AI consultancy & software studio

Practical AI that works inside your finance & operations.

Not slideware — working software that earns its keep from day one. We help you find the AI already in your business, build the tools worth building, and get your teams confident using them — grounded in 35 years of enterprise systems experience.

Runs in your existing stack
Your data stays in your control
Measurable ROI, fast

Grounded in decades of real-world ERP & finance delivery — not a deck of promises.

ERPFinance SystemsOperationsAutomation

The opportunity

The work worth automating is hiding in plain sight.

Every finance and operations team carries hours of repetitive, costly, error-prone work. That's exactly where well-built AI pays for itself.

Invoice & AP processing

Reading, coding and posting invoices by hand — slow, and a magnet for errors.

Reconciliation & matching

Tying statements, ledgers and transactions together, line by tedious line.

Re-keying between systems

The same data typed twice because two systems won't talk to each other.

Month-end & reporting

Assembling the same reports every cycle, under the same time pressure.

What we do

Discover it. Build it. Adopt it.

Three ways we turn AI from a worry into working value — find what's already there, build what's worth building, and get your teams using it with confidence.

01 Discover

Find the AI already in your business.

Automated discovery shows leadership where AI is really being used, what data it touches and what it's costing — with EU AI Act & ISO 42001 readiness, reviewed by a human.

  • AI usage & shadow-AI inventory
  • Spend, duplication & risk visibility
  • Compliance gap & control map
Start an AI discovery scan →
Our core
02 Build

Working software that earns its keep.

We build the AI tools worth building — running reliably inside your finance and operations, keeping your data in your control, and proving value fast. From a 60-second invoice-to-ledger pipeline to bespoke software around your exact workflow.

  • Runs inside your existing stack
  • Your data stays in your control
  • Measurable ROI from day one
See it in action →
03 Adopt

Teams confident with AI, not afraid of it.

We align your teams — engineering first — on how to use AI well, turning quiet resistance into consistent, confident adoption. Taught by people who build with these tools every day, not from slides.

  • Engineering-first enablement
  • Shared, practical ways of working
  • Fear replaced with skill & agency
Bring your teams on board →

Governance & compliance run quietly through all three — safe by design, your data stays yours, ISO/IEC 42001-aligned where you need it — without ever making governance the point.

Adopt — bring your team with you

The biggest shift to work since the internet. We help your team thrive in it — not fear it.

AI isn't a maybe — it's the next internet, and the businesses that adopt will pull away from the ones that don't. The good news for your people: adopting doesn't mean fewer of them. It means doing more business with the team you already have — by handing the tedious, error-prone work to AI and leaving them the work that's actually worth doing.

Win for the business

More throughput and capacity from the same headcount — you grow the work, not the wage bill.

Win for your team

The boring, repetitive work disappears. People keep the judgement, relationships and problem-solving — easier days, more enjoyable jobs.

Win for adoption

People who help shape the change become its advocates. Quiet fear turns into confidence — and the AI actually gets used.

Start with the review — then bring your team

Step 1 · For leaders

AI Workflow Review

A 5-minute AI-led conversation that pinpoints exactly where AI would pay off in your business — and what it would take to build. You leave with a clear, practical recommendation, emailed to you.

Start the review →
Unlocked by your review Step 2 · For your team

Team AI Check-in

Finish your review and we'll email you a private link to share a confidential, AI-led check-in with your staff — written line by line to replace worry with reassurance: no one is assessed, no one is replaced. You get an anonymised summary of how your team really feels; each person gets talking points to bring to you.

🔒 Your team link arrives with your review results

In action

From inbox to ledger in 60 seconds.

A live example of what "working software" means: an invoice lands, and our pipeline reads it, validates it, and posts it to the ledger — accurately, in about a minute, with your team in control of every exception.

  • Reads any supplier format — no templates to maintain
  • Deterministic checks before anything posts
  • Every action logged and reversible
Try it yourself →

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Extract

Validate

Ledger

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SupplierMeridian Ltd Net / VAT£4,820.00 / £964.00 GL code6200 · Operations MatchPO + GRN ✓

Why Bappoo

35 years of making systems actually work — now pointed at AI.

We're an AI consultancy and software studio built on enterprise systems experience. We've delivered the unglamorous, business-critical stuff for decades. That's exactly the judgement AI needs.

Working software, not slideware

You get tools that run, not a strategy deck. It works on day one or we keep going until it does.

Your data, your control

AI designed to run inside your environment — your information doesn't leave your hands.

Earns its keep, fast

We target quick, measurable wins — time saved and cost cut you can see in the first cycle.

Fits your existing stack

Built around the ERP, finance and ops tools you already run — no rip-and-replace.

Selected work

Software we've built that's working right now.

Discuss your project →
Self-hosted AI invoice processor

Finance automation

Self-Hosted Invoice Processor

Reads any purchase invoice — photo or PDF — into structured, ledger-ready data. Runs on one low-cost server: no cloud, no subscriptions, no data leaving your premises.

AI property defect classification dashboard

Property & facilities

AI Defect Classifier

Turns tenant photos and free-text reports into structured, routable maintenance data — with confidence scoring, and accuracy that improves from your team's corrections.

LucentFF freight forwarding automation

Logistics & freight

LucentFF — Freight Quotation

Turns a messy inbound freight enquiry into a structured, costed, supplier-matched quotation — automatically, with an AI email agent working the inbox.

LucentIQ enterprise AI assistant

Enterprise knowledge work

LucentIQ — Enterprise AI

A secure enterprise AI assistant: prompts enhanced, sensitive data pseudonymised before the model, memory across sessions, and Microsoft 365 built in.

Strawberry Field AI — low-code database platform

Low-code & internal tools

Strawberry Field AI

A low-code platform where an AI assistant builds database-backed screens, menus, access control and automation from a plain-language conversation — or interviews you and builds the whole app.

Answers every call, day or night

Customer operations

AI Phone Answering

A natural-sounding voice agent that answers inbound calls 24/7 — handling routine enquiries, booking appointments and capturing every caller, then escalating cleanly to a human when it matters.

In-app AI assistant answering a user's question with step-by-step guidance inside Strawberry Field AI

Capability · Product & support

In-App AI Help & Diagnostics

An embedded assistant that answers in context, diagnoses and fixes root causes, and guides users through the application — turning a static manual into an active problem-solver.

EnumerateRun end-to-endVerifyevery permutation, checked deterministically

Enterprise integration

Autonomous Integration Testing

Works out every use-case permutation, generates the source records, follows them end-to-end across integrated systems — e.g. Maximo ↔ SunSystems — and reports every deviation from expectation.

Who we are

An AI studio with grey hair and a code editor.

Bappoo pairs three and a half decades of enterprise systems delivery with hands-on AI engineering. We've seen the technology cycles, we know where automation actually pays — and we build it ourselves.

35+

years in enterprise systems

~60s

invoice to ledger

100%

your data, in your control

Let's find the work worth automating.

A free assessment: we look at your finance and operations and show you where AI would earn its keep — and what it'd take to build.