verlane Early access

For small businesses in the UKBuilt in Jersey

All your numbers. One calm place.

Your accounts, your till, your online shop, your bookings and your stock each hold a piece of the story. Overlane is building one simple place where the pieces come together, so you can see how things are really going and decide what to do next.

The kind of clarity big companies have had for years, made easy for everyone else.

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Not live yet. We're building it now and looking for a small group of owners to shape it with us. A real person reads every email.

Till. Invoices. Orders. Bookings. Stock. One place.

Five places your numbers live today. One place is what Overlane is building.

Right now, your numbers live in five different places.

Each one is useful on its own. None of them talk to each other. So the real questions get worked out on the back of an envelope, late, after closing.

Overlane is building the page that puts them together: plain answers, first thing on a Monday.

Monday morningThe Example Café

Good morning.

Last week you took £4,820, up 6% on the week before.

Three invoices are late, £1,240 in all. The oldest is from Sample Studio.

Oat milk runs out Thursday at this pace.

Saturday is fully booked from midday.

Illustration only. Made-up numbers for a made-up café.

Imagine opening one page on a Monday morning and simply knowing what came in, what you're owed, what's selling, what's gone quiet and what needs you this week.

No spreadsheets. No logging in to five places. Just plain answers.

How it would work

  1. Connect.

    You sign in to the tools you already use and say “yes, Overlane can look”. That's it. No passwords shared with us, no spreadsheets, no lost weekend setting it up.

  2. See.

    Everything comes together as simple views, in plain English and real pounds and pence. Nothing you need a course to understand.

  3. Later, act.

    Over time it moves from telling you what happened to suggesting what to do. “This customer often pays late. Want a friendly nudge?” You decide. Nothing happens without you.

We're starting with the tools owners already use, the likes of Xero, QuickBooks, Shopify and Square, and we'll add more as owners tell us what they rely on. These are plans, not live connections yet. Product names belong to their owners; Overlane isn't affiliated with or endorsed by them.

Where we come from

Enterprise data, brought to everyone.

We've spent years working on data inside large organisations. Behind the scenes, big businesses have whole teams joining up their numbers so the people in charge can see clearly and decide well.

Small businesses make decisions that matter just as much, often with far less room for error. They've been left with a drawer full of logins and a spreadsheet nobody enjoys.

Overlane is about taking what we learned in those big rooms and making it the easiest thing in your week. No jargon, no consultants, no data team required. That ease is the whole point.

Centralised data for small businesses. Enterprise data for normal people.

Your business, your data, your call.

The principles we're designing Overlane around, written down before anyone connects anything.

  1. Look, don't touch. Overlane is designed to ask for read-only access. It's there to look at your numbers, not to change them.
  2. Your data stays yours. Your numbers are there to show you your business. We will never sell your data, to anyone.
  3. Leave whenever you like. You can disconnect whenever you like and ask us to delete what we hold.
  4. A real person answers. Email James@overlane.ai and a human reads it and replies. No ticket queue, no chatbot.
  5. Plain answers, no jargon. If you can read a bank statement, you can use Overlane. If something's unclear, that's our problem to fix, not yours.
  6. Made for UK businesses. Pounds and pence, and the way your week actually runs.

What it might show you.

An early sketch of the kind of page we're working towards. Everything on it is an illustration, with made-up numbers for a made-up café.

The Example Café

Your week, in brief

Illustration

Taken last week, all channels

£4,820

Till £3,960 and online £860. Up 6% on the week before, with Saturday the busiest day.

Owed to you

£1,240

Across three invoices. The oldest is 23 days overdue.

Running low

Oat milk, about three days left at this week's pace.

Takeaway cups, about six days left.

Best sellers

  1. Flat white312
  2. Sausage roll204
  3. Banana bread148

A suggestion (later)

Sample Studio Ltd usually pays about 12 days late, and their latest invoice is due Friday. Want a friendly reminder drafted for you to check?

Fair questions, straight answers.

Can I use it today?

Not yet. Overlane for small businesses is being built now. Early access means you'll see it first, help shape it, and be among the first to try it.

Do I need to be good with computers or numbers?

No. That's the whole idea. If it needs a manual, we've got it wrong.

Will Overlane change anything in my accounts?

No. It's designed to ask for read-only access, so it can look but not touch. Any future suggestions will only ever be suggestions, and nothing happens unless you say so.

What will it cost?

We haven't set prices yet. Talking to us costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

I got an email from you. Why?

We sometimes write to businesses at the address they publish on their own website, to ask how they use their numbers. If you'd rather not hear from us, reply “no thanks” and we won't email again. Our privacy policy explains exactly what we keep.

Help us build the thing you've always wanted.

We're looking for a small group of owners to shape Overlane with us. Tell us what you use and what you wish you could see, and we'll show you early versions as they come together.

Email James for early access

Or write to James@overlane.ai. Already had an email from us? Just hit reply.

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Drop James a line

Tell us your business, the tools you use and what you'd love to see in one place. A real person reads every email.

James@overlane.ai

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