Document work, run for you

It’s not the software.
It’s the hours around it.

Edific builds and runs document systems for accounting firms and document-heavy back offices. Costed first, checked before anything ships, priced against the hours removed — by the operator you’ll actually talk to.

30 minutes. You keep the costed workflow map, whether or not we build.
The leak, priced

If a third person is doing data entry, the volume has already outgrown manual.

$9.84

Average cost to process one invoice by hand. Best-in-class automated teams pay 79% less.

Ardent Partners, 2025
18.4%

Share of invoices that trip an exception someone has to chase. The chasing, not the keying, is where afternoons go.

Ardent Partners, 2025
1–4%

Error rate of single-keyed manual entry. The wrong number should be caught before it reaches the books — not at close.

Panko, Univ. of Hawaii
46%

Software licences underutilized in large organizations. The tool was rarely the problem; nobody mapped it to how the work runs.

Zylo, 2026
Your number

The cost of keying documents by hand.

Three inputs, thirty seconds. Every benchmark links to its source.

Invoices, forms, statements, contracts — anything a person reads and retypes.
Your estimate — no industry default survives scrutiny, so this stays yours to set.
UK median: £19.67/hr (ONS, 2025). EU average labour cost: €34.9/hr (Eurostat, 2025). Set your real payroll cost.
€19,500
a year of paid time retyping documents
Engagements are priced against this number — typically 10–20% of the documented annual cost. The map is yours either way.
How it works

Audit. Document. Build. In that order, always.

01 · Audit

Every document workflow mapped and costed — which tasks bleed money and by how much.

You get: a costed workflow map
02 · Document

Your procedures, tools, and the unwritten rules only your team knows, captured as the system’s ground truth.

You get: your business, in writing
03 · Build

The system goes live on your workflows, checked against real documents before anyone relies on it, then run and tuned for you.

You get: verified extraction, in production
The walkthrough, productized

The free call has deliverables.

Book 30 minutes and you leave with three things in writing within 48 hours — whether or not we ever build:

  1. The costed workflow map — where the hours and euros actually go.
  2. A ranked fix order — the three highest-return workflows, and what each replaces.
  3. The architecture sketch — what runs where, what it connects to, what your team stops doing.
Why trust the output

The difference between a demo and a system you can trust is the boring part.

Your clean, same-vendor documents? Off-the-shelf software already reads those. The messy 30% — exceptions, reconciliation, the chasing — is where the hours actually go, and where most tools quietly give up. So nothing here ships on a demo: every workflow passes an evaluation gate with a 90% floor against your real documents before it touches production, every number is traceable to its source page, and a person you can name is accountable when something looks wrong. It runs on your infrastructure, under your keys — client documents never leave your environment.

Pricing, transparent

Priced against the hours removed. No annual minimum, no lock-in.

Diagnostic
€1,000–2,500

The audit, done properly on your real documents. Fully credited against a build.

First build
€4,000–10,000

One workflow, live in production, eval-gated on your documents. Scope fixed in writing first.

Run & tune
€1,000–3,000/mo

The system stays accurate as your documents change — monitored, tuned, accountable.

The anchor is simple: engagements typically land at 10–20% of the documented annual manual cost — the number the calculator above puts on screen. Enterprise document platforms start north of that with a one-year lock-in. That gap is the point.

Common questions

Asked before every engagement.

Where do we actually start?

The walkthrough, then the diagnostic. Nothing gets built before the audit prices the problem — building without it is how firms end up automating the wrong thing well.

Why pay for an audit if I already know what I want to automate?

Because the firms that “know” are usually right about the pain and wrong about the priority. The audit is credited in full against the build, so if you were right, it cost you nothing.

Is our data secure?

The system runs on your own infrastructure, under your keys. Client documents never leave your environment. Confidentiality isn’t a policy promise here; it’s the architecture.

How is this different from off-the-shelf document software?

Off-the-shelf reads your clean documents well. It’s the messy 30% — exceptions, edge layouts, reconciliation — that stays manual. That’s the part we build for, and the part that was costing you the hours.

What does it cost?

Diagnostic €1,000–2,500 (credited), first build €4,000–10,000, run-and-tune €1,000–3,000/month. Anchored to 10–20% of your documented annual manual cost — you’ll see that number before you commit to anything.

Do we need a technical team to run it?

No. It’s built and run for you — that’s the difference between this and software you buy. Your team approves and exceptions reach a human; the operating is ours.

Does it work with the tools we already use?

It’s built against what you run — your accounting package, your inbox, your files. Not sure it fits your setup? That’s answered on the walkthrough, before any commitment.

What results should we expect?

Honest answer: it depends on your volume, and the diagnostic exists to price exactly that. The published benchmark: best-in-class automated invoice processing costs 79% less than average (Ardent Partners, 2025). Your number comes from your documents.

How fast can something go live?

The diagnostic lands in writing within days of the audit session. Build timelines are fixed in the scope — in writing — before anything starts.

What happens after it’s built?

It’s run, monitored, and tuned — accuracy is re-checked as your documents drift, and you see status without asking. If we part ways, you keep everything: it runs on your infrastructure.

Every week, the manual work quietly compounds.

Thirty minutes puts a number on it — and a map of what to do about it, in writing, whether or not we ever work together.

No deck. No obligation. The workflow map is yours either way.