Every hour spent on admin is an hour you can’t bill.
If your time bills at £200 or more per hour, here is what 10PM does and who it is for.
What about software and cost?
I work with the tools you already use rather than replacing them. What automation does need is a connector platform to run the workflows (Make or Zapier, for example), and any AI steps run on a subscription such as Claude or ChatGPT. These are modest monthly costs, you own the accounts, and I set out exactly what is needed and what it costs in the Audit, so nothing is a surprise later.
Ready to reclaim your time?
15 minutes. Tell me what your week actually looks like and I will show you where billable time is leaking. If there is nothing worth automating, I will say so.
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What high value professionals automate with 10PM
Solicitors, consultants, IFAs, and architect founders have one thing in common: their time bills at £200 to £400 per hour. And a significant portion of every week goes to work that does not need that expertise: client onboarding paperwork, invoicing, CRM updates, document preparation, follow ups, and reporting.
Business automation for high value professionals is not about replacing skill. It is about removing the administrative layer that sits underneath it. The billing, the chasing, the updating, the filing: none of it requires your judgement. All of it takes your time.
The 10PM Time Leak Audit maps exactly where that time is going, puts a number on the annual cost, and identifies the top automation opportunities ranked by impact. Under two hours of your time. £950.
What high value professionals typically automate
The tasks that consume the most time tend to cluster around the same areas across professions. Client onboarding: gathering documents, sending contracts, setting up access, running through the engagement process. Billing: generating invoices at the right milestone, sending them, following up on overdue payments. Reporting: writing and formatting status updates, progress notes, or client summaries on a recurring schedule. CRM and contact management: updating records after calls, creating follow-up tasks, sending recap emails.
What these tasks share: they are consistent, they repeat across every client, and none of them require your professional judgement. They are exactly the kind of work that automation handles well, and exactly the kind of work that should not be consuming evenings.
The financial case
At £300 per hour, five hours of admin per week is £72,000 per year of expertise spent on work a system could handle. At £400, it is £96,000. These are not hypothetical numbers. They are what the time actually costs when you apply the same rate you charge clients to the hours you spend on tasks that do not require your skill.
The question is not whether to automate. It is which processes to fix first, in what order, and whether the financial case supports the investment. The cost of invisible work page walks through the full calculation if you want to run your own numbers before booking anything.
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