Perkins SmartOps

Independent AI and automation specialists

You know the admin is costing you. Saying which part is the hard bit.

I’m an auditor who automates. Not a software seller.

People will build you anything you ask for. Very few will say no.

I start with the risk, not with what is possible. Two days inside the work, then an honest report on what is worth automating and what is not.

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01Who you are dealing with

I start with the risk, not with what is possible.

More than a decade as an internal auditor, and I only build what can be controlled.

David Perkins, founder of Perkins SmartOps

Most people asking about AI start with what is possible. I start somewhere else. What is the risk, what controls it, and what should you not be doing at all.

A customer-facing chatbot is easy to build and most firms will fit one on request. I will tell you why you probably should not have one.

David Perkins, founder Internal auditor certified by the Institute of Internal Auditors, and a qualified programme manager. Northamptonshire.
The detail

On the chatbot: I will show you the risks and the controls that reduce them, and leave the call to you. That is the job, not talking you out of things.

Most of this is not AI at all. Automation is software doing the same steps the same way every time, and the boring version usually wins. Where AI genuinely helps we use it and we control it.

02What you actually buy

Two days. One written report.

The auditFrom £1,995

I sit with the people who do the work, not only the person who signs the invoice, and I follow the jobs that eat the week.

What to automateIn priority order, so you can start at the top or stop after reading it.
What it costs you nowThe hours it takes today, and what it would save if it changed.
Where AI genuinely helpsAnd where it does not. Most of this is not AI at all.
What to leave aloneIncluding anything the controls round it would not stand up to.

Nothing gets built before it has been audited. If the honest answer is to do nothing, that is what the report says, and you can stop there. See everything the audit covers.

03What it looks like when it works

Nobody types an invoice here any more.

One example, running in our own business. Supplier invoices used to be typed in by hand, one at a time, every week.

The email arrivesAn invoice lands in the inbox, like always.
The invoice is readSupplier, date and amount are lifted out.
A draft bill in XeroFigures already in it. Nothing is posted.
A person approvesEvery one. That is the control.

Everything we build reports back to you on a page of your own. See what that page looks like.

The detail

The automation checks the inbox every hour. Nothing is posted to the books until a person has looked at it, so a wrong figure is caught before it reaches them.

It all runs on your systems and in your accounts. If we stopped working together tomorrow, nothing switches off.

In their own words

He doesn't just try and sell you things you don't need. He listens to what your business actually struggles with. It's given me that time back to actually focus on running and growing the business instead of being stuck behind a laptop doing admin.

He didn't just try to sell me something. I still walked away with loads of ways to use AI better, all explained so I understood it.

Start with
a conversation.

Half an hour, free, and I am not going to pitch you. You speak to David. No account manager and no handovers.

Free · 30 minutes Book the call No pitch and no slides. Straight into David’s calendar. Or ring 020 8092 6249 Book now