For UK owner-led businesses, 10 to 50 staff
Take a day off.Your business keeps running.
One in six UK small business owners take no full days off in a year. We build the systems behind three things: routine work handled, numbers on demand and tools connected, without you in the middle. Nine questions show how much of your business already runs without you.
Source: Tide Business Benchmark Index 2026, Censuswide survey of 500 UK small business owners, December 2025.
Owner-led businesses that have grown past the point where everything can run through one person.
THE PROBLEM
The leak isn't visible on your P&L.
It's in the gap between the work you pay for and the work that actually moves the business forward.
Time
Hours go into typing things twice, fixing what got typed wrong, and chasing people for updates.
Money
You find out what a job actually cost after it's finished, not while you can still do something about it.
You
Every decision comes back to you, because nothing else can carry it.
Not ready to book a call? Start here.
Nine questions, four minutes. See your score and the one thing costing you the most, on screen straight away.
THE POINT
Your tools are not a system.
Buying software is not the same as having something that runs. Most businesses have plenty of the first and none of the second.
Have you bought AI yet?
Nothing needs replacing on day one. We look at the jobs that run on memory and paper, and pick the one costing you most time.
Then we rebuild that one job as a system, applying automation only where it actually saves time.
HOW WE WORK
Look. Decide. Improve.
If a person is copying data between three tabs, a system should be doing it. We map the repetitive work that eats hours every week and engineer it out, without breaking what already works.
Look
The Diagnostic
We work out what is actually happening. Which jobs run on memory, what they cost you in hours, and which one is worth changing first.
Decide
The Build
We rebuild that one job as a working system, inside the tools you already have where that makes sense. You see it running before it takes over.
Improve
The Retainer
We stay while it settles, fix what the real world breaks, and pick up the next job when you are ready. If there is nothing worth doing, we say so.
Case study · Care home staffing
A care home’s rota lived in a spreadsheet. We rebuilt it as a system.
How a fragmented monthly roster for a UK care home became one place to plan shifts, track staffing limits, and watch live wage costs.
"Before, stallholder applications came through calls, emails and messages, and I was constantly checking conversations to see who had applied and who still needed a reply. Now they apply through the website, everything lands in one place, and they get an instant acknowledgement. It has saved me hours and I can see every enquiry at a glance."— Martine Eni, Diversity Festival
WHO YOU WOULD BE WORKING WITH
We build the thing, not a deck about it.
Alchemetryx is led by Ashok Verma. We scope each engagement to one process, build it properly, and stay while it settles. That discipline is why the systems we hand over keep running. The CareRota system above runs on our own infrastructure.
If we do not think there is a problem worth paying to solve, we will tell you that instead.
NEXT STEP
Stop the leaks.
Tell us which job you would hand over first. Half an hour, no deck. If there is nothing here worth building, we will say so on the call.