About MQLFlow

We take the waste out of work

MQLFlow is a boutique AI & automation consultancy for growing businesses in the UK and US. We identify and eliminate the waste and inefficiencies holding back your business.

Trusted by growing businesses

Goodman MassonGo PermitsThéa PharmaRE:STACKGuardian ConsultingPursuitPortfolio GroupMustard Media2112 MarketingIDEX ConsultingThe Marble Group

Why we're different

Services above software

AI & automation software is everywhere. We help you work out what you actually need, rather than pushing what we have to sell. We're lean and build fast, with senior people on your project from the first call to the live system.

Here’s the difference it makes to you:

How MQLFlow compares with other agencies
Other agenciesHow we work
Software licences, subscriptions and long retainers, whether you need them or not.We retain clients through the strength of our work, not lock-in. Honest advice, and only what you need.
Cookie-cutter systems, and work you commissioned packaged and resold to your competitors.Tailored solutions, built around what you actually need, in systems you own.
You speak to salespeople who make big promises but the work is done by junior or offshore developers who cannot match your expectationsFrom the first call to live system, you speak to the senior specialists who do the work. No salespeople, juniors, or offshore team you never speak to.
Timelines for custom development work are given in quarters – your systems are outdated before they go liveWe practise what we preach, using efficient operations and AI-assisted development, enabling us to deliver quality work in weeks

Our team

A lean team, because we practise what we preach

Boutique is a choice, not a stage we're growing out of. We run our own business on AI and automation, so a small senior team delivers what would otherwise take a floor of agency staff.

Senior people do the work

You talk to the people who build your system. There's no sales team in between, and no offshore team you never meet.

AI does the heavy lifting

We direct AI the way experienced managers direct a team. Senior time goes on the decisions that matter.

Specialists, when you need them

When your project calls for deeper expertise, we bring in senior specialists from our trusted network, chosen for exactly what the work needs, including:

  • Sector and vertical expertise
  • AI safety & alignment
  • Machine learning
  • Engineering & development
  • Infrastructure, data privacy & security
  • Transformation & project management

Leadership

Hands-on leadership, from strategy to build

The people who lead MQLFlow talk to clients and do the work themselves, directing AI the way experienced managers direct a team.

Pete Hogg

Founder & AI Automation Consultant

  • Founded MQLFlow in 2024, having led automation strategies and build-outs for global SMEs since 2013
  • Delivers strategic consultation, design, and development of AI and automation solutions
  • Highly experienced in software integration, agentic workflow and digital product development
  • Former VP at OpenDialog – a venture-backed AI agent platform
  • Over a decade of recruitment sector and Bullhorn integration expertise
Connect with Pete on LinkedIn
Pete Hogg, founder of MQLFlow

Backed by a world-class advisory team

Including:

Dr Ronald Ashri

Dr Ronald Ashri

Founder of multiple successful technology businesses, Dr Ashri holds a Computer Science PhD, focused on agent-based software development and has authored several books on AI, including Agent Based Software Development (2004) and The AI Powered Workplace (2019). An advisor to global enterprise and government organisations on AI strategy and safety, and mentor to startup entrepreneurs, Dr Ashri has mentored and worked with MQLFlow founder, Pete Hogg, since 2023.

Talk to the people who do the work

A 20-minute call. Tell us where the time goes, and you'll get a straight answer on whether there's something here worth building or not.

Questions about MQLFlow

Senior people, and you speak to them directly. Your point of contact is our founder or one of our senior consultants. Everyone on the team has done this work inside real businesses, from startups to blue chips. No sales team hands your requirements to an offshore team you never meet.

Yes, and we don't hide it. Working any other way wouldn't be efficient, and it's a big part of why we deliver fast. We direct AI the way experienced managers direct a team. Senior time goes on the decisions that matter.

We're small on purpose. A lean senior team moves faster, low overheads keep our pricing competitive, and our systems hold context and progress better than a big team ever could. Once your system is live, our monitoring and ticketing system automatically detects, diagnoses, and escalates problems and keeps you updated. You can always host and maintain it yourself, too.

It comes from where we started: making leads (marketing qualified leads, or MQLs) flow through systems that didn't talk to each other. The work now reaches well beyond sales and marketing, but the idea is the same: information should move between systems without a person carrying it.

We know recruitment and staffing, professional services, and e-commerce inside out, and we work well beyond them. If your process runs across several systems and someone is holding it together by hand, it's the kind of work we do.

Yes. We're based in the UK, close to London, working with clients across the UK and the US, and the work is remote by nature. We contract and invoice in sterling or US dollars, and scopes of work are signed electronically.