Local Guides
In-depth guides to restaurants, things to do, moving to Swindon, and more.
13 Jul 2026
Things to Do in Swindon — The Local Guide
From the STEAM railway museum and Lydiard Park to Coate Water Country Park and the Designer Outlet — your guide to the best days out in and around Swindon.
13 Jul 2026
Shopping in Swindon — Town Centre, Old Town & the Designer Outlet
Where to shop in Swindon — the covered Brunel Centre, Regent Street and The Parade, the independents of Old Town, and the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet.
13 Jul 2026
A Guide to Old Town Swindon
Swindon's historic hilltop quarter is the town's best district for independent food, drink, and nightlife. Here's what to see and where to go.
13 Jul 2026
Swindon Recycling Centre — Waterside Park HWRC Guide
How to use Swindon's Household Waste Recycling Centre at Waterside Park — where it is, opening hours, and the all-important booking requirement.
13 Jul 2026
Getting Around Swindon — Trains, the M4 & Parking
Swindon railway station, trains to London Paddington, the M4 junctions, and where to park in the town centre — a practical transport guide.
10 Oct 2026
Dean Keating: The AI Automation Consultant Behind Swindon.co
This site lists pubs, restaurants, cafes and shops. Its publisher also sells an AI service, so here is who he is and why he sits apart from the listings.
10 Oct 2026
Choosing an AI Consultant in Swindon and Wiltshire: Seven Questions to Ask First
Anyone can call themselves an AI consultant now. These are the questions that separate a person who will change how your business runs from one who will hand you a report.
10 Oct 2026
AI Business Coach in Swindon: Do You Need a Coach or Someone Who Installs?
A coach helps you decide. An installer builds the thing. For a busy owner the difference decides whether anything changes by next month.
10 Oct 2026
AI Agents for a Small Business in Swindon: What One Does All Week
Strip away the jargon and an AI agent is a worker that handles one repeat job in the background. Here is a week of them.
10 Oct 2026
AI Lead Follow-Up in Swindon: Turning Enquiries Into Booked Calls
Most lost enquiries are not rejected. They are simply answered too late, or not chased. That gap is what lead follow-up fixes.
10 Oct 2026
AI Lead Follow-Up for Trades in Swindon and the Villages Around It
A trade that covers a whole borough spends its day in vans and on roofs, and enquiries pile up behind it. Here is how follow-up can be handled while you work.
10 Oct 2026
An AI Receptionist for a Swindon Business: What It Is and What It Is Not
People use receptionist, chatbot and answering service as if they meant the same thing. They do not, and the difference affects what you buy.
10 Oct 2026
AI for Plumbers in Swindon: Answering the Enquiry You Missed Under a Sink
You cannot answer the phone with your head in a cupboard. A plumber's missed enquiry is usually somebody else's job by lunchtime.
10 Oct 2026
AI for Electricians in Swindon and Wiltshire: More of the Quotes Turning Into Jobs
An electrician's week is mostly diary: surveys, quotes, call-backs, return visits. The gaps between them are where work leaks away.
10 Oct 2026
Practical Help Implementing AI in a Swindon Service Business
Plenty of owners have tried ChatGPT and then stalled. The step between trying it and having it work unprompted is where most projects stop.
10 Oct 2026
Setting Up an AI Customer-Service Assistant for a Swindon Shop or Hotel
Shops and places to stay get the same questions again and again, in email, on the website and by WhatsApp. That repetition is what an assistant is good at.
10 Oct 2026
An AI Consultant Who Installs It, Not Just Advises: A Wiltshire Buyer's Test
A strategy deck is not a working system. If you want the second, here is how to tell which one you are being sold.
10 Oct 2026
WhatsApp Lead Follow-Up With AI for Wiltshire Businesses
Customers message on WhatsApp because it is quick. The business that answers while the conversation is still warm has the advantage.
10 Oct 2026
Automating Admin in a Small Swindon Business: A Friday Afternoon Back
Invoices, chasers, copying details between two systems, the weekly figures. None of it is hard. All of it is tedious, and it lands on the owner.
10 Oct 2026
Following Up Facebook Ad Leads in Swindon Before They Go Cold
You paid for the click. The lead form arrived. The only question is how long it sat there before anyone replied.
10 Oct 2026
Using ChatGPT to Grow a Small Business in Swindon: Where It Helps and Where It Stops
ChatGPT is a good drafting partner. It is not, on its own, a way to make your enquiries answer themselves.
10 Oct 2026
AI Consultants in Wiltshire: Who Offers What, From Their Own Websites
Five providers of AI consulting, automation and installation that a Wiltshire small business can approach. Each is described only from its own website, with where it says it is based and how you begin. A list, not a ranking.
10 Oct 2026
AI Agency or AI Consultant? What a Small Business in Swindon Is Really Choosing
Search for an AI agency and you will find a mix of studios, software resellers and individual consultants. Before you pick, decide which kind of help you want.
10 Oct 2026
AI Consulting Services in Swindon: How to Compare What You Are Offered
Every provider describes AI consulting a little differently. Here is a way to line them up so you are comparing like with like.
10 Oct 2026
Chatbot for Business in Swindon: What It Should Answer and What It Should Not
A chatbot is only as good as the questions it is trusted with. The skill is deciding which ones go to a machine and which ones go to you.
10 Oct 2026
AI for Small Business in Swindon: Choosing the First Task
Most owners do not need an AI strategy. They need one annoying job to stop eating their week.
10 Oct 2026
Business Process Automation in Swindon: The Paperwork Between a Booking and a Payment
A booking is not finished when the customer says yes. Somebody still has to log it, confirm it, invoice it and chase the money.
10 Oct 2026
An AI Workforce for a Swindon Small Business: What Each Agent Does
"Workforce" sounds grand. In practice it means a handful of agents, each given one desk job.