AI Development Company in Manchester
BigBerri is a Manchester AI development company. We build AI chatbots, AI voice agents, business automation, and the websites and apps behind them, for businesses across Greater Manchester and the rest of the UK. Fixed prices, live in weeks, and a free discovery call to start.
- Fixed price, quoted after a free call
- Chatbots and automations live in 1–4 weeks
- Big Berri Limited, Company No. 16562429
- ICO registered ZC119995, UK data hosting
AI services for Manchester businesses
Every project gets a fixed quote and a written scope after a free discovery call.
A Manchester AI company that builds its own AI products
Most agencies in Manchester added “AI” to a web design menu. We started the other way round: we build and run AI products, Writford for UK solicitors and WebMCP for WordPress, and bring that production experience to every chatbot, voice agent and integration we ship for clients.
That shows up in the details that matter to a business owner: fixed prices rather than day rates, honest timelines, UK data hosting and a human handoff designed into every AI agent. And because we are in Manchester, we can sit in your reception for a morning and see exactly which calls and questions to automate first.
Areas we serve
On site across Greater Manchester and the North West; remote across the UK.
- Manchester city centre
- Salford
- Trafford
- Stockport
- Bolton
- Bury
- Oldham
- Rochdale
- Tameside
- Wigan
- Cheshire
- Lancashire
- Leeds and West Yorkshire
- Liverpool and Merseyside
Who we build for in Manchester and beyond
Greater Manchester is ten boroughs, not one city, and the work looks different across them. The Combined Authority names five growth sectors — life sciences and health innovation, advanced manufacturing, digital and AI, creative and media, and low carbon — alongside financial and professional services. Most of our enquiries come from the businesses underneath those headlines.
Digital, cyber and AI
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority names this one of its five growth sectors and describes the city region as having the largest AI sector by headcount outside London and the South East. It is also the group least likely to need us, and the one we most often end up building alongside rather than for.
Advanced manufacturing
GMCA puts employment in advanced manufacturing across the city region above fifty thousand people. The AI work here is rarely customer-facing: it is quote handling, spec questions, supplier chasing and getting information out of systems that were never designed to give it up.
Health innovation and life sciences
Another of the five growth sectors. Anything touching patient data brings the clinical safety standards, DTAC and the Data Security and Protection Toolkit with it, which is why we treat healthcare as its own build rather than a variation on a chatbot.
Creative and media
GMCA reports the creative industries supporting well over forty thousand jobs locally. Studios and agencies mostly want the admin back: briefs triaged, assets found, status questions answered without someone stopping work to answer them.
Professional and financial services
Law firms, accountancy practices and brokers clustered in and around the city centre. The constraint is never the technology, it is the regulator, which is why we start from what the assistant must never do.
The businesses that fill the ten boroughs
Most of Greater Manchester is not a growth-sector headline. Wigan Council’s own key statistics put around eighty-eight per cent of the borough’s businesses in the micro band, under ten people, with a further ten per cent small. Dental practices, letting agents, plumbers, clinics, garages. That is who this page is mostly written for.
- Dental Practices
- Estate Agents
- Law Firms
- Accountancy Firms
- Trades & Home Services
- Clinics & Private Healthcare
- E-commerce & Retail
- Recruitment Agencies
- Care Homes
- Veterinary Practices
- Restaurants
- Gyms & Fitness Studios
- Car Dealerships
- Insurance Brokers
- Logistics & Haulage Companies
- Hotels & Guest Houses
- Opticians
- Pharmacies
- Hair & Beauty Salons
AI chatbots for Manchester businesses
The chatbot a Manchester dental practice needs and the one a Trafford Park manufacturer needs share almost no requirements beyond the word. The practice needs its diary, its recall list and a line it never crosses about clinical advice. The manufacturer needs a part number understood, a spec sheet found, and a human brought in the moment a quote is involved.
So we do not start from the bot. We start from the questions your enquiries already contain, which is why the first thing we ask for is a month of them. If your enquiries are mostly people ringing, a phone agent will serve you better than a widget, and we will say so.
On site where it helps, remote where it does not
Discovery is the part worth doing in person, because watching how a call actually gets handled tells us more than any specification will. We do that across the ten boroughs and into Cheshire and the wider North West. Everything after it — the build, the testing, the monthly review — works perfectly well over a call, and pretending otherwise would just put travel into your quote.
Being based here matters for a narrower reason than most agencies claim: your regulators, your suppliers and your customers are on UK time, UK rules and UK expectations. That is what shapes the build. A firm running a location page from another continent can copy the city name but not that.
Working with an AI company in Manchester
Are you actually based in Manchester?
Yes. Big Berri Limited (Company No. 16562429) is a Manchester company. We work remotely with most clients and meet in person across Greater Manchester where it helps, for discovery sessions, workshops and launches.
Do you only work with Manchester businesses?
No. Around Manchester we can be on site; everywhere else in the UK we work remotely with the same fixed-price process. Discovery calls, builds and support all happen online.
What does an AI project cost with a Manchester agency?
It depends on how many systems the work touches, how messy the inputs are and how much is bespoke rather than configured. Rather than publish a number that assumes someone else's situation, we scope yours on a free discovery call and give you a fixed price with a written scope.
How is BigBerri different from other Manchester digital agencies?
We build and run our own AI products, Writford for UK solicitors and WebMCP for WordPress, so we design chatbots, voice agents and integrations from production experience rather than templates. We lead with AI, then build the websites and apps around it.
Do you do AI consultancy, or only build things?
Both, and the first conversation is consultancy whether or not anything gets built. A discovery call is free and often ends with us saying the tool you already pay for covers it, or that the problem is a process rather than software. Where a business genuinely wants advice without a build — which of these processes is worth automating, what would this cost us to get wrong, is our data in a state to do this at all — that is work we do, and it is quoted the same way as everything else.
Do you cover Stockport, Cheshire and the rest of the North West?
Yes. Greater Manchester is ten boroughs and we work across all of them, into Cheshire, and out to Lancashire, Merseyside and West Yorkshire. We have deliberately not built a separate page for each town, because a page that swaps the place name and changes nothing else is no use to the person reading it. If you are in Macclesfield or Stockport or Bolton, this is the page, and the discovery call is the same one.
How quickly can you start?
Discovery calls are usually available within a few working days. Chatbots and automations go live in one to four weeks, voice agents in two to four weeks and MVPs in four to eight weeks.
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