Insights.
Ideas on autonomous finance, building for SMEs, and the infrastructure behind BEYLA.
Insights
Thinking out loud.
Ideas on autonomous finance, building for SMEs, and the infrastructure behind BEYLA.
How UK SMEs can centralise their business software in 2026.
Centralising your business software means bringing scattered tools into one connected place. Here is what that really means in 2026, and how UK SMEs can do it without ripping everything out and starting again.
One Digital Human. A whole team behind it.
Small business owners do not need another fleet of tools to manage. They need one trusted Digital Human, supported by a team of specialists working from the same understanding of the business.
Meet me where I am
A clinic told me most of its patients would rather book by phone. As an introvert, I'm the opposite – and that gap is exactly why we built BEYLA.
Build AI first. Put business and finance around it.
BEYLA Founder and CEO Daniel Callis joins Ian Horne on the Let Fintech Grow podcast to discuss why small businesses need more than another AI feature – they need intelligence that understands the whole business.
The SME confidence gap: how the Hive helps a business know itself.
Small businesses aren’t short of ambition. They’re short of confidence, and confidence comes from understanding. That’s exactly what the Hive is built to give.
Autonomy can be engineered. Authority must be earned.
People want AI to do more of the work. They do not automatically want it to claim more authority. In regulated finance, trust has to be designed into the system.
The C-suite you couldn’t afford.
Owner-managers make board-level calls with no board in the room. A Digital C-Suite gives growing businesses senior thinking across the whole business, without the cost of a full leadership team.
The problem was never intelligence. It’s architecture.
Why bolting AI onto legacy finance doesn’t work, and what an AI-native operating system – the Hive, a Digital C-Suite, and you in control – does instead.
From joining the FCA’s first AI Sandbox to mentoring its next.
We tested BEYLA inside the FCA’s inaugural AI Supercharged Sandbox before we touched anyone’s data. Today the second cohort goes live, and we’re cheering on the participants from the other side of the table.
BEYLA and the FCA Smart Data Accelerator.
Building the operating system for SME finance - our presentation to the Financial Conduct Authority as part of the Smart Data Accelerator programme.
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