For owners of UK small businesses who do the paperwork at night.
Get your evenings and weekends back.
Fenwick Automation builds bespoke AI automation for UK small businesses weighed down by paperwork. Your quotes, forms, process documents and reports, drafted on your own rules. A person still checks anything that matters.
Book the 10-minute callFree. You leave with something useful whether or not you go further. Or work out what the paperwork costs you a year first.
Hours UK small business owners have spent on admin since you opened this page
About 104 hours every second. Owners say they spend 11 hours a week on admin.
It's late, and you're still doing the paperwork.
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Evenings at the kitchen table.
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The same document, retyped every job.
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The quote that goes out late and loses the work.
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The month-end report done on a Sunday.
None of that is a people problem. The rules only exist in your head.
21:47 still at it
- Quote Retyped from last month's
- Enquiry Sat in the inbox
- Form Filled in by hand
- Process document Copied and edited
- CRM Not updated
- Monthly report Built on a Sunday
- Spreadsheet Only one person gets it
- Checklist Half done
- QuoteDrafted on your prices Draft✓ Checked
- FormPre-filled from the job Draft✓ Checked
- Monthly reportBuilt from your data Draft✓ Checked
A person checks and signs
Built on your rules. Not on someone else's template.
We write down the rules you already follow. Then we build a system that drafts your documents, in your format, from data you already hold.
- Your prices, your software and the person who signs stay as they are.
- It runs beside the old way until your team trusts it.
- Nothing runs on its own where a mistake costs money or safety.
The builds we're asked for most often take these shapes. We build them one at a time.
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Pipeline automation
Take on more work with the office you've got.
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Estimation
The quote goes out while the enquiry is still warm.
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Lead qualification
You only spend time on work worth winning.
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Forms and documents
Paperwork done before the job starts, not the night before.
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Automating CRM updating
Nothing slips through because someone forgot to log it.
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Reporting
You know where the business stands without a Sunday on spreadsheets.
Built and running, not theory.
Here are some of the systems we have running right now.
- Quote to handover gate
- Job qualification gate
- Quote chasing
- Monthly sales figures
- Search and AI-answer health
- Estimation
- Forms and documents
- Article build
- Notes to one-pager
- Plan my week
- Email in your voice
- Cold outreach
- Social commenting
- Social posts
- The quote board
“Quoting used to mean jumping between Word, Excel and PandaDoc, with several steps done by hand. A quote took me about 45 minutes. Now it's a few clicks in one place, and it takes about 10, including my check.”
Commercial Director
Every build comes with three things you keep.
No extra line on the quote.
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A written rulebook of your process that you keep, even if you never build
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The first month of monthly running included
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A quarterly review in your first year
What does the paperwork cost you a year?
Answer eight questions. The report comes by email.
Book the call. Here's what happens next.
- Book the 10-minute call. Tell us the document that eats your week.
- You get a rough range for fixing it, and something useful to take away.
- If it fits, a paid audit works out what it costs you a year, in your own figures.
- Then a fixed-price quote, with three options.
One route, signature to live: from 4 weeks, depending on the size of the job and the state of your data.
The call is free. You leave with something useful whether or not you go further.
Admin-hours counter. Source: American Express and Small Business Saturday UK, SME Business Barometer (reported by Retail Times), July 2026 (1,000 owners of UK micro, small and medium-sized businesses). The total is our estimate, using Department for Business and Trade, Business Population Estimates 2025.