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Made Smarter Announces £45M Funding Boost for 2026
UK manufacturers can now access increased grants for AI adoption. Kent businesses particularly well-positioned.
5 Feb4 min read
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Most Kent manufacturers don't know about Made Smarter funding. Watch how we help you claim up to £20,000 for AI automation.
Unpopular opinion: most ‘AI transformation’
projects are a waste of money.
Projects fail when they start with technology. Projects succeed when they start with a headache.
The Wrong Way
Technology looking for a home
= Expensive experimentation.
The Right Way
A specific problem looking for a solution
= An investment.
Strategy Note
We don't do ‘Strategy Decks.’ We ask:
- Where are you spending 15 hours a week re-typing data?
- Why are customers waiting 3 days for quotes?
- Did you throw away £40k in materials on bad predictions?
What We Build
AI solutions that pay for themselves.
Purpose-built for Kent manufacturers and SMBs. No generic chatbots — just tools that solve expensive problems.
75% faster quotes
AI Quoting Systems
From RFQ to quote in minutes, not hours
Your senior engineer spends 2-4 hours per quote — reviewing specs, calculating materials, checking stock, typing it all up. What if that took 15 minutes?
How it works:
- 1Customer sends RFQ by email
- 2AI extracts specs, dimensions, materials automatically
- 3System calculates pricing from your rate cards
- 4Professional quote generated for your review
Real result: One Kent engineering firm now quotes 4x more jobs with the same team.
£40k saved in waste
Inventory Intelligence
Never run out. Never over-order.
You've got £40k sitting in "just in case" stock, while the parts you actually need are backordered. Sound familiar?
How it works:
- 1AI learns your ordering patterns and lead times
- 2Predicts demand based on historical data + seasonality
- 3Alerts you before stockouts happen
- 4Identifies dead stock you can liquidate
Real result: A food manufacturer cut emergency orders by 80% and freed up £35k in cash.
99.2% accuracy
Quality Inspection AI
Catch defects your team might miss
Human inspectors get tired. They miss things at the end of a shift. A computer vision system doesn't — it checks every single part, every single time.
How it works:
- 1Camera captures parts on your production line
- 2AI trained on your specific products and defect types
- 3Instant pass/fail with photo evidence
- 4Dashboard tracks defect rates over time
Real result: A plastics manufacturer reduced customer returns by 60% in 3 months.
15 hrs/week saved
Process Automation
Stop re-typing the same data
Your team copies data from emails to spreadsheets to your ERP to your CRM. Every day. What if all those systems just talked to each other?
How it works:
- 1We map your current manual processes
- 2Build automations that connect your existing tools
- 3No rip-and-replace — works with what you have
- 4Staff focus on work that actually needs a human
Real result: A distribution company eliminated 3 full days of admin work per week.
Our Process
How we work.
Five clear steps from “curious about AI” to “AI is saving us hours every week.”
1
Assess
Free AI scan of your business to find opportunities
2
Plan
Custom roadmap with ROI projections and timeline
3
Build
We build and integrate the solution into your workflow
4
Test
Rigorous testing with your team before going live
5
Scale
Optimise, measure ROI, and expand to other areas
Step 1
Assess
Free AI scan of your business to find opportunities
Step 2
Plan
Custom roadmap with ROI projections and timeline
Step 3
Build
We build and integrate the solution into your workflow
Step 4
Test
Rigorous testing with your team before going live
Step 5
Scale
Optimise, measure ROI, and expand to other areas
Industrial Clarity
Case Study: The Quoting Bottleneck
A Kent precision engineering firm (15 employees)
The Bottleneck
Receive RFQ
Manual Review
Calculate Materials
Type Quote
Time: 2–4 hours per quote|Result: Everything waited for one senior engineer.
The Solution
Receive RFQ
AI Assistant
Engineer Approval
AI Assistant extracts specs & pulls pricing automatically
Time: 30 minutes|Win Rate:Up 15%
Financials
£20k
Total Project
£10k
Self-funded
< 3 months
ROI Timeline
50% funded by Made Smarter
Made Smarter‘AI will replace my team.’
‘AI will replace my team.’
— No, it won’t.
AI is brilliant at the tasks your humans hate. It is terrible at the things that make your business unique.
Where AI Wins
- Repetitive data entry
- Pattern recognition at scale
- Working at 3am without complaining
Where Humans Win
- Solving novel problems
- Building relationships
- Handling exceptions
The Real Risk: The fear isn't job loss. It's spending £10k and getting nothing.
That is why Made Smarter exists — to de-risk the trial.
How to access £20,000 in funding
1. Identify
We find the specific AI opportunity in your business that qualifies for funding.
2. Apply
We handle the Made Smarter application. You sign off. Simple.
3. Implement
We build and deploy your AI system — typically funded 50% by the grant.
Trusted Partners
Trusted by Kent manufacturers.
“We were spending 15 hours a week on quoting alone. Kent AI Partners built us an AI assistant that does it in minutes. The ROI was there before the first quarter ended.”
Operations Director
Kent Precision Engineering Firm
Click to learn more about our partners and their support for Kent businesses
There is £20,000 sitting on
the table with your name on it.
Made Smarter grants cover up to 50% of your AI project. We handle the application. You keep the savings.