r/BusinessBritain

So I've been doing basically all my startup marketing with Claude for about a month now, and it's saved me a stupid amount of time, thought I'd share incase its useful to other  founders on here.

Latest thing we've built for my startup is an interesting financial snapshot tool that shows where you actually stand financially vs people your age in the UK, and is what Ive been running ads for. Link in comments if you wanna see it.

Main thing I figured out is don't just use it in a chat window, set it up as an actual project in Claude code. In a chat, it forgets a lot of the context so you end up explaining your brand and fonts again a lot of times, as a project it just remembers all of it. i do the copy and the design in there now and the ads come out as finished images ready to go.

Did take a bit to set up, first couple weeks was mostly me fixing the same mistake twice then telling it to write the rule down so it wouldn't do it again. There's a file it keeps (named as Claude.md) thats basically become the brain of the whole thing now, every lesson goes in there and it actually stopped repeating them.

4 weeks in, the whole look is locked so i can throw together 3 or 4 versions of an ad in a few mins and properly A/B test them on reddit. A bit of faff early on but the ROI since has honestly been mad.

Anyone else running their whole thing through Claude like this? Curious how you've got it set up or if you have any learnings to share.

I'm planning to start a side hustle buying and reselling electronics and PC parts. What are some of the best platforms or strategies for sourcing inventory at prices low enough to flip for a profit? Any advice on wholesale vs. liquidation vs. second-hand marketplaces would be helpful.

We’ve had some decent growth over the last 6 months, expanding from just 3 of us to a team of 12 now. The problem is that my Fridays have completely devolved into chasing people down for timesheets, manually checking holiday requests, and trying to make sure I don't mess up the HMRC submissions.

We are currently doing everything through a mix of generic spreadsheets and basic tracking apps, but it’s becoming a massive bottleneck. One wrong tax code or missed overtime calculation throws off the whole week, and honestly, I don't have the time to become an expert on payroll compliance while trying to run the actual business.

I’m looking for a proper UK-based setup that integrates both the time tracking and the actual payroll processing in one place so I can stop copying data back and forth. Ideally something flexible that doesn't force a small company into a rigid annual contract right away. How are you guys automating this transition once you scale past a handful of employees?

Edit: Thanks for the suggestions in the replies and messages. I’m going to check out PayEscape since their rolling setup fits what we need, and I'll update here asap on how it goes.