Bespoke finance automation built around your business.

We connect your systems, reduce manual work, and turn scattered data into a clearer picture of how your business is performing.

What would you like to understand better?

Why does every report take so much preparation?

When each report starts with exports, spreadsheets and manual checks, the preparation becomes a job of its own. We can connect the sources, agree the calculations and automate the recurring work, so your team has more time to understand the result.

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Where are we losing margin?

Revenue is only part of the picture. Bringing sales, supplier costs, payment fees and operational data together can help you see what products, projects or customers actually contribute, and investigate what is changing.

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Can we grow without adding more manual work?

More transactions do not have to mean repeating more steps by hand. We look at entry, reconciliation, approvals and handoffs to find where automation could create capacity while keeping your team in control.

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Put your systems and data to work together.

Automate finance work

Reduce manual entry, document preparation, reconciliation, approvals and reporting. Apply consistent rules and bring exceptions to the people who can resolve them.

Connect your systems

Move information between your accounting software, ERP, banks, payment providers and operational tools. Reduce repeated entry and keep related records connected.

Understand performance

Bring financial and operational data together. Understand costs, investigate differences, and see how products, projects or business units are performing.

Build custom software

Develop applications and financial systems where existing tools leave gaps. From internal workflows to transaction processing, we build around the requirement.

One recurring process or a larger part of your operations. We help you work out what is worth building.

Get more from the data your business already creates.

Your accounting system holds part of the picture. Sales platforms, payment providers, operational software and spreadsheets hold the rest.

We bring that information together and structure it around the questions that matter to your business.

From scattered records to useful answers.

Sales, supplier costs & project records
Understand project margins
Transactions, fees & settlements
Explain the journey from sales to cash
Purchases, products & business units
See where costs are changing

Organise inconsistent records. Link related transactions. Define meaningful measures. Then make the results easy to understand and investigate.

The right tools
for the work.

We use integrations, business rules, custom software and AI where each makes sense.

AI can help interpret documents and unstructured information. Defined rules can handle calculations, checks and repeatable decisions. The choices follow the process and the outcome you need.

Permissions, validation, approvals and traceability are part of the design, so your team can understand what happened and stay in control.

Start with what you want to improve.

  1. Understand

    Walk through the work with your team. Find where effort builds up and what is difficult to see clearly.

  2. Define

    Agree the scope, expected value and how success will be assessed, including the cost of maintaining the solution.

  3. Build & test

    Develop the software and integrations. Test real scenarios and exceptions, with your team involved in checking the results.

  4. Put it to work

    Plan the rollout and agree the support it needs. As your business changes, the solution can evolve with it.

Experience with systems businesses depend on.

Chris Grech

Founder, BrightArc Labs
Former banking & fintech CTO

More about Chris

More than 20 years of software development experience, from online banking platforms to payment processing and crypto infrastructure.

Chris has delivered banking systems, built payment gateways and processing systems, and helped build a crypto exchange from the ground up. He has led engineering teams, integrated with card networks, and worked with auditors and regulators on financial system controls.

That experience shapes how we approach your project: reliable processing, accurate records, clear responsibilities, and information you can trace back to its source.

Chris leads the technical direction and works with you to turn business requirements into working software.

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We also build Lift.

Less work behind every invoice.

Our product for finance teams and accounting firms that want to reduce repetitive invoice preparation.

Drop files into a configured folder. Lift prepares bills with account and VAT suggestions based on the business’s context and accounting policies, ready for your team to review in its accounting system.

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Drop your files
Lift prepares the bills
Your team reviews

What could work better
in your business?

A process that takes too much time. Information you can’t easily bring together. A question your reports can’t answer. A financial system you need to build.

Tell us where you want to get to.
We’ll discuss a sensible next step.

Discuss your projectchris@brightarclabs.com

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