Listed with their permission · October 2026

People we work with.

Lawton Consulting builds the automation. The people below cover the things around it that we do not do: the numbers, the books, the insurance, the website and the print.

One of them printed our first business cards. The rest we know from BNI Central in Witham, where we hear every week how their clients speak of them. We would send a client to any of them.

Who they are

Five people we would put in front of a client.

Daniel Perkins

NJP Associates · Essex and the East of England

Fractional and interim finance and operations director for owner-managed businesses: cash-flow forecasting, pricing and margins, management reporting you can act on, funding, and getting a company ready for investment or sale.

Once the admin stops eating the week, somebody has to read the numbers and decide what to do with them. That is Daniel’s job, for companies that need a finance director’s judgement without the full-time salary.

njpassociatesltd.co.uk

Isobel Chaplin

IJC Finance · Tiptree, Colchester

Accountants for growing businesses: final accounts and tax, payroll and VAT, bookkeeping and everything in between, from a practice small enough that you are a name rather than a number.

The invoices and purchase orders our workflows produce all end up with an accountant. Isobel is the one we would want them to reach.

ijcfinance.co.uk

Matt Ward

Warden Insurance Brokers · Braintree

Independent, family-run broker, established 2017. Commercial cover for small and growing businesses, including professional indemnity, arranged by someone who knows the company and answers the phone when something happens.

A growing company changes what needs covering: indemnity, liability, the kit on the shop floor. Matt is the broker we would point a client to.

wardeninsurancebrokers.co.uk

James Kearney

Focus Ecommerce and Marketing · Colchester

Web design and ecommerce marketing: online shops built to sell, the search and email marketing that bring buyers to them, and the measurement to show what worked.

We build what happens after an order arrives. James builds the website it arrives through. For a company that sells online, the two belong together.

focusecommerce.co.uk

Sharon Bates

Keynote Marketing · Hornchurch

Branded print and merchandise, including business cards, leaflets, workwear, awards, corporate gifts and promotional products that showcase your company.

Sharon printed our first business cards and leaflets. A short brief, a proof that matched the finished print, and nothing to chase.

keynotemarketing.co.uk

Partners

The data we check against.

Black Flag Alert · Company credit checks

Black Flag Alert reads the public record of every company registered in England and Wales, scores it, and gives the result away. Each profile carries an R-Score risk rating, five years of filed accounts, County Court Judgments, winding-up petitions, secured charges and filing behaviour, all traced to primary public records.

5,477,943

companies

24,118,492

company-year financial filings

83,342,478

production records

~3.45bn

data cells

4,773

companies risk-checked by LCI through the Black Flag Alert API

blackflagalert.com

Introductions

Need one of them?

If you are a client of ours and need any of the people above, say so and we will make the introduction ourselves. We take no fee and no commission for it. Questions about this page: [email protected].

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