Office · Digital · Operations · Fulfilment

The engine room behind your business.

Your outsourced office, digital, operations and fulfilment team. We take the back-office work off your desk and keep it moving — without the cost and commitment of building every function in-house.

Consider it handled.

Office. Digital. Operations. Fulfilment.  One practical team below deck.
The problem

Too much of your day disappears into the machine room.

Emails, invoices, customer follow-ups, website changes, orders waiting to go out — the work that has to happen but keeps you off the things that actually grow the business. We step in, take ownership, and keep it all moving. Quietly, professionally, and where you can see it.

What we run for you

Five stations. Take one, or take the lot.

Office & Customer Service

The daily admin that runs your business, off your desk — inbox, invoices raised from your approved figures, payment chasing, customer replies, diary and paperwork.

InboxInvoicingPayment chasingCustomer serviceDiary

Digital & Websites

We build your website, then keep it alive — new products uploaded, pages updated, content written and basic SEO worked week after week so you actually get found.

WebsitesUpdatesProduct uploadsSEOContent

Operations

The systems that let a business run without the owner in every loop — processes mapped, SOPs written, suppliers coordinated, reporting sorted, bottlenecks cleared.

ProcessesSOPsSuppliersReporting

Automation

Behind every station, AI and automation do the heavy lifting — repeat tasks, forms, templates and system connections — so the work gets done faster than a traditional back office ever could.

AI workflowsAutomationTemplatesIntegrations
Our edge

Fulfilment & Delivery

The bit no virtual-assistant agency can match. We have warehouse space — so we don't just book your deliveries, we hold your stock, pick, pack and dispatch your orders, and manage the couriers. Your whole order journey, run from our floor.

StoragePick, pack & dispatchDelivery bookingCourier managementReturns
Under the bonnet

A capable team, multiplied by AI — with a hand on every lever.

AI does the volume

Drafting invoices, replying to customers, updating listings, organising bookings, generating content — the repetitive graft handled in a fraction of the time, on enterprise-grade AI so your data never trains anything or leaks.

People own the decisions

Anything that touches money or reaches your customers gets a human's sign-off before it goes. That's what separates us from a bot — and it's what keeps your reputation safe.

1

Discovery

A day inside your business to find where the time's leaking.

2

Set-up

Scope, access and approval rules agreed; your secure workspace built.

3

We take over

The work moves to us. Two weeks to capture the routine, then it runs.

4

Visible rhythm

Weekly progress you can see, a monthly review of what's cleared.

Packages

Simple monthly cover. No hourly meters.

Every client starts here

Discovery & Handover Day

Before any monthly cover begins, we spend a day inside your business — or two for larger operations — getting under the skin of how it runs and mapping exactly what we'll take over. Real consultancy and a proper hands-on handover, not a faceless "setup fee".

One day £800  ·  Two-day deep-dive £1,000

Tick-Over
£495/mo
Micro businesses — the essentials off your desk.
  • Core inbox & admin cover
  • Invoice raising & chasing
  • Light website updates
  • Monthly review
Most popular
Cruising
£995/mo
Growing SMEs — a dependable back office.
  • Everything in Tick-Over
  • Customer service handling
  • Website & SEO upkeep
  • Delivery bookings
  • Weekly task rhythm
Full Throttle
from £1,795/mo
Busy SMEs — your whole back office, plus a day of us in it.
  • 1 day / month on-site consultancy
  • Everything in Cruising
  • Operations & SOPs
  • Priority turnaround
  • Fulfilment ready to bolt on
Add-ons: Website builds from £1,495 · Website care £99–£199/mo · SEO & digital from £250/mo · Fulfilment (storage + pick/pack/dispatch) quoted on volume · Automation projects quoted after a process review.
Why Machine Room

Why owners pick us.

1

We fulfil, not just admin

Real warehouse space means we run your orders end-to-end. No VA agency can do that.

2

AI margin, passed to you

A full back office's work without a full back office's cost — in-house capability at a fraction of the price.

3

Built by real operators

We run trading businesses ourselves — stock, suppliers, websites, logistics, cash flow. We've stood in your machine room.

4

One team, five jobs

Office, digital, operations, fulfilment and automation under one roof — no juggling five suppliers.

About

We built this for ourselves first.

Machine Room didn't start as an agency. It started as the back office of our own trading businesses — importing, wholesaling and shipping thousands of orders, with all the invoicing, customer questions, website updates and warehouse work that comes with it.

To stay on top of it without drowning in headcount, we built the systems: the AI workflows, the approval rules, the fulfilment operation and the weekly rhythm that keeps everything moving. It worked so well that other owners kept asking us to run theirs too. So now we do.

That's the difference. We're not consultants who've read about running a business — we're operators who still do it every day. When we take work off your desk, we already know how it should be done, because we do it on our own floor.

What that means for you

Oneteam for office, digital, ops & fulfilment
AIon the volume, people on the decisions
Realwarehouse, real operators, real accountability

Consider it handled — by people who've stood where you're standing.

FAQ

The questions owners ask us.

Are you just a virtual assistant agency?
No. VAs do tasks by the hour. We run whole functions — your office, your website, your operations and, crucially, your fulfilment from our own warehouse. It's the difference between borrowing a pair of hands and handing over the engine room.
How does the pricing work?
One flat monthly fee for your package — no hourly meters. Every client starts with a paid Discovery Day (£800, or £1,000 for a two-day deep-dive) where we get under the skin of your business and map exactly what to take over. Fulfilment and one-off projects are quoted on top once we know the volumes.
Do you really store and ship our stock?
Yes. We have warehouse space, so we can hold your stock, pick, pack and dispatch your orders, book the couriers and handle returns — your whole order journey, run from our floor. Pricing is based on your volumes.
Is our data safe if AI is involved?
Yes. We use enterprise-grade AI with no-training data terms, keep each client in their own secure workspace, and a person signs off anything that touches money or reaches your customers. AI does the volume; humans own the decisions.
Can we start with just one thing?
Absolutely — most clients hand over the job that hurts most first, then pass more across as the trust builds. Take one station or the whole lot.
What about our accountant and bookkeeping?
We handle the day-to-day money admin — raising invoices from your approved figures and chasing payment — which sits alongside your accountant, not in place of them. Your statutory accounts, tax and formal bookkeeping stay with them.
Who do you work with, and where?
Owner-managed businesses with revenue and a bit of a team — trades, wholesalers, small manufacturers, ecommerce and independent retailers. We're based in Essex and work with clients nationwide; office and digital work is remote, and fulfilment runs from our warehouse.
Start here

Book a 20-minute machine-room review.

Tell us where your time's going and we'll show you exactly what we'd take off your plate first. No hard sell — just a straight look at what we can run for you.

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HoursMon–Fri, 9–5:30
AreaEssex & nationwide

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