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For UK accountancy practices

The specialists your practice doesn't have in-house. And extra hands when you need them.

Specialist tax, VAT and finance support for independent practices. Job by job, under your name, with a written promise never to approach your client.

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  • Fixed feeper assignment
  • No retaineruse it only when you need it
  • No minimumvolume
  • Non-solicitationcontractual, in writing

No practice holds every specialism.

The largest firms in the country buy in expertise they don't keep on staff. A full-time specialist only pays if you have enough of that work to fill their week.

Independent practices face the same arithmetic with none of the options. So when a client asks about selling the business, buying a property, bringing in an investor or claiming a relief, there are usually only two ways forward.

Pick the one you usually do. The third is the one we built the business on.

Sound familiar?

Six things we hear from practice owners almost every week.

01If I took two weeks off in January, the practice would stop.

Your practice is capped by what one person can hold. That's structure, not discipline, and it can be fixed without hiring.

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You can take on more clients. What no single practitioner can easily take on is a more complicated client. The moment someone incorporates, buys premises, takes investment or starts thinking about selling, the work moves outside your comfort zone or into territory you would rightly want a specialist to sign. Your growing clients, the ones whose fees are worth most, are the most likely to leave.

How we take work off your desk →
02ChatGPT says I can claim this. Why didn't you suggest it?
⅔of businesses now check ChatGPT before asking their accountant (UK study, last year)1

Send it to a Chartered Tax Adviser and issue the answer under your own name.

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You can answer outside your comfort zone and carry the risk, refer them out and hope they come back, or research it unpaid. Or send it to us: a short technical question usually gets a straight answer at no cost, and anything bigger gets a fixed quote first.

Tax support under your name →
03I said no to that landlord with three properties.
73%of UK firms say they turn away work for lack of staff2

The work is unpredictable, so you can never justify hiring for it. Keep the client; bring in the specialist only for the piece that needs one.

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A corporate tax specialist is a salary every month. Your advisory work might be six assignments a year, none of which you can forecast. So the capability never arrives, the ceiling never moves, and January breaks the practice again.

What the gap is costing you →
04MTD has turned one January into four.
April 2027£30,000
→
2028£20,000
MTD threshold

That's a process problem, and process problems can be designed away.

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From April 2027 the MTD threshold drops to £30,000, then £20,000 in 2028. The hidden hours aren't accounting: they're bank feeds, receipts, recategorising, and moving data between tools that don't talk to each other.

Digital transformation and automation →
05The reviewer is me, at 10pm, checking my own work.

Send us the computation, the return or the draft advice before it goes out. Fixed price, usually the same week.

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In a bigger firm someone else reviews every return before it goes out. With AML supervision moving to the FCA, HMRC's new tax adviser registration, and HMRC matching more data points every year, the scrutiny is only getting heavier. A second opinion is often an hour's work. It is also the cheapest professional indemnity you will ever buy.

Technical review and second opinions →
06If I introduce you, will you take my clients?

There is usually nobody to call who does not also want your client. So the protection is contractual: your clients stay your clients.

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You can phone a local chartered firm. They will help. They will also learn your client's name, their turnover and the fact that you needed support. So you stop opening the conversation at all, the fee never appears, and the client concludes you don't offer that sort of work.

Our commitments, in writing →

First, work out what the gap is costing you

Not a rhetorical exercise. Ten minutes with last year's file.

Client questions you referred out, or quietly did not raise
£1,500 to £15,000 for most advisory assignments
0×
Clients who left within two years of being referred elsewhere
Their annual fee × the years you would have kept them
0×
Weekends spent researching something you will do once
What your own time is actually worth
0×
Advisory work you priced cautiously because you were pricing uncertainty as well as the job
The difference between that quote and the right one
0×
= Income that never arrived
£0

Move the sliders. The £ figures are typical values; change them to yours.

  • Referred out
  • Clients lost
  • Your weekends
  • Cautious pricing

None of this appears on a profit and loss account. Added up, it is usually larger than the cost of having a specialist available, and it recurs every year.

Three ways we help

Most practices come to us for one of these. Some need all three.

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For your clients

Specialist work, under your name

  • VAT, corporate and personal tax
  • CFO support and management reporting
  • Technical review and second opinions
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A client says "I think I'll sell in a few years", "we're buying the building", "I don't really know how we're doing until the year-end" or "we've had a letter from HMRC". You send it to us. We send back the answer, with the reasoning shown, in your format for you to issue.

2
For your practice

Running the practice better

  • Digital transformation and automation
  • AI training for accounting teams
  • Pricing, coaching, marketing
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The things you'd fix if there were ever a quiet week: the three places you key the same client data, the MTD quarterly process, what your team is safely allowed to paste into an AI tool, your pricing, your website.

3
January, specifically

Overflow support

  • Accounts, VAT returns, bookkeeping catch-up
  • Scoped in advance: deliverables, deadline, price
  • Not a retainer. Use it only in the months you need it
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Every practice has a month where quality is protected by working weekends. Defined overflow support, scoped in advance, so January doesn't break the practice again.

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Our promise to practices

Your clients stay your clients.

Non-solicitation and non-circumvention, signed before any client information changes hands. No compliance work from introduced clients, ever. White label by default.

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Our model only works if independent practices trust us with the clients they cannot afford to lose. Competing with you would end it inside a year. So the protection is contractual, not a statement of good intentions.

Read our five commitments

Two ways to work

What your client seesYour practice
Our specialistworks behind you, unseen
Option 1

Behind the scenes

White-label specialist support. We work with you; your client deals only with you. Best for technical questions, VAT calculations, research, reviews, and written advice you issue in your own name.

What your client seesYour practiceOur specialist
Roles and fees agreed before anyone speaks
Option 2

Alongside you

Our specialist works directly with your client, alongside you, with roles and fees agreed before anyone speaks. Best for transactions, restructurings, CFO projects and anything needing several specialisms at once.

Compare the two options

Start with something real

The quickest way to judge this is to use it on a live question you are sitting on right now. One paragraph, no client details, free technical steer within 1 working day.

Every piece of tax and review work is signed off by a qualified professional. No subscription, no retainer, no minimum volume, no annual commitment.

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