For UK small businesses on FreeAgent

Your numbers,
finally clear.

Beacon reads your FreeAgent data, detects what matters, and explains it in plain English — through a chat interface and a private weekly podcast.

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Beacon · beaconfinance.co
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Good morning James. Your cash balance is down 18% over 3 months and you have £14,200 overdue across four clients — two invoices are more than 30 days outstanding. Margins are holding, but dividend drawings are running close to operating profit. The cash pressure isn't random. It's the combination of slower collections and a cost base that's grown faster than revenue. The next 60 days are the ones to watch.
What happens if Relay Creative runs another two weeks?
Where is the cost growth coming from?
What does this mean for my reserves?
What's my actual cash position if those invoices came in this week?
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If all four overdue invoices cleared this week, your balance would move from £28,400 to £42,600 — roughly back to where you were three months ago. That would put you above your current reserves threshold and ease the cash pressure significantly. The real question is Relay Creative: at £8,500 they're 60% of what's outstanding.

How it works

Not AI guessing. A signal engine deciding.

Beacon doesn't ask Claude to analyse your accounts. A deterministic signal engine reads your FreeAgent data and detects what matters. Claude only explains what the engine found.

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Connect FreeAgent

Read-only OAuth connection. Beacon never writes to FreeAgent. Your data stays yours.

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Signal engine runs

Five layers of deterministic logic scan your cash, invoices, and P&L. It decides what actually matters — not an AI guessing.

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Plain English explanation

Claude receives only the signal output — not your raw data. It explains what the engine found in clear, jargon-free language.

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Ask anything

Full conversation history persists across sessions. Ask follow-up questions. Explore your numbers. Get specific answers grounded in your actual data.

The signal engine

Built different, on purpose.

Every other AI finance tool sends your data straight to a language model. Beacon runs a five-layer signal engine first — the same way, every time, with every input.

That means consistent behaviour, auditable signals, and an AI layer that narrates rather than guesses. Claude never sees your raw numbers.

L1 Feature extraction Engine
L2 Primitive signal detection Engine
L3 Composite pattern engine Engine
L4 Ranking & suppression Engine
L5 Plain English narration Claude

What you get

Two ways to stay on top of your numbers.

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Chat with your finances

Ask anything. Get answers grounded in your actual FreeAgent data. Full conversation history persists across sessions so context is never lost.

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Private weekly podcast

A two to five minute briefing delivered to Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or any podcast app. Downloads automatically. Available offline.

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Signal detection, not summaries

Beacon detects cash pressure, overdue patterns, margin compression, and client concentration — connecting signals across your whole business.

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Read-only, always

Beacon never writes to FreeAgent. Read-only OAuth. Your data is used only to generate your insights — never shared or used to train models.

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Built for UK small businesses

FreeAgent-native. Understands UK accounting periods, dividend strategy, corporation tax timing, and VAT. Not a US product retrofitted for the UK.

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No setup, no configuration

Connect FreeAgent and Beacon starts working immediately. No spreadsheets to update. No dashboards to configure. It reads your live data every session.

Pricing

One plan. No surprises.

Everything included. Cancel any time.

Per connected business

£ 29 / month
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