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AI for accountancy firms in the UK

See where AI pays off in your practice, then prove the return in pounds. The full loop for UK accounting and bookkeeping firms, from connected assessment to measured proof.

The difference

Plenty of vendors will tell you where AI could help. We build it, and prove the pounds.

Reading your real systems is table stakes now. The gap nobody else closes is the far end of the loop: building the agents and putting a number on what they returned. That number is how you know it worked, and how you show it to a partner, a client, or the board.

How Graft works

From guesswork to proof, in five steps.

One connected loop, run end to end for your practice. We find where AI pays off, build the agents that capture it, and prove the return.

01

Assess

We connect to the systems your practice already runs on (your ledgers, practice management, and client comms) and read how work really moves, instead of handing partners a survey.

02

Recommend

You get a ranked shortlist of where AI pays off in your practice, and what each opportunity is worth.

03

Build

We build the agents to capture it. Fixed scope, no open-ended retainer.

04

Run

They work against real client files, with a qualified person in the loop and an audit trail behind every step.

05

Prove

We measure what they save in pounds, every month. If it isn't working, you'll know first.

The numbers already point one way

AI in accounting is already paying off

The question for a UK practice is no longer whether AI helps. It is which uses are worth it in your firm, and how you prove the return.

31%

less time to complete comparable tasks at practices using AI, on average.

~19 hrs

given back to the average practice each week, about half the typical working week of one employee.

£338m

added to UK sector profitability from those productivity gains.

Figures from research by Xero, in partnership with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) and Censuswide, based on a 2025 survey of 515 UK accountants and bookkeepers. Read the research.

A separate 2026 Xero study found the practices that build AI into daily workflows are around twice as profitable as their peers, and that 87% of daily AI users keep well-documented processes, against 18% of firms with no plans to adopt. That gap between what a firm does and what it can show is exactly what a connected assessment reads, and where the proof starts. Read the study.

Where AI pays off

The places we usually look first

Every practice is different, so the assessment finds the real opportunities in yours. These are the areas that surface most often.

Bookkeeping and reconciliation

Categorising transactions and matching statements, with a person checking the exceptions instead of keying every line.

VAT and tax prep

Pulling returns together from the ledger and flagging what needs a second look before anything is filed.

Management reporting

Turning the month's numbers into a first-draft commentary a partner can review, correct, and sign off.

Client queries and chasing

Drafting the routine emails, reminders, and document requests that quietly eat junior time.

Onboarding and AML checks

Structuring new-client intake and surfacing the checks a file needs before work starts.

Advisory prep

Assembling the data and first-pass analysis behind a forecast or an advisory conversation.

Start here

See where AI already pays off in your practice.

The connected assessment is free. It reads your real systems and hands back a ranked shortlist of where AI earns its keep.

Get your free assessment