01
Market entry & incorporation
Fixed-fee project
A UK company can be incorporated in a day. Making it a functioning subsidiary that satisfies your group auditor, your bank's KYC team and HMRC takes rather longer, and that is the part people underestimate.
We handle the structure and the paperwork end to end, and we brief your head office on the parts of UK company law that will look unfamiliar — particularly the persons-with-significant-control regime and director duties.
Incorporation
Company formation, articles, share classes and issued capital appropriate to the group structure.
Registered presence
Registered office, trading address, mail handling and director service address.
Tax registrations
Corporation tax, VAT, PAYE, and the EORI number if you are moving goods.
Ongoing statutory
Confirmation statement, registers, PSC filings and the annual calendar of deadlines.
02
Banking & finance operations
Project, then managed service
UK bank account opening is the single most common point of failure for foreign-owned companies. Applications are refused on file quality and on institution choice far more often than on the underlying business.
We build the application pack, choose institutions that will underwrite your ownership structure, and manage the KYC process to a decision. The decision is always the bank's — what we control is preparation and pace.
Account opening
High-street, challenger and multi-currency options, matched to your structure and volumes.
Payments & FX
Payment rails, card programmes, expense controls and approval workflows.
Bookkeeping
Day-to-day ledger, reconciliations, VAT returns and year-end preparation.
Reporting
Monthly management accounts in your group format, not a generic template.
03
Hiring & talent
Per assignment
The first UK hire sets the trajectory of the whole operation, and it is usually made by people who do not know the market. We scope the role against what the market will actually pay, map the candidate pool, and run a structured selection process.
Contracts, right-to-work checks and onboarding run alongside the search rather than after it, so a start date does not slip on paperwork.
Search & selection
Role scoping, market mapping, longlist to offer, with structured scoring.
Contracts
Employment contracts, contractor agreements, IR35 position and restrictive covenants.
Compliance
Right-to-work checks, record keeping and the employment paperwork behind each hire.
Onboarding
Pre-boarding, equipment, induction plan, probation reviews.
04
Payroll, HR & compliance
Monthly managed service
Payroll is unforgiving: it is either right on the day or it is a problem with your staff and with HMRC. We run it as a managed service — RTI submissions, auto-enrolment, statutory leave, benefits and year-end.
Where you are not ready for an entity, we can employ staff on your behalf through an employer-of-record arrangement and transfer them across when the entity is live.
Payroll
Monthly RTI payroll, payslips, P60s, PAYE settlements and HMRC correspondence.
Pensions
Auto-enrolment set-up, assessment, contributions and re-enrolment cycles.
HR advisory
Handbooks, policies, performance issues, grievances and exits.
Employer of record
Compliant UK employment before your entity is trading.
05
Office & workplace
Project, fee agreed at scoping
An office decision is a multi-year financial commitment made, usually, on a tour and a feeling. We put numbers against it — serviced against leasehold across a realistic growth curve, including the costs that do not appear in the headline rent.
We act for you, not for the landlord, and we are not paid by the building.
Requirement & search
Headcount modelling, location analysis, shortlist and viewings.
Commercial modelling
Total occupancy cost, break clauses, rent-free, dilapidations exposure.
Negotiation
Heads of terms agreed on your side of the table, with solicitors instructed.
Fit-out & move
Design, contractor tender, programme management, snagging and relocation.
06
Workplace technology
Project, then optional support
Most small-company IT estates are the accumulated result of individual decisions taken under time pressure. Building the identity, device and security layers properly at the start costs very little more and avoids a painful remediation later.
We design and build it, then either support it ourselves or hand it to your incoming IT lead fully documented.
Identity & productivity
Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, tenant design, groups, email and file structure.
Devices
Procurement, imaging, MDM enrolment, patching and lifecycle replacement.
Network
Circuits, firewall, Wi-Fi design, structured cabling and meeting-room AV.
Security & support
MFA, conditional access, endpoint protection, backup, and a service desk with an SLA.
08
AI & automation
Assessment, then build
We take a narrow view of this deliberately. AI earns its place on high-volume, rules-light, text-heavy work — quoting, document handling, inbox triage, report drafting. Everywhere else it usually adds cost and risk.
What we build runs against your own data, keeps a human approval step on anything that leaves the business, and comes with a written governance position you can put in front of a client or an auditor.
Assessment
Process inventory, volume and effort data, and an honest shortlist — including what to leave alone.
Internal assistants
Assistants grounded in your documents, quotes, tickets and historic correspondence.
Document automation
Extraction, drafting and routing for quotes, orders, invoices and reports.
Governance
Data handling, model choice, retention, approval workflow and staff policy.