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Partnership proposal · 18 May 2026
Helpbox + Hyper + Office Assistant

Two parallel offerings into the Helpbox client base

A short paper on two parallel offerings into the Helpbox client base: the Hyper partnership for your £500k+ turnover clients with a sales function, and the Helpbox Office Assistant - one product, three tiers, with an upsell-modules roadmap layered on top. All shaped around Helpbox's actual won-deal mix from the last 24 months.

Prepared 18 May 2026 For Alex Eames & Kieran From Struan.ai Ltd (SC858161) Confidential
The reach · what's live in your base

~7,000 microbusinesses. +120 every month.

Helpbox's active client base today, plus the monthly intake we can productise into. The 24-month win history (6,323 closed deals via Close.io) gives the segment mix underneath. Every product in this paper is anchored to that flow.

Active client base
7,000
Microbusinesses, recurring
New onboards / mo
+120
Steady monthly intake
Top-100 portfolio
100
Aaron's warm consultative channel
Hyper-qualified / mo
20-30
£500k+ turnover with sales function
Track one · The Hyper service

For Helpbox clients with £500k+ turnover and a salesperson

Hyper is the outbound platform. Co-sold under the Hyper brand, not white-labelled. Helpbox introduces, Struan delivers, Helpbox earns a recurring share.

Hyper for your higher-tier clients - sold and run under the Hyper brand, with Helpbox commission.

A dedicated Hyper tenant per client: hyperpersonalised landing pages, AI-written outbound emails on their own domain, sender warm-up, Posthog-backed attribution and a monthly campaign review by the Struan team. Helpbox introduces, Struan delivers, the client pays.

  • ICP: £500k+ turnover with at least one salesperson.
  • Volume in Helpbox base: Alex estimates 20-30 fits / month.
  • Tenant onboarding: 5 working days from signed order.
  • Term: Rolling monthly, 30 days' notice.
Commercials

Per Helpbox-introduced client

Onboarding fee Waived under partnership
Monthly subscription £995 / mo
Helpbox commission 10%  =  £99.50 / mo
Payment cadence Monthly, in arrears
Exclusivity None
Where the won deals come from

The shape of your customer base, mapped.

Close.io's lead form doesn't capture trade or industry. After a six-stage enrichment pipeline - regex on descriptions, Companies House SIC lookups, domain-word matching, live website scrapes, LLM reads, Entity-field fallback - we have a clean trade vertical on 48% of won deals, an "entity known, no trade stated" bucket on 39%, and a truly unknown residue of 14%.

Real businesses in the base
~5,456
of the 6,323 won deals are real businesses. The other 867 are personal Self-Assessment leads with no business at all. 48% of those 5,456 have a clearly identifiable trade after the six-stage classification pipeline - the trade mix below extrapolates that observed sample across the whole base.
Classification breakdown
Trade-classified (observed)
48% · 3,010
Construction, Property, Hospitality, Healthcare, Personal Services, etc.
Entity known, trade unstated
39% · 2,446
Distributed across trades in same mix as the observed 48% (extrapolation)
Personal SA (out of scope)
14% · 867
Personal Self-Assessment leads with no business
Extrapolation method: for each trade, observed count × (5,456 real businesses ÷ 3,010 trade-classified) = 1.81×. Assumes the unclassified businesses share the trade mix of the classified sample.

Top 8 trade segments · extrapolated to whole base of 5,456 real businesses

Bars show estimated total clients in the 5,456-business universe. Number observed in the trade-classified 48% sample shown alongside in lighter text.

Construction & Trades CIS-heavy, sole-trader-led
~830 (obs 459)
Property & Landlord MTD ITSA tailwind from Apr 2026
~795 (obs 439)
Hospitality & Food Highest avg deal value (£1,198)
~340 (obs 187)
Healthcare & Care Dental, nursing homes, locums
~315 (obs 174)
Personal Services & Health & Beauty Salons, gyms, therapists
~315 (obs 173)
IT & Software / Tech PSC contractors, IT consultants
~280 (obs 154)
Education & Training Tutors, nurseries, instructors
~260 (obs 144)
Creative / Media / Agency Agencies, photographers, designers
~250 (obs 139)
Top 8 trades capture an estimated ~3,385 clients - 62% of the 5,456-business universe. Tail of ~20 more trades covers the rest.

What it means for the partnership

Across the 5,456 real businesses we now have an addressable picture: ~830 construction trades, ~795 landlords, ~340 hospitality clients, ~315 healthcare, ~315 personal services / beauty. The trade mix tells you which tier each segment gravitates to: tradespeople and salons most often need Pro (booking, deposits, reminders, reviews), while multi-operator businesses (dental practices, larger salons, group services) move to Team for routing and analytics.

The Helpbox Office Assistant addresses the whole 5,456-business universe regardless of trade. Every Ltd or Sole Trader paying for Helpbox is a candidate at one of the three tiers; the Hyper partnership picks up the £500k+ slice on top.

The 867 personal SA leads are excluded from both tracks - they aren't businesses, they're individuals filing Self-Assessment.

Method: 6-stage pipeline - (1) strict regex on lead description, (2) word-boundary domain-name matching, (3) Companies House SIC code lookup, (4) live homepage scrape of 698 company domains with content classification, (5) LLM read via 10 parallel sub-agents of 1,850 leads with substantive description text, (6) Entity-field fallback. Apollo search was thin on UK micros.

Track two · The flagship product

Helpbox Office Assistant. One product. Three tiers.

Everything Helpbox sells outside Hyper is one product at three price points. Lite gets the phone answered. Pro runs the whole front-of-house: booking, reminders, deposits, memory, daily brief, reviews. Team adds multi-line routing and performance reporting for businesses with more than one operator. 50/50 split with Helpbox throughout.

Lite
Just answer my phone
£49 / mo
Helpbox keeps £24.50 / mo
3 modules
Voice answering
build70
24/7 natural-voice call answering
Missed Call Text-Back
build15
Auto-SMS when calls roll over - capture the lead before they call the competitor
WhatsApp + SMS
build40
Auto-reply + capture across every written channel
Team
Grow my book
£179 / mo
Helpbox keeps £89.50 / mo
5 modules
Plus everything in Pro and Lite
Compliance / nudge automation
build50
Right reminder to right person at right time, across the whole customer lifecycle
Performance dashboard
build35
Monthly performance report: calls handled, bookings captured, reviews earned
Multi-line / team routing
build55
Calls routed to the right person if the business has more than one operator
Priority support
build5
Direct line to Struan team for issues, requests, feature flags
Custom voice persona
build40
Office Assistant voice and style tuned to the brand
Build-complexity score (0-100): easy0-30 trivial automation, well-trodden tech medium31-60 real engineering but proven patterns hard61-100 LLM accuracy, voice quality or liability

What it replaces: answering service (~£100/mo), Calendly / Acuity booking (~£15/mo), lite CRM (~£20/mo), review request tool (~£15/mo), no-show deposit tooling (~£20/mo), and half a day of admin a week. The Lite tier covers the phone alone for less than half a dedicated answering service; Pro covers the whole front-of-house for less than any one bookings + CRM stack on the market.

Upsell modules · roadmap

Functionality we could layer on top of the three tiers. Drag any of these into Lite, Pro or Team to include in the spec, or leave them here as future-build candidates. Click "+ Add module" to propose your own.

Smart Inbound Triage
build70
Qualifies enquiries: real lead routed to booking, time-waster gets a polite no, urgent escalates. Prompt-engineering heavy
Quote-from-Photo
build85
Vision model gives a ballpark from a customer photo. Highest build complexity; legal exposure if treated as a firm quote
Outbound Win-Back
build65
Proactive lapsed-customer SMS in owner's voice with a tailored offer. Effectively mini-Hyper for SMS
Spam / cold-call filter
build35
Auto-block known spammers; route unknown callers through verification
Lead-source attribution
build45
Tags each new enquiry with source (Google, Checkatrade, referral) for ROI clarity
What this is worth to Helpbox

From ~£360k to ~£2.04m recurring, year one to year three.

Base case on the 3-tier product line. Helpbox Office Assistant at £49 (Lite) / £99 (Pro) / £179 (Team) per month, 50/50 split throughout. Pro tier carries most of the volume by design - Lite is the cheap entry, Team is the upsell. Helpbox commission only, no accountancy uplift assumed. Helpbox's +120 onboards / mo intake (86% businesses = +103 / mo addressable) is now compounded into the base.

End of Year 1 - Helpbox MRR
£30.0k / mo
= ~£360k / yr (× 12)
End of Year 2
£89.9k / mo
= ~£1.08m / yr (× 12)
End of Year 3
£170.2k / mo
= ~£2.04m / yr (× 12)
Office Assistant attach Y3
32%
~2,732 of 8,539 clients by end Y3

Helpbox commission income, by stream

Monthly run-rate at end of each year. 50/50 split across all three Office Assistant tiers, 10% commission on Hyper. Office Assistant base starts at 4,831 unique business clients in Close (5,698 unique won-deal leads minus 867 personal SA) and grows by +103 / mo (Helpbox's 120 onboards/mo at 86% business). Office Assistant attach 10% Y1 -> 22% Y2 -> 32% Y3 of the year-end base. Hyper sign-ups based on Alex's stated 25-30 Hyper-qualified leads / mo at 20% close rate (warm-intro accountant referral): cumulative 36 / 108 / 180 tenants by end of each year.

Stream Helpbox share End Y1
monthly £
End Y2
monthly £
End Y3
monthly £
Office Assistant - Lite
£49 / mo. Mix: 40% Y1 -> 25% Y2 -> 15% Y3
£24.50 / mo per client £5,949 £9,843 £10,040
Office Assistant - Pro
£99 / mo. Mix: 50% Y1 -> 60% Y2 -> 60% Y3
£49.50 / mo per client £15,023 £47,728 £81,140
Office Assistant - Team
£179 / mo. Mix: 10% Y1 -> 15% Y2 -> 25% Y3
£89.50 / mo per client £5,433 £21,574 £61,128
Hyper
10% of £995 / mo subscription, £500k+ ICP. Cumulative tenants: 36 / 108 / 180
£99.50 / mo per client £3,582 £10,746 £17,910
Addressable base (grows +103 / mo)   6,067 7,303 8,539
Total Office Assistant clients   607 1,607 2,732
Total monthly commission to Helpbox   £29,987 / mo £89,891 / mo £170,218 / mo
Annualised (× 12)   ~£360k / yr ~£1.08m / yr ~£2.04m / yr
Upside, not in base case

Levers that move Year 3 past £2.8m

Higher Office Assistant attach

Base case assumes 32% by Y3. At 45% (3,843 Office Assistant clients) plus the 180-tenant Hyper line, total Helpbox commission runs ~£232k / mo - over £2.79m annualised.

Tier-mix lift toward Team

Base case has 25% on Team by Y3. As Helpbox builds case studies, that climbs - every 5% shift from Pro to Team at Y3 volumes adds ~£5.5k / mo.

Rollout

Single product, three tiers. Lite first to anchor the £49 entry, Pro tier layered in straight after, Team added once the installed base passes a few hundred.

May 2026
Pilot launch
1,606 AHS leads via Hyper. Email-only batch, 10/day ramp from Tue 26 May. Validates the partnership engine.
Jun - Jul 2026
First Hyper tenants
Aaron's portfolio quarterly catch-ups + Andy's accounts side. Target: 8-10 Hyper tenants signed by end of Q3, ramping to 36 by end of Year 1.
Aug - Oct 2026
Helpbox Office Assistant build & first deployments
Core 15-module Office Assistant into market. First cohort of Helpbox client deployments through Aaron's portfolio reviews.
Nov 2026
Three-tier pricing live
Lite / Pro / Team tiers in market. Pro highlighted as recommended on the order form. Tier upgrade prompts built into the Office Assistant dashboard.
Q1 - Q2 2027
Team tier matures
Team capabilities ship: compliance nudges, multi-line routing, performance analytics, custom voice persona. Existing Pro accounts get upgrade nudge based on call volumes.
What we need from you

Three things to unlock the next phase

1. Sign-off on Hyper commercials
The one-pager landed in your inbox today: £5k onboarding (waived under partnership), £995 / mo, 10% recurring. Sign it back so we can issue the first order form against one of your existing higher-tier clients.
2. Helpbox Office Assistant green light
One product, three tiers (£49 / £99 / £179), 50/50 split throughout. Confirm the commercial model and we start the build in August for first deployments through your top-100 client reviews.
3. Confirm tier pricing
Lite £49 / Pro £99 / Team £179, 50/50 split throughout. Confirm or push back on the prices - we lock the order form against them and start the Pro-tier build first.