Free for UK businesses
Essential Tools for
UK Small Businesses.
A small but careful collection of tools and recommendations for businesses operating in the United Kingdom. Free to use, biased toward clarity, with no upsell tricks and no creepy tracking.
№ 01 — Available now
Run a free compliance audit on your website
UK GDPR, PECR cookie law and WCAG accessibility — all checked, with a downloadable PDF report. Most scans finish in under sixty seconds.
- Scans completed
- 103+
- Businesses helped
- 29+
- Cost to use
- £0
Section 01
From the
workshop
Tools we built ourselves, in-house, for the things UK small businesses run into most often. Free to use, no account required to start.
- № 01
Compliance Scanner
A free audit of your UK website against UK GDPR, PECR cookie law and WCAG accessibility. PDF report included.
Available - № 02
Accounting
A free UK VAT calculator, plus our pick of MTD-ready accounting software for sole traders and limited companies.
Available - № 03
Invoice Generator
Free UK invoice generator for sole traders and limited companies. Live preview, PDF download, no sign-up — your data stays in your browser.
Available - № 04
AI Training Audit
Reads your robots.txt, ai.txt and llms.txt and reports which AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Perplexity and others — you currently allow or block. Informational, no verdict.
Available - № 05
AI Search Readiness
Looks AT your page. Is your content shaped so an AI answer engine could quote it? Title, schema, headings, passage citability — the on-page side of AI search.
Available - № 06
AI Visibility Audit
Looks AT the web. Are AI engines actually finding your brand when buyers ask? Six buyer prompts × live SERP evidence × local LLM scoring — the off-page side of AI search.
Available - № 07
Email Deliverability
Your emails landing in spam? Free SPF, DKIM and DMARC check in five seconds. Tells you exactly which DNS record is broken and how spoofable your domain is right now.
Available
Section 02
Partner
picks
Independent products, built by other UK and UK-friendly teams, that we'd recommend to a friend. We earn nothing if we don't say so on the page.
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Calendar Feedback
Post-event surveys delivered straight from your Google Calendar invites. Spot which meetings move the business forward.
calendarfeedback.com
Recommended - № 09
Pictag.IO
Get every event photograph to the right attendee using badge markers — no facial recognition, no GDPR grey areas.
pictag.io
Recommended - № 10
Tickbox
Code-first cookie consent built for PECR — proper pre-consent script gating, Google Consent Mode v2 and AI-training opt-out. The fix when our audit flags your banner as non-compliant.
tickbox.dev
Recommended
Section 03
Soon
Sketches in progress. We won't ship them until they're worth your time.
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Business Insights
Plain-English dashboards covering the handful of numbers that actually matter to a UK SME.
Researching
Section 04
Why
this exists
Principle 01
UK-shaped.
Built for UK regulations, UK tax rules and UK working habits — not Americanised software repackaged with a Union Jack.
Principle 02
Curated, not catalogued.
A small shortlist beats an exhaustive directory. We say what we'd use, and we say why.
Principle 03
Free where it can be.
The compliance scanner, VAT calculator and recommendations are free. Paid only if and when we build something genuinely worth paying for.
Last word
Start with a
free compliance scan.
No registration, no credit card, no email harvesting. Just paste your URL and read the report.
Run a free scan