AI automation in Burton-on-Trent
Burton brews at industrial scale, and everything around that — malting, packaging, warehousing, haulage — moves on paperwork. Delivery notes, stock counts, batch records, carrier bookings: the repetitive data work between brewhouse and doorstep is exactly what we automate.
Ref 01 · Surveyed local economy
The local picture
The Beer Capital of England still earns the name, with eight breweries operating in town. Molson Coors leads them — its Burton site is the largest brewery in the company’s Western Europe business, producing over a billion pints a year. Carlsberg Marston’s is the other giant: Carlsberg took full ownership in 2024 and has announced more than £6 million of investment in the Burton operation.
Around the brewers sits the real economic web: packaging lines, ingredient suppliers, bonded warehouses, and the retail and distribution operations that move all of it. Burton’s wider economy leans heavily on manufacturing, warehousing and distribution.
Every link in that chain runs on documents and phone calls — goods-in paperwork, proof of delivery, stock reconciliation, carrier chasing. Most of it is still handled by retyping and ring-arounds.
Brewing & drinks production
Batch documentation, quality logs and supplier certificates — structured records that AI extraction can file properly the moment they arrive.
Warehousing & bonded storage
Goods-in/goods-out paperwork and stock reconciliation across systems that rarely share data without a human in the middle.
Distribution & haulage
PODs, delivery exceptions and carrier confirmations — high-volume, time-sensitive, and mostly still processed by hand at the end of a shift.
Ref 02 · Where automation earns its keep here
What we’d automate in Burton-on-Trent
Delivery paperwork that files itself
Proof-of-delivery captures, goods-received notes and batch records extracted into your stock and accounting systems automatically — validated, exception-flagged, and out of the office in-tray for good.
One view from brewhouse to customer
Warehouse systems, transport planning and invoicing joined so a despatch in Burton updates every ledger that cares about it — no Monday-morning spreadsheet reconciliation.
Depot calls without the ring-around
Delivery confirmations, driver check-calls and carrier chasing handled by a voice agent built on the same telephony stack as our HGV screening system — with a human hand-off the moment a call stops being routine.
Ref 03 · Proof, not promises
The relevant work
We prove capability with systems we’ve actually built — described from their codebases, with no invented clients or results.
AI voice screening for HGV driver recruitment
Telephony AI built for the haulage world Burton’s distribution depends on — auditable, compliance-gated, interruption-tolerant.
TypeScript · Twilio · Gemini Live
Index W3 · Workshop build · internal toolingApplicant tracking on Trello for a logistics recruiter workflow
Semi-structured documents arriving by email, parsed into a live operational system — the daily reality of a Burton goods office.
Next.js · Supabase · Deno Edge Functions
Ref 04 · Working with us from Burton-on-Trent
The practical bit
Derby is twelve miles up the A38 — Burton is about the closest thing we have to a second home ground, and on-site days here are easy to arrange. No Burton office, no pretence of one; the engineer just drives down.
Every project starts the same way regardless of postcode: an email describing the workflow, a straight answer about whether automation fits, then a scoped survey before any build. How we work →
Automating something in Burton-on-Trent?
Describe the workflow in plain words — you’ll get a straight answer from the engineer who’d build it.
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