About
ESOPRO LTD designs and builds automations for small and medium-sized businesses that have neither an in-house IT department nor the time to run a twelve-month transformation programme. Our work is to remove manual tasks from your team's day, one at a time, on short timescales and with results you can verify.
Where we sit
Two approaches dominate the automation market. The first is to sell a piece of software and ask the business to bend its working methods to fit the tool. The second is to produce a strategic study — often a sound one — whose implementation is left entirely to the client.
We occupy the ground in between: we analyse, we cost, then we put things into production. The same team runs the audit and carries out the build, which prevents information being lost between analysis and execution, and obliges us to recommend only what we know how to deliver.
We work mainly with accountancy firms, estate agencies, construction companies, brokers and veterinary practices: businesses whose activity runs on case files, documents to collect and deadlines to meet.
How we work
An engagement always begins by observing the real work: who enters what, at what point, using which tool, and how many times a week. Solutions come afterwards. Technology that does not reduce an identified burden has no reason to be deployed.
Every automation we propose comes with an estimate of the time it saves and the cost of building it. Where the ratio between the two is unfavourable, we say so and drop the item.
Replacing line-of-business software is a heavy, expensive project and rarely a necessary one. We design automations that connect to the tools already in place and respect how your staff are used to working.
Every engagement includes documentation of what was delivered and training for the people concerned. You must be able to understand it, use it, and if you wish, hand it to someone else.
Our limits
Stating our limits up front avoids expensive misunderstandings and lets you know exactly what you are buying.
Migrating a small business from one system to another is a project in its own right, long and risky. If your software is the real problem, we will say so plainly, but we will not take on that job.
Our engagements are fixed-price, set in the quotation. You therefore never have to weigh up asking a question against keeping control of your budget.
We resell no software and receive nothing from the vendors whose tools we connect. Our recommendations depend only on the time they save you.
Automation removes tasks, not people. The systems we deliver are designed to be supervised by your team, who stay in control and can take over at any point.
Confidentiality
An automation engagement requires access to sensitive information: client files, accounting data, internal correspondence. That access is governed.
A confidentiality agreement is signed before every engagement begins, including for an audit alone. It covers all information we are given access to, with no time limit.
We ask only for the access the engagement requires, for the duration of the engagement. Where real data is not essential to testing, we work on anonymised test sets.
Your data is not sold, not shared with third parties outside the engagement, and not used to train an artificial intelligence model. Any processing that relies on a third-party service is identified and agreed with you beforehand.
When the engagement closes, the access granted to us is revoked and working copies are deleted. The documentation delivered remains your property.
Details of how data collected through this site is handled are set out in our privacy policy.
A first 30-minute conversation is enough to establish whether automation is justified in your business, and what to start with.