I clear a defined backlog of bookkeeping, policy or admin work for you. Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, does the first-pass drafting and research; I review everything before you see it and I'm the person on every call. Fixed price, four-week block.
Example build log — one four-week block
A 6-person research charity, restricted funding across three grants, bookkeeping six months behind.
Invented example week-by-week log, written to show the format — not a real client's block.
"Plugging in" means three concrete things: I get read access to whatever the block covers, Claude does the first pass on drafting and research, and I review, correct and sign off everything before it reaches you.
Depends on the block: read access to your accounting software for bookkeeping work, a shared drive folder for policy or knowledge-base work, copies of existing documents. I ask for the narrowest access that lets me do the work, and I never ask for payment authority or your bank login.
Claude drafts text, pulls together research with sources, and does first-pass categorisation and system-building, the repetitive production work. I check every fact, correct tone and accuracy, make the judgement calls the brief doesn't cover, and I'm the person you talk to on both calls each week. Nothing reaches you without me having read it first.
One call to map what's piling up and agree what the block covers.
Most of the work happens in the first half of the block, so you see progress early.
Short check-ins to review what's built and steer the next stretch of work.
Systems and documentation handed to your team, with a walkthrough of how to run them.
£2,400 for four weeks works out at £600 a week. A part-time ops hire costs a salary plus employer overheads for as long as you keep them on. An agency retainer is usually a rolling monthly fee with no fixed end date. Doing it yourself costs the hours you'd otherwise spend on the parts of the job only you can do. This is priced as one fixed sum for one bounded piece of work, not an ongoing cost line.
I'm Alexander Large, and I'm the only person behind Uplift Ops. Before this I worked in operations at two early-stage startups — Alvea, a rapidly scaling biotech, and Refract, a software startup — on process improvement, knowledge management and customer operations. Uplift Ops is me plus Claude: I scope every engagement personally and steer the work end to end, and Claude does a large share of the actual build. That is how I can hold a fixed price and a four-week timeline. If you'd like to check my background before booking a call, you can find more at alexanderlarge.com.
Claude does the first pass on drafting and research, reading documents, generating draft text, building out systems. I review and correct everything before it reaches you. If there's a document you'd rather I kept out of any AI tool entirely, tell me and I'll handle that one by hand instead.
We agree a brief in week one. If it turns out to be bigger or different than expected, I flag it on the next call and we agree what changes, rather than quietly doing something else instead. If it needs a brief of its own, we talk about whether that fits inside this block or needs a second one.
You get the finished documents or systems and a walkthrough of how to run them. I don't keep access to your systems after the block ends unless we've agreed a reason to. Ongoing support after that is a separate conversation, not something folded in automatically.
Because it is me doing the work, not a team you never meet, with Claude doing the production grunt work so one person can cover more ground than a solo consultant usually could on their own. You get the same person on every call.
Depends what the block covers: read access to accounting software for bookkeeping work, a shared drive folder for policy work, existing documentation. I ask for the narrowest access that lets me do the work, and never for payment authority or your bank login.
Tell me their timetable on the first call and we work the block around it, for example finishing reconciliation before their next filing deadline rather than leaving them a mess to untangle. I'm not a replacement for their statutory work; see "What I won't do" above.
That depends on your funders' rules, not mine, and I can't advise on what a specific restricted fund permits. Some charities use unrestricted or core-cost funds for this kind of work. Check with whoever manages your grant conditions before committing.
Two short calls a week, on video, usually 20 to 30 minutes. The first call in week one is the brief. After that, each call is a look at what's been built, a decision on what's next, and a chance to redirect early if something's off.
Book a call to map what's piling up and agree what the four-week block covers for you.
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