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Public Sector & Critical Infrastructure AI Audit

Energy, transport, utilities, councils and smart cities — find where AI creates real value.

Fixed-price AI audits for critical infrastructure operators and public sector organisations. Clear roadmap. Fixed timeline. No fluff.

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9,000

Hours of potential savings identifiedfor Scottish Futures Trust

1–2 weeks

From audit start toroadmap in your hands

£247

Entry price — Quick-WinReview, fixed

Critical Infrastructure · Smart Cities · Local Government · Compliance-Ready

Trusted by forward-thinking teams

Scottish Building Standards Hub — Skirr AI clientScottish Building Standards Hub
Drummond Roofing Consultancy Ltd — Skirr AI clientDrummond Roofing Consultancy Ltd
Fife Council — Skirr AI clientFife Council
Scottish Futures Trust — Skirr AI clientScottish Futures Trust
RSE Water Technology — Skirr AI clientRSE Water Technology
Microsoft for Startups — Skirr AI partnerMicrosoft for Startups
Scottish Futures Trust — Skirr AI client
“Skirr AI have provided vital support to our Public Sector Digital Estate Working Group. As AI develops at pace, they have provided reliable advice and are a trusted delivery partner.”
Paul DoddSenior Associate Director – Infrastructure Technology, Scottish Futures Trust
Drummond Roofing Consultancy Ltd
“Skirr AI built one structured AI workflow around our template and house style, and trained the team to use it. Reports are more consistent, they take less time, and the surveyor still checks and signs off every one.”
Jorji WyllieOffice Manager, Drummond Roofing Consultancy Ltd
Scottish Building Standards Hub — Skirr AI client
“With Scottish Government Building Standards Division funding, we set out to build an app bringing together fragmented building standards documentation, useful websites and direct contact with local authority teams, including at key construction stages. Skirr AI turned our brief into a clear, focused and user-friendly product, in a friendly, professional and no-fuss way. They kept us engaged throughout, and we look forward to developing the app further with them.”
James Whiteford MRICS BScScottish Building Standards Hub Director (Business/Strategy/Transformation)www.sbsh.scot
RSE Water Technology
“Skirr AI carried out an AI audit and AI analytics review that cut through complexity and gave us a clear, practical picture of where data and automation can add real capacity. They combined technical depth with a grounded understanding of our operations and reporting, and delivered insight we can act on while keeping the service personal and commercially focused.”
Stephen SlessorCEO, RSE

9,000hours

Of potential annual time savings identified for Scottish Futures Trust — a government body responsible for public sector infrastructure across Scotland.

Skirr AI designs, builds, and operates production automation on OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google Gemini, Grok, OpenClaw, NemoClaw, and Microsoft AI Cloud.

Who it's for

Built for organisations where reliability and public accountability aren't optional

We work with infrastructure operators, councils, smart city programmes and government bodies — globally.

Energy & Utilities

  • •Electricity grid operators
  • •Water & wastewater utilities
  • •Gas & pipeline networks
  • •Renewable energy providers
  • •Nuclear & generation assets

Transport & Logistics

  • •Highway & traffic authorities
  • •Rail operators & network managers
  • •Port & maritime operations
  • •Aviation & air traffic management
  • •Public transit authorities

Local Government & Smart Cities

  • •Local councils and metropolitan authorities
  • •Combined authorities and mayoral offices
  • •Scottish, Welsh and NI councils
  • •Smart city programmes
  • •Housing associations

Central Government & Agencies

  • •National & devolved government bodies
  • •Arms-length organisations
  • •Emergency services
  • •Health infrastructure bodies
  • •Regulatory bodies and inspectorates

Real use cases

What Public Sector & Infrastructure Organisations Are Doing With AI

Citizen Services

AI Citizen Enquiry Handling

AI agents handle routine enquiries about council tax, housing, planning, benefits and waste — around the clock. Staff focus on work that needs human judgement.

Infrastructure

Predictive Infrastructure Maintenance

AI analyses maintenance records and inspection data to predict when roads, bridges, grids and public buildings need attention — before they fail.

Planning & Licensing

Planning Application Processing

AI validates documents, checks against local plans, generates consultation letters and flags applications needing officer attention.

Operations

Energy & Network Optimisation

Demand forecasting, load balancing, leak detection and renewable integration — ranked by impact, effort and regulatory fit.

Document Management

Document Processing & FOI Handling

AI extracts, classifies and routes documents — and drafts responses to routine FOI and SAR requests with an audit-ready trail.

Finance & Reporting

Financial Reporting & Budget Automation

Month-end reporting, budget monitoring and variance analysis — less manual effort, better accuracy, clearer audit trails.

What you get

A roadmap you can actually act on

Not a generic report. Not a vendor pitch. A structured, evidence-based audit that tells you exactly where AI creates value — and what to do first.

01

Workflow mapping across your operations

We document your current processes, identify bottlenecks, manual tasks, and decision points where AI can make the biggest difference.

02

Top AI opportunities ranked by impact and effort

Every opportunity is scored. You see exactly what's high value and quick to implement versus what's complex and longer term.

03

Tech stack and compliance notes

We review what Microsoft 365 and existing tools already offer, and flag NIST AI RMF, UK GDPR, procurement and sector-specific requirements.

04

Written report with cost and timeline estimates

A clear document your leadership team — or elected members — can read, present internally, and use to make investment decisions.

05

90-minute readout call with slides

We walk through every finding with your team. You leave knowing exactly what to do next — and why.

Compliance & regulation

We know the regulatory landscape

Critical infrastructure and public sector organisations operate in tightly regulated environments. Every audit includes relevant compliance notes — so your roadmap is safe to implement.

AI Risk & Compliance

NIST AI RMF & High-Risk Use Cases

Every audit maps your AI use cases to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and applicable guidance for critical infrastructure and public sector. We document risk tiers, governance controls, and deployment steps so high-impact systems are safe to roll out.

UK Public Sector

Procurement & Government AI Frameworks

Recommendations align to UK public sector procurement routes, Scottish Government policy where applicable, UK GDPR, and the UK Government AI Framework.

Sector Standards

Industry-Specific Requirements

We flag relevant sector standards — NIS2 for network security, IEC 62443 for industrial control systems, and sector-specific requirements for energy, transport and water utilities.

Procurement

Public Sector Procurement Alignment

For government and enterprise clients, we align recommendations with US procurement paths — GSA schedules, FedRAMP, state and local RFP processes — and UK further competition / direct award routes.

Audit packages

Fixed price. Fixed timeline. Right-sized for your organization.

From a £247 Quick-Win Review through Starter at £4,500, Growth at £9,300, and Enterprise custom. Full audits include a written report, compliance notes, and a readout call.

Entry

AI Quick-Win Review

Not ready for a full audit? Start here.

£247

Written plan in 48 hours

  • ✓Send us your 3 most time-consuming tasks
  • ✓Written 2-page plan in 48 hours
  • ✓30-minute walkthrough call
  • ✓£297 comes off a Starter Audit if you upgrade
Get my review — £247

Starter

Starter Audit

2–15 person organizations

£4,500

Delivered in 1 week

  • ✓1 x 90-min discovery call
  • ✓2–3 processes reviewed
  • ✓Top 3 AI quick wins
  • ✓4–6 page written report
  • ✓45-min readout call
  • ✓Compliance notes included
Book Starter Audit Call

No obligation scoping call

Growth

Growth Audit

16–50 person organizations

£9,300

Delivered in 2 weeks

  • ✓3–4 cross-department calls
  • ✓5–7 processes mapped
  • ✓Full workflow analysis
  • ✓12–15 page report
  • ✓Prioritized roadmap with scores
  • ✓90-min readout with slides
  • ✓Full compliance review
Book Growth Audit Call

No obligation scoping call

Enterprise

Enterprise & Public Sector

50+ people · government · regulated industries

Custom

Timeline agreed on scoping call

  • ✓Custom scope & stakeholder mapping
  • ✓Multi-department audit
  • ✓Procurement-aligned process
  • ✓Executive-ready report
  • ✓Board-level presentation available
  • ✓Post-audit implementation support
  • ✓Fixed contract pricing
Request a Proposal

No obligation scoping call

Value comparison

Starter audit — £4,500

Why it's good value:

A 10-person team losing just 3 hours each per week to manual tasks is losing over £54,000 in staff capacity every year. The audit costs £4,500. If it helps you recover even 10% of that (£5,400), it has already paid for itself — and recovering the full amount would pay for the audit over 12 times in year one.

Growth audit — £9,300

Why it's good value:

A 30-person organisation losing 3 hours per person per week is losing over £187,000 in annual capacity to tasks AI could handle. The audit costs £9,300 — roughly two months of one mid-level UK salary — for a roadmap that could recover months of it.

Included with Starter, Growth & Enterprise

Post-Audit Support

The Audit Is the Beginning — Not the End

Most AI consultancies deliver the report and disappear. We don't.

Every Starter, Growth, and Enterprise audit includes a full 12-month After-Audit Programme at no extra cost. We stay with you because your success is our success.

12 months

of ongoing support after your audit

What's included

Structured 1:1 Progress Calls

First 2 months: One 1-hour call every 2 weeks (4 calls). Months 3–12: One 1-hour call every 3 months (at months 3, 6, 9 & 12).

Dedicated WhatsApp Support Group

Message us anytime for quick questions and guidance throughout the full 12 months.

Tailored Roadmap & Report Updates

At the Month 6 and Month 12 reviews we will update your specific audit report and roadmap as new AI technologies and tools emerge that are relevant to your business and sector.

All follow-ups are optional. You can switch to async email updates at any time. No pressure — just genuine ongoing support.

Critical Infrastructure & Smart Cities AI Opportunities

High-impact automation across energy, transport, utilities, councils and smart city programmes — ranked by impact, effort, and regulatory fit.

Energy & utilities

AI audits for electricity grids, water and wastewater, gas networks, and renewable generation — prioritizing reliability, safety, and regulatory compliance.

  • •Demand forecasting and load balancing
  • •Predictive maintenance and leak detection
  • •Renewable integration and grid optimization

Transport & logistics

From highways and rail to ports, aviation, and public transit — we map where AI can improve flow, capacity, and incident response without compromising safety.

  • •Traffic and congestion management
  • •Rail signalling and operations
  • •Port, aviation, and transit coordination

Local government & smart cities

For councils, combined authorities and smart city programmes — audits that respect procurement, continuity, and public accountability.

  • •Citizen services and enquiry handling
  • •Planning, FOI and casework support
  • •Cross-department workflow mapping

Public sector case studies

Real AI Consultancy Work — Delivered for Public Sector Clients

Scottish Futures Trust

Scottish Futures Trust manages public sector infrastructure across Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government — covering hospitals, schools, prisons, and public buildings. We supported their Public Sector Digital Estate Working Group on AI adoption and governance.

Our structured AI audit identified over 9,000 hours of potential annual time savings across their managed portfolio — workflow mapping, opportunity identification, compliance assessment, and a prioritised roadmap in two weeks.

“Skirr AI have provided vital support to our Public Sector Digital Estate Working Group in the area of Artificial Intelligence. As AI develops at pace, they have provided reliable advice and are a trusted delivery partner.”

— Paul Dodd, Senior Associate Director – Infrastructure Technology, Scottish Futures Trust

Scottish Building Standards Hub

Commissioned by the Scottish Government's Building Standards Division to bring together fragmented documentation, guidance, and local authority contacts into a single product.

We delivered an AI-powered application on time and within budget — document ingestion, search and guidance, and local authority contact data across Scotland.

“Skirr AI took our brief and developed a clear, focused and user-friendly product that met the brief, in a friendly, professional and no-fuss manner.”

— James Whiteford MRICS BSc, Director, Scottish Building Standards Hub

Fife Council

After defining the target customer and conducting an AI audit of existing technologies, we established a clear project scope — delivering on time, within budget, and with no overruns.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is an AI audit actually worth the cost?

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The average 10-person business losing just 3 hours per person per week to manual tasks is losing over £54,000 in staff capacity every year — work that AI could handle using tools they already pay for. Our Starter audit costs £4,500. If it helps you recover even 10% of that (£5,400), it has already paid for itself — and recovering the full amount would pay for the audit over 12 times in year one.

Our audit for Scottish Futures Trust identified 9,000 hours of potential annual savings — equivalent to over £225,000 of recoverable capacity. The audit cost a fraction of that.

We can't guarantee every audit finds the same. But we can guarantee you'll know exactly where your opportunities are — and have a prioritised plan to act on them.

Do you understand our sector? We're not a typical business.

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We've worked with government infrastructure bodies, utilities, councils, and regulated operators. We understand operational continuity, procurement constraints, and the regulatory environment public sector and infrastructure organisations operate in. We won't show up with generic recommendations.

Do you understand public sector procurement?

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Yes. We are familiar with UK public sector procurement routes and Scottish Government frameworks, and with US paths including GSA schedules, FedRAMP, and state and local contracting. Get in touch and we will work through the right route for your organisation.

Is AI safe to use in public sector and critical infrastructure decision-making?

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With the right governance, yes. The key is ensuring AI assists human decision-making rather than replacing it for consequential decisions, with a clear audit trail. Every audit includes governance notes covering algorithmic transparency, explainability, and accountability.

What if we're early in our AI thinking — we don't know what we need yet?

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That's exactly the right stage to book an audit. The audit is designed for organisations who know AI is relevant but don't yet know where to start. You don't need to have a brief ready — the audit creates the brief.

What Microsoft 365 capabilities are public sector organisations missing?

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Significant ones. Most councils and agencies pay for Microsoft 365 licences that include Copilot capabilities they've never activated — meeting transcription, document summarisation, email drafting, and data analysis. Our audit identifies what's already in your existing contract before recommending anything new.

How do you handle sensitive operational data?

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We work within whatever data sharing constraints your organisation requires. The audit process is designed to be effective even when access to sensitive systems is limited — we assess processes and workflows, not raw operational data.

How long does the audit take?

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Quick-Win Reviews return a written plan in 48 hours. Starter Audits are completed in 1 week — from audit start to your roadmap in your hands. Growth Audits are delivered in 2 weeks. Enterprise and larger public sector engagements follow a timeline agreed on the scoping call.

Do you build the AI solutions too — or just audit?

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Both — but in the right order. The audit comes first so any implementation investment is well-directed. After the audit, we can deliver managed agents, custom AI builds, or Microsoft Copilot enablement depending on what the roadmap recommends.

Ready to Find Where AI Creates Real Value?

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