A new partnership between Amey and FYLD has brought AI-powered field operations to a much wider swathe of the UK road network, cutting pre-work assessment time by up to 50% alongside a host of other benefits.
The partnership launched a new platform across Amey's highways operations to provide live frontline intelligence that can be used to ‘improve safety, visibility and consistency at scale'.
A pilot phase saw the platform deployed across over 500 live jobs. It was subsequently rolled out across all of Amey's highways operations, and has now been used on more than 1,900 jobs.
It has helped teams ‘identify and control' over 12,000 on-site hazards.
FYLD highlighted that over 80% of frontline users are actively using the programme during the pilot deployments.
This platform was designed to apply AI in a more targeted manner to areas where it could make a practical difference in day-to-day work, including:
- Dynamic risk assessments at the point of work
- Real-time activity logging from sites
- AI-driven safety prompts based on observed site behaviours
This provided supervisors with immediate visibility on ground activity, with data focused on Amey's operational and safety KPIs, FYLD said.
Kyle Clough, sector business director at Amey, said: ‘Working with FYLD puts us ahead of the curve on digital transformation and gives our frontline teams smarter, faster, and more consistent ways of delivering the essential services communities rely on every day.'
Shelley Copsey, CEO and co-founder of FYLD, added: ‘We built FYLD to help modernise how critical infrastructure is delivered and maintained, particularly in sectors where safety, scale, and public impact intersect. Bringing real-time visibility and targeted AI into field operations at scale with Amey is a significant step toward making that work more efficient and sustainable. It's also a great example of how proven innovation can move quickly to become an operational standard.'
