Data analytics & AI integration · UK and US
Alekx is a data analytics and AI consultancy for mid-sized companies. We turn the data already in your ERP, CRM and spreadsheets into better pricing, stock, scheduling and risk decisions, and build AI into the workflows where it saves real time.
Founded by a former Goldman Sachs strat and Millennium quant researcher.
What we specialise in
Our expertise is in the methods: statistics, optimisation, simulation and AI. You know your business; we bring the tools to turn its data into decisions you can measure.
Statistics, forecasting and optimisation on the data you already hold.
Practical AI built into your existing workflows, with a person checking every output.
Models that put a number on a decision before you make it.
For mid-sized companies, typically £5m–£100m revenue, in any sector where decisions run on data · UK, US and anywhere we can work in English
Services
Each one applies data analytics or AI to a decision your team makes again and again, and ends with a model or tool that makes it better, in the systems you already use.
“Are we leaving margin on the table?”
We trace every pound from list price to cash received, find where discounts, rebates and unpriced freight leak margin, and build pricing guidance your sales team will use.
What it's worth: Each 1% of price realised on £30m of revenue adds £300k to operating profit.
“Why are we out of stock and overstocked at the same time?”
We forecast demand at the level you buy and stock, set safety stock from your real service targets, and show which items tie up cash for no reason.
What it's worth: Releasing 10% of a £6m inventory frees £600k of cash and the cost of holding it.
“How do we get more out of the plant and crews we have?”
We model your bottlenecks and use optimisation to schedule jobs, shifts and routes, so the scarcest capacity goes to the most profitable work.
What it's worth: Every extra hour at the bottleneck is sold at full contribution margin.
“Can we stop retyping the same information?”
We build AI tools that read RFQs, orders, invoices and specifications, draft the next step and hand it to a person to check, with every decision logged.
What it's worth: An estimator spending 15 hours a week keying in RFQs can get most of that time back.
“What happens to our margin if steel, energy or the dollar moves?”
We build scenario models for the risks that move your profit, such as commodity prices, exchange rates and large investments, and set out practical ways to manage them.
What it's worth: A 10% rise in steel on £8m of annual purchases takes £800k out of margin.
15p of every £1 of list price never reaches the bank.
Most of it isn't decided by anyone. It builds up from default discounts, legacy rebate terms, freight nobody charges for and payment terms that drift.
Recovering one point of it on £30m of revenue adds £300k to operating profit, without winning a single new customer.
Pricing
No open-ended day rates. Every engagement has a defined scope, a fixed fee and a named deliverable.
The two weeks start once we have your data. The fee is credited in full against any build that starts within 60 days.
Scoped and priced at the end of the diagnostic.
Like a part-time head of analytics, without the hire.
Prices exclude VAT. US clients are invoiced in US dollars at equivalent rates.
Approach
30 minutes · free
We talk through the decisions that matter most to you and the data you hold, and agree whether a diagnostic makes sense.
2 weeks · fixed fee
We work from exports of your ERP and spreadsheets and come back with opportunities sized in pounds.
4–10 weeks
We build the model or tool, test it against your history, and put it into the hands of the people who make the decision.
Your choice
Your team runs it with full documentation, or we stay on monthly to keep it sharp.
We size each opportunity in pounds before we ask you to act on it, and measure the result afterwards.
You can see how every answer is reached. Models your team can't follow don't get used, so we don't build them.
Code, models and documentation are yours. No licences, no lock-in, no platform to subscribe to.
Many of the biggest gains come from sound statistics and optimisation. We use AI where it removes manual work, and say so when it isn't needed.
About
Alekx is led by Alex Djokic-Thorn, an engineer and quantitative researcher who spent his career building models that make decisions under uncertainty, with real money at stake.
In investment banking and at a systematic hedge fund, a model only counted if it worked out of sample and paid for itself. Alekx brings the same discipline to the decisions mid-sized companies make every day: what to charge, what to stock and what to make next.
The name joins Alex and Aleks, his wife and fellow engineer.
Questions
Usually £5m–£100m of revenue, with an ERP or accounting system and at least two years of transaction history. If you have fewer than 20 staff or more than 1,000, we'll tell you honestly on the first call whether we're the right fit.
No. We specialise in data and AI, not in any one sector. You bring knowledge of your business; we bring the methods, and we learn how your operation works in the first working session.
No. Most of our clients have neither. We start from exports of your ERP, accounting system and spreadsheets, and cleaning the data is part of the job.
Yes. We work with companies in the UK, the US and anywhere the work can be done in English. Most work is remote, with on-site visits for the sessions where being in the room matters.
Under a written data processing agreement and UK GDPR. Wherever possible we work inside your systems; otherwise data is held in encrypted storage and deleted at the end of the engagement.
Thirty minutes, at no charge. We'll ask which decisions cost you most and what data you hold, and tell you plainly whether a diagnostic is likely to pay for itself.
Book a 30-minute call. Bring one decision you'd like to make better, and we'll tell you how we'd size it.