A consulting firm that happens to build AI.
Query Gem is a UK AI automation and digital transformation consultancy based in Manchester, serving Manufacturing, Healthcare, Professional Services and SMEs.
Why “Query Gem”
Every business question — every query — hides something valuable. Our job is to cut and polish it into measurable value. The name is the method.
What we believe
- Business first, technology second. We recommend automation because a process measurably needs it, never because a technology is fashionable.
- Prove, then scale. Fixed-price assessment, one measured pilot, and only then a wider rollout. Evidence beats enthusiasm.
- Plain English. We write and speak for business decision makers, not engineers. If you need a glossary to read our proposal, we have failed.
- Honesty as strategy. No invented statistics, no fake testimonials, and illustrative examples clearly labelled as such. Trust compounds faster than any marketing spend.
- Your capability, not our dependency. Documentation, training and credentials are deliverables. What we build is yours.
How we compare
- Against the big consultancies: the same discipline — discovery, business case, measured delivery — without the cost, minimum engagement size, or pace. Built for the mid-market, not adapted to it.
- Against AI agencies: we own outcomes, not deliverables. Agencies ship tools; we sign up to the business case and measure against it quarterly.
Big consultancies
- Consulting discipline: discovery, business case, measured delivery
- Enterprise cost, pace and minimum engagement size
- Built for corporates, adapted to the mid-market
Query Gem
- The same consulting discipline — discovery, business case, measured delivery
- Built for the mid-market: fixed prices, sensible pace
- Owns the outcome — measured against the business case quarterly
AI agencies
- Fast, technology-led delivery
- Ships tools and deliverables, not outcomes
- Value asserted, rarely measured afterwards
Our positioning in one view — consulting discipline at mid-market cost and pace, judged by measured outcomes.
Where we work
Manchester is home; the UK is the market. On-site work — discovery sessions, workshops, training — is easiest across the North West; delivery is nationwide. Our sector depth is in Manufacturing, Healthcare, Professional Services and the SME market, each with a documented playbook. Adjacent sectors are welcome, and we will say honestly where our depth is thinner.
Where we’re going
Query Gem is built to grow from a specialist consultancy into a recognised UK AI transformation company over the next decade — by doing the unglamorous things well: measured results, published methods, and clients who renew because the quarterly numbers justify it.
Judge us by the method.
Read how we work, then bring us a process that eats your team’s week.