Robots & Pencils

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering partner that builds cloud-native AI solutions for enterprise clients. Founded in 2009, the firm helps organisations modernise aging platforms, design cloud-native applications and derive practical value from artificial intelligence. Its work spans applied AI, cloud-native infrastructure, legacy platform modernisation, human-centred design and mobile technology.

The company's services centre on four areas: cloud-native AI solutions; legacy platform modernisation; cloud-native application design; and AI activation and scaling, which is aimed at extending smart solutions across an organisation. It works with clients in education, financial services, healthcare, high technology, retail and consumer goods.

Robots & Pencils describes its approach as a blend of the sciences and the humanities - “the Robots with the Pencils” - combining human-centred design with cloud-native infrastructure and what it terms pragmatic AI. The firm states an emphasis on measurable outcomes rather than output, and on delivering customer and employee experiences that help brands retain a competitive edge.

The company traces its origins to a contrarian conviction that mobile technology would prove more transformative than the internet itself, a belief that continues to inform its fusion of creativity and technology. It emphasises the recruitment of top-tier talent. Further details are available at robotsandpencils.com.