We're not an agency — we're builders of AI: Experts with pedigree, thirty years of it. Writing code and building automation into everything from startups to Google. Now we build AI into businesses like yours — offering pragmatic, disruption free, low cost solutions woven into the systems you already run. We plan, we build, we integrate. Chat, speak with us or book a free consultation.
Your Partner, Not Your Platform
AI adoption without the upheaval. No lock-in, no long contracts, no retainers designed to keep you paying forever. Just advice, planning, building and deployment — with your data, inside your systems, piece by piece, until you're ready for more.
Not sure where AI actually fits in your business? We help you find solid first steps, at your own pace, without needing to understand the technology yourself.
From single automations to full custom systems — proven on one job first, expanded only when it earns its place.
Already invested in a platform or a system? We can maintain it, improve it, or simply give you an honest answer on how well it's really doing.
Before anything gets built, we spend time understanding how your business actually runs day to day. No platform pitch, no demo, until we know what's genuinely worth doing.
Understand
We watch how the work really flows — and find where the friction, the delays and the dropped balls actually live.
Recommend
You get a plain-language plan: what's worth doing first, what can safely wait, and what isn't worth automating at all.
Build
If you want it built, we build it — one piece at a time, tested before it's trusted with anything that matters.
Support
We stay involved as the technology improves, telling you when an upgrade is worth it — and when it isn't.
We've Built Technology Google Wanted — And Sold Technology Yahoo Bought
A little about 1Plus Media Group : We're a team of experienced developer consultants. Our founder started out at Applied Semantics — the company whose technology became the foundation of Google's AdSense — he later built Adshack.com, and sold it to Yahoo. Thirty years of shipping real systems, from startups to two of the biggest names on the internet.
Since then, we've quietly done for ourselves what we now openly offer to others: adopting new technology, integrating AI, code and deployed automation into existing ways of working.
Most firms can scope a project, or talk to your board, or contract out the building of a system — rarely all three, and never wholly in-house. Yet we do all three, and only in-house. And because none of our income comes from vendor referrals, our recommendations remain forever impartial and the gold standard of solutions.
From First Plan To Full Build And Beyond
Four ways in, one promise: nothing gets built that you can't walk away from. Let's get into the weeds.
A written plan for where AI actually fits in your business.
We spend time inside your operation before recommending anything, then hand you a plan your board can read without a translator: every option costed, ranked by payback, including the list of things we'd skip and why. Nothing gets built until you've agreed it — and the plan is useful whoever ends up building it
Built and run alongside what you already use.
New systems run next to your existing process, not instead of it — so you judge them on results, not promises. We start with a single job, you compare old and new side by side, and nothing scales until it's earned it. If something underperforms, it's switched off without a trace and your old process never went anywhere.
For the jobs quietly eating your team's time.
The visible stuff — phones, chat, email — and the invisible stuff that costs more: invoices, reports, follow-ups, scheduling. Built to free your staff for higher-value work, not to replace them, and to hold the line out of hours when nobody's in.
Ongoing tuning, cost reviews, and honest answers.
The technology moves quarterly; your system should too. We keep watch on performance and running costs, swap in better tools and vendors as they arrive, and give you an honest second opinion on anything you've already bought elsewhere — even when the honest answer is "leave it alone."
— We meet you where your business already is —
Jobs We've Completed & Thoughts In Words
Anyone can claim expertise — we believe evidence is better. Here's a selection of some of the recent work we've enjoyed completing - some of which remains ongoing. Plus some stuff we've been writing about - typically how we see AI adoption done properly.
How An Engagement Actually Runs
The same steady sequence every time — whether it's a first step, a full build, or an independent check on something you already have.
Fixed Price Discovery
At your site, not online. We watch how work moves through your business — not how the org chart says it does. We find the opportunities, you get that in writing.
Present
Your AI plan arrives: costed, prioritised, pinch points in plain English. This is a decision point, not a sales funnel — defer if you want, it's your plan afterall.
The Build
First results within weeks, not months. Agentic systems, integrations, chat or voice agents — safe & built to the plan, not to a template, progress in realtime.
Handover On
What's built becomes yours: documented, explained, and running. You have oversight & control. We stay involved for as long as you require — and no longer.
There's no hidden phase where this quietly becomes something bigger than agreed. If you want more from us, you just have to ask for it.
The Numbers That Actually Matter
No inflated stats, just the facts that decide whether we're a good fit.
If We Don't Save Or Make You More Than We Bill You Pay The Lesser Amount
That's the arrangement, in writing, on every engagement. We can offer it because nothing gets built without the mapping first — a demonstrable payback, agreed before a line of code — and because in all the years we've worked this way, we've never once had to honour it. Not once, never close. When nobody pays us commission and nothing we recommend is sold on subscription, the work has to pay for itself. Else it's on us.
Ready to take the plunge? Book your free consultation here!
Tel: 023 9400 4050
1plus Media Group Ltd, 25 Oakwood Centre
Downley Road, Havant, PO9 2NP
Where We Work
We, of course, welcome enquiries from any business, in any location and from any industry - but in order to give our customers the personal attention we pride ourselves on, as well as being able to pass on the cost savings from not having to travel too far or stay in hotels - we particularly welcome enquiries from small to medium sized businesses in the South - typically London and below. Our ideal locations being Portsmouth, Southampton, Chichester, Winchester, Bournemouth, Guildford, Brighton, Crawley and pretty much everywhere in between.
