After five years of shipping features at Rangewell, the team gave me a piece of feedback that stung a little: I was good, but I only ever built what I was asked to build. And we delivered, end to end, every week. From dashboards to multi-step workflows to third party integrations, all of it to make dense workflows understandable. Somewhere along the way I'd become all about business critical web apps, where the frontend is not just visual, it's how people execute operations reliably.
But it just wasn't enough for me.
So in January 2026 I stopped waiting to be asked, and pitched an AI integration into Rangewell's product, one that handles real business loans. When I finally presented the idea to the team and the client, after enough brainstorming and planning and identifying the best way for the brokers to benefit from it, expectations rose. No prior AI integration experience, no matching tutorials, real users, real data, real money. Then I had to actually build it.
What is Rangewell and why AI
Rangewell is a UK-based business finance broker and comparison service that combines advanced technology with a team of finance experts to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their advisors find, compare, and apply for the most appropriate and affordable funding options from across the entire market.
