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Built around your business, not the other way round.

Astro builds AI systems around the way a business actually works: its people, processes, systems, rules and goals.

How Astro thinks How Astro works
A system, built around a business Illustrative

Illustrative workflow. Shows the idea, not a real business.

Why Astro Exists

Why Astro exists.

Illustrative comparison. Two ways of starting, not a verdict on any tool.

There is no value in adding AI because AI exists. Astro turns useful AI into systems that fit the business.

The Principle

AI is only useful when it does something specific.

Choose a task and see where Astro would put it. This is how Astro thinks about a workflow, not a live decision.

A business task Illustrative workflow
The task

Acknowledge a new enquiry and open a matter record

Rules can be defined
Yes
A person stays involved
No
Depends on judgement
No
Astro's thinking

Repeatable, so Astro automates it, where configured. The rules can be written down: acknowledge the enquiry, capture the details, open the record.

Illustrative workflow. How Astro thinks about a task. Not a live decision, and not a rule of law or regulation.

The Business First

Built around your business.

Before Astro builds anything, it needs to understand the business. Choose something Astro learns and see what it changes.

What is true of the business Illustrative workflow
What we learnChoose one
What it changesExample

Because a fee earner signs off client updates, the system gets an approval step. Nothing goes out until they have read it.

  1. StartWork arrives
  2. AstroUnderstands what it is
  3. RulesRules applied at each step
  4. AutomationRepeatable steps run automatically
  5. ApprovalA fee earner signs off before it goesFrom what we learned: People
  6. HandoffA person takes what cannot be automated
  7. ConnectionThe practice system is updated
  8. ReportingWhat was handled, and what was passed on, is reported
  9. EndThe result is recorded

Illustrative workflow. A sketch of how Astro thinks, not a real system.

The Process

How Astro works.

The same four stages run through everything Astro does. Select one to see what happens.

Stage 1 of 4

Discover

Understand the business, process, requirements, systems and rules before deciding what to build.

  • Map what happens today and where it slows down.
  • List the systems involved and what needs to connect.
  • Agree the rules Astro works inside and what needs a person.
After Launch

Astro doesn't disappear after launch.

The improvement loop Illustrative
Stage 1 of 5

Monitor

See what the system does, what it records and where exceptions appear.

A system doesn't exist in isolation. Businesses change, and so do their processes, their systems and their requirements.

So Astro stays involved after launch, to maintain, monitor, refine and improve what it has built.

What Astro Is

Astro isn't another AI tool.

What Astro is not, and what it is, as five pairs
Astro isn'tAstro is
A SaaS product you configure yourselfA system built around your business
A collection of disconnected AI toolsConnected to the systems you already use
Automation for automation's sakeDesigned around specific processes
A black box that simply makes decisionsBuilt with appropriate controls and human involvement
A fixed package you have to fit your business aroundConfigured around what your business actually needs

The goal isn't more AI. The goal is less unnecessary work.

Ask Astro

Ask Astro, not a form.

Tell Astro what your business spends time doing. It'll work out where AI could actually be useful, and what it would take to build it.

What takes your time?
Astro

Choose what takes your time and Astro will show where AI could be useful.

  1. Ask Astro
  2. Discovery call
  3. Demo and proposal
  4. Your decision
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