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Built for the firms where compliance is non-negotiable, the bench is the unit of revenue, and every January the year-end run swallows the team. The instrument behind the filings.
01 · Compliance
Stay current with HMRC and FCA changes.
Filings tracked, reviews scheduled, regime updates surfaced before the deadline. The compliance calendar that the partner can read on a Sunday night.
Companies House filings tracker
MTD VAT submission & review
AML annual review workflow
FCA permission & reporting alerts
02 · Billable hours
Track utilisation across the bench.
Time capture inside the practice tools you already use. Live utilisation per fee-earner, per partner, per service line — not the spreadsheet that arrives in March.
Xero Practice Manager integration
Iris & BTC time-capture sync
Per-partner WIP & recovery
Underwater-job flagging
03 · Year-end automation
Run accounts in days, not weeks.
Trial balance pulled, schedules generated, review queue routed. Same accuracy, a fraction of the manual ledger-tracing.
Xero, FreeAgent, Sage data pulls
IRIS Elements / BTCSoftware by Bright accounts production
Auto-schedule & tax comp prep
Partner-review queue dashboard
04 · Client portal
One door for documents, signatures, fees.
Branded portal. Records uploaded, engagement letters signed, invoices paid by Direct Debit. The chase emails stop.
DocuSign engagement letters
GoCardless fee collection
Document request & tracking
Per-client fee & status view
05 · KYC / AML
Verify on intake, monitor on-going.
Automated ID verification at onboarding, sanctions and PEP screening on a schedule. Audit trail ready for the supervisor visit.
Onfido / Thirdfort ID checks
SmartSearch sanctions screening
Risk rating & review schedule
Audit-ready evidence pack
06 · BrainBase
The firm's IP, indexed.
Procedures, templates, advisory tone, technical memos — searchable from the file, the email draft, the client call. Trainees up to speed without shadowing for a year.
Procedure & template library
Past-engagement memo search
Tone & advisory style guide
AI-assisted retrieval in tools
Sample engagement
The practice that took back its January.
Six partners. 320 limited-company clients. Year-end ran from October to April.
A six-partner accountancy practice ran year-end on a mix of Xero, BTCSoftware by Bright, and a shared Excel tracker the senior partner refreshed by hand. Three-week build: Xero Practice Manager wired into BTC accounts production, partner-review queue surfaced as a dashboard, client document-chase moved into a portal. Following season: year-end admin cut by 38%, partner Sundays returned, and two new advisory clients absorbed without a hire.
How we measure: year-end admin time = total fee-earner hours logged to compliance jobs across n = 287 limited-company clients, prior season vs post-build, sourced from Xero PM time entries; partner-review queue latency tracked weekly Oct–Mar.
−38%year-end admin time
+£62kadvisory revenue, no hire
1 dashboardreplaces the partner's Excel
Adjacent industries
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