Looking for an AI Agency in Woking? What an Agency Does, and What a Consultant Does Instead

Two different things behind one search

Someone types “AI agency” into a search box. Sometimes they want a firm to run a long programme for them. More often they have a smaller wish: a repeated chore that keeps landing on the owner, and a hope that someone else can fix it.

Those two wishes need different suppliers, and it helps to know which one you have before you pick up the phone.

What an agency normally does

An agency is an organisation that sells the work of several specialists, often on a project or retainer, and usually has a process of its own for briefing, reviewing and reporting. That suits a business that wants a big change across many departments, has someone to manage the supplier, or wants a named organisation behind the work.

It can also be more than a small business needs. You may be paying for a structure when you only wanted one job done.

What Dean Keating does instead

He is a consultant, and the service is done-for-you. He builds AI agents, installs them in the tools you already use, trains your team and supports it. His website describes this as installed for you, not handed over.

It runs in four steps: a free call, an audit of the work worth automating, the build and install, then training and support. He starts with the single task that makes the most difference, and you leave the free call with a plan you can use with or without him.

The jobs his website lists include replying to new enquiries within minutes, following up every lead until they book or say no, sending quotes and chasing unanswered ones, booking jobs into the diary, sorting and routing messages, raising invoices and chasing late payments.

When an agency is the better choice

• You want several things changed at once, in several parts of the business.
• You need many different specialists, such as design, data and legal, under one contract.
• You want to be able to meet people in an office every week.
• You have a manager who will run the relationship.

If that is you, ask a few agencies for their plans and compare them.

A vet’s front desk, as a test

The directory lists one practice on its Vets & Pets page (10 October 2026). Picture a practice manager there, with appointment requests arriving by email and through a web form, and owners asking about opening times in between consultations.

An agency might propose a wide review of the whole business. A consultant of Dean’s kind would ask which single message costs the most time and build the answer to that first. Neither is wrong; they suit different appetites.

Questions for any supplier

• What will exist on the day the work ends?
• Which of my tools will it connect to?
• Who looks after it when something goes wrong?
• Will I leave the first conversation with a plan I can use elsewhere?

Where he is based

He lives and works in Horndean, Hampshire, north of Portsmouth, so the build is done remotely. His website says he can visit businesses in Hampshire or nearby. No price list is published; the cost is given after the free call, with no obligation. If you want someone near you in the room, say so on the first call.

For a closer look at the pieces, see the guides on an AI consultant who installs and AI agents for a small business.

Contact

Call or WhatsApp Dean Keating on 07418 627304, or email dean@deankeating.com. See the Dean Keating profile on Woking.co. Websites: ai-agent.deankeating.com and deankeating.com.

About this guide

Woking.co is published by Dean Keating, who also runs the service described here. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, not in Woking, and works with Woking and Surrey businesses remotely. If you want someone in the room, say so on the first call and look at Woking-based providers too. This guide recommends our own service, so compare it with other providers before you decide.