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We're building tools for businesses that run themselves.

We're Seahorse. We build AI employees, bespoke apps and automations that hand SMEs their time back - digital teammates designed around how you already work, live in weeks.

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We work inside the tools you already pay for

Custom integrations available

The AI implementation team your business is missing.

Seahorse is a two-founder AI consultancy and custom software studio based on Teesside. We work with businesses of 5 to 100 staff, mostly across the North East and remotely UK-wide: engineering and lifting firms, manufacturers, trades and professional services that run on spreadsheets, paper or a tool that nearly fits.

We build two things. Bespoke software shaped around how you actually operate, and AI employees: agents that learn your processes, plug into the tools you already pay for and finish manual jobs end to end. Most projects go live in two to six weeks, every project is fixed price after a free scoping call, and you own the code, the data and the accounts from day one.

Durham Lifting saves £42,000 a year with a system we built and grew a department 30% in twelve months. If something in your business costs hours every week, start with a free scoping call.

An operations manager using bespoke software in a working warehouse

Bespoke software

The system your business actually runs on.

  • Planning
  • Portals
  • Dashboards
  • Automations
Agent · 06:47
  • Checked overnight enquiries
  • Drafted 3 replies in your tone
  • Updated the CRM
  • Wrote your morning brief
Samuel Gardiner George Simpkins

Two founders. No account managers.

You get Samuel or George - the people who build it.

An AI employee quietly coordinating business tasks across office systems

AI employees

Digital teammates that clear the admin while you sleep.

Seahorse
Projects across the UK, available anywhere
Case studies

Real businesses.
Real hours back.

We team up with a business, learn how its people really work, then build the system around them.

Screens show the real systems with example data.

SeahorseAgents
Seahorse Agents · Our AI employee platform

A team that never clocks off.

Our own platform, live at Durham Lifting. Each agent has a job, a desk and a manager: SID runs operations, Hugo handles sales and Victor looks after the accounts. They draft the replies, quotes and invoices, show exactly how they checked, and nothing goes out until a person signs it off.

Antlia ServicesSeahorse
Antlia Services · Rotating equipment

Everyone sees the same day.

Antlia keep heavy industry running, with engineers across Teesside and Yorkshire. Together we swapped emails, spreadsheets, whiteboards and WhatsApp groups for one live system: the office, the field and the workshop on every screen.

471customer sites in one system
25updates since go-live
Durham LiftingSeahorse
Durham Lifting · Lifting and inspection

A whole department, automated.

Durham Lifting inspect and certify lifting equipment across the North East. AI agents have run their compliance, admin and accounts since 2025, and Checked gives every customer one place to book inspections and download certificates.

£42ksaved a year
+30%department growth in 12 months
S M ThompsonSeahorse
S M Thompson · Steel profiling

Steel, meet software.

For over seventy-five years, S M Thompson has been an industry leader in UK steel supply. Together we automated the entire quote procedure and turned 53,000 job records into one live hub for quotes, customers and orders.

53,000job records put to work
1live hub, quote to order
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The PFC Trust · Grant-making charity

Every grant, start to finish.

The PFC Trust funds projects that make a real difference to the people of Hartlepool. Together we built one platform for the whole journey, from the first application to the final impact report.

Your business could be next.

Tell us how your team works today. We'll show you what we'd build first.

Book a free scoping call
An AI employee

One member of staff. Everything you do.

Not a chatbot bolted onto your website. An AI employee that lives in your systems, writes in your voice, works every department and does not stop at half five.

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Who you're buying into

Two founders. No account managers.

Founder access, from first call onwards
You speak to the people who scope it, build it and support it. No translation layer and no hand-off once the work starts.
Samuel Gardiner

Samuel Gardiner

Co-founder · operations

Started on the tools, then years in service management - job scheduling, compliance, field teams, and the paperwork that slows it all down. Samuel builds software because he's lived the problem from the inside.

Connect with Samuel
George Simpkins

George Simpkins

Co-founder · commercial

Seven years running his own business - winning customers and keeping them. A law background for the detail, sales experience for the plain English. George is why Seahorse never speaks in jargon.

Connect with George
How it starts

From first call to live system in weeks.

Start with the problem.

Tell us what's not working. We'll tell you how we'd approach it.

Usually same day

Prefer a human?

Ring whichever of us suits - you'll get a founder, not a call centre.

CallSamuel
+44 7525 237488
CallGeorge
+44 7802 514415
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