Bright AI is built directly into the payroll, bookkeeping, accounts production and practice management software your practice already relies on.
Automate compliance work
Eliminate manual steps in mandated workflows, from AML checks to pre-submission validation.
Win back billable time
Give your team back the hours spent gathering data and chasing clients, so their time goes on advice and client growth.
Human oversight throughout
Every output generated by Bright AI is provided for your review before it reaches HMRC or Companies House.
Bright AI is embedded across the full practice workflow, from client onboarding through to final filing. These AI services work across every product, compounding value as your practice grows.
Bright AI for Payroll
Oscar takes the manual admin out of onboarding new hires by initially reaching out to them via WhatsApp and gathering payroll data via a secure online portal. Details are sent to BrightPay for human approval before they sync to the software. Also, automated RTI and auto-enrolment checks before every submission, P45s and right-to-work, and payslip accuracy validation at scale.
Bright AI for Accounts
BrightBooks’ document capture tool extracts and codes purchase invoices, receipts and supplier documents; BrightComms manages year-end document and evidence request workflows
Bright AI for Working Papers
BrightWorkpapers drafts your disclosure checklists, surfaces risks, raises review points, and writes client queries, so your team reviews rather than starts from a blank file.
Bright AI for Practice Management
Client onboarding automates AML and identity checks end to end; BrightComms handles client communication; the Business Intelligence Report pulls live Companies House data into a client-ready financial health briefing, RAG-flagged and built for client conversations.
Multiple Bright AI services, one operating layer
BrightWorkers (multi-step workflow automation), BrightBooks’ document capture tool, BrightComms (client communication) and BrightIntel (data and insight across products) - with human oversight across every mandated submission. Each service works across every product, so the same capability appears wherever you need it.
Less admin, more billable time - BrightBooks’ document capture tool removes manual data entry from tax information gathering, and BrightWorkers automate client chasing, evidence requests and approvals, so your team stops doing the work that does not need a qualified accountant.
Faster answers when it counts - BrightAsk gives your team instant, accurate guidance on tax-treatment questions - the right answer in seconds rather than a half-hour hunt through HMRC guidance.
Stronger compliance, fewer professional risks - Human review is required for every output generated by AI. Agents surface risks, raise review points, and hand over to you before anything reaches HMRC or Companies House.
BrightWorkers
Automate client chasing, evidence requests and approvals
BrightBooks
Document capture removes manual data entry from tax information gathering
BrightAsk
Instant, accurate guidance on tax-treatment questions
Your review
Agents surface risks, raise review points and hand over to you
HMRC and Companies House
Bright AI is embedded across BrightPay, BrightBooks, BrightAccounts
Smarter workflows, cleaner compliance, faster client management - Runs inside the tools your team already uses every day - no new logins, no exports, no retraining.
It learns from real practice data - Bright AI is built using real industry data, not generic internet text.
30+ minutes returned to your team per onboarding - Every new employee, every new client, every time.
BrightManager
Client onboarding automates AML and identity checks. Document Collection Agent handles year-end document and evidence requests.
BrightPay
Oscar onboards new hires; RTI and auto-enrolment checks before every submission
BrightBooks
Document capture extracts and codes invoices, receipts and supplier documents
BrightAccounts
Produce visual Business Performance Reports to accompany Statutory Accounts
BrightWorkpapers
Drafts disclosure checklists, surfaces risks and raises review points
HMRC and Companies House
Bright AI is a growing layer of intelligence embedded across every Bright product, designed to deepen as your practice data grows and the models improve. New capabilities are introduced through the Early Adopter Programme, gated, measured and validated before general release.
Over time, this means more
More proactive assistance within everyday workflows, smarter task support across all four service lines, deeper intelligence to guide advisory decisions, more routine work handled automatically where the compliance case is clear, and a practice that compounds knowledge rather than restarting each year.
BrightAsk powered by The Payroll Centre
AI payroll assistant, coming to BrightPay.
BrightBooks’ document capture tool
Mobile (EAP ready)
Taxpayer-initiated document capture, photograph a receipt and it ingests and codes automatically.
Tax (in build)
P60, P11D, rental schedules, CGT contracts and pension certificates ingested directly into computations.
Bright AI strengthens professional judgement. (Bright AI Strategic Framework)
There’s a wealth of opportunity for AI at Bright, but in an industry where trust, accuracy and compliance are paramount, we need to tread carefully - we will never implement AI for the sake of it, only where it’s the right solution to add increased value for our customers.
Human accountability always
Bright AI may assist, flag, recommend, draft or explain, but never decide. Every final call rests with you, whether that's deciding to take on a new client after the agent has qualified them, or overriding an AI validation on a document check.
Compliance-first by design
Every feature is grounded in payroll rules, tax logic and the regulatory requirements of HMRC and Companies House, not generic AI.
Explainable or it doesn't ship
If an AI output cannot be clearly explained, it does not go live, is not marketed and is not scaled. Every judgement Bright AI makes, from a document match to a check result, comes with the reasoning behind it, so you're never asked to trust a black box.
Incremental, not disruptive
Bright AI is introduced gradually, with validation at every stage, and released only when it has proven its value with real practices.
Bright AI takes on the repetitive parts of the payroll cycle, from onboarding a new starter through to answering the pay queries that land on your desk afterwards, so your team's time goes where it's needed most.
Oscar
Takes the manual admin out of onboarding new employees, reaching out via WhatsApp and collecting sensitive details through a secure link, ready for your team to review and approve before it syncs to BrightPay.
BrightAsk powered by The Payroll Centre
Your UK payroll and employment law expert, on demand, giving instant, authoritative answers and drafting comms in seconds.
Payslip Comparator
Lets an employee compare any two of their own payslips side by side and see a plain-English explanation of why their pay has changed, answering the query before it reaches your team.
Built into your Bright products. Working from day one.
BrightWorkers are AI agents built directly into your Bright products. Each one owns a specific part of your practice workflow and handles it consistently and accurately, without needing to be chased.
More BrightWorkers are in development, each introduced through the Early Adopter Programme and tested with real practices before general release.
Employee onboarding (Live)
Takes the manual admin out of onboarding new hires by initially reaching out to them via WhatsApp and gathering payroll data via a secure online portal. Details are sent to BrightPay for human approval before they sync to the software.
Client onboarding (EAP)
Takes a new client from enquiry to fully onboarded - running AML, identity and sanctions checks. The rest of the onboarding journey can be completed using automation in BrightManager, including issuing the engagement letter, and tracking 64-8 and HMRC agent authorisation.
Lead qualification (EAP)
Qualifies new enquiries over WhatsApp, gathering the details you need and a Companies House report where relevant, then hands over to you to decide whether to take them on as a client.
Document requests (Alpha)
Issues year-end information requests and tax checklists per client, chases outstanding items until they arrive, and reads and extracts returned documents with no manual keying.
Client communications (in development)
Manages the messages your team sends by hand today - approval requests, deadline reminders, confirmations and follow-ups - with an auditable record of every message.
Working papers (EAP)
Drafts your disclosure checklists, surfaces risks, raises review points, and writes client queries directly inside BrightWorkpapers, with every mandated submission still reviewed by you.
Mapped, validated, compliant by design. Bright has mapped 80 workflow steps across four service lines, payroll, accounts production, tax and company secretarial, classifying every step as mandated or value-add and identifying exactly where Bright AI can deliver material time and risk reduction.
Bright AI augments, engines calculate
AI handles interpretation, drafting and guidance, where judgement matters; the compliance engines handle the calculations that must be exactly right every time (RTI submissions, CT600 computations, iXBRL tagging). The two never swap roles.
Human oversight at every step
Every output generated by Bright AI is provided for your review before it reaches HMRC or Companies House, so a person signs off every mandated submission.
Built on deep analysis of practice workflows
We study how UK practices actually work before we build anything. Bright AI is designed around your existing workflows, so it fits the way you already work instead of forcing you to change.
Bright AI is designed for regulated professional environments, operating within the same security, access-control and data-governance frameworks that protect your client data today.
Human oversight by design
Human oversight ensures that you have full control between every AI action and every mandated submission. Outputs are transparent and auditable, and your team stays in control of every decision.
Early Adopter Programme
Capabilities move through Entry Criteria, Gated Measurement and an Exit Decision (Go, Extend or Abandon) before wider release.
Access may vary and depends on eligibility.
Bright AI is live, in build and growing. Join the Early Adopter Programme to get access to capabilities before general release, and help shape the accountant operating system of the future.
