Ascendra designs, builds and runs bespoke AI and automation systems for UK local businesses — so the repetitive, revenue-leaking tasks in your week handle themselves. AI receptionist, missed-call text-back, automatic review replies, Google Business Profile posting, CRM sync, invoice chase, social scheduling and custom n8n workflows. Built around your business. Maintained by us.
Done-for-you systems are fully designed, built and maintained business automations. Ascendra handles the setup, integrations, monitoring, and updates — you just get the output. Most clients start with the core bundle (AI receptionist, missed-call text-back, automatic review replies, and Google Business Profile posting) and add custom workflows as the business grows. Built on n8n, OpenAI, and your existing tools — no platform lock-in, no vendor dependency.
UK local business owners spend 12–18 hours a week on repetitive admin — calls, chasing reviews, posting to social, updating GBP, following up quotes, chasing invoices. That's almost two working days. We get them back.
Every hour you spend on admin is an hour you're not billing, selling, or running the business. A £50/hour business doing 15 hours of admin is burning £750 a week. We hand that back.
80% of sales need 5+ touches. Most UK small businesses stop at one. Every unfollowed-up quote, abandoned cart, or missed review is a deal you chose to lose. Automations don't forget.
Hiring a VA or part-time admin assistant costs £1,200–£2,500/month and they sleep. Automations cost a fraction, work 24/7, and never take holiday.
Each of these runs on your account, with your branding, integrated with the tools you already use. Pick what you need. Start small. Scale up.
24/7 voice AI that answers every call in under 3 seconds, qualifies, books into your calendar and texts confirmations. Replaces a £28k/year receptionist.
See the AI receptionist →If a call is ever missed (or after-hours before the AI fires), the caller instantly gets a branded text with a booking link and a human hand-off path. Recovers 70%+ of missed enquiries.
Every new Google, Facebook, Trustpilot and Yell review gets an on-brand, personalised reply within 10 minutes — auto-drafted, approved if needed, posted. Boosts review velocity and local SEO.
4+ GBP posts per month, written, scheduled and published. GBP signals weigh heavily in the Map Pack — we keep yours active without you lifting a finger.
SMS + email reminders 24h and 1h before every booking. Cuts no-shows by 60%+ and reduces your admin chase time to zero.
Every lead from ads, web forms, social, phone, chat — pushed into your CRM (HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce) with full UTM attribution and conversation history.
Automated polite-but-firm invoice reminders at 7, 14, 21 and 30 days. Sends statements, links to pay online, escalates on your behalf. Cuts Days Sales Outstanding by 40%+.
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X — 12+ posts per month, written, scheduled, published. Paired with GBP posting for full local visibility.
Quote sent but no reply? Demo booked but no-show? Old customer gone quiet? Automated multi-touch email + SMS sequences win them back.
Anything repetitive: data scraping, lead enrichment, document generation, AI chatbots, Slack alerts, Zapier replacements. If it has an API, we can automate it.
Every Monday: calls answered, leads booked, reviews posted, revenue tracked, automations running. Plain English. 2-minute read.
Got a repetitive task eating 3 hours a week? Describe it on the strategy call. If it can be automated, we scope it, build it, and manage it.
"I haven't typed a review reply in 4 months. They just… happen. Star rating went from 4.2 to 4.8 because we reply to everything within 10 minutes."
"Invoice chase cut our unpaid invoices by £8,400 in the first month. That alone paid for Ascendra for the next 3 years."
"They built a custom workflow that takes new leads from 4 sources, scores them, and pushes the hot ones to my phone as a text. Genuinely wizardry."
Fully designed, built, and maintained business automations. Instead of you learning Zapier/Make/n8n and debugging broken workflows, Ascendra designs the system around your specific processes, builds it, and keeps it running. You just get the output.
n8n is an open-source workflow automation platform (think Zapier, but self-hosted and far more powerful). We use it because it lets us build custom multi-step automations with AI agents, complex logic, and bespoke integrations that no off-the-shelf tool can match — and it scales without per-task fees.
Single automations start at £200/month. The most popular bundle (AI receptionist + missed-call text-back + review replies + GBP posting) is £495/month. Bespoke custom workflows are scoped individually on the strategy call — usually £400–£1,500/month depending on complexity and call volume.
Rarely. Most Ascendra clients use automations to remove the admin their staff hate, not to replace people. Your team gets more time on the high-value work. Only exception is the AI receptionist — that does genuinely replace a receptionist, usually saving £25k+/year.
We monitor every workflow. If something breaks (API change, rate limit, credential expiry), we're notified first and fix it — usually before you notice. SLA: critical workflows fixed within 2 business hours.
Almost certainly. We routinely integrate HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Calendly, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Stripe, Xero, QuickBooks, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Twilio, WhatsApp Business, Meta Lead Ads, and 200+ other UK business tools.
Yes. All automations are built with UK GDPR and ICO guidelines in mind. Data is stored in UK/EU regions. Consent captured and documented. We provide the compliance paperwork for your records.
You can export every workflow and take it with you. No lock-in. No "platform" you have to keep paying us to access. It's your business logic on your accounts.
Book a free 30-minute strategy call with Sholese. We'll map the repetitive tasks eating your week, show you what can be automated, and send a fixed quote within 24 hours.
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