Olive Communications
Cloud managed services
6 weeks
£1.5M
Every month, Olive's finance team spent four weeks reconciling financial data by hand. Not junior analysts — financial directors. Matching records across spreadsheets, cross-referencing partner billing, producing reports that were already out of date by the time anyone read them.
The process worked when the business was smaller. At this scale, it was costing them in ways they couldn't even see.
Buried inside that manual process was £1.2M in revenue that partners owed Olive — money that had gone unrecovered because the data was too fragmented and the process too slow to catch it. Nobody knew it was there until we built the system that found it.
Leadership knew the process was broken. They didn't have the internal capability to fix it — and the off-the-shelf tools they'd looked at didn't fit how their finance team actually worked.
Every month, Olive's finance team spent four weeks reconciling financial data by hand. Not junior analysts — financial directors. Matching records across spreadsheets, cross-referencing partner billing, producing reports that were already out of date by the time anyone read them.
The process worked when the business was smaller. At this scale, it was costing them in ways they couldn't even see.
Buried inside that manual process was £1.2M in revenue that partners owed Olive — money that had gone unrecovered because the data was too fragmented and the process too slow to catch it. Nobody knew it was there until we built the system that found it.
Leadership knew the process was broken. They didn't have the internal capability to fix it — and the off-the-shelf tools they'd looked at didn't fit how their finance team actually worked.
Automated financial reconciliation
The entire matching process, codified and automated. What took four weeks of senior finance time now runs at the click of a button.
Central data platform
One source of truth that ingests, transforms, and structures everything the finance team needs. Not fifteen spreadsheets. One system.
Revenue tracking
The system identified £1.2M in unrecovered partner revenue within six weeks. It now tracks discrepancies autonomously as they happen.
Analytical layers & interface
Visibility into patterns, anomalies, and commercial opportunities that were invisible when everything was manual. A visual front end designed for the finance team, used every day without technical support.
Revenue recovered from partners.
Saved annually from automated processes.
Total value delivered in year one.
Replaced four weeks of manual reconciliation.
From first conversation to working system.
The £1.2M wasn't a projection. It was real revenue that partners owed Olive — money that had gone unrecovered because the manual process simply couldn't catch it. The system found it in its first six weeks. It now identifies discrepancies automatically as they arise.
The £300k annual saving comes from eliminating the manual reconciliation process entirely — four weeks of senior finance time, every month, returned to work that actually needs a human.
What surprised me was how quickly they understood how our business actually operates. No months of discovery, no bloated scope. They came in, got it, built exactly what we needed, and handed it over. It's been running autonomously ever since.
— Brett Morris, CFO, Olive Communications
Not another tool bolted on. Not a workaround. A system built around your actual process, owned outright, that pays for itself and runs itself.
