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Helping local businesses across South West London

Win more work.Respond faster.Spend less time on admin.

I help trades and local service businesses in South West London transform their operations with AI. Win more work, respond faster and spend less time on admin.

I’ll look at one place you’re losing leads, moving slowly or wasting time, and together we’ll decide whether an AI agent or a simpler system could fix it.

  • Founder-led
  • Local to South West London
  • No long contracts

What I fix

Start with one expensive problem

Where is your businessleaving money on the table?

  • Are missed calls turning into missed jobs?

  • Do website and email enquiries wait too long for a response?

  • Are quotes slow to prepare and send?

  • Do promising leads disappear because nobody follows up?

  • Are tenders and customer documents painful to assemble?

  • Is your team spending hours copying information between systems?

  • Do customers keep calling because they don’t know what is happening?

  • Are you unable to serve more customers without hiring another administrator?

You don’t need to replace everything or buy another complicated solution. I start with one expensive problem and build the simplest sensible fix.

What agents can do

Credible in 2026

AI agents can now doreal work for your business.

Unlike a chatbot or a fixed automation, an agent can understand what a customer is asking, use the information already available and take the next step, within rules you control.

  • Voice

    Answer customers while you are working

    A voice agent can answer calls, understand what the customer needs, collect the relevant details and arrange the next step. If it is uncertain or the call is sensitive, it hands over to a person.

  • Drafting

    Help you say the right thing

    An agent can review the enquiry, customer history and job context, then suggest the best response, questions to ask or next action. The owner remains in control.

  • Quoting

    Prepare a quote in minutes

    An agent can turn call notes, messages, photographs, price lists and previous jobs into a draft quote in around 10 minutes, ready for review and approval.

  • Follow-up

    Follow up without forgetting

    An agent can monitor unanswered quotes, send appropriate follow-ups, understand replies and bring interested customers back to you.

  • Job admin

    Keep jobs and customers moving

    An agent can collect missing information, send updates, organise job evidence and flag exceptions before they become problems.

A fixed automation

An agent

Follows predetermined “if this, then that” rules.
Interprets unstructured calls, messages, photographs and documents.
Does one fixed thing every time it is triggered.
Chooses among approved actions based on the context of the job.
Breaks quietly when reality does not match the rule.
Knows when to ask for help or require a human approval.

Agents are not a replacement for you. They work inside defined limits, they escalate what they are unsure about, and not every example above will suit every business. Which of these is worth building needs a review.

Three places it pays off

Examples

01

Win more work

  • Reply to missed calls and enquiries quickly
  • Capture lead details consistently
  • Qualify and route new enquiries
  • Follow up on unsold quotes
  • Prepare tender information
  • Re-engage previous customers

02

Deliver work faster

  • Book and schedule jobs
  • Collect customer details, photographs and documents
  • Coordinate office and field teams
  • Send appointment reminders
  • Keep customers updated
  • Flag jobs that need attention

03

Reduce administration

  • Prepare quotes, reports and job sheets
  • Copy information between existing systems
  • Chase missing documents
  • Track certifications and renewals
  • Produce weekly business summaries
  • Reduce repetitive inbox work

How it goes today

What you get instead

  1. The call comes back hours later

    A trader misses a call while on a job and remembers to return it that evening.

    Answered

    The enquiry is already waiting for review

    A voice or messaging agent responds immediately, understands what the customer needs, collects the important details and prepares the enquiry for the plumber to review.

  2. Chasing every quote by hand

    An office manager works through the list, chasing each quote that has not had a reply.

    Followed up

    Only the interested ones reach the team

    An agent monitors unanswered quotes, follows up appropriately, understands the response and routes interested customers back to the team.

  3. Job photos live in WhatsApp

    Field staff send photographs and notes through WhatsApp for someone to reorganise later.

    Organised

    Evidence filed against the right job

    An agent organises the evidence against the correct job, identifies anything missing and prepares a customer report for approval.

How it works

Three steps

Start with oneexpensive problem.

  1. 01

    Find where work or time is being lost

    I examine one part of the business, such as missed enquiries, quoting, follow-up or job administration.

  2. 02

    Build a practical fix

    I design an AI agent or a simpler automation, connect it to the tools already in use and define exactly what it can do without approval.

  3. 03

    Measure whether it works

    I track outcomes such as response time, quotes sent, jobs booked or administrative hours saved.

GuardrailHumans remain in control of prices, approvals, exceptions and important customer decisions.

How we work together

Three steps, in order

  1. Step 1

    Free

    30 minutes

    Business Bottleneck Review

    Bring one place where your business is losing leads, moving too slowly or spending too much time on administration. We’ll determine whether it is worth investigating and whether an agent, a simpler automation or a process change is the right answer.

    • Focus on one specific business bottleneck
    • Establish whether the problem is valuable and technically plausible
    • Leave with a high-level recommendation
    • Decide together whether a paid blueprint is worthwhile
    Book a free 30-minute bottleneck review
  2. Step 2

    £750

    Fixed fee

    Agent Systems Blueprint

    If there is a valuable opportunity, I’ll examine the work in detail and design the system before asking you to invest in a build.

    • A working session with you and the relevant team members
    • A map of how the work happens today
    • A calculation of the time, revenue or response-speed opportunity
    • A clear design for the proposed agent or supporting process
    • Human approvals, guardrails and escalation rules
    • Risks, limitations and data-protection considerations
    • Success measures
    • A fixed-price implementation proposal

    CreditedThe £750 blueprint fee is credited in full when an implementation project of £2,500 or more begins within 30 days.

  3. Step 3

    From £2,500

    Fixed price per project

    Build and launch

    I build, connect and test the system with your real business process, then introduce it gradually so the team can trust it before more work is delegated.

    Not every project costs £2,500. The fixed implementation price depends on scope, integrations, usage and risk, and it is agreed before any build begins. Ongoing monitoring, support and usage can be arranged separately after launch.

Areas covered

South West London & nearby Surrey

Based locally.Working with businesses nearby.

Starting locally means I can understand how your business actually operates, meet in person and handle implementation on field while the first system is introduced.

  • SW19Wimbledon and Colliers Wood
  • SW20Raynes Park and West Wimbledon
  • KT3New Malden
  • KT2Kingston upon Thames
  • SM4Morden

About

Founder-led

Akshay Lal, founder of Eitri

Practical systems, built byan experienced founder.

I’m Akshay Lal, a technical founder and product builder based in South West London. I previously built a company that helped build advanced driving assistance solutions to make cars safer. I’ve worked in AI for 12 years and overseen implementation of AI solutions at large enterprises across European, US & Asian markets.

I now bring that experience to smaller local businesses: understanding where work gets stuck, building a sensible solution and making sure it works in the real world.

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Where is your businesslosing work or time?

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  • Founder-led
  • Local to SW London
  • No long contracts