We work alongside your team to turn complex workflows into dependable software. From applied AI and automation to the platforms your business runs on, we bring technical direction and hands-on delivery.
Shovelstone is an engineering consultancy working across applied AI, automation, and software systems. We embed with your team to understand the operation, solve difficult technical problems, and deliver systems you can run and develop.
Discover our approach ↗Start with a technical question, embed engineering in your team, or take a focused AI workflow into production.
Turn an unclear technical problem into an evidence-based plan.
Hands-on engineering inside your team, from investigation to production.
Put AI to work in real workflows, with evaluation and control built in.
Our practice draws on prior professional and research experience in measurement science, financial infrastructure, and machine learning.
A background in metrology informs how we work with accuracy, uncertainty, traceability, and repeatable results.
Paul McBrien’s air temperature research is listed in a EURAMET report involving national metrology laboratories across Europe.
Explore our researchExperience with network inventory and automation in financial services shapes our approach to operational dependencies, controlled change, and auditability.
A research background informs how we frame experiments, evaluate models, and understand the limits of an automated decision.
A clearer view of complex network operations.
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Everyday planning, made lighter.
View case study ↗Sauna and ice bath reservations, made simple.
View case study ↗Indoor golf bookings, made for more ways to play.
View case study ↗Leaving Cert revision built for Gaelcholáistí.
View case study ↗Technical discovery, architecture, integration, and implementation alongside your agency’s designers and delivery team.
Explore agency partnershipsWork with engineers who learn your operations, connect your systems, and take a defined workstream through to delivery.
Explore business solutionsContent-rich sites with the speed, control, and character your brand deserves.
Commerce experiences shaped around the customer, connected to the systems behind them.
Interfaces where visual precision and technical performance work together.
Reliable services, APIs, and data foundations built around the needs of your product.
Useful, expressive apps for the moments your customers carry with them.
Purpose-built platforms, tools, and systems for work that does not fit a template.
Keep digital products healthy, secure, and moving forward after launch.
A working system needs clear data, useful interfaces, reliable integrations, and people who understand how to operate it. We work through those decisions with your domain experts from the start.
AI helps us investigate, prototype, and automate where it adds value. Engineering judgement, evaluation, and ownership guide what reaches production.
How we work ↗From scientific computing to the systems your business runs on, we choose tools for the workflow, constraints, and people who will maintain them.
A practical way to decide whether separating content from presentation will improve the product—or simply add moving parts.
Read article ↗How to recognise the point where a standard storefront stops serving the product, the brand, or the team behind it.
Read article ↗A useful mobile product begins with a sharp job, not a long feature list.
Read article ↗Send us the pages that matter. We’ll look at the performance, accessibility, content, and journey, then help you decide what deserves attention first.
Request a review ↗Tell us about the workflow, the system, and what needs to change. We’ll help define a useful first step.
Next.js
Vercel
Shopify
Sanity
Storyblok
Payload CMS
BigCommerce
PlanetScale
SvelteKit
Swift
Kotlin