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AI & Technology ConsultancyLiverpool, UK

From AI opportunity to working software.

MakOps helps startups and growing businesses identify where AI can create genuine value, design the right technical solution, and turn it into secure, scalable working software.

Practical AI. Serious engineering.

  1. Opportunity
  2. Understand
  3. Design
  4. Build
  5. Working Software

The problem

AI creates opportunities. It also creates a lot of noise.

Businesses are being told they need an AI strategy, AI agents, copilots and automation — often before anyone has properly defined the problem they are supposed to solve.

MakOps helps separate useful applications of AI from the hype.

We work with businesses to understand where AI can save time, reduce operational cost, improve customer experiences or enable entirely new capabilities — and then determine the simplest, safest way to make it happen.

Sometimes that means AI. Sometimes it means better software. Often it means both.

Services

How MakOps can help

AI Strategy & Adoption

Identify where AI can deliver meaningful business value and create a practical route from opportunity to implementation.

  • AI opportunity discovery
  • Feasibility assessment
  • Technology/model selection
  • AI roadmaps
  • Build-vs-buy decisions
  • Risk and governance
  • Proof-of-concept planning

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AI Products & Intelligent Workflows

Build applications and workflows that combine AI reasoning with existing data, systems and business processes.

  • LLM applications
  • RAG
  • Intelligent search
  • Document processing
  • AI assistants
  • Tool calling
  • Agentic workflows
  • Workflow automation
  • Human-in-the-loop systems
  • API integration

Software Architecture & Modernisation

Design scalable systems ready for today’s requirements and tomorrow’s AI capabilities.

  • Solution architecture
  • Application architecture
  • APIs and integrations
  • Cloud architecture
  • Data architecture
  • Legacy modernisation
  • Security
  • Technical discovery

Technology & Architecture

Technical Leadership & Delivery

Senior technical leadership when a business needs more than another pair of development hands.

  • Fractional technical leadership
  • Architecture ownership
  • Engineering direction
  • MVP delivery
  • Team mentoring
  • Technical due diligence
  • Delivery recovery
  • Engineering process improvement

Process

From idea to implementation

  1. 01

    Discover

    Understand the business problem, existing processes, systems and constraints.

  2. 02

    Evaluate

    Identify opportunities and determine where AI, automation or conventional software provides the best solution.

  3. 03

    Design

    Define architecture, data flows, security, controls and a pragmatic delivery plan.

  4. 04

    Build

    Prototype, implement, test and iterate towards production.

MakOps can support an individual stage or stay involved from initial discovery through to production delivery.

Engineering credibility

AI expertise grounded in real software engineering.

Reliable AI products need more than a good prompt.

They need sound architecture, secure access to data, robust APIs, testing, observability and clear boundaries around what AI is allowed to do.

MakOps combines current AI engineering with more than 25 years of experience designing software, building products and leading technical teams.

  • AI & LLM Engineering
  • Software Architecture
  • Cloud & Serverless
  • APIs & Integration
  • Data & Retrieval
  • Security & Governance
  • Agentic Workflows
  • AI-Assisted Engineering
  • Technical Leadership
  • Product Delivery

Sectors

Experience across complex industries

Experience includes

  • FinTech & Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Government & Education
  • SaaS & Digital Products
  • Startups & Scale-ups

Have an AI opportunity or technology challenge?

Whether you’re exploring where AI could help, planning a new product or dealing with a difficult technical problem, an initial conversation is often the easiest place to start.