AI employee 01
The Lead Qualifier
Triages self-assessment, VAT, MTD, and year-end enquiries by deadline and fit, then books the onboarding call straight into the diary.
Professional Services · Accountants
Accountants: every enquiry answered, qualified, and booked.
January enquiries arrive faster than you can answer them. Your AI receptionist greets every prospect, confirms the work and the deadline, and books the onboarding call before a partner reads a single email.
Who you are dealing with
7 Minds Systems is chaired by Ali Reza Eta, and we run our own group companies on the system we sell.
How we handle your data is written into your build contract, and set out in full on the security page.
A premium website and a managed AI workforce for accountants, answering every enquiry at any hour and taking it through qualification to a booked slot in your calendar.
For accountants, an Autonomous Digital Branch pairs a premium website with a managed AI workforce that answers every enquiry at any hour and takes it through qualification to a booked slot in your calendar. An AI employee differs from a chatbot in one way that matters: it owns a defined job, qualifies and books end to end, then hands a briefed enquiry to a human.
What the branch does for accountants
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Sort the deadline from the noise
Year-end, VAT, and self-assessment enquiries are triaged the moment they land, so the urgent ones reach you first.
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Onboard while you work
Discovery calls and engagement letters move forward in the background, even at the height of the season.
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Hold the quiet leads
Prospects who are weeks from switching are nurtured in your firm's voice until they are ready to act.
What the status quo costs
The quiet leaks every accountant learns to live with.
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Self-assessment and year-end season buries the team in client email, and clients escalate to the partner when a reply slips.
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Full-time UK accountants lose nearly £48,000 each in billable hours every year to admin and outdated systems (Silverfin, All Accounted For, 2025), and that number gets defended in every partner meeting.
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MTD and filing-deadline questions spike in waves, so the same queries swamp the team at the worst possible time.
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Recurring-fee clients drift away when they only hear from you at year-end, and nurture is a job nobody owns.
The workforce we build for accountants
Named AI employees, each owning one job and doing it relentlessly.
Not a single chatbot. A briefed team, wired into your calendar and the systems you already run, handling the front of house your practice could never staff at all hours.
Your branch, live
A briefed team for accountants
4 AI employees, one front of house, no closing time.
Each role beside this owns a single job and runs it day and night, wired into your calendar and the systems you already run. Every regulated step routes to a human for sign-off.
- The Lead QualifierOn duty
- The Document CollectorBriefed
- The Client OnboarderBriefed
- The Follow-Up AgentBriefed
The Lead Qualifier is working an enquiry right now
AI employee 02
The Document Collector
Chases records, ID, and engagement letters automatically, tracks what is outstanding, and escalates as a filing deadline approaches.
AI employee 03
The Client Onboarder
Runs welcome and engagement sequences in the background, so new clients are set up even at the height of the season.
AI employee 04
The Follow-Up Agent
Keeps quiet prospects and recurring clients warm between deadlines, in your firm's voice, so nobody drifts to a rival.
How it works
Live in weeks, then run for you.
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We map your enquiries
On one call we map where accountants enquiries arrive, where they leak, and what each lost one is worth. You leave with a plan and a number.
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We build the site and the workforce
A premium site signed off before any code, then the AI employees wired into your calendar and the systems you already run, with every regulated step approved by a human.
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We launch it and keep it sharp
It goes live answering, qualifying, and booking. Then we monitor, report, and improve it, so the branch keeps getting better without you lifting a finger.
What it returns
The numbers a branch like this moves.
Billable
Hours put back that admin currently swallows
Under 24h
Every season enquiry acknowledged and triaged
Lower
Client drift as between-deadline contact improves
We have written up the mechanics behind these numbers: read what happens to an enquiry after the first five minutes and what an unanswered enquiry actually costs.
Straight answers
What accountants ask before they commit.
How do you build the business case for an AI receptionist for accountancy partners?
“The senior partners will not approve a monthly commitment without a board paper.”
Every proposal includes a one-page board paper with the numbers finance partners read: saved hours per fee-earner per quarter and projected payback.
Does an AI receptionist integrate with Iris practice management software?
“Our practice software is Iris and nothing integrates cleanly.”
The scoping call checks Iris, Xero, and QuickBooks directly and names exactly which modules connect and which need a manual handoff, before you commit.
How do you make sure an accountancy team actually uses an AI receptionist?
“We have bought tools before that promised this and they sit unused.”
There is a written adoption checkpoint at week six and a clause that we walk away if the team will not use it, backed by ninety-day usage telemetry.
Built to the standard
Built around UK accountancy standards by default (ICAEW or ACCA practising-certificate display, AML supervision under MLR 2017, MTD-ready messaging, ICO registration), with US, CA, and AU equivalents on request.
The agent stays inside scripts you approve, every regulated workflow is signed off by a human before it goes live, and we keep an evidence trail for inspection.
January buries a practice in client email and puts every enquiry on the practice line at once. How the follow-up runs from a mailbox your team already uses covers the email half of that, and whether a recorded call needs consent under UK GDPR covers the lawful basis behind the recorded half.
The maths
Priced against what it saves, not the hours it takes.
Builds start from £3,500 with a managed AI workforce retainer, shown in your local currency. A standalone AI employee runs about £3,000 to set up plus £700 a month. The ROI calculator puts the recovered enquiries against that cost on your own numbers, so you see the payback before you commit.
The scope and the number are agreed in writing before work starts. The call is thirty minutes, no pitch.
From
£3,500
One-off build for accountants. Workforce managed monthly thereafter. Use the calculator to see the payback on your own numbers.
Questions
What accountants ask us.
Yes. It triages every enquiry by deadline the moment it lands, acknowledges the client at once, and routes the urgent work to you first.
It can answer first-line MTD and filing questions from your approved scripts and route anything that needs a fee-earner, keeping the messaging current.
It connects with common platforms such as Iris, Xero, and QuickBooks, and the scoping call confirms exactly what links and what does not.
It keeps recurring clients in regular, relevant contact through the year, so they stop drifting away citing silence between deadlines.
It answers enquiries on web, chat and email at any hour, identifies whether the enquirer wants self-assessment, VAT, payroll, year-end, or a switch of accountant, checks the deadline they are working to, and books the onboarding call. Client work, advice, and anything touching a return stay with a fee-earner.
Practice AI mostly works behind the client, on bookkeeping, reconciliation, and document extraction. An AI receptionist works in front of the client, on the enquiry that arrives before anyone is a client. It answers on web, chat and email, qualifies the work, books the onboarding call, and hands a briefed prospect to a partner.
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Book a strategy call
Thirty minutes on a branch for accountants.
We map where accountants enquiries arrive, the workforce that closes the gap, and the return it should make, then tell you exactly what we would build and what it costs. No pitch deck.
Know the scope and the number before you start.
The build is scoped and priced in writing before it begins, with the exclusions named, and the AI workforce is built and trained on your services and voice before it answers anyone. You commit to a defined piece of work, not to a promise.
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Pick a time straight from the diary. If you would rather write first, email us and a person replies, usually the same working day.