Win Back Hours Every Week and Hand the Repetitive Work to AI
We get your people using AI properly, put AI agents on your high-volume processes, and build bespoke software where nothing off the shelf fits. Built into the day job, not bolted on.
Valorem First, based in Glasgow, builds AI into how businesses work: AI tools your people actually use, AI agents that take on high-volume processes, and bespoke software where nothing off the shelf fits. Most clients start with a Rapid AI Assessment, which takes two to four weeks and shows where AI will pay back first.
AI Already at Work for Our Clients
Job Requests by Email
An agent reads each job request in a shared mailbox, gathers the missing context and sends a ready job to approve.
Company Data in Plain English
People ask questions of live company data in plain English instead of waiting on a report.
AI Across a Whole Business
Claude across the whole business, a knowledge base for tenders, automatic meeting notes and AI-assisted take-offs for estimating.
Document Checks at Volume
Documents checked for accuracy and consistency in the background, at a volume nobody could check by hand.
What AI Is Worth
Across our clients, these are our current estimates for how AI is improving businesses across the board.
What We Do
Every engagement includes the training, policy and governance that make AI stick, and support once it is live.
AI Tools
For teams with no AI capability yet. Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot set up properly, with training and guardrails so people actually use them. Time back with no new systems.
For example:
AI Workforce
For painful, high-volume processes. AI agents that do the work, not just help with it, so your headcount stops growing in step with volume.
For example:
Bespoke AI
For processes stuck in spreadsheets or workarounds. Software built for exactly how you work, such as quoting, surveying or holiday management tools.
What you get:
How It Starts
Small first steps, proven before anything scales
Rapid AI Assessment, 2 to 4 weeks
We look at your processes, people and data across six dimensions, including one-to-one interviews with your people by George, and tell you where AI will pay back first, and in what order. Get in touch to find out the cost.
A Pilot on One Process
Usually AI tools, because they prove value fastest. Licences, training and guardrails together, so people actually use them.
Scale What Works
Agents and bespoke builds on your biggest processes, with the policy, governance and support that keep them working as things change.
Discovery Interviews With George
George is our AI interviewer. He talks to your people one to one by phone to find the opportunities, pain points and friction in your business.
Ring When It Suits
Each person rings a dedicated number and talks to George one to one, usually for 20 to 30 minutes. Nothing to schedule and nothing to install.
What He Listens For
Where time goes, the workarounds people invented to cope, the fixes that stalled, and how people see AI.
What You Get
A written findings report that brings every interview together, with our recommendations on what to fix first. Part of our Rapid AI Assessment, or on its own.
Not a Phone Menu
When one of our own team first rang George, they expected the automated voice you get when you ring a bank. It was nothing like that.
Like talking to someone at Valorem First
George interviews you, listens and follows up on what you say, like a member of our team who wants to understand your business. Ring him on 0141 673 5900 and hear it for yourself.
Find Out Where AI Will Pay Back First
Tell us where your team loses time, and we will tell you where to start and what a Rapid AI Assessment would cost.
Or contact William Pearce, Digital Transformation Architect, at william.pearce@valoremfirst.com.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does a Rapid AI Assessment take?
Two to four weeks. At the end you know where you are now across six dimensions, what to do first and in what order.
How much does a Rapid AI Assessment cost?
It is a paid assessment. Get in touch with William Pearce, Digital Transformation Architect, at william.pearce@valoremfirst.com and we will tell you the cost for your business.
What is the difference between AI Tools and AI Workforce?
AI Tools help your people do their existing work faster, which gives them time back. AI Workforce agents do the work themselves, for example reading a mailbox and preparing each job for approval, which adds capacity that holds as volume grows.
Which AI tools do you work with?
Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot for everyday work, alongside Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Notion, NotebookLM and Granola. For agents and bespoke software we connect AI to your own systems and data.
Is it safe to use AI with our business data?
It can be, with the right rules in place. We write a short acceptable use policy covering which tools are approved, what staff can put into them, what needs a human check and who signs off, and we work through data residency, retention and what the AI may say to a customer before anything goes live.
Who owns the bespoke software you build?
You do. You own the code.
How long does an interview with George take?
Interviews are flexible, but most take 20 to 30 minutes. Each person rings a dedicated number when it suits them.
Is George like an automated phone line?
No. George holds a real conversation: he asks questions, listens and follows up on what you say. It feels more like talking to someone at Valorem First who wants to understand your business.
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