AI that earns its keep.
We build AI into the systems you already run, so the routine work does itself and your people spend their time where the revenue is: with customers.
Xero · inbox · CRM · sheets · calendar · files · one agent
Two and a half months a year, back on the work that pays.
UK owners spend about eleven hours a week on admin and finance. Fitted agents take the routine part. The people who did it get their week back for customers, and the numbers arrive before anyone asks.
of every working year goes on admin and finance, per person doing it. Eleven hours a week over 48 weeks.
Amex SME Barometer, 1,000 UK owners, July 2026
is the full cost of an in-house bookkeeper: £24k to £35k salary plus 20 to 30% on-costs. Ledgerwright is about six weeks of that, once.
Xero UK hiring guide · National Careers Service
say their own lack of capacity is the biggest barrier to growth. More than half say paperwork gets in the way of running the business.
Amex SME Barometer, July 2026 (36% and 54%)
Payback counts only the hours. It does not count month end arriving a week earlier, invoices chased on time, or what a person does with thirteen weeks. If the admin adds up to a whole role, that role is £29k to £45k a year against £4,999 once. The audit puts your real numbers on all ten jobs.
Apply for the free audit →The gap, and where the figures come from
of UK SMEs say they are using AI, up from 35% a year earlier.
of small firms have AI embedded in day-to-day work.
Most firms have adopted AI. Almost none have installed it. The difference is not the tool. It is the fitting: whether the AI lives inside the systems the business runs, reads what it needs to read, writes where it needs to write, and asks a human when it is not sure.
- A ChatGPT seat someone pays for.
- A prompt found on LinkedIn, used twice.
- A pilot that stalled in March.
- The owner still re-keying numbers on a Sunday.
- An agent reconciling Xero before anyone is in.
- Your written way of working loaded into Claude, so it answers like your best person.
- Quotes drafted from the last fifty you won.
- The month-end report on your desk by eight.
Sources: American Express SME Business Barometer with Small Business Saturday UK, 1,000 UK business owners, July 2026 (11 hours a week on admin and finance; 54% say paperwork gets in the way; 36% cite their own capacity as the biggest barrier to growth). Xero UK, "Hiring a bookkeeper" guide (freelance £20 to £50 an hour; in-house £24,000 to £35,000 citing the National Careers Service, plus 20 to 30% on-costs; outsourced £120 to £700+ a month). Xero survey of small businesses (15.5 hours a month reconciling). British Chambers of Commerce with Atos, 668 UK businesses, Jan to Feb 2026 (54% using AI). Enterprise Nation with Strand Partners, 1,320 UK SMEs, May 2026 (6% embedded). The value of an hour is your own figure.
Two weeks. One report. The ten jobs AI should already be doing for you.
We map where the hours go across finance, operations, sales and admin, then write it up: ten jobs, ranked by payback, a fixed price to fit each. You keep the report whether or not you work with us.
Nothing. No day rates follow it.
About four hours over two weeks.
Twenty audits a month.
What happens, and what if we find nothing
Apply.Two minutes on the form.
A call.Twenty minutes, within three working days, to check it is a fit.
Two weeks.About four hours of your time across them.
The report.Ten jobs, payback order, a fixed price for each. Yours to keep.
We say so.If we cannot find at least ten hours a month worth saving, we tell you, and the report is still yours.
Which jobs should AI already be doing for you?
Tick what is true this month and we will name the jobs, and what we would fit for each.
Month end, done by Tuesday.
A reconciliation agent for Xero, installed into your own Claude with your written rules. It does the matching your bookkeeper does, every morning, and leaves the handful it is unsure about for a human.
What it does, and what it looks like running
- 01Reconciles bank lines against invoices and bills in Xero.
Payouts, payments in, direct debits, transfers. In the order your bookkeeper would do it.
- 02Codes recurring spend to rules you set once.
Telephone, insurance, software, rent. Tell it once; it remembers.
- 03Flags the handful that need a human, with the reason.
No bill found, an amount that doesn't agree, a new supplier. Everything else is done.
- 04Leaves a trail your accountant can follow.
Every match is noted. Nothing is hidden in a black box.
Ledgerwright is the first tool from the workshop. Others are on the bench. Each one is fixed-price, installed by us, and supported for ninety days.
Built to order. Fitted to what you already run.
Custom software for one business, fitted into Xero, the inbox, the CRM and the sheets it already lives in. Six examples. Open any one.
01A quote drafter that writes like you
Reads the enquiry, pulls the last fifty quotes you won, and drafts the next one in your words with your margins. You check it and send it.
02An inbox that turns emails into jobs
Watches the shared inbox, turns requests into tasks with an owner and a date, and chases the ones that stall. Nothing goes in and gets forgotten.
03Credit control that never forgets
Chases overdue invoices on your schedule and in your tone, escalates politely, and tells you who to ring yourself.
04Monday at seven: what went wrong
A short report before the week starts: late jobs, unpaid invoices, unhappy replies, stock that will run out. You hear it from the report, not the customer.
05A management pack that writes itself
Your monthly numbers pulled, laid out and explained in plain English the way a good finance director would, ready for the board or the bank.
06Your written way of working, in Claude
How you quote, answer, escalate and decide, written down properly and loaded into Claude so it answers your team like your best person would.
Examples, not a menu. Every job is one fixed price, agreed after the audit, with ninety days of support.
Enquire about a custom build →First call to fitted in about eight weeks.
A typical fitted job. Tools are quicker: Ledgerwright is working inside thirty days. One fixed price, agreed before we start.
Audit
Where the hours go, written up. You keep it.
Scope
You choose what to fit. One fixed price.
Build
Into your systems, on your real data, with your team in the room.
Fit
Installed, tested against last month, your people trained.
Keep
Ninety days of support until it is how you work.
Not consultants. Wrights.
A consultant tells you what the ship needs. An agency builds a boat and leaves. A wright fits the thing into the structure you already have, and stays until it holds.
The name, the people, the numbers
A maker or builder of a particular thing: shipwright, millwright, wheelwright, playwright. From the Old English wryhta, a worker. We took the name because it describes the job.
An operator and a builder. One of us has spent a career running a business and knows which hours actually matter. The other builds the tools. Every job gets both.
Ledgerwright began as an agent built to take Xero reconciliation off a real finance desk. Every tool after it starts the same way: a real job, on a real desk, that we were tired of doing by hand.
A small number of businesses at a time. Twenty audits a month, twenty installs, and a handful of fitted jobs. Enough to do it properly.
“A wright does not advise on the ship. A wright builds it so it floats.”
Nothing ships from here that we would not run in our own business. If it is not saving you hours you can count, we have not finished.
The owner's guide to AI that earns its keep.
Ten jobs AI should already be doing in an established business, what each costs you now, what each saves, and the five questions that tell a fitting from a demo. Eleven pages, for owners, not IT.
Nothing else lands in your inbox unless you ask.
What is in it
- The ten jobs, in payback order, with the hours.
- The five questions to ask anyone who says they "do AI".
- What a written way of working is, and why it is the whole job.
- How we fitted Ledgerwright, step by step, including what went wrong.
- A scorecard to fill in with a pen.
Tell us where the hours go.
What you run, roughly what it turns over, where the time disappears. We reply within three working days. If it is a fit, we come and look.