UK pre-team founders — solo or 1-2 founders, no ops hires yet — admin automation that buys you the year before you can afford a COO.
UK pre-team founders — solo or 1-2 founders, no ops hires yet — admin automation that buys you the year before you can afford a COO.
Email triage, calendar routing, contract send + e-sign, expense capture, recurring vendor cycle — automated where it can be, queued where it can't.
Plain wired to product, with response macros, AI-assist drafts, and the founder still in the loop. Customers get answers in hours, not days, without a CS hire.
ATS configured for the day you start hiring — pipeline, screen, loop, offer — even before the first req opens. So the first hire arrives on a system, not into your inbox.
Companies House cadence, confirmation statement, P11Ds, EMI scheme prepped for the day you grant — even before there's anyone to grant to. The compliance you can't outsource yet, automated.
Bank reconciliation, expense capture, runway model on a screen the founder checks Monday morning. The hire-trigger threshold computed, not guessed.
The institutional memory of a startup before the institution exists — customer playbooks, founder SOPs, future-hire onboarding — searchable, version-tracked, owned. The first hire's onboarding doc, written before the first hire.
A solo SaaS founder hit the wall at £40k ARR — inbox at 200 unread, contracts in PDF email, expenses in a Notion page. Two-week build: Plain inbox with AI-assist drafts, contract e-sign workflow, expense capture, runway tracker, customer playbook in BrainBase. Twelve months later: zero ops hires, ARR at £180k, customer support response under three hours, founder still solo and shipping.
How we measure: ARR measured monthly via Stripe; founder hours-on-admin self-reported across 12 weeks pre vs 12 weeks post; support response time tracked through Plain across 480+ tickets.
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