Arc-One
Arc-One · Less admin, more business

AI automation
that pays for itself

We build software that takes the repetitive work off your team: typing the same order into two systems, chasing unpaid invoices, answering the same question forty times a week. The AI part means it can read an email, an invoice or a PDF and act on it the way a trained member of staff would.

Since 2017the same team, working together
£18m+of recurring revenue growth delivered
3 exitsbusinesses built and sold

The diagnosis and a working demo on your own data are free. After that, one fixed price agreed up front, and your money back if it misses the result we agreed.

Who this is for

Not developers. Not enterprises. Service businesses that run on people doing repeatable admin work by hand.

If your team spends hours a week on the same manual steps — chasing paperwork, re-keying numbers, answering the same questions — there’s a good chance we can automate it and hand you back the time and the revenue it was costing you.

Accountancy firms

Where automation pays off

  • Bank and records reconciliation
  • Management accounting
  • Client onboarding
  • Invoice chasing

Biggest winOperations

Hospitality and food service

Where automation pays off

  • Order management
  • Payroll and staff scheduling
  • Inventory and ingredient forecasting
  • Reservations

Biggest winOperations

Manufacturing

Where automation pays off

  • Process automation
  • Quality and compliance reporting
  • Inventory tracking
  • Supplier ordering

Biggest winData

Home services and trades

Where automation pays off

  • Missed-call text-back and lead qualification
  • Quoting and estimating
  • Job scheduling
  • Review management

Biggest winSales

Construction and roofing

Where automation pays off

  • Site and project reporting
  • Subcontractor scheduling
  • Cost tracking
  • Proposal generation

Biggest winDelivery

Delivery and logistics

Where automation pays off

  • Dispatch and route scheduling
  • Delivery tracking and customer notifications
  • Driver payroll
  • Proof of delivery

Biggest winScale

Marketing and professional agencies

Where automation pays off

  • Client reporting dashboards
  • Campaign performance tracking
  • Proposal generation
  • Time and billing

Biggest winData

Real estate

Where automation pays off

  • Lead follow-up and nurturing
  • Listing and CRM management
  • Contract and document processing
  • Appointment scheduling

Biggest winSales

Healthcare and wellness practices

Where automation pays off

  • Appointment scheduling and reminders
  • Patient intake
  • Insurance and billing reconciliation
  • Review management

Biggest winOperations

Franchise and multi-location operators

Where automation pays off

  • Centralised call handling
  • Lead nurturing across locations
  • Consolidated performance reporting
  • Review management

Biggest winCost

1 / 10

Don’t see your industry? If the work is repeatable and someone on your team is doing it by hand today, we’ve probably automated a version of it — that’s what the free diagnosis is for.

How it works

Five steps, one fixed price.

Never over budget. Always conversational. You talk to whoever is building it, you see a working demo before you spend anything, and the price you agree is the price you pay.

Steps 1 and 2 — the diagnosis and the demo — are completely free. You only pay once you’ve seen exactly what you’re getting.

  1. Free

    1. Diagnose

    We map how you work today and find exactly where automation moves revenue.

    Phase 01 · DiagnoseDay 0

  2. Free

    2. Demo

    A working demo of the solution, built on your data, before you commit.

    Phase 02 · DemoDay 3–5

  3. Fixed price

    3. Agree

    One price, one timeline. No hourly billing, no scope creep.

    Phase 03 · AgreeDay 7

  4. 4. Deliver

    Built and handed over, live in your business.

    Phase 04 · DeliverWeek 2–6

  5. 5. Aftercare

    30 days of support, so it keeps running exactly as promised.

    Phase 05 · Aftercare+30 days

Examples

What it looks like in a business like yours.

Everyday problems we are asked to fix, and what each one gave back.

Wholesale distributionOperations

Orders that no longer need a night shift to type in

9 hrsback in the week
  • Orders read straight from emails and PDFs
  • Each item matched to your own product list
  • Staff only see the odd ones that need a person

“The queue used to decide our evening. Now it decides nothing.”

Operations Director, Redfern Wholesale
Professional servicesSales

Proposals drafted in an hour instead of a week

6×faster from request to proposal sent
  • Written in the firm’s own style
  • Partners review rather than write
  • Nothing waits on one person

“It writes the first draft the way we would have written it, and the partners just review.”

Managing Partner, Carrow & Blake
Field operationsScheduling

Scheduling that stopped losing days to the phone

22%more jobs from the same crews
  • Routes planned overnight
  • Cancelled slots filled automatically
  • Engineers told once, not chased

“We added capacity without adding vans.”

Head of Operations, Tyndall Field Services
Specialist manufacturingQuoting

Quoting that no longer waits on one estimator

3 daysoff the average quote
  • Priced from your own price lists and rules
  • Profit on the job shown before it goes out
  • Nothing sitting in someone’s inbox

“We stopped losing work to whoever replied first.”

Commercial Director, Ravensworth Precision
Healthcare servicesReferrals

Referrals sorted before anyone opens the inbox

94%sent to the right place automatically
  • Read for what they mean, not just keywords
  • Urgent cases put at the top
  • A record of every decision, kept automatically

“The backlog stopped being the first thing we saw each morning.”

Practice Manager, Linden Vale Clinics
Multi-site retailStock

Stock ordered on yesterday’s sales, not last month’s

31%less written off to waste
  • Each shop’s needs worked out overnight
  • Orders drafted before opening
  • Managers approve rather than calculate

“Every site now orders the way our best site does.”

Retail Operations Lead, Bramley Stores
What changes

What you get back when the busywork goes.

Hours backThe repetitive jobs stop eating into the hours you pay for.
Lower costsFewer mistakes, and far less time spent putting them right.
Clearer numbersThe information you already have, turned into figures you can act on.
Room to growTake on more work without taking on more staff to handle it.
Nothing typed twiceDetails entered once and passed between your software, not copied across by hand.
Built around youShaped to how your business actually works, not how off-the-shelf software assumes it should.
Results

What changed, in numbers.

Before any work starts, we agree the result it has to deliver: hours saved, money saved, more jobs done. Each of these businesses picked a different one.

Operations

9 hours a week back, across the order desk.

measured over the first quarter
“They spent the first week understanding how we actually work before proposing anything. What they built matched the business instead of the other way round.”
Operations Director · Redfern Wholesale
Questions

The questions owners ask us first.

What does “AI” actually mean here?

Software that can read and write the way a person does — an email, an invoice, a PDF order, a customer’s question — and then act on it: file it, answer it, enter it into the right system or pass it to the right person. You decide what it handles on its own and what comes to one of your team.

What do you actually build?

Whatever takes the most work off your team: software that handles a repetitive job from start to finish, an assistant that drafts replies or quotes for someone to check, reports that update themselves, or something built from scratch. Most jobs are a mix, and some need no AI at all: if a spreadsheet and two rules would fix it, the free diagnosis will say so.

Will it work with the software we already use?

It is built around it. We connect to the accounts, email and other software you already pay for, rather than asking you to switch.

How long does a first piece of work take?

Weeks, not months. You see the diagnosis and a working demo before you commit to anything.

What does it cost?

One fixed price, agreed before work starts, and it does not change. If the work takes longer than we said, that is our cost, not yours.

What happens if it does not work?

Before we build anything, we agree the result it has to deliver — hours saved each week, say. If it does not deliver that, you get your money back.

Who owns what you build?

You do. It is handed over with everything written down, and that handover is included in the price rather than sold separately.

Which industries do you work in?

Since 2017 the team has built for finance, healthcare technology, commodities trading and connected equipment. The shape of the problem matters more than the industry: typing the same details into two systems looks much the same in a wholesaler as in a clinic.

Launch window

Find out what it could save you.

No fee and no obligation. We show you where the time and money are going, what we would fix first and what it would cost. Then you decide.