The work you still do manually, done by a system instead.
A spreadsheet taken apart properly. The systems you already pay for, joined up. A daily job handed to a machine. A dashboard that has answered your questions by 07:00. Most people start with one of those and some stop there, which is a perfectly good outcome.
£277,000 surfaced on the first build, in week one · 2,629 orders reconciled
Start with whatever is costing you money and time.
You do not have to buy the big thing to work with me, and I would usually rather you did not. Each of these is a complete job at a fixed price, and each one makes the next one cheaper and safer to do.
Spreadsheets & audits
The workbook your business runs on, taken apart properly. Hardcoded numbers, broken lookups, double counts, all found, priced and written up so you can check the working.
Excel · Sheets · XeroConnecting your data
Accounts, orders, payments, inbox and the spreadsheets, joined up read-only so they can finally be read together. You change nothing and keep using what you use.
Read onlyAutomations
The quiet daily admin handed to a machine: drafting replies in your voice, chasing quotes, tidying the job sheet overnight, telling you before something breaks.
n8n · ClaudeDashboards
Your questions, written down in week one and answered every morning by 07:00, with the working shown. Reconciled overnight, explained in plain English.
Vercel · SupabaseExcel
Google Sheets
Xero
Stripe
Shopify
Gmail & Outlook
n8n
Supabase
Vercel
Claude
“Are we actually being paid for everything we sold?”
The owner's reporting looked fine. It balanced, it had been balancing for years, and nobody had a specific reason to doubt it. The only way to answer the question was to stop reading the report and go back to the source records underneath it.
Figures from a real reconciliation, kept anonymous at the client's request. Every one of them is measured against the source records, not estimated.
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I ignored the existing reporting entirely and reconciled £11M of revenue line by line against the source records. That is the slow part, and it is the only part that settles the question.
Measured -
£5,500 had been counted twice and reported as revenue that did not exist. Not fraud, not carelessness. Two systems, one order, nobody reconciling them.
Measured -
£277,000 was owed and sitting unworked. It was not hidden. It was spread across records nobody had ever put side by side, so the total had never appeared in one place.
Measured -
The chase queue came to 745 rows, which is a number nobody can act on. Ranked by age and value it became 123 that an owner could work through in an afternoon.
What Monday looks like with and without the system.
On the left, a hand-made export named the way real exports get named. On the right, the same records after an overnight run. Nothing was added between them, and nothing was cleaned up by hand.
The Sunday-night spreadsheet
- Already out of date by the time it opens
- Nobody is sure which column to trust
- The question you actually had is still not answered
The Monday 07:00 briefing
Two accounts to call this morning. £60,100 of the £143,200 owed sits with Harcourt & Vane and Pemberton, both past agreed terms.
Engagement rings drove 68% of a strong week. Thursday's spike was one £9,800 order, not a trend.
- Waiting in your inbox before you are up
- Has already read the week for you
- Says what to do, not just what happened
CEO Dashboard
Built by Oliver Thompson.
Economics and business finance at Brunel, based in Oxfordshire. I build every system myself, reconcile every figure against your own numbers, and put my name on the result.
Abingdon, Oxfordshire · oli@thompsonintelligence.co.uk Read more about me- Data at rest in London, isolated per client at the database level, and proven with a test, not a promise
- Read-only by default. Anything that writes back is agreed with you first and named in the build
- Never used to train any model, never shared, never sold
- You own the dashboard, the data and the findings outright
£277,000
surfaced on my first build in week one. That's the job: find the money, then keep finding it.
What I look at before I suggest anything. All eight of them.
One call, and I go through these eight. They are what decide whether you need a spreadsheet audit, your systems joined up, a job handed to a machine, a dashboard, or nothing at all. Plenty of businesses come out the far end needing one small thing, and some need none of it. You get the same list either way, so you can run it yourself and skip me entirely.
- Where the numbers you actually decide on come from, and who types them in
- How many separate systems hold a piece of the same order
- Whether those systems can see each other, or whether a person is the bridge
- What gets rebuilt by hand every week, and how long that takes
- Which spreadsheet the business would stop without, and whether it still adds up
- What you check on a Monday, and how long it takes to find it
- The question you would ask your data if answering it were free
- What you would do differently if you knew the answer by 07:00
It starts at £300. You decide how far it goes.
Each piece has its own fixed price: £300 for a spreadsheet audit, £750 for an automation, £1,500 for the dashboard build, £250 a month to keep it running. A job that needs several of them costs the sum of its parts, and you see that number in writing before any work starts. You own what I build outright, and the retainer cancels any time. The full price list →
Discovery
A short week mapping how your business actually works, written down as a Context Pack.
- The questions you need answered every Monday, written down
- Your words for things, so the briefing reads like your business
- A leak hypothesis: where money is escaping
The Dashboard
Your data, wired into a private intelligence engine and answering the questions you actually ask.
- Your questions become the dashboard, answered every morning
- An AI advisor that explains what to do about it
- A findings doc showing where you're losing money
The Retainer
The system stays alive, current and smart. You get told what changed before it costs you.
- Nightly data refresh, monthly AI briefings
- Trend verdicts with a human note on top
- Small changes and new questions included
The Systems
Automations and agents built from inside the relationship, only where the data says they pay.
- Inbox agents, quote chasers, automatic reporting
- Built on the tools you already run
- Owned by you outright, no lock-in
The discovery week decides what gets built
Off-the-shelf tools ship the same charts to everyone and leave you to work out what they mean. This starts from your questions instead, written down in your words in week one, and builds backwards from them.
Twenty minutes on the phone. I'll tell you if it isn't worth it.
One call. Bring your questions, and I'll tell you honestly whether a build is worth doing.
Book an intro calloli@thompsonintelligence.co.uk