Axel

Over 10 years running businesses: e-commerce, coffee machines, digital marketing. Through all of it, the same thing kept coming up. Selling was the fun part. The paperwork was what cost money.

Every year it's the same choice: pay an accountant a few hundred quid to file a return that's mostly numbers you already have, or lose a weekend to HMRC forms and Companies House deadlines. Tradesmen, small limited companies, sole traders: same story everywhere. Nobody starts a business to do filing, but miss a deadline and the penalties land anyway.

Most of what I know came from doing it. Building and breaking my own shops, running ads with my own money, figuring out why one page sells and another doesn't, and learning to code because I got tired of waiting for someone else to build what I needed. I've got a business degree and a digital marketing masters from Salford too, but honestly, the real education was the businesses. Uni moved at a snail's pace. Running something where the money is real teaches you ten times faster.

That's why I built A.X.E.L Filing. It sends your corporation tax return (CT600) to HMRC and your annual accounts to Companies House directly, from £49, with the tax worked out by an engine built and tested against HMRC's own specifications. We don't run your figures through AI ourselves, but if you already use an assistant like Claude or ChatGPT, you can connect it and file straight from the chat. Websites are still part of what we do, because a business people can find gets the work. But the main job now is simpler: take the admin off your plate so you can get back to running the thing.