The useful bit of AI, wired in
A safe pair of hands: it asks before it acts.
It drafts the reply, the chase, the briefing note. You read it. Nothing leaves until you press the button.
The pile stays yours
Most owners already know AI exists. Some have poked at the chat tools. A few use them for odd jobs: a draft email, a quick answer, a bit of research.
Almost nobody has the spare hours to integrate that into the real work: follow-ups that actually go out, quotes that get chased, a clear picture of what’s waiting today. Tools that act on their own feel unsafe. So the useful bit stalls, and the admin pile stays yours.
How it works
One loop, not forty features.
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Capture
Work lands in one place: tasks, leads, notes, documents, what came in on chat or Telegram.
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Draft
Lamont Works drafts the reply, the chase, the briefing note. You send it.
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Approve
Nothing outbound leaves without your say-so. You see the draft; you decide.
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Act
Once you approve, it sends or schedules. Then it keeps durable state so nothing vanishes into an inbox thread.
Plus a short daily briefing so you know what needs you before the day gets loud.
What it cannot do without you
You have seen the headlines about AI doing things nobody asked for. This one is built so it can’t.
It cannot send
Every email waits for your press.
It cannot run up a bill on a connected service
A connected tool that charges each time it is used, such as the paid business search, shows you and waits for your press.
It cannot import or publish
Bringing in a list, or posting anything, waits too.
It cannot rewrite history
Every request and every decision is written down before anything happens. Nobody can edit that record: not the AI, not us. You can download it whenever you like.
The AI suggests. Ordinary software checks. You decide.
AI is good at reading, drafting and spotting what you’d miss. It is not good at rules. So the rules are not left to it.
Sole traders, checked twice
The law says a sole trader must not be cold-emailed without consent. So the software checks, when the email is drafted and again at the moment it is sent. No amount of asking the AI nicely gets round it.
Stopped at the door
Someone asks not to be contacted after you approved an email to them? It is stopped at the door.
Your wording is your wording
For a campaign, no AI writes the email: the software fills in the details and sends exactly what you wrote.
Where your data goes
Your records are stored in the EU
In Finland, on our own system, not inside an AI company’s product.
The assistant runs on open AI models
Not the closed ones from the big AI labs. Open means the model itself is published and can be run on machines we choose. It is the reason we can move it.
Today, the AI’s requests pass through the US
They go through a routing service based in the US. We would rather tell you than have you assume otherwise.
Where we are going
Your data, and the AI that reads it, both in Europe. That move is planned; when it is done this page will say so, and not before.
The detail behind all three: how it keeps you safe.
Who it’s for
Owner-managed firms: trades, workshops, small industrial, service businesses with quotes and chase.
You’ve tried AI. You might already use it a bit. You don’t have time to turn it into a proper part of how the business runs. You’re local enough that talking to a founder nearby still means something.
About
Lamont Works is built by Glen Birkbeck in Cramlington, Northumberland, a short drive from Newcastle. It’s a one-person company. Glen has spent thirty years in UK enterprise IT and telecoms. He builds this because most owners have already tried AI tools and never get the time to wire them into the admin loop properly. He runs his own work on it. Nothing goes out without approval.
Fifteen minutes of your view
Genuinely after how the admin piles up in a firm like yours, not a demo dump. Say roughly when suits you in the message if you like; I’ll reply and we’ll find a slot.
Or email [email protected]