Business consulting for CEOs, COOs and boards

Bigger company. Slower decisions.

  • The board pack takes two weeks and three spreadsheets.
  • Headcount keeps rising. Output doesn't.
  • Strategy is clear in the boardroom and lost on the floor.

Arah is a business consulting firm. We audit how your organisation really works, align strategy, people and workflows, then build custom AI systems that take the manual work off your teams. You get a company that moves at the speed of its decisions.

  • Audit & Tax
  • People & Development
  • Operations
  • AI Automation (System)
  • Strategic & PR Handling
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Chaos

Late reports, siloed teams, approvals stuck in inboxes, and processes that live in two people's heads.

What we hear in the boardroom

"Hire another consultant, get another report that sits in a drawer."

We don't hand you a report. We fix how the company runs.

The CFO"I'm not sure our books and tax position would survive a real audit."

Audit & Tax

Financial and tax audit, internal controls and compliance, plus a ranked list of where the company leaks money and speed.

The CHRO"Headcount up 30%. Nobody can tell me who owns what."

People & Development

Organisation design, clear roles and KPIs, performance reviews, training and leadership development that grow your people with the company.

The COO"Every process depends on a few people and a lot of WhatsApp."

Operations

Mapped processes, written SOPs, approval flows, the right tool stack, and dashboards that show leadership the truth every day.

The board"The strategy is right. Execution drifts, and the market hears a different story."

Strategic & PR Handling

Clear priorities and a roadmap with owners, plus PR handling: media relations, corporate communication and crisis response.

Then AI Automation runs on top of operations that already work. See it in 3D

AI Automation (System) · live demo

We ran three AI pilots. None of them changed how the company works.

Watch the manual work run itself.

Pick a department. Documents and requests come in on the left, Arah AI reads and decides in the middle, finished work leaves on the right. Only exceptions reach your people, with the context to decide in minutes.

Simulation

The 3D demo needs WebGL. The use cases are described below.

Finance

AI Invoice & Expense Processing

Today, by hand

With Arah AI

Connects to

A simulation of a custom build. Every system is designed around your own process, data and approval rules.

Custom AI tools

One AI tool per bottleneck. Built for your company.

Each tool is designed around your SOPs, your data and your approval rules, and runs inside the systems your teams already use. Start with the bottleneck that hurts most, then connect them.

Finance

AI Invoice Processing

Reads invoices from email, posts them to accounting and matches them to POs.

Replaces: manual data entry and 3-way matching

Finance

AI Expense & Claim Checker

Checks every claim against policy and receipts, approves the clean ones, flags the rest.

Replaces: line-by-line claim review

Finance

AI Collections Assistant

Sends polite, escalating reminders on overdue invoices and logs every promise to pay.

Replaces: chasing receivables by phone

Finance

AI Cash-Flow Forecaster

Builds a rolling forecast from sales, payables and payroll, and explains what changed.

Replaces: the monthly forecast spreadsheet

HR & People

AI Recruitment Screener

Scores every CV against the role criteria you set, explains why, and books interviews.

Replaces: reading CVs one by one

HR & People

AI HR Policy Assistant

Answers employee questions on leave, claims, payroll and benefits from your own policies.

Replaces: the same HR questions every day

HR & People

AI Onboarding Buddy

Guides new hires through their first 90 days: documents, training, people to meet.

Replaces: onboarding checklists nobody follows

HR & People

AI Performance Review Assistant

Drafts reviews from KPI data and peer notes so managers start from facts, not memory.

Replaces: blank-page review forms

Procurement & Ops

AI Purchase Approval Router

Checks requests against budget and policy, compares quotes, routes to the right approver.

Replaces: approvals lost in inboxes

Procurement & Ops

AI Inventory & Reorder Planner

Watches stock and sales, then drafts purchase orders before you run out.

Replaces: stock checks by spreadsheet

Procurement & Ops

AI SOP Compliance Checker

Reviews daily reports and logs against your SOPs and highlights where work went off-process.

Replaces: spot checks and site visits

Procurement & Ops

AI Vendor Communication Agent

Chases confirmations, delivery dates and documents from suppliers and updates the tracker.

Replaces: follow-up emails and calls

Customer & Sales

AI Customer Service Agent

Answers on WhatsApp, chat and email from your product and policy data, hands complex cases to people.

Replaces: first-line support queues

Customer & Sales

AI Lead Qualifier

Qualifies every inbound lead, enriches it, and puts the hot ones in front of sales first.

Replaces: sorting leads by hand

Customer & Sales

AI Proposal & Quotation Writer

Drafts proposals and quotes from your templates, price lists and past wins.

Replaces: copy-pasting old proposals

Leadership

AI CEO Daily Brief

One page every morning: what moved, what's at risk, what needs a decision today.

Replaces: chasing updates from every department

Leadership

AI Board Pack Builder

Pulls numbers from every system into the monthly board pack, with commentary drafted.

Replaces: two weeks of consolidation

Leadership

AI Meeting-to-Action Tracker

Turns meetings into decisions, owners and deadlines, then follows up until they're done.

Replaces: minutes nobody reads

Leadership

AI Company Knowledge Base

Ask anything about your SOPs, contracts and history, and get an answer with the source.

Replaces: knowledge locked in a few people's heads

Legal & Compliance

AI Contract Review Assistant

Checks contracts against your standard clauses and summarises the risks for the signer.

Replaces: first-pass legal review

Legal & Compliance

AI Document Generator

Produces letters, agreements and memos from approved templates in seconds.

Replaces: retyping the same documents

Legal & Compliance

AI Regulation Watch

Tracks new regulations that affect your industry and tells you which teams need to act.

Replaces: finding out too late

Your process

Don't see your bottleneck?

Most of what we build is specific to one company. Tell us the process that slows you down and we'll design the AI around it.

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The Arah offering

The whole engagement, in nine slides.

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Arah Consultant

We fix how your company runs. Then we make it run itself.

A business consulting firm for leadership teams who are done with reports that sit in a drawer. Five practices, one team, accountable for the change.

  • Audit & Tax
  • People & Development
  • Operations
  • AI Automation (System)
  • Strategic & PR Handling

The problem

Growth made the company bigger. It also made it slower.

What worked at 50 people breaks at 500. Decisions wait for data, data waits for people, and people are buried in manual work.

Hiring more adds cost. Buying more software adds tabs. Neither fixes the system.

Practice 1 · Audit & Tax

Know your numbers, your tax position and where money leaks.

We audit the books, the controls and the tax position, then trace how work and money really flow. You get the truth, ranked by impact and risk.

Practice 2 · People & Development

Clear roles, fair KPIs, people who grow.

Most organisations grow by adding boxes to the chart. We design the structure around the strategy, then develop the people who fill it.

Practice 3 · Operations

Work that runs on the system, not on heroes.

We take the processes that live in WhatsApp and people's heads, simplify them, write them down and put them on the right tools.

Practice 4 · AI Automation (System)

AI built for your company, beside your people.

Custom AI automations and AI assistants trained on your SOPs, policies and data, running inside the tools your teams already use.

  • Process automation: invoices, approvals, reports, documents
  • AI assistants: HR, customer service, sales, leadership briefs
  • Guardrails: humans approve what matters, every action logged

Practice 5 · Strategic & PR Handling

One direction inside. One story outside.

We set the priorities the whole company follows, and manage how the market, media and stakeholders hear about them.

  • Priorities, roadmap, owners and targets
  • Media relations and corporate communication
  • Crisis and issue handling when it matters most

Why Arah

Most AI vendors automate a broken process. We fix it first.

Because we audit, redesign and then automate, the AI lands on a process that already works, and your people know how to run it.

Your next move

Start with an honest audit.

One engagement, scoped to your company. We show you what is slowing you down, what to fix first, and where AI will pay back fastest.

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Proven outcomes

Judged by what changes in the business.

Not by the size of the report. These are results from Arah client engagements.

GMV growth 650%

in 3 months on a client engagement.

Return ROI 10

on a client engagement, measured against what it cost.

Method Audit→AI

Every AI system we build starts from a mapped, fixed process.

Every company starts from a different base. Results depend on scope and starting point.

Same people. Different system.

Busy is not the same as aligned.

Drag the line. On the left, capable teams work hard in different directions. On the right, the same people with clear priorities, mapped workflows and AI on the repetitive work.

Without a systemEveryone busy, priorities clash, work depends on who remembers.
With ArahOne direction, clear owners, AI carrying the manual load.

How an engagement runs

Audit first. AI last. Results throughout.

STEP 1

Audit

Interviews, process maps and numbers, from the boardroom to the floor.

You getAn audit report with ranked priorities
STEP 2

Strategic

Priorities, targets for every department, and one story for the market.

You getA roadmap with owners and dates
STEP 3

Structure

Organisation, roles, KPIs, SOPs and workflows redesigned around the plan.

You getA company that runs on the system
STEP 4

Automate

Custom AI on the processes that are now clean, piloted first, then scaled.

You getAI working beside your teams, 24/7

For leadership teams

Every fix starts with an honest audit.

Tell us how your company runs today. We'll show you what is slowing it down, what we'd fix first, and where AI will pay back fastest.

Book a business audit

DRIVEN TO WIN.