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title: "The AR Dept: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "British company providing managed artificial intelligence services, based in Manchester"
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-the-ar-dept
type: Organization
wikidata: Q140044579
website: https://theardept.com
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# The AR Dept

> British company providing managed artificial intelligence services, based in Manchester

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-the-ar-dept

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United Kingdom
- Founded: 2020-03-18
- Headquarters: Manchester
- Status: private
- Website: https://theardept.com
- Also known as: AR Dept, The AR Department
- Industries: artificial intelligence, business process automation

## Accounts

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ar-dept

## Key people

- Carlos Oliveira, founder (British technology entrepreneur, founder of The AR Dept, SPINR and Shaping Cloud)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on The AR Dept, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-the-ar-dept#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140044579, read 2026-11-11

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