Measure AI readiness.
Engineer real hardware.
Build what comes next.
Digital Towns is the AI adoption platform for combined authorities, universities, councils and the NHS, and the hardware team designing the PCBs and embedded systems behind real products. Built on Microsoft Azure. Governed by humans.
Registered trademark · UK data residency · Human-governed AI
Backed, hosted and governed for the public sector
- Microsoft Azure · UK data residency
- Multi-tenant isolation
- ICO registered
- Digital Towns® registered trademark
Working towards Cyber Essentials certification.
Digital Towns® has been accepted into Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub and the NVIDIA Inception programme, building on enterprise-grade infrastructure.
One company, three divisions
Everything Digital Towns builds,
and who it's built for.
Whether you measure AI adoption across a region or manufacture the boards inside a product, there is a clear route in.
01AI Adoption Platform
Digital Score & Regional Intelligence
Score AI readiness across five dimensions, generate personalised growth plans, and give authorities a live regional adoption dashboard.
Combined authorities · Councils · Universities · NHS
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02PCBiex · Hardware
PCB Design & Manufacturing
Custom PCB design, embedded firmware and IoT products, taken from concept to production. The physical layer of digital infrastructure.
Hardware companies · Product teams · OEMs
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03Software Services
Custom Software & AI Builds
Production web platforms, mobile apps and AI features, from product discovery through to launch and beyond. Built and hosted in the UK.
Organisations building digital products
ExploreAI Adoption Platform
Score AI readiness. Plan growth.
Evidence outcomes.
Assessment, intelligence, planning and governance. Take our Digital Score or build your own assessments. Built on UK data, aligned with UK policy, hosted in the UK.
Assessment dimensions
Benchmarked Digital Score
AI tools built in
UK occupations mapped
The business view: one score, five dimensions, a clear next action
How it works
- 01
Assess
Structured assessments tailored to each role: business leader, employee, student or authority. Take our Digital Score in under 15 minutes, or build your own assessment.
- 02
Score & benchmark
A 0–100 score across five dimensions: strategy, technology, data, people and culture. Benchmarked against sector, region and peers.
- 03
AI growth plan
A personalised 30/60/90-day roadmap with specific courses, funding matches and next steps. Generated by AI, governed by humans.
- 04
Track & evidence
Monitor improvement, progress through readiness tiers, and produce evidence for funders, boards and regulators.
The value exchange
Businesses get a plan. Authorities get the intelligence.
When an authority invites a business, that business's score feeds the authority's dashboard, from the individual business through to the sector and borough view. A business that comes to Digital Towns on its own keeps its results to itself.
Businesses get
- AI readiness assessment and Digital Score
- Personalised 30/60/90-day growth plan
- Matched funding and training
- AI coaching and support tools
- Benchmarking against sector peers
Authorities get
- Live regional adoption dashboard
- Sector and postcode analytics
- Intervention tracking and ROI evidence
- Outcomes aligned to government reporting
- Evidence base for the next funding cycle
Built for the whole ecosystem
Find your route in.
For authorities
Combined Authorities & Councils
Assess the businesses you invite, see readiness live by sector and borough, and evidence outcomes for the next funding cycle.
Regional intelligenceFor businesses
Businesses & SMEs
A Digital Score, a personalised growth plan and matched funding, auto-populated from Companies House.
Get scoredFor education
Universities
Baseline staff and students, benchmark by faculty, and evidence AI readiness for TEF and funding.
Baseline your institutionFor health
NHS & Health
Assess clinical and non-clinical teams, identify training needs, and evidence capability for boards and regulators.
Assess your workforceAssessment Builder
Not just our assessment. Build your own.
Digital Towns is a full assessment platform, not a single fixed questionnaire. Combined authorities, councils, businesses and delivery partners build their own assessments, with their own dimensions, criteria and weighting, and roll them out across their network.
Your dimensions, your criteria
Define the dimensions and questions that matter to you. Every question is linked to a dimension, so the score reflects your model rather than ours.
Weighting you control
Set weights per question and per dimension, and choose your own score bands and badge thresholds.
Target it, then roll it out
Aim an assessment at specific roles, keep it inside your own organisation, share it with named organisations, or push it across every organisation in your network.
Scored and benchmarked
Custom assessments run through the same scoring and benchmarking engine as the Digital Score, with results benchmarked by sector, region and size across your respondents.
Built in a four-step wizard, with no code. Assessments are versioned, so you can revise one without detaching the submissions already taken against it. Agencies and partners can build on behalf of a commissioning council, with visibility shared between both.
No code required · Versioned · Governed by role-based access
Hardware Division
From schematic to
shipped product.
PCBiex is the physical layer of digital infrastructure: custom PCB design, embedded firmware and IoT products, taken from concept to production.
PCB layout & design
Multi-layer schematic capture and high-density board layout.
PCB manufacturing
Prototype to volume production, with tested, traceable quality.
Product design
Concept, electronics and industrial design under one roof.
Prototyping
Fast iteration from breadboard to a working prototype.
SMT plant installation
Surface-mount assembly lines specified, sourced and installed.
3D design & enclosures
Custom enclosures and mechanical design, ready for production.
Selected board work
Software Services
Custom software, built to ship.
From product discovery to launch, we design and build production software, from web platforms and APIs to AI features, on a modern, UK-hosted stack.
- Product discovery & design
- Web & platform engineering
- AI & data features
- Cloud & DevOps on Azure
Governance & Security
AI you can trust. Governance built in.
We integrate the Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP) to keep a human accountable for every decision the platform makes, built for regulated, public-sector environments.
Human oversight
A graduated trust ladder: shadow, supervised, autonomous. Promotion requires evidence, and a human override is always available.
Transparency
Every output discloses the model, task, confidence and mode, visible to users and machine-readable for auditors.
Tamper-evident audit
Every AI decision is written to a cryptographically hash-chained record. Any change breaks the chain, and records are exportable for review.
CHAP is built for regulated environments. Every AI decision stays accountable to a named person and leaves an exportable evidence trail, so you can show your governance teams and auditors exactly how a decision was reached.
Start here.
See how the Digital Score measures AI readiness, and request early access. Or book a demo to see the regional intelligence dashboard live.
Combined authority or public sector? hello@digitaltowns.com