Answer who you act for
Sole trader, limited company, partnership, landlord or contractor — answered from your own services page, in the enquirer's language, at any hour.
Two questions arrive before anyone has spoken to you: do you act for someone like me, and what do you charge. Your services page and your fee page answer both, up to the point where the answer turns into tax advice. Adoomi answers the published part — the business types you take on, the work you cover, how fees are structured, what switching firms involves — and stops flat at the rest. Ask it whether to incorporate and it says an accountant here has to look at that, then takes the details.
Fig. 01.A · Accountants
Fig. 02.A · pain quotesSomeone unhappy with their current accountant reads their own accounts in the evening, because that is the only time they get to. What they ask next is whether you are taking clients on, whether you act for a company as small as theirs, and what happens to the handover from the outgoing firm. None of it needs a chartered accountant to answer and all of it is already on your site — but by the time anyone reaches it on Monday, they have emailed two other practices.
Sole trader, limited company, partnership, landlord or contractor — answered from your own services page, in the enquirer's language, at any hour.
Business type, work wanted, bookkeeping software, year-end month, whether an accountant is already in place — the fields you set, taken before anyone rings back.
Incorporation, VAT registration, allowable expenses, an HMRC letter: the assistant says an accountant here will look at it and passes the enquiry on, never an opinion.
Business types, services, bookkeeping software, published fee structure, switching from another firm and what onboarding asks for — every one of them answerable from pages you already publish, with the tax questions passed to a named accountant.
A discovery call that opens with 'so, tell me about the business' spends its first stretch on facts a form could have taken. Adoomi asks for the ones you choose: sole trader, limited company, partnership or LLP; the work wanted, from year-end accounts to VAT, payroll, CIS and personal tax; the software the books live in; the year-end month; whether an accountant is already in place. It prices none of it and books nothing — the set goes to whoever you named, and your team makes the call.
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Fig. 06.A · after-hoursNobody switches accountants mid-morning. They decide it at night, after the invoice or the missed deadline that prompted it. Adoomi is reading from your pages at that hour and in the enquirer's own language, so who you act for, what you cover and how you charge all get answered while they are still on the site. A VAT question gets no more of an answer then than it would at your front desk: it becomes a captured brief and an email alert to whoever you named, waiting when the office opens.
The bookkeeping packages you work in, whether you file VAT under Making Tax Digital, what your onboarding pack asks a new client for, whether payroll and CIS are in scope, how your year-end process runs — all published, all asked over and over. Adoomi answers them from those pages, and re-reads the pages on a schedule and whenever you change one, so a rewritten services page reaches it without anyone rebuilding anything.
Fig. 08.A · controlsThe assistant answers from your services page, fee page and onboarding notes — nothing else. Sole trader or limited company, registering for VAT, whether an expense is allowable, what an HMRC letter means: none get an answer; each turns on facts only an accountant should weigh. It says so, captures the matter and a contact, and routes it — an email alert to whoever you named, or a WhatsApp handover carrying the enquirer's own words. None of this makes your practice compliant with anything.
Services, fee structure and onboarding come from your own site. There is no general tax knowledge behind it to fall back on, so an unpublished answer is declined.
Structure, VAT registration, allowable expenses and HMRC letters get one reply every time: an accountant here will look at it. Then the brief goes to them.
It asks for a contact and a description, never accounts or ID. The window takes no file uploads, so papers reach you only once someone has moved to WhatsApp with them.
Working papers stay yours and chat stays out of them: EU-hosted, GDPR export and deletion built in, no tracking cookies, nothing in the logs.
Company-structure questions sit outside what the assistant may answer, because the right answer turns on figures and plans only an accountant should weigh. It replies that someone here will look at the position, captures the business type, the work wanted and a contact, and sends it to the person you named.
Software answers come from your own pages: if your site lists the packages you work in and what a migration involves, the assistant repeats that and nothing more. It also captures what the enquirer keeps their records in now, so a switch is scoped before the first call rather than during it.
Fee questions get your published fee structure — fixed fee, monthly, hourly, whatever your fee page states — and never an individual number. The assistant does not estimate, discount or invent a figure. Anyone wanting a price for their own accounts is passed to whoever prices work at your firm.
HMRC enquiries leave the chat for the person you name, as an email alert carrying the enquirer's own words and the details captured, or as a WhatsApp handover your team picks up. The assistant states no view on what HMRC will do, and it cannot see anything behind a login, your practice software included.
Client affairs stay the client's: conversation data is EU-hosted, a GDPR export or deletion request is actionable, and nothing is written to logs. The window sets no tracking cookies and takes no file uploads, so accounts, statements and ID never pass through it — it asks for a contact and a description instead.
Plans run Free at £0 a month for 50 message credits, Local at £8 for 200, Growth at £20 for 500 and Scale at £75 for 4,000. Setup is ~10 min: connect your website, read the answers the assistant proposes and change anything you dislike, then add one line to your site.
No client numbers appear on this page because there are none worth quoting at you. What can be stated is how the assistant behaves in a practice: it answers only from pages someone at the firm approved, it declines every structure, VAT and HMRC question rather than most of them, and the enquirer's own wording travels with the handover instead of a summary of it. You read what it may say before a prospective client reads it.
Services, fee structure, software and onboarding come from pages you approved; anything else is declined rather than guessed at.
Evening and weekend questions answered from your published pages and captured as briefs in the enquirer's own language.
Structure, VAT and HMRC questions leave the chat as a brief for a named accountant — the assistant states no view on any of them.
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Point Adoomi at your services page, your fee page and your onboarding notes, then type 'should I register for VAT?' into it yourself. It should decline, say an accountant here will look at it, and ask for your details. If it does anything else you change it before it goes live, because nothing is published until you have read it. The Free plan is £0 a month with 50 message credits, and connecting the site, reviewing the answers and adding one line to your website takes ~10 min.
Fig. 12.A · Accountants