Save hours every week
Hand the repetitive admin to a tool that never gets tired.
Put AI to Work in Your Business
The quotes that eat your evenings, the inbox that never empties, the same ten customer questions every week. We help small businesses across Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and West Wales use AI to take that work off your plate — practical tools built around the way you already work, explained in plain English.
How we can help
AI isn't a product you buy.
It's a tool we shape to your jobs.
Most small businesses know AI could help, but don't know where to start — or have tried ChatGPT once and given up. That's where we come in.
We look at how your business actually runs, find the repetitive jobs that swallow your time, and build simple, reliable AI tools that handle them. You stay in control: the AI does the legwork, you check the result and press send.
No hype, no buzzwords, and no pushing you into something you don't need. If AI isn't the right answer for a particular job, we'll tell you.
Never miss an enquiry
Answer customers instantly, even when you're on a roof or asleep.
Quote faster, win more
The first decent quote through the door often wins the job.
Stay in control
You approve everything that goes out. Nothing is sent behind your back.
Examples of what we build
Real jobs AI can take off your hands
These are starting points, not a fixed menu. Every business is different, so we build around yours.
Popular with builders & trades
An AI quote builder that does the pricing legwork
Describe the job — "rear extension, 4m × 5m, block and render" — and your quote assistant drafts an itemised quote using your own rates and your suppliers' current prices. It compares what each merchant is charging for the materials, flags the best-value option, and gives you a professional quote ready to review and send.
- Compares material prices across your suppliers from the price lists and trade accounts you already use
- Builds itemised quotes with your labour rates, margins and standard wording
- Spots when a price has changed since you last quoted
- You review every quote before it goes to the customer
Email filtering & triage
An inbox that sorts itself. New enquiries, supplier invoices, spam and "just checking in" messages are separated, with the urgent ones flagged first.
- Sorts and labels incoming mail
- Drafts replies in your own voice for you to approve
- Logs new enquiries straight into a sheet or CRM
Website chatbots & enquiry assistants
A chatbot trained on your own services, approach and FAQs that answers customers 24 hours a day and captures the details of genuine leads.
- Answers the questions you get asked every week
- Collects name, number and job details
- Hands over to you when a human is needed
Website review & improvement plan
We go through your website the way a customer — and Google — would, and give you a plain-English, prioritised list of what to fix first.
- Speed, mobile experience and accessibility
- SEO and visibility in AI answers (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews)
- Where visitors drop off instead of enquiring
Admin & paperwork automation
The jobs you do on autopilot, actually on autopilot: chasing overdue invoices, appointment reminders, filing bookings, low-stock alerts.
- Connects the tools you already use
- Runs in the background, every day
- Flags anything unusual to you
WhatsApp & Messenger assistants
Customers message you where they already are. An assistant handles the out-of-hours questions and booking enquiries, and passes the rest to you.
- Instant replies, evenings and weekends
- Qualifies enquiries before they reach you
- Keeps a tidy record of every conversation
Content & review replies
Blog posts, product descriptions, social captions and Google review replies drafted in your brand voice — ready for you to tweak and post.
- Sounds like you, not a robot
- Great for holiday lets, shops and tradespeople
- Approve in seconds instead of writing from scratch
Hands-on AI training for you and your team
Practical sessions on using tools like ChatGPT and Claude for your actual day-to-day jobs, on-site or online. You leave knowing what to use, how, and what to avoid.
- Built around your real tasks
- Safe use of customer and business data
- No technical background needed
Got a different repetitive job in mind? Tell us about it — if it follows a pattern, there's a good chance AI can help.
How it works
From "where do I start?" to a tool you use every day
01
A friendly chat
You tell us what takes up your time. Free, no obligation, no jargon.
02
Find the quick wins
We pick the jobs where AI will save the most time for the least fuss.
03
Build a first version
A small, working tool you can try on real jobs — not a lengthy spec.
04
Test & refine
We tweak it until it works the way you do and you trust the results.
05
Ongoing support
A local number to call if anything needs changing. No lock-in.
Why Storm Development
Local, honest and here for the long run
- Family-run in Penparc, near Cardigan, helping local businesses with their websites and IT since 2009
- We already look after websites, hosting and IT, so your AI tools sit neatly alongside what you have
- You approve what the AI produces — it assists you, it doesn't act without you
- Careful with your data: we explain what goes where, in line with UK GDPR
- Plain English throughout, and a real person on the phone
Questions
Common questions about AI for small business
Yes — that's exactly who we work with. You don't need to understand how AI works, just what you'd like to stop doing by hand. We handle the technical side and show you how to use the result.
It depends entirely on what you need, so we don't publish a price list. After a free chat we'll tell you what we'd build and give you a clear quote before any work starts — and if a simple tool will do the job, we'll say so rather than sell you something bigger.
Sometimes, which is why we design tools around a human check. Quotes, emails and replies are drafted for you to review before they go out, and we test everything on real examples from your business first.
We choose tools and settings with UK GDPR in mind, keep only the data a job needs, and explain in plain terms where information goes. If a task involves sensitive data and AI isn't appropriate, we'll tell you.
Yes, as long as we have access to the prices — supplier price lists, trade-account exports or catalogue data you're already entitled to use. We'll look at your suppliers during the first chat and tell you honestly how automatic it can be.
Builders and trades, holiday lets, farms and rural businesses, shops, vets, clinics and professional services across Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and West Wales. If you spend time on repetitive admin, we can probably help.
Get in touch
Got a job that eats
your week? Let's fix it.
Tell us what's slowing your business down. We'll have a friendly, no-obligation chat and say honestly whether AI can help.