Finance, IT and systems for trade contractors with 10 to 50 people
Matonic runs your finance, IT and systems to the standard of a £200m+ company, so you can take on more work without drowning in admin.
You're good at the work and the phone keeps ringing. But the bigger you get, the harder the business is to run.
Invoices, payroll and paperwork done after the real work, usually by you.
Plenty of work on, money owed everywhere, and wages due on Friday.
The accountant tells you once a year. By then it's too late to change anything.
Proper accounts, policies, Cyber Essentials, accreditations and reports you don't have yet.
Jobs keyed twice, certificates on someone's phone, spreadsheets holding it all together.
Shared passwords, old laptops, and nobody to call when a new starter needs a phone.
A finance team, an IT department and a systems person, for less than the cost of hiring one finance manager. One team, one monthly fee.
What a £200m+ company has, sized for you.
An IT department without the hire.
The right tools, joined up and run for you.
The keying, chasing, filing, reporting and fixing. Everything behind the work.
The bits you're good at, and the bits that should be yours.
With the numbers in front of you every month to make them.
We start where you are, then grow with you.
A free AI-led review shows where you stand and what bigger clients will ask for. We talk it through, then set up the systems and fix the gaps.
Prices built from what jobs really cost. Help with tenders and the paperwork big clients need.
New contract? New engineers get phones, logins and jobs from day one, and the cash is planned for the ramp-up.
We run the back office every month and tell you what the numbers mean, and where to go next.
Every kind of client prices, pays and measures work differently. We set your systems and reporting up for your mix.
Private
Quoted and paid by the job.
Commercial
Contract rates, service levels and monthly valuations.
Subcontract
Working as their subcontractor, with strict paperwork and payment rules.
Social housing
Schedules of rates, landlord portals and tight response times.
Your books live in Xero. Our platform sits on top, connecting every job to its price, certificates, invoice and cash. AI agents do the routine work within your rules. Our team checks anything unusual, and you approve what matters.
Pricing
Prices completed jobs and spots work done but not charged
Compliance
Checks every certificate and chases gaps before they bite
Getting paid
Builds applications for payment and chases what's owed
Cash
Looks 13 weeks ahead so payday is never a worry
24/7, on your phone
Toni is your back office, ready for your questions day or night. Ask about your numbers, jobs, cash or certificates and get a straight answer from your live data. If it needs a person, Toni passes it to our team.
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Start with a free back office review. Then one monthly fee per person, set once we know your business. No long contracts.
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Free
Answer a few questions and our AI scores your back office and finds the biggest gaps. Then a call to talk it through and a demo of how we'd fix them.
Monthly
Per person, a month
Bookkeeping, payroll, VAT and CIS, monthly accounts, IT support and your systems.
Monthly · most popular
Per person, a month
Everything in Essentials, plus profit by job and contract, cash flow, applications for payment and compliance tracking.
Monthly
Per person, a month
Everything in Growth, plus a CFO, board reports, tender support and help mobilising new contracts.
We'll give you a price after your review. Devices, setup and out-of-hours call cover are priced separately.
Matonic was built by founders who've worked in your world. Between us, we've worked in social housing, built and sold a renewables contractor, run a field service software business, and scaled our own business to £300m.
We've seen good trade businesses held back by the back office, and we built Matonic so that doesn't have to happen to yours.
Matonic Ventures
Matonic Ventures invests in and buys trade businesses. When yours runs on our systems in full, that can mean money to grow faster, or a simpler route to sale.
Talk to us about Matonic VenturesWant to grow faster than cash flow allows? We can invest to fund the next stage, backed by numbers you can both see.
We can buy your business. It already runs on our systems with clean, up-to-date numbers, so there's less to unpick.
The things contractors usually ask us first. Anything else, just ask on your call.
No. We start with what you've got. If a tool works, we connect it to everything else. If it doesn't, we move you onto something better and bring your data across.
Xero is our standard for the accounts because it connects to everything and handles VAT, CIS and payroll well. If you use something else, we'll move you over and bring your history with us.
They stop keying, chasing and filing, and spend their time on customers, jobs and planning. Most firms find they can grow without adding more people to the office.
No. You see everything live, and nothing gets paid without your say-so. We do the work, you make the decisions.
AI does the routine work, like coding transactions, matching payments and chasing certificates, within rules you agree. Qualified people check anything unusual, and you approve what matters.
We look after the monthly finance. For year-end accounts and tax, we work with a partner firm, or alongside your existing accountant if you'd rather keep them.
Your data is protected with secure logins, controlled access for each person, backups and a full record of every change. [CONFIRM SECURITY STANDARDS]
The review takes a few minutes. After your call, we set you up and run things alongside you while we move you over.
No. It's a monthly fee with one month's notice. We'd rather keep you because it works.
We're built for firms of 10 to 50 people, but if you're growing fast, get in touch and we'll tell you honestly whether we're a fit.
Answer a few questions about how you run things today. Our AI builds your back office score and finds the biggest gaps. Then we book a call to talk it through and show you a demo. No hard sell.
Thanks for your interest. We'll be in touch to send your review link and book a call to go through your results and show you a demo.