Who does the work?
The person who scoped your engagement. You will not be handed to a delivery team you haven't met, and you'll have a named contact from the first call.
About
One thing, done properly.
7astrix builds controlled finance operations systems for ecommerce accounting, bookkeeping, fractional-CFO and CAS firms. We are not a software reseller and we are not your outsourced back office. We build systems your firm owns, with managed reliability available when you want it.
Why we stay narrow: repeatability compounds. The same payout or reporting workflow across multiple client files creates better test coverage, faster deployment and clearer economics than unrelated one-off automations. Founding pilots are how we earn that reusable knowledge; we will not pretend it already exists.
What we believe
Four positions that shape everything else.
- 1
Most capacity problems are process problems wearing a hiring costume
Firms decide they need another person when what they need is to stop three people retyping documents. Onboarding doesn't take six weeks because the team is slow. It takes six weeks because nobody owns the chasing, and nobody has been given permission to change how the work is done.
- 2
Automation without accountability is just faster mistakes
Anyone can wire two systems together. The question is who notices when it breaks at 6am, and whether your team can fix it without calling us. That's why we document as we build and hand over runbooks. An automation nobody in your firm understands is a liability with good margins.
- 3
Judgment belongs to people
We are enthusiastic about removing data entry and completely uninterested in replacing qualified professionals. Credit decisions, legal advice, accounting judgment and client relationships stay with your people. We build the queues that put those decisions in front of them faster and better prepared.
- 4
Say the uncomfortable thing early
If the audit concludes you don't need us, it says so. If a project won't pay for itself, we'll tell you before you commit rather than after. This costs us work occasionally and it is the only way this business is worth running.
How we're set up
Small, senior, and deliberately unscalable in the ways that matter.
What we're not
- A body shop that staffs your project with whoever is on the bench
- A reseller taking commission on software we recommend
- A generalist agency adding “AI” to a list of twelve services
- A software company trying to sell you a licence
- An offshore back office competing on hourly rate
What we are
- A specialist firm where the person who scoped it is the person who builds it
- Paid only by clients, never by vendors
- Focused on three finance workflows and honest about what falls outside them
- Building assets you own outright, not dependencies you rent from us
- Priced openly, so the first call is about the work
We would rather be the obvious choice for a narrow problem than a plausible option for a wide one.
Straight answers
Things you might reasonably want to know.
Can we speak to a client?
Client references will be offered only after a pilot client gives explicit permission. Until then, ask to review the design, test plan and proof policy rather than relying on an implied reference.
Where are you based?
We work remotely with clients across time zones, and we commit to response times in the engagement rather than to office hours.
What don't you do?
Tax or legal advice, credit decisioning, audit, bookkeeping as a service, and chatbots. We'll refer you to someone who does.
More on how engagements run is on the method page, and the controls we work under are on the security page.
Next step
Fifteen minutes, no deck.
Bring the process that's costing you the most. We'll tell you what we'd do about it and whether it's worth doing at all.