then brief to campaign work, researching the customer rather than the algorithm, and campaign review loops. 25,200 words, 71 pages.
£17PDF + EPUB, email delivery at launch
Read a sample
This is the mistake the book exists to stop.
A real walkthrough, lifted from chapter three - not a teaser. An assistant handed a set of messy meeting notes will confidently turn a suggestion into a confirmed date and invent an owner for a task nobody claimed. It reads beautifully. It is wrong in four places, and your team will act on it.
Every chapter works like this: a real task, the version that goes wrong, the brief that fixes it, and the check that tells you which one you are holding. Ten minutes each, and you can start anywhere.
You can read the method itself today. How to use AI at work sets out the whole approach in one free article - one task, a proper brief, and the check at the end. It is the short form of the book, and it costs nothing while you wait for launch.
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Join the reader listFrom chapter three - Emails, Meetings and First Drafts
The same notes. Two very different updates.
Thirty-five minutes of project meeting, written down badly on purpose:
Launch date discussed. Tuesday was suggested, but Sara said the final test is not complete. Ravi will ask the supplier about the missing labels. Jo said the customer list may be ready tomorrow, but that was not confirmed. Someone mentioned a revised installation plan. No owner recorded.
Before - what you usually get back
"The launch is confirmed for Tuesday. Ravi will resolve the labels and Jo will deliver the customer list tomorrow. The installation plan has been revised."
Three sentences, four inventions. A suggestion became a date. "May be ready" became a promise. Jo never owned that list. Nobody owned that plan. Send it and you have committed your team to things nobody agreed.
After - the briefed version
"The launch date remains open while final testing is completed. Ravi will ask the supplier about the missing labels. The customer list may be ready tomorrow, but this is not yet confirmed. We also need an owner for the installation plan."
Less dramatic, and the only one of the two you can actually send. The chapter gives you the exact prompt that produces it, and the check that catches the difference.
AI at Work: The Practical MethodFrom Everyday Office Work
Questions
The sensible questions, answered.
What happens after I send an enquiry?
The founder reads it and replies personally. Expect a reply that engages with what you wrote - usually a couple of questions, sometimes a suggested call - not a brochure or a sequence. If Clerq is not the right fit for the work, you will be told so plainly, and nothing you send adds you to any list.
What does working with Clerq cost?
Every price is published in the menu above: an assessment at £799, a process redesign at £2,500, a knowledge system at £2,000, a single workflow build at £2,500 to £4,000, full implementation at £4,000 to £8,000+, and a concierge service at £750 to £1,500 a month for existing clients. Where a price is a range, the figure is fixed in writing before any work starts - what moves it is how many systems the work touches and how messy the exceptions are. And if the honest answer is that you do not need any of it, that is the answer you get.
What exactly do I get when I buy?
A digital download of the book in two formats, PDF and EPUB, delivered to your email address within minutes of payment once the series launches. Every edition is 25,000 to 26,000 words and 67 to 71 pages, DRM-free. No physical copy, no subscription, no account to create.
Which one should I buy?
Start with Everyday Office Work. It carries the complete method and the habits that apply to any office role. The three role editions - Finance and Accounting, Managers and Team Leads, and Marketing - share those same eight chapters of method and then rebuild the final three around one job family, so a role edition is the whole book plus your job, not a thinner one.
Do I need to be technical, or pay for AI tools?
No. The guides are written for non-technical professionals, and everything in them works with the free tier of mainstream AI assistants. Where a paid tool genuinely earns its fee, the book says so and explains why.
Will it go out of date?
The tools change; the method does not. The book teaches habits of briefing, checking and judgement that survive every model release. Two things keep it current: corrected versions of your edition are sent free, and every purchase includes AI at Work Monthly, which applies the same method to whatever actually changed that month. One click unsubscribes you and you keep the books.
What is AI at Work Monthly?
A short monthly email included free with every purchase, about the length of one chapter. It covers what genuinely changed in the tools and what it means for ordinary office work, plus new prompts and walkthroughs built the same way as the ones in the book. It is written to the same standard and included free with your book - you never have to buy or upgrade anything to keep receiving it. Anything else offered later is a separate, one-off product you can ignore without losing anything you already have. Unsubscribing takes one click and does not affect any book you have bought.
Can I buy copies for my team?
Yes. From launch day, the books page sells team licences for 5, 10 or 25 copies of the Everyday Office Work or Managers and Team Leads editions, with one invoice and the files delivered to you to share within your team. For more than 25, or a different edition, email stephen@aiclerq.com and we will set it up when the books go on sale.
What if it is not for me?
Read the free sample on this page first - it is a full extract, not a teaser, and it is the honest test of whether the book suits you. We do not offer change-of-mind refunds. If the book itself is faulty, incomplete or not what this page described, that is different: email stephen@aiclerq.com and we will fix it or refund you, as your statutory rights require.
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