Put AI to work.
Keep a shepherd watching.
We find the ways AI can make your business more productive, and put them in place safely and securely, with a person watching over every step.
Upilio (oo-PIL-ee-oh): Latin for shepherd.
AI consultancy
We find where AI will make your business more productive, then build it in, safely and securely. Phones, email, documents, software: nothing is off the table.
- A free 30-minute first call
- A written plan before any work starts
- You approve every step that matters
Do it yourself, with Shepherd
Crews of AI agents plan, build, test and review your software on a GitHub board. Anything risky waits for you.
- Works with Claude Code and GitHub
- Guardrails the agents can't change
- A full record of what every crew did
Left alone, AI wanders.
It makes changes no one asked for
Left to itself, AI drifts from the job and edits what it shouldn't.
It goes where it shouldn't
Customer data, passwords and production systems need fences, not trust.
Nobody can say what it did
Without a record, you can't check it, fix it or explain it.
Get more done with AI, safely.
Nothing is off the table. These are the three places we start most often.
AI in your operations
Phones, email, documents and customer service: the repetitive work that eats your team's week.
AI that builds your software
Crews of AI agents working on your codebase, planned, tested and reviewed, with Shepherd keeping watch.
Finding where AI fits
A clear look at where AI will pay off in your business, and where it would be a risk.
A plan, fences, checks, and you.
The same four steps whether we're answering your phones or writing your software.
- 01
Plan
Every job starts as a written plan with clear checks for done. No guessing.
- 02
Build
AI does the work inside fences: it can't touch secrets, production or anything you've ruled out.
- 03
Check
Tests run and separate reviewers read the work before anyone else sees it.
- 04
You approve
Anything risky waits for a person. You see what changed and why, then decide.
Shepherd: a team of AI developers, with you at the gate.
Shepherd plans work as issues, sends crews of AI agents to build, test and review it, and stops for your approval on anything risky. We use it on our own code every day.
- 106pull requests built and merged by our crews
- 114issues closed
- 331commits
- 32days, from first crew run to today
Figures from our own repository, 28 Sep – 30 Oct 2026.
The flock at work.
- Example story
A software team running AI crews
They hand routine issues to Shepherd's crews overnight and review finished pull requests in the morning. Risky changes wait for a named engineer.
“We get the boring work done while we sleep, and nothing ships that we haven't seen.”
Head of Engineering · Live
- Example story
An energy company putting AI on its phone lines
Routine calls (meter readings, outage updates, appointment changes) are answered by an AI assistant that hands anything unusual to a person, with a full record of every call.
“Our people get to spend their time on the calls that need them.”
Operations Director · In progress
A small team that answers the phone.
You'll work with the people who built Shepherd, from the first call to the day it runs on its own.
Meet the team →[Colleague's name] Placeholder
Co-founder, Delivery
Twenty years building software for regulated businesses. Leads client projects from first call to handover.
[Name] Placeholder
Co-founder, Operations
Runs operations and client relationships. Makes sure every engagement is clear, on time and on budget.
Let's find where AI can help you.
Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute call. No slides, no obligation: just your problem and our honest view.
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