Your operations are losing time silently. We fix the infrastructure.
We build backend intelligence for organisations running complex operations — financial advisers, logistics operators, and trading firms. Workflow automation, document extraction, decision systems, and route optimisation. Infrastructure that reduces cost, removes friction, and scales without breaking.
Core sectors
Operational friction
costs more than you think.
Financial advisers bury hours in review prep. Logistics operators route by judgment alone. Trading operations run disconnected analytical scripts with no unified infrastructure.
We build the systems that remove that friction at the source.
Review preparation done manually
Advisers spend hours pulling client data from disconnected systems, formatting fact finds, and preparing review packs by hand — time that cannot be spent with clients.
Document processing with no structure
Valuation reports, policy documents, and client correspondence arrive in unstructured formats. Without extraction infrastructure, teams process them manually, line by line.
Routes planned on experience alone
HGV route planning done manually leaves fuel efficiency and load optimisation to individual drivers. No systematic approach means no systematic improvement.
Analytical workflows split across tools
Spreadsheets, scripts, and manual data pulls spread across disconnected environments. No unified system for signal monitoring, volatility tracking, or operational decision support.
These aren’t edge cases.
They’re the daily reality of operationally intensive businesses.
We start every engagement by mapping the operational system before we touch the stack. Build only what removes real friction. Deploy only what survives real conditions.
Understanding the operational reality.
Most operational inefficiencies are invisible until they start slowing execution. Before touching technology, we map the complete operational environment — process flows, communication patterns, and where manual effort is substituting for systems that don't exist.
“We start with operational structure — not software.”
Let’s examine the operational
structure behind your business.
We start every engagement with an operational audit — not a technology pitch. If there are systems worth building, we will find them and tell you honestly what the implementation involves.
Real systems,
actually deployed
Automate the review and compliance workflow
We build backend systems that automate the operational infrastructure of financial advice practices — from review preparation and fact find processing to communication workflows and document generation. Less admin. More advisory time.
Financial Advisor Operational Systems
Automate the review and compliance workflow
We build backend systems that automate the operational infrastructure of financial advice practices — from review preparation and fact find processing to communication workflows and document generation. Less admin. More advisory time.
Explore →Quantitative Trading & Financial Systems
Infrastructure for systematic analysis
We engineer the data pipelines, analytical models, and operational dashboards that systematic trading and financial analysis require. Built for reliability, not demos. Focused on signal extraction, volatility modelling, and real-time operational clarity.
Explore →Logistics & HGV Operational Automation
Route, fuel, and scheduling intelligence
We build operational systems for logistics and HGV fleet operations — route optimisation, fuel efficiency modelling, scheduling automation, and operational planning infrastructure. Designed around how fleets actually operate, not theoretical logistics models.
Explore →OCR & Intelligent Document Processing
Extract structure from unstructured inputs
We build document ingestion and processing pipelines that extract, validate, and transform data from PDFs, forms, and scanned documents into structured, usable outputs. Applied across financial services, compliance, and logistics documentation.
Explore →Backend Workflow Engineering
Rebuild the operational plumbing
We map, audit, and re-engineer the operational workflows that run core business functions — identifying where manual effort can be replaced with reliable automations built on maintainable backend infrastructure.
Explore →Operational Dashboard & Intelligence Systems
Real-time visibility into how things run
We design and build operational dashboards that surface the information teams actually need — connected to live data, structured for operational decisions, and built to be understood by people running the business.
Explore →Built from real
implementation experience.
AION was founded by Felix Wharton — a systems-focused builder working at the intersection of operational engineering, automation infrastructure, and intelligent workflow design.
Rather than approaching AI as a trend, Felix approaches it as operational infrastructure — systems that reduce friction, improve decision-making, and survive real-world conditions.
"Understand the operation first,
engineer the system second."
Every implementation is designed with long-term maintainability, operational clarity, and production reliability in mind — not visual demos or surface-level automation.
Core belief
Most businesses don't fail from a lack of tools — they fail from disconnected processes, fragmented data, and operational complexity that compounds over time.
Implementation domains
Financial Services
Advisor workflow automation, OCR extraction, document processing pipelines
Quantitative Trading
Signal monitoring, volatility infrastructure, unified analytical systems
Logistics Operations
HGV route optimisation, load planning, operational decision support
Backend Automation
Workflow engineering, AI integration, scalable digital infrastructure
Implementations,
not case studies
Review preparation and fact find automation for an IFA practice
Challenge
A mid-sized IFA practice was spending over 12 hours per week on manual review preparation — pulling client data from multiple systems, populating fact find templates by hand, and formatting compliance-ready output documents.
Outcome
Review preparation time was substantially reduced per client. Advisers recovered meaningful capacity for client-facing work previously lost to manual admin.
Quantitative analysis infrastructure for a systematic trading operation
Challenge
A quantitative trading operation was running fragmented analytical workflows across spreadsheets, Python scripts, and disconnected data sources — with no unified visibility into signal performance or portfolio exposure.
Outcome
Fragmented analytical workflows consolidated into a single operational system. Signal review time reduced substantially, freeing time for higher-order trading decisions.
Route optimisation and fuel efficiency system for an HGV fleet operator
Challenge
A regional HGV fleet operator was planning routes manually using a combination of driver experience and basic mapping tools. No systematic approach to fuel efficiency, no scheduling optimisation, and no visibility into operational performance across the fleet.
Outcome
Fuel efficiency improved meaningfully across the fleet. Daily dispatch scheduling time reduced significantly, with real-time visibility replacing manual tracking.
Operational friction compounds quietly.
Most systems fail long before anyone notices. We identify where your operation breaks under pressure — and build the infrastructure to make it resilient at scale.