Practical automation. Properly considered.
Spot the work.
Automate the hours.
Keep them won.
We look closely at the admin your team repeats, put a cost and a time-saving estimate against the useful changes, then build only what you choose. Everything runs in accounts you control.
Works inside the tools you already use: Xero, QuickBooks, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and more.
- No useful findings, no audit fee
- Built in your accounts, owned by you
- UK GDPR by design
Opportunity audit
Hawthorne & Co Advisory · 24 people
102h
recovered / month
£3,940
monthly capacity
258%
projected ROI
Invoice capture → Xero
£12,480
Weekly board reporting
£9,120
Lead enrichment → CRM
£7,680
2–3 weeks
from workshop to audit report
Your accounts
your tools, your ownership
1 working day
to reply to your enquiry
The everyday admin
Where the hours go
It is rarely one enormous task. It is the small jobs that come round again tomorrow, and the day after that.
- Copying the same details from an email into a spreadsheet and then into your accounts.
- Chasing documents, payments and replies that someone has to remember to follow up.
- Pulling figures together for a report that starts from scratch every month.
Same work. Fewer hands on it.
Your working day
Different businesses. Familiar loose ends.
We work around the tools, responsibilities and routines your team already has.
Accounting & bookkeeping
Client chasing and month-end preparation take time away from advice.
Illustrative potential: 8–16 hrs/week
Across a team. Your audit checks volume, time and suitability.
- Client document chasing
- Bank-feed exception triage
- Engagement letter generation
- Month-end pack assembly
Pricing
What it costs.
Start with the audit. Agree any work that follows before we begin.
Automation Audit
£799
Fixed fee for one person's workflows. Covered by the audit promise.
Team Audit
From £1,199
£1,199 for two people, £1,599 for three, £1,999 for four. Five or more? We will quote for your team.
Implementation Session
£349
A 90-minute hands-on session after your report to start on the quick wins together.
Automation builds
Priced after a scoping call
Scope and price confirmed in writing before we start. No day rates.
AI agents
From £949
For work that needs judgement, such as triaging inboxes or drafting replies. Final price confirmed after scoping.
Optimise support
Sized to you
Monthly upkeep, review and new automations. Three-month minimum, then cancel any time with a month's notice.
Software, licences and any AI usage sit in your own accounts. Prices exclude VAT.
What is included in each service →Control stays with you.
- Your accounts. Your ownership.
- Access you can revoke.
- Your approval before launch.
- No AI training on your data.
Before we start
A few things you might want to know.
Tell us about the work
Book your Automation Audit.
What keeps landing on your team's desk? Tell us a little about it and we will get back to you with a next step.
- Free 15-minute intro call
- Reply within one working day
- No useful findings, no audit fee
- Confidential and obligation-free