AI automation in Northampton
Northamptonshire is branded the Golden Triangle of Logistics for a reason: from DIRFT to Brackmills, an extraordinary share of Britain’s goods passes through its parks and depots. Logistics was our first specialism — this is the locality page we didn’t have to stretch for.
Ref 01 · Surveyed local economy
The local picture
The logistics infrastructure is nationally significant: DIRFT (the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal), Brackmills Industrial Estate, Swan Valley, Prologis Park and Pineham anchor a corridor where DHL, XPO Logistics and Eddie Stobart all operate, alongside corporate names like Barclaycard, Nationwide, Panasonic and Coca-Cola.
The county’s older identity endures too — Northampton remains the home of high-quality English shoemaking, a heritage cluster that still manufactures and exports.
Between the mega-sheds and the makers sit hundreds of SME hauliers, freight forwarders, warehouses and suppliers. Their margins live in the admin: PODs, consignment data, driver recruitment, customer updates. That is precisely the work we automate.
Logistics parks & 3PL
Consignment documents, delivery exceptions and client reporting at volumes where every manual touch multiplies into headcount.
Haulage & fleet operators
Driver recruitment screening, compliance paperwork and POD processing — the workflows our workshop systems were literally built around.
Footwear & heritage manufacture
Order books, trade-customer admin and brand content for makers whose product deserves better than a neglected inbox.
Ref 02 · Where automation earns its keep here
What we’d automate in Northampton
Driver recruitment on autopilot
First-pass screening calls made by an AI agent within minutes of application, verdicts gated by deterministic rules, escalations to a human — our HGV system’s exact use case, built for this corridor’s labour market.
POD backlogs, eliminated
Proof-of-delivery and consignment paperwork extracted, matched and posted automatically — invoicing on the day of delivery instead of the end of the week.
Client reporting as a by-product
TMS, WMS and accounting connected so 3PL client reports assemble themselves from live events rather than Friday-afternoon spreadsheet work.
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
Purpose-built for logistics recruitment — the exact hiring bottleneck of the Golden Triangle’s fleets and warehouses.
TypeScript · Twilio · Gemini Live
Index W3 · Workshop build · internal toolingApplicant tracking on Trello for a logistics recruiter workflow
A working logistics-recruitment pipeline on Trello, CV-Library and Supabase — infrastructure this corridor’s agencies will recognise.
Next.js · Supabase · Deno Edge Functions
Ref 04 · Working with us from Northampton
The practical bit
Northampton sits about fifty-five miles south of our Derby base — an easy M1 run for project milestones, with day-to-day collaboration handled remotely. We serve the Golden Triangle without pretending to a warehouse address inside it.
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 Northampton?
Describe the workflow in plain words — you’ll get a straight answer from the engineer who’d build it.
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