The finance platform · Launching Q1 2027
An FD in your pocket.
VOLUS brings your real numbers, insight and financial flow into one place, in real time, in language you actually understand. AI-powered, built around you, your company and your team.
Already have an FD or CFO? Even better — VOLUS gives your finance team back their time, and everyone the clarity to decide faster.
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Early access for founders, teams and accountants ahead of the Q1 2027 launch. 14 days free, no card needed.
One platform. Every signal.
Your connectors stream in. Volu pushes FD outcomes back out.
VOLUS.
VOLU · FD IN YOUR POCKET
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Connector
CRM
Pipeline & revenue
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HR / ERP
People & resources
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Accounting
Ledgers & reports
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Bank account
Live cash position
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Engine
AI FD engine
Knows your vision
FD agent outcomes
Decisions, in plain English
Cash flow forecasts
Runway & alerts
Margin insight
Scenario planning
Data streams in
FD outcomes push out
One place to see it all.
Swipe through what VOLUS gives you, the moment you sign in.
Simulation Data Room
Try the decision before you make it.
A private, sealed-off room where you can model any move and watch the outcome unfold, no risk to your real numbers. Pull the levers, spin the dials, and see exactly where your cash, runway and profit land.
- Make redundancies, hire a team, or open overseas, and see the cost before you commit.
- Change your prices, fees or product costs and watch margin and runway respond live.
- Go as bold as you like. It's a sandbox, nothing leaves the room until you say so.
- Found a plan that works? Take it into reality as a real, trackable roadmap.
Private to you · changes never touch your live data until you promote them
SIMULATION
What if…
LIVE MODEL
Cash in 12mo
£512k
Runway
18.4 mo
Raise prices +20%+£7.1k/mo
Hire 5 people+£29k/mo cost
Triple marketing+£9k rev / +£8k
Open US office£120k one-off
Take into realitypromote this scenario to a tracked roadmap
Built for teams, not just founders
Model it together. Then run it together.
Finance decisions are never made alone. The Lab and the Data Room are shared spaces, so the people who need a say get one, on the same numbers, at the same time. And when a scenario stops being a what-if and becomes the plan, it moves into live mode with the team and the thread intact.
In the Lab
Work the scenario as a team
Sealed off from your real numbers. Invite whoever needs to be in the room and pull the levers together.
- Shared scenarios anyone on the team can open, duplicate and compare
- Comment and question directly on a driver or an outcome
- Everyone sees the same forecast update as the dials move
- Version history, so you can see who changed what and why
In live mode
Track the real thing, together
Promote a scenario out of the Lab and it becomes a tracked project against your live data, with the same team around it.
- The plan you modelled, now measured against what actually happens
- Owners and actions, so it's clear who is doing what
- Volu flags drift when reality starts parting company with the plan
- The whole thread stays, from first what-if to live result
Your teamFounders, FDs, commercial and ops, all on one shared picture instead of five versions of a spreadsheet.
Your accountantGive your accountant or bookkeeper a look-in alongside you, on the numbers and the plan, not just the year-end file.
Your board & investorsShare the scenario you're actually proposing, with the workings visible, not a static deck.
How it works
Your whole financial picture, in one place.
Your data
Your CRMPipeline, customers, deals
Accounting softwareXero · QuickBooks · Sage
Your bankLive balances & transactions
Your business, in fullCompany & founder details, history & where you're heading — plus your spreadsheets, board packs & meeting notes
Everything else, via ZapierYour HR, ERP & any other CRM — thousands of apps plug straight in
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VOLUS
Reads every feed & fully understands your business
What you get
One clear pictureCash, runway, profit, at a glance
Plain-English answersAsk Volu, your AI assistant, anything about your numbers
Alerts & foresightKnow what's coming before it happens
Connect to your main data streams
Disconnected tools become one intelligent layer — your bank, accounting, CRM, and through Zapier your HR, ERP and everything else. VOLUS pulls it together, makes sense of it, and hands you the outputs that actually help you decide.
Plans & pricing
One clear plan.
Everything a growing SME needs, in one place, on AI infrastructure connected to your live bank, books, CRM and plans. Start with a 14-day free trial, no credit card needed.
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Free trial
Full features for 14 days. See VOLUS on your own numbers before you commit.
£0/ 14 days
No credit card needed.
Start free trial
- Every feature of the full plan, unlocked
- 500MB storage during the trial
- 5 Simulator runs in The Lab
- Upgrade any time to lift the caps
When you're ready, move to the VOLUS plan and storage jumps to 1GB with unlimited Simulator runs.
Most popular
VOLUS
Your finance director, your live numbers, and Volu on call — everything, in one plan.
£89.99/ month
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Book a demo
- 2 user seats included (add more any time)
- Volu — your AI FD, in-app to answer questions on your numbers
- Shoorah wellbeing — free for up to 10 users
- Live connections — bank feed, accounting (Xero) & CRM
- The Data Simulator (The Lab) — model scenarios and decisions, unlimited
- Dashboard — cash, invoices, alerts and insights
- 1GB storage included
Scales with you — add seats, extend Shoorah to your whole team, or add storage below.
Add-ons
Stack these on top of the VOLUS plan whenever you need them.
Extra user seatsBeyond the first 2
£3.99per user / month
Shoorah, beyond 10 usersExtend wellbeing to the whole team
£1per user / month
Storage 1–3GBAbove the included 1GB
£9.99per month
Storage 3–5GBFor heavier document libraries
£29.99per month
Storage ladder
500MB trial
1GB included
3GB +£9.99/mo
5GB +£29.99/mo
Prices in GBP and exclude VAT where applicable. Annual plans are paid upfront and save 10%. Shoorah is a wellbeing product included with VOLUS.
How it works
Your finance director, on autopilot
The real VOLUS platform — watch it turn live data into decisions.
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01 · Dashboard
The real VOLUS interface · figures are sample data
How we connect to your bank
Your bank connection, handled with care.
We don't touch your bank login, and we can never move your money. The connection is read-only, bank-grade, and powered by a regulated, FCA-authorised open banking provider.
When you connect an account, you log in inside your own bank's app or website, never with us. Your bank verifies you with Strong Customer Authentication, and your credentials are never shared with our open banking provider or with VOLUS. From that point on, the link is strictly read-only: we can see your balances and transactions to give you a live picture, but no one can move a penny. You stay in control of the connection and can withdraw it at any time.
Built on regulated open banking
VOLUS connects through the UK's regulated open banking framework, overseen by the Financial Conduct Authority and held to the same security standards as the banks themselves. Connections run over bank-grade encryption, are independently secured, and are always read-only. For a product built on trust, we wanted the bank link to be the safest part of the whole platform.
How the connection works
FCA-regulated
ISO 27001 certified
Read-only access
Built for real businesses
VOLUS, built for SMEs.
SMEs are the backbone of the economy, 5.7 million of them in the UK, 99% of all businesses, employing 16.6 million people. Yet most run their finances one of three ways, and none of them was built for them.
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Pay for it
Bring in an FD, an adviser or an accountant. The expertise is real, but it’s expensive, usually part-time or after the fact, and they work on the business from the outside, not in it day to day. You get a tidy set of accounts and a monthly catch-up, while the decisions that actually move the needle, can I afford this hire, will I make payroll, is this price right, get made in the gaps between, on your own.
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Ask Google or a chatbot
Type the question into a search bar, a forum thread or a general AI tool and hope. You get generic answers written for someone else’s business, a blog from a different country, a Reddit reply, a confident chatbot that has never seen your numbers. It sounds sure of itself, fills in the blanks, and will happily wave through a bad call because it has no idea what your cash, margins or runway actually look like.
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Fire from the hip
Go on instinct, experience and hope, the way most founders end up running things when the other two options cost too much or take too long. Sometimes it lands. But a single call made blind can hit you straight away, or quietly compound for months until it surfaces in the bank balance, by which point the window to fix it cheaply has already closed.
It’s why 82% of UK SMEs hit cash flow trouble, on average 7.4 times a year. Most don’t fail for lack of profit, but because of the gap between money coming in and money going out. By the time cash gets critical, the window for a good decision has already closed.
VOLUS changes all of that.
Whether you’re a one-man band or a 200-strong team, turning over £50,000 to £10M, you get a live, plain-English picture of your finances. Our internal team is on hand to support every client with five-star customer service, and Enterprise Premium clients get a dedicated account manager to help them get the most out of the platform. And when you want qualified financial advice, VOLUS connects you to trusted third-party partners integrated right into the platform. Not just software, but real support around it, at a fraction of the cost of building a finance team of your own.
Up to 200 employees · £50,000–£10M
AI support, 24/7
Software + real support behind you
Decisions before it’s too late
The market, honestly
We don't hide from anyone.
There are good tools in this space. Genuinely good ones. But look at who they answer to, and a gap opens up that nobody is standing in. Every serious player is built for the finance function — the accountant, the bookkeeper, the finance department. Almost nobody is building for the business itself: the owner making the call, and the people helping them make it.
The empty lane
business-facing & live
Serves the finance function
Serves the business
Reports on the past
Live & forward-looking
business-facing & live
FloQast
Alvio
Fathom
Datarails
Nume
Xero / QuickBooks
VOLUS
Who it answers to · how far forward it looks
AlvioAccounting firms · runs the practice. An operating system for the firm itself, built around how a practice manages its client work. Their customer is the firm. Yours is the business.
FloQastEnterprise finance teams · closes the month. Serious close management for departments with real headcount. It answers to the finance department, and it looks at the month you've just finished.
DatarailsCompanies with a CFO · plans in Excel. Powerful FP&A that connects hundreds of sources. But it needs a finance team to run it, and it keeps the answers inside the spreadsheet.
FathomAdvisers & accountants · reports on the past. Mature, deep, ten years of polish. But it reads accounting data alone, so it's a rear-view mirror. No live bank, no CRM, no plans.
NumeOwners · chat layer over the books. Aimed at the right person, but it's a conversation sat on one data source. A chat layer is a feature, not a finance function.
Xero / QuickBooks / SageOwners & bookkeepers · records what happened. Excellent accounting software, and we plug straight into them. They record the past. They don't hold your plans, and they won't tell you what to do next.
VOLUSOwners and their finance people · live & forward-looking. Everyone above picks a side. They either assume you've already got a finance function, or they only look backwards. We don't make you choose.
No finance team? VOLUS gives you that capability from day one, in plain English, without hiring for it. Got an FD, a commercial director or a bookkeeper? VOLUS is the infrastructure underneath them, so they stop rebuilding the same spreadsheet every month and spend their time on the decisions instead.
Four pillars feed it, not one: your live bank feed, your books, your CRM, and your own plans and direction. That last one is the difference. AI that knows your numbers but not where you're heading is guessing.
Ask Volu, our AI assistant, anything on your phone and get an answer that knows your customers, costs and position, not a business in general. Model the decision before you make it, then track it against what actually happens.
Not a chat wrapper. Not a reporting suite. An AI-powered FD in your pocket from £50,000 turnover, and an FD's back office at £10M. That's the lane nobody else is standing in.
No finance team? VOLUS gives you that capability from day one, in plain English, without hiring for it. Got an FD, a commercial director or a bookkeeper? VOLUS is the infrastructure underneath them, so they stop rebuilding the same spreadsheet every month and spend their time on the decisions instead.
Four pillars feed it, not one: your live bank feed, your books, your CRM, and your own plans and direction. That last one is the difference. AI that knows your numbers but not where you're heading is guessing.
Ask Volu, our AI assistant, anything on your phone and get an answer that knows your customers, costs and position, not a business in general. Model the decision before you make it, then track it against what actually happens.
Not a chat wrapper. Not a reporting suite. An AI-powered FD in your pocket from £50,000 turnover, and an FD's back office at £10M. That's the lane nobody else is standing in.
Our reading of the market, plotted by who each tool is designed for and how far forward it looks. Judge it for yourself, the products are all public.
DatarailsFP&A for the CFO's office
Powerful, Excel-native financial planning. Connects hundreds of sources and models properly. It is built for companies that already have a CFO and a finance team living in spreadsheets.
Different because Datarails needs a finance team to run it. VOLUS doesn't require one, and makes one better if you've got one. It also keeps you in Excel; we take your Excel into Volu and the Lab and answer in plain English.
FathomReporting & analysis
Mature, deep and well built, with ten years behind it and strong reporting. It reads your accounting data and reports on it beautifully.
Different because accounting data alone is a rear-view mirror. We add the live bank feed, your CRM and your own plans, and we're built for the people running the business day to day, not just the adviser reviewing it later.
NumeAI assistant on Xero
Pitched as a finance assistant sitting on top of your accounting software, answering questions about your numbers.
Different because a chat layer over one data source is a feature, not a finance function. VOLUS is a platform underneath the conversation, with four data pillars feeding it.
FloQastMonth-end close, enterprise
Close management and accounting workflow for finance departments with real headcount and real month-end process.
Different because it answers to the finance department. We answer to the business: what do I do next, and can I afford it? If you have finance people, they get the same answer at the same time.
AlvioOperating system for accounting firms
Built to run the practice itself, aimed squarely at accounting firms and how they manage their client work.
Different because their customer is the firm. Our customer is the business. We work with accountants as partners, we don't sell them their own back office.
Xero, QuickBooks, SageThe books
Excellent accounting software, and we plug straight into them. Some now carry bank feeds too.
Different because they record what happened. They don't hold your CRM, your plans, or where you're heading, and they won't tell you what to do about any of it.
So why does nobody serve the smaller business?
Because it's hard, and because the money looks easier elsewhere. Selling to enterprise finance teams means big contracts and one buyer. Selling to accounting firms means one relationship buys you a thousand clients. Selling to five and a half million individual owners means you have to make something that works without a finance team to operate it, price it so a business turning over £50,000 can afford it, and make it simple enough that nobody needs training. That's a much harder product to build. So the industry mostly didn't.
That's the gap. 82% of UK SMEs hit cash flow trouble, on average 7.4 times a year, and the tools built to prevent exactly that were designed for companies that were never at risk in the first place.
VOLUS is the tool for the businesses everyone else skipped. Not a chat wrapper. Not a reporting suite. An FD in your pocket, connected to your bank, your books, your customers and your own plans, that tells you what's happening and what to do about it, in plain English, on your phone. If you have no finance team, it gives you that capability from day one. If you do, it's the infrastructure that makes them faster.
For accountants & bookkeepers
We meet you in the software you actually use.
Your clients run on Xero, QuickBooks or Sage. You run on something else entirely, a practice suite that holds the compliance work, the deadlines and the client list. We connect straight into your clients' books, and we sit alongside your practice suite rather than trying to be it. You keep the system you already trust.
Xero, QuickBooks & SageDirect connection into your client's books, so the numbers in VOLUS are the numbers you filed.
Client look-inSee your client's live position alongside them, with their permission and their access controls. Not a year-end export, the actual picture.
Sits alongside
Practice software: IRIS, CCH & the suites you run onKeep running your practice exactly as you do. VOLUS sits alongside your practice suite, it doesn't try to replace it or plug into it. Your compliance work, deadlines and client list stay where they are. VOLUS handles the live, forward-looking side for the clients you bring on.
Everything else, via ZapierHR, ERP and any other system your clients run, thousands of apps plug straight in.
Two ways to work with us. Refer a client with your code and they get a discount, you get a commission. Resell and you get an ongoing share of the subscription, a look-in on the account, and VOLUS alongside your own brand. Your call which one fits.
Learn as you go
Nobody hands you a manual for running the numbers.
Most owners never trained in finance. They learned by doing, usually the hard way, and usually after it cost them something. So VOLUS teaches as well as tells. Short tutorials when you need a term explained, proper lessons when you want to actually understand the thing, and AI support that applies it to your own numbers.
Built by a financial adviser
Reviewed & approved by a chartered accountant
Tutorials
Quick bites, right where you are
Twenty seconds to a couple of minutes. What a debtor day actually is. Why your bank balance and your profit are two different stories. What reconciliation is really for. Watch it, get it, carry on.
Sat inside the screen you're already on, so you don't go hunting for an answer somewhere else.
Lessons & courses
The proper stuff, unlocked as you go
Structured, sequential, and you work through them. You tick through each lesson rather than skipping to the end, because the point is that you actually know it. Complete a course and the next one opens up.
You can't skim past these. That's deliberate. A course you clicked through teaches nothing.
Cash flow, properlyWhy profit isn't cash, why timing decides everything, and why the gap between the two is what puts businesses under.
Reading your own numbersMargins, trends, what a healthy line looks like against a worrying one, and how to tell the difference early.
Reconciliation & the booksWhat it's for beyond keeping the accountant happy. Why the discipline of clean books is what makes everything else possible.
Catching it earlyOverspend, quiet creep in costs, a customer going cold. The signals that show up long before the damage does.
From pipeline to cashHow your CRM connects to your bank. Conversion rates, projected pipeline, and what your sales numbers actually mean for the money landing.
Scaling up & scaling backWhen to push, when to hold, when to pull in. What a hire really costs you, and how to know if you can carry it.
Why general advice keeps letting you down
There's no shortage of finance content. Forums, videos, subscription course libraries with a thousand modules, and now a general-purpose AI that will answer anything you ask it. Some of it's genuinely good. But all of it is written for a business in general, and you don't run a business in general. You run yours.
A tactic that saved one company sinks another. Advice pitched at a finance department is useless if you haven't got one, and advice pitched at a beginner is useless if you have. And anything that answers without knowing your customers, your costs and your plans is guessing, however confident it sounds.
Your sectorWhat's normal in construction isn't normal in software.
Your sizeFour staff and £1m is a different world to forty and £10m.
Your customersWho pays, who's slow, who's drifting away.
Your cultureHow you hire, how you spend, what you'd never cut.
So the lesson teaches the idea, and then Volu shows you that idea in your own numbers. Not a worked example about a fictional company. Your cash flow, your pipeline, your position, explained as you go. That's the bit a course library or a general AI can't do, because neither of them has ever met you.
Included free with VOLUS
We look after your numbers. Shoorah looks after you.
Running a business takes a toll on the people in it. That's why every VOLUS premium subscriber gets free access to Shoorah, the clinically grounded 360° health & wellbeing platform — free for up to 10 employees.
Shoorah takes a clinical, holistic and evidence based approach, with tools designed alongside doctors and specialists. From its Money Mind feature for a healthier relationship with money, to expert-led videos and audios, validated self-assessments and practical tools for managing everyday life — it's real support, not just a calming app.
Money Mindvideos & audiosself assessmentslife management24/7 expert support
Money MindA healthier relationship with money & financial stress
Videos & audiosExpert-led pods & sessions on mind and body
Self assessmentsValidated checks, designed with doctors
Tools for lifePractical support for managing everyday life
Why VOLUS
Real finance, the way you understand it.
A full in-house finance team
Invaluable when you have one — but a full FD, CFO and accounts function is a salary cost most SMEs can’t carry yet.
Accountants
Ad-hoc accounting & financial advice service is costly and very quickly racks up.
Sage / QuickBooks / Xero
Great engines, hard to read for real insight.
VOLUS.
Inside the business, in real time, built around you.
Already have a finance team?
Give your finance team superpowers.
VOLUS doesn’t replace your FD, CFO or accounts team — it makes them faster and frees them from the grind. Whatever your setup, the whole business works from one live picture.
Cut the manual grind
Live bank, accounting and CRM data flow into one place automatically, so month-end, reconciliations and board reporting stop eating whole days. Your team spends less time gathering numbers and more time acting on them.
One source of truth
The owner, the FD and the accounts team all work from the same real-time picture — no more version-control tennis between spreadsheets, inboxes and systems. Everyone’s looking at the same live figures, all the time.
Amplify your FD
Model more scenarios in The Lab, stress-test more decisions, and let Volu handle the first pass on analysis and drafting. Your finance lead covers far more ground, with the admin lifted off their plate.
No finance team? VOLUS gives you that capability from day one. Got one? VOLUS is the infrastructure underneath them — start your free trial.
The name
Volus, the measure of what flows.
It takes its meaning from volume: the quantity that moves through a space. For a business, that quantity is money, revenue, spend, runway, the steady flow of cash in and out. VOLUS reads that flow and turns it into one clear picture. The AI assistant inside it is Volu, ask Volu anything about your numbers.
Volumethe quantity flowing through
Flowcash in, cash out, over time
Measureknow it precisely, in numbers
Claritythe whole picture, one view
The team
Lorri HainesCEO & Founder
Naveen YadavCTO
Gary LangrishDPO & Cyber Security Director
Attila HunterChief Legal Officer
The people building it.
A small team, building the finance tool we wanted and couldn’t find.
Lorri HainesCEO & Founder
Naveen YadavCTO
Gary LangrishDPO & Cyber Security Director
Attila HunterChief Legal Officer
Founders Updates
Where we are on the journey.
An honest, dated view of the build, from MVP to full launch. We update this as each stage lands.
Mar 2026Complete
Tech build
Core platform, schema and sync engines. The foundations the whole product runs on.
NOW
Jun to Jul 2026In progress
Testing & hardening
A working product in internal validation across June and July, proving the flow end to end and hardening it before real businesses come on.
Aug 2026Next
POC · 5 live clients
Five real companies running on VOLUS, free, real data, real feedback, validated in the wild.
Sep 2026Upcoming
Release
VOLUS opens up off the back of a validated POC, going live for founders, teams and accountants.
Oct 2026Upcoming
Raising capital
Opening the raise off the back of a validated POC, a 500+ client reseller pipeline and live recurring revenue.
Q1 2027Full launch
Big launch
Marketplaces live across Xero, QuickBooks and Sage, and the reseller channel open. The whole flow, for everyone.
Dates are targets and may shift as we learn, we'll keep this honest and current.
Under process
Building trust, the right way.
We’re putting the credentials, certifications and partnerships in place that serious finance software should have. Here’s what’s in progress, stay tuned.
In progress
Cyber Essentials
UK government-backed certification covering the core controls that guard against common cyber threats.
In progress
SOC 2, Type I & Type II
Independent assurance over how we handle security, availability and the confidentiality of your data.
In progress
Financial advisory partnership
Working with regulated partners so that, where you need formal advice, it comes from the right people.
Ongoing
Financial-crime monitoring
Automated monitoring and anomaly-detection across the platform to keep VOLUS free of fraud and misuse, with FCA-authorised partners handling the regulated controls. See our AML & Financial Crime Policy.
Coming
And more
Further certifications and partnerships are on the way as we grow. Stay tuned.