Your business, chivvied along.
We take the boring half of the week off your people, and tell you where the business actually stands.
Start a conversation→chiv·vy (verb, British) — to urge someone along; to keep things moving.
Technology should do
the boring bits.
Reports written at nine at night. Follow-ups that never happen. The same figures typed into two systems every Monday.
Machines are good at all of it. We take it off your people, then tell you what the numbers are doing.
See what we build→
Join the data up
Accounts, sales, bookings, jobs and payments pulled into one place that belongs to you — so a question can be answered without three exports and an argument about which total is right.
Reporting that writes itself
A brief in your inbox on a schedule: what moved, why it moved, and the one thing worth chasing. Written by AI from your own numbers, in plain English.
Watch what people forget
Customers drifting away. Quotes never followed up. Work that has stalled. Flagged early, with the list already made.
Everything on this site was built for a business I'm responsible for, with my own money and my own reputation attached. That's why I'll tell you when software isn't the answer. I've paid for the version where it wasn't.
Software for accountancy firms.
Each one was built for our own accountancy practice and proved there first.
Online accounting software for small practices
Client books, VAT returns, income tax quarterly updates and year-end accounts, filed with HMRC and Companies House. Built for practices moving from VT, BTCSoftware and other desktop packages. £175 a year for the first user, with unlimited clients, and four tools for the whole client list that run on their own.
More on Accountin →The work each client needs, found in their own figures
A paid extra on Accountin. Reads each client's books and Companies House record, then lists the tax, cash, funding, protection and legal work each one needs, with the figure that raised it.
More on Opportunity Engine →Finding and buying accountancy firms
Every UK accountancy, audit and tax practice in one system, scored against your buying brief, with outreach, a deal room, diligence and a hundred-day plan behind it.
More on Acquisition Engine →A client portal under your firm's name
Documents, requests, key dates and signing for every client, with nothing for them to remember. Growth Engine adds the website, CRM and priced proposals clients accept online.
More on Practice Portal →Accountin and Accountin Plus, with AI workers
The third Accountin product. AI workers capture bills and receipts, and prepare bank reconciliations, VAT returns, year-end papers and client chasing for the practice's own team to check and approve before anything goes out.
More on Accountin Operating System →Director identity checks for any company
Check a company's directors against the Companies House identity verification rules in seconds. Free to use, straight from the page.
More on IDV Checker →
app.accountin.co.uk
Opportunity Engine (test practice)
app.acquisitionengine.uk
practiceportal.uk
AOS (illustration, fictional practice)
practiceportal.uk/idv-checkWe don't do slide decks. We ship software.
Buzz OS
A practice operating system built to replace every separate tool an accountancy firm runs on, with HMRC Making Tax Digital filing built in.
Content Engine
One engine that writes, builds and publishes a new guide to each of our websites every week, with every enquiry landing in one place.
Business Nous
An online academy built from scratch, with the workbooks, narrated video and certificates generated from the same source.
Optivo
A fractional COO service delivered through its own platform, with a guide library that writes and publishes itself weekly.
Lip Blush & Brows
A local lead machine for a Burnley studio: town pages, a suitability quiz and capture on every page, designed from the artist's own posters.
We plug into what you have. And build what's missing.
Nothing has to be ripped out to get started. If it has an API or an export, we can read it. When the thing you need doesn't exist yet, we build that too. Usually it's both.
- Accounting software
- Tills and card terminals
- Online shops
- Booking systems
- Job and project tools
- Payment providers
- Stock systems
- Your industry's own software
- The spreadsheet everyone relies on
What people ask before they start.
• 01How long does it take?+
Depends what it is. A nudge that chases quiet customers is days. Something your customers log into is longer. You get a date with the quote, not a guess now.
• 02What if it takes you longer than you thought?+
Our problem. The price is the price.
• 03Who owns it?+
You do. Your accounts, your keys, your data. Nothing to unpick if you walk away.
• 04What can you see?+
Only what you give us read access to, and you can revoke it in one click. If a system won't do read-only, we tell you before you decide.
• 05Will AI email my customers?+
Not without a person reading it first.
• 06What if my software won't connect?+
We say so early. You've lost a phone call, not a project.