Client base · 410 companies
Four hundred and ten companies. Five sectors.
We deliberately do not act for everybody. Depth in a handful of sectors means we already know where your margin leaks before you show us a single ledger, and it means the partner sitting opposite you has seen your problem forty times rather than once.
It also means we occasionally turn work away. If you are a business we have no experience of, we will say so and recommend a firm that does — which costs us a fee and saves you two years.
Client base by sector
Professional services
Agencies, consultancies and practices billing on time and materials.
E-commerce & retail
Multi-channel sellers with inventory, VAT and marketplace complexity.
Construction & trades
CIS, subcontractors, retentions and long project cycles.
Technology & SaaS
Recurring revenue, deferred income and R&D claims.
Hospitality
Tips, seasonal staffing and thin, fast-moving margins.
The same four problems, in a different order each time.
One
Pricing set three years ago
Costs moved and the rate card did not. It is the single most common reason a growing business feels busier and poorer at the same time.
Two
Unbilled work in progress
Delivered in March, invoiced in June, paid in August. The profit is real; the cash is imaginary until somebody chases it.
Three
R&D claims never made
Companies assume they do not qualify because nobody in the building wears a lab coat. We recovered £310,000 on this in 2025 alone.
Four
Directors paid inefficiently
Not too little — inefficiently. The split between salary, dividend and pension is usually worth four figures a year, sometimes five.
Case note · construction · £6.4m turnover
Profitable on paper and permanently short of cash.
A groundworks contractor came to us with retentions of £480,000 sitting unrecorded, CIS deductions being claimed a quarter late, and no cash forecast beyond the end of the month.
We rebuilt the chart of accounts around contracts rather than nominal codes, put a thirteen-week rolling forecast in place, and recovered two years of over-deducted CIS.
Twelve months on
- CIS recovered
- £71,400
- Retentions now tracked
- £480,000
- Days of cash visibility
- 91
- Overdraft use
- Nil
Recognise any of that?
The first conversation is ninety minutes, costs nothing, and ends with a written list of what we would change — whether or not you appoint us.
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