Process automation

Ground Control · FOIL

Vendor-reportedOtherUnited KingdomIn productionMid-marketNLP

Vendor-reported. The customer is named and the numbers are quoted from the source page, but the account comes from the vendor. No independent confirmation.

Reported by foilai.co.uk (vendor self-report). Checked against the source page on 2026-09-06. 2 of 2 figures below appear on that page word for word.

The problem

The traditional quoting process required time-intensive site visits and manual calculations, creating a critical bottleneck to scale.

What was deployed

Vendor
FOIL
Products
Intelligent Quoting app, FOIL Talent programme
Technique
NLP
Build or buy
Bought off the shelf
Deployment
Custom build
Data used
existing data, standardised services and pricing models

What changed

Each row is quoted from the source. Figures we could not find on the page in those words are marked — they are kept, not deleted, so you can judge them.

10000hours savedannually

10,000 hours saved annually

Quoted word for word from the source

two daysquoting timefrom two weeks

90% reduction in time From two weeks to two days fundamentally changes Ground Control's competitiveness and customer experience.

Quoted word for word from the source

When you're transforming an organisation, especially an SME, you're probably not going to have all the technical skills that you need in-house for a data and AI project.
Chris Howell, CIO, Ground Control

Difficulties and limits

Sources

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