Bespoke workflow software that buys back partner and paralegal time.

One workflow at a time, AI-augmented where it helps, wired into the systems you already run on - Microsoft 365, Sage, practice management, document stores. If the Build does not pay back inside six months against the targets set in the Discovery plan, the Build fee is refundable.

Partner and paralegal time is the bottleneck on compliance work. The economics of specialist software have changed - but only if it is built into your stack, not bolted on from a browser tab.
01How we work

Three stages. Fixed prices. Plain English.

01 · Discovery

We sit with the operation

Two weeks. We map one or two workflows end-to-end, talk to the people who actually run them, and produce a Build plan with numbers you can check.

£5k–£10k · 2 weeks
02 · Build

We ship one piece of software

Four to eight weeks, fixed price. A working system wired into your existing stack. Paid back inside six months against the Discovery plan, or the Build fee is refundable.

£35k–£75k · 4–8 weeks
03 · Managed

We keep it alive

Monthly retainer. We maintain, tune, and add the next piece as the firm evolves. Named senior engineer, not a ticket queue.

£3k–£8k / month

Full detail in How we work.

02What we build

Six shapes of workflow. One at a time.

Named in the language firms actually use internally, not in marketing nouns.

  • 01 Internal brief & document packs Ingest messy client documents; produce a structured, cited, human-ready brief. HMRC investigation packs, conveyancing bundles, discovery folders.
  • 02 Structured-decision automation Rules-driven outputs with human review: IR35 SDS determinations, SOW risk assessments, compliance triage, credit checks.
  • 03 Client intake & onboarding Self-serve forms that ask the right next question, validate evidence, and route edge-cases to a named human.
  • 04 Inbound routing & qualification Route referrals, leads and queries to the correct team with the pre-brief already done.
  • 05 Internal knowledge Search the firm's own memory - past cases, SOPs, precedent, partner notes - in natural language, with citations back to the source.
  • 06 Client-facing explainers Self-serve Q&A trained on the firm's own position, not generic model output. Branded, bounded, audit-logged.

By domain: see Sectors for how these take shape in Law, Accountancy & Tax, Recruitment, Private Healthcare and Property.

03Why we exist

There is a gap in the market, and it is not where the noise is.

The Big 4 and the SI majors will not quote under a quarter of a million. The browser-chatbot crowd cannot integrate into your stack. Your existing MSP pushes a Copilot licence and calls it AI.

In between - bespoke software wired into your operation, AI-augmented where it helps, at a price that pays back inside a single financial year - there is no obvious supplier. Crofter is built for that gap.

We build one workflow tool at a time. We name the senior engineer. We ship in weeks, not quarters. The refund clause sits in the engagement letter, keyed to the numbers we agree at the end of Discovery.

More on the commercial shape and the compliance posture in How we work. More on the founder in Who.