Pragmatic automation • UK SMB & mid-market

Eliminate spreadsheet-heavy BAU work.

Secure, auditable automation and tightly scoped agents for UK finance and operations teams—running headless in your own cloud.

Built for Excel, CSV exports, brittle handoffs
No platform sprawl or licence bloat
Senior-built, versioned, documented delivery
AWS / GCP / Azure compatible
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Excel & CSV inputs → validated
Jobs as code → versioned & tested
Headless runs in your cloud
Structured logs & audit trail
Guardrailed agents for triage & reconciliation
Alerts to Slack/Teams when exceptions hit
Runs in your cloud tenancy
Secure and auditable by design
Built for spreadsheet-driven workflows
Lean delivery, senior builders only

Spreadsheet-heavy BAU slows you down.

Exports, email attachments, and manual checks create delay, rework, and audit pain. Heavy automation suites add cost and governance overhead.

  • Finance and ops depend on Excel for validation, reconciliation, and reporting.
  • Data arrives via CSV exports and inbox chains; context is fragile.
  • Exceptions are caught late; errors are expensive to unwind.
  • Audits are slow because processes live in tacit knowledge and spreadsheets.
  • Traditional RPA/control rooms are too heavy for SME budgets and stacks.

Services built for export-driven operations.

Data operations automation

Automate ingestion, cleaning, validation, transformation, reconciliation, and repeatable reporting.

  • Deterministic pipelines for messy exports.
  • Schema checks, reconciliations, and audit-ready logs.
  • Scheduled or event-driven jobs, container or serverless.

Secure Excel automation

Controlled workbook generation and updates with openpyxl-style templates, locks, and consistent formatting.

  • Named templates and repeatable sheet builds.
  • Versioned logic with guardrails to prevent drift.
  • Output validation before distribution.

Scoped agent systems

Deploy guardrailed agents for triage, reconciliation, internal Q&A, and operational coordination.

  • Approved actions, approved datasets, logged outputs.
  • Great for exceptions, status summaries, and failure follow-up.
  • Always inside your cloud boundary.

Concrete use cases, not hype.

Invoice ingestion & validation

Normalize supplier formats, check totals, flag mismatches, push to GL.

GL vs subledger reconciliation

Automated rollups with exception packs and evidence links.

PO matching

Cross-check POs, receipts, invoices; surface breaks with context.

Exception reporting

Scheduled checks that generate targeted, auditable exception lists.

Forecast prep & rollups

Structured pulls, sanity checks, and consistent workbook builds.

KPI pack generation

Repeatable, formatted packs with source-of-truth references.

Inventory adjustments

Validate CSV uploads, prevent duplicates, log approvals.

Audit checks

Pre-audit controls, evidence bundling, and access-controlled outputs.

Status & failure agents

Guardrailed agents to summarise runs, chase owners, and escalate.

Why Anoikis.

Lean, senior-led, and built to fit SME realities—not another platform to govern.

  • No heavy control room to buy; we ship jobs, docs, and runbooks.
  • Low attack surface: minimal dependencies, customer-cloud deployment.
  • Version-controlled logic, testable pipelines, structured logging.
  • Guardrails for agents: approved actions, auditable transcripts.
  • Designed for finance ops, RevOps, supply chain, and shared services teams.

Execution model

  • Least-privilege IAM and encrypted storage.
  • Segregated environments by workflow.
  • Serverless or lightweight containers with minimal footprint.
  • Event-driven or scheduled triggers with structured logging.
  • Optional VPC isolation and private networking.

Commercial fit for SMEs.

Transparent, scoped work that ships outcomes—not endless time-and-materials.

Typical ranges

Fixed-scope workflow projects: £4k–£12k

Monthly retainers for monitoring & small changes: scoped per workflow set.

Clear deliverables: jobs, docs, runbooks, deployment in your cloud.

1. Review workflow

Map current exports, handoffs, and controls.

2. Design

Define inputs, outputs, validations, and guardrails.

3. Deploy

Runbooks, code, and infra in your AWS/GCP/Azure.

4. Monitor

Logging, alerts, and iterative refinement.

FAQs

No. Workloads run in your cloud. We deliver code, deployment, and docs; you keep control.
Versioned jobs, structured logs, evidence files, and consistent workbook templates with change history.
Least-privilege IAM, environment segregation, encrypted storage, and optional VPC-only networking simplify review.
No. We avoid heavyweight control rooms. We build lean, headless jobs and scoped agents with clear guardrails.

Stop running critical ops through copy, paste, and late-night checks.

Let’s review your workflow and ship a lean, auditable automation inside your cloud.

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