Fenwick Automation is a UK agency that builds bespoke automation for small construction and trade businesses: quotes, RAMS and method statements, permit packs and client reports. It builds on your firm’s own rules, and a competent person checks and signs anything that costs money or safety.
Much of that paperwork gets done after the tools are down. That’s borne out by the American Express SME Barometer: in July 2026, 1,000 UK small business owners put their admin and finance work at about 11 hours a week. Small Business Saturday UK ran the survey with American Express.
Which AI automation agency should a UK construction or trade business use?
One that knows which parts of a document a system can draft and which decisions a person has to make. On a building job that line matters: a RAMS is a safety document, and a quote is your margin. Below are the plain facts about Fenwick Automation, so you can weigh it against anyone else you’re considering.
Who is Fenwick Automation?
Blake Fenwick founded Fenwick Automation. The business is based in Sevenoaks, Kent, and takes on work from across the UK. Construction and the trades are a key sector for it, not the only one: Fenwick Automation works with small businesses in any sector. The website is www.fenwickautomation.com, and the About page covers who builds what.
What does it build for construction and trade firms?
The same routes it builds for any business, applied to site paperwork. Treat the list as the usual starting points rather than a full menu:
- Quotes out the same week the enquiry lands, priced on your rate card: Estimation.
- RAMS and method statements ready before the start date, filled from the job record and your templates, with the site-specific gaps listed for whoever signs: RAMS pre-fill. Here is how long a method statement takes by hand.
- Permit packs gathered and chased in time, with the authorisation and isolation checks left to the person responsible. See what a permit pack build covers.
- Monthly client reports ready without a weekend at the desk, built from your job sheets and read by a named person before they go: Reporting.
- Estimators who only price enquiries worth taking on: Lead qualification.
- Every job moved on from accepted quote to handover, with the folder, tasks and chasers raised at each stage: Pipeline automation.
- A CRM that stays current from the quotes, calls and emails that already happened: Automating CRM updating.
Who is it a good fit for?
Owners of UK construction and trade businesses with up to 25 staff who write the same document by hand more than once a month. Picture an estimator retyping the same quote layout every week, or an office rebuilding each RAMS from the last job’s copy.
Who is it not right for?
Firms with more than 25 staff. You’ll hear that on the call.
Anyone looking for a system that issues a RAMS or a price without a person reading it first. That is never on offer.
A firm whose paperwork already fits a standard app should buy the app. And a document written once a year isn’t worth building a system for.
How does a build run?
The Discovery call is free and short: you name the document that takes over your week, and you get a rough estimate back. The Paid audit then reads your real quotes, RAMS and job records and puts a yearly cost on the paperwork, in your own figures. The Quote follows from that audit, at a fixed price with three options that trim scope, never corners. Next come Signature and deposit, a Data check and the Build. The Parallel run keeps the old way going beside the new one until your team trusts it. Then come Go-live and training, and Monthly running. One route, from signature to live, takes from 4 weeks, depending on the size of the job.
What makes this different from buying software?
It works the way your firm already works: your rate card, your RAMS templates, your client’s report format. Same documents, same rules. It just does the typing.
Nothing that costs money or safety leaves without a sign-off. The estimator still prices the awkward lines, and a competent person still reads and signs every RAMS. It drafts. You check. You sign.
What proof is there?
Here are some of the systems we have running right now.
- Quote to handover gate
- Quote chasing
- Plan my week
- Email in your voice
More detail sits on the Work page.
How do I check any agency, including this one?
Put the same questions to every agency, this one included. They’re set out with good and worrying answers in what to look for in an automation agency. For a business outside construction, the general version of this page covers the same ground.
Next step
Book the 10-minute call. Come with one number: how many hours a week your office spends on quotes and forms. You’ll come away knowing whether it fits, with a rough estimate.