Who we help

E-commerce & retail

Marketplace fees, COGS, and a reconciliation for every channel you sell on.

Software & startups

Stripe reconciliation, revenue recognition, and a board pack that wants the runway on it.

Hospitality

Daily takings, delivery apps and the till - reconciled on margins that leave no room.

Professional services

Work in progress, profitability per project, and the receipts nobody kept.

Client story

Birdie's shelf: the yellow Birdie wall hook beside a paper lamp and books

Birdie stopped guessing.

From a month-end scramble to knowing their margin.

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Services

We automate the repeatable work so we can spend our time on the parts that need judgement.

AI does the volume. An accountant signs it off.

Why Balance

You are hiring an accounting firm. You are just getting far more of one.

We are an accounting firm. We just refuse to do by hand what a machine does better. Every hour the agents take back is an hour spent on your numbers instead of your paperwork.

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Our agents do the volume.

Reconciling, matching, fetching and chasing - continuously, every day, without anyone typing.

02

Our humans own the judgement.

ACA-qualified, answerable for the numbers, and they know your business rather than your ticket.

What that means for you

More time on your numbers.

Your accountant spends the month thinking about your business instead of typing into it.

Your fee buys advice, not admin.

None of it goes on data entry, so more of it comes back to you as judgement.

Answers on the day you ask.

Ask Bea any time, or ask the accountant who knows you. One flat monthly fee, no new invoice.

What we do

We grow with you, from seed to scale, as an extended part of the team.

Bookkeeping and VAT

Reconciled continuously through the month, so the close is a review rather than a rebuild - with VAT prepared.

Continuous reconciliation

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Continuous reconciliation

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VAT returns

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Receipt capture and chasing

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Receipt capture and chasing

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Part of the team

We join your finance rhythm throughout the month, keeping revenue, controls, and close moving together.

Revenue reconciliation

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Revenue reconciliation

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Controlling

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Controlling

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Month-end close

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Month-end close

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Other services

Payroll, management accounts, or annual accounts - added whenever you need them.

Payroll

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Payroll

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Management accounts

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Management accounts

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Annual accounts

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Annual accounts

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The AI underneath

We're accountable for the automation,
not just the accounting

We built an AI bookkeeper, Bea, that does the repetitive work continuously. But we don't hand it to you to run. Our accountants review its output and answer for it, so you get the automation without the admin.

AI CFO

Management accounts, board packs, cash flow and the forecasting a finance director would own.

Revenue£184,200
Gross margin61%
Cash out£71,400
Runway14 months
Ready for the board
Revenue£184,200
Gross margin61%
Cash out£71,400
Runway14 months
Ready for the board

Auto-fetch receipts

Supplier documents fetched from your inbox, matched to the transaction, and chased when they are missing.

Receipt
AWS invoice · £142.00
Ledger
Amazon Web Services · £142.00
Matched
AWS invoice · £142.00
Matched to the ledger
Receipt
AWS invoice · £142.00
Ledger
Amazon Web Services · £142.00
Matched
AWS invoice · £142.00
Matched to the ledger

Real-time data

Look at your numbers on any day of the month, not just after the close.

Live · today
£61,480
Revenue, month to date
Books synced · today
Live · today
£61,480
Revenue, month to date
Books synced · today

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