Most accountants were built for filings. We were built for founders — the people who need numbers to make decisions on Tuesday, not a tax pack on April 5th.
You're running a business on Stripe, Notion, Slack, Linear and HubSpot. Then you email a PDF to your accountant once a quarter and hope it gets posted correctly. The gap between how you work and how finance gets done is where mistakes — and missed opportunities — live.
City Solution closes that gap. We're inside the same stack you are. Books are reconciled while the month is still warm. Decisions get made with numbers that are current, not three months stale.
Accounting shouldn't be the slowest moving part of a fast moving company.— The City Solution thesis
Every client gets a named bookkeeper, manager and (where included) CFO. You know who's doing your work and they know your business.
Strategic advice is only as good as the numbers it sits on. We do the unglamorous work first. The advice follows.
Year-end gets closed by month four. VAT before the 7th. Payroll before the 25th. No late penalties on our watch.
If you don't understand your management pack, that's our problem to fix. We translate, never obscure.
Most of our clients are within an hour of London. But our practice is fully cloud-native, so we serve founders in Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh and remote teams across the UK with the same response times.
If you're building something — your first company or your fourth — we're probably a fit.
Pre-seed and seed. You've just incorporated, or you're about to. You need someone to do this right from day one.
You've done this before and you know what good looks like. You want a team that doesn't need hand-holding. We work the way you do.
Post-revenue, hiring, raising or thinking about it. You need real management information, not just compliance.