PPS South
Growing fast, with the owner on the tools by day and quoting at night. Every decision came back to him.
What changed: clear roles and a daily team rhythm, a sales pipeline, and quotes that price and chase themselves.
Read the storyYour business shouldn't need you in every corner of it.
We help owners get structure, systems and their time back. We work alongside you and your team to fix what's holding the business back, from the first enquiry to the final invoice.
Industries we work with
Every owner we meet has the same problems, whatever the trade.
- Property maintenance
- Electrical & trades
- Construction
- Equipment hire
- Logistics & transport
- Legal services
- Lettings & estate agency
- Creative & media
- Professional services
- Engineering
- Tech & AI
Sound familiar?
You built something good. Now it runs on you.
Most owners we meet aren't short of work or ability. They're short of time, because the business still depends on them for almost everything.
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Everything comes back to you
Quotes, decisions, problems, invoices. If you're not there, it waits.
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Admin eats your evenings
You're on the tools by day and catching up on paperwork at night.
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You're about to hire your way out
An ops or office manager feels like the fix, but nobody's defined what they'd actually do.
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Working harder, not growing
Busier than ever, yet the numbers aren't moving and you can't see why.
None of that means you're doing it wrong. The business has outgrown the way it runs. See where you stand with the free scorecard
How we work
We start by understanding. Then we build it with you.
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A conversation
Pop us a call or drop us an email. A straight conversation about where things get stuck. No pitch, no jargon, no clock running.
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Taylor and Leigh, together
A discovery call
Before any Health Check, project or consultancy work, we learn everything we can about you and the business: how it makes money, how it runs, where it's held back, and what you want from it.
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Your Health Check
A plain-English report showing where you stand today and the few changes that would make the biggest difference, in order.
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Project work or ongoing consultancy
We build it with you
We work alongside you and your team as strategic partners: building the systems, processes, roles and sales engine with you, and staying on hand as the business grows.
A strategic partner, not another salary
Sometimes you don't need another member of staff. You need a partner you can rely on.
We help you grow and improve the business while you get on with the work that matters. We work with you, and around your time.
The cost of employing someone new can be eye-watering. We cost a fraction of that, and with our experience, reach and knowledge we get more done in a fraction of the time.
Our edge
Experience plus AI
- Real industry experience. Hands-on knowledge from building, running and selling a business, and from working across multiple sectors.
- AI, properly implemented. Used where it raises quality and speeds up delivery, always with a person in control.
- Faster results. Operations, processes and workflows modernised in weeks, not months.
| A new hire | Praxis as your partner | |
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| Cost | Salary, NI, pension, recruitment and kit, every month | A fraction of that, scoped to what you actually need |
| Time to impact | Months to recruit and settle in | Momentum from the first weeks |
| Know-how | One person's background | Industry experience across multiple sectors, with AI implemented to improve quality and speed up delivery |
| Flexibility | A fixed role and fixed hours | We work with you and around your time, with one aim: giving you your time back |
| What you keep | Knowledge that leaves when they do |
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Case studies
Different businesses. The same problem underneath.
Property maintenance, electrical contracting, equipment hire, creative media, tech. Every owner we work with has the same problem in a different form.
Keeda Services
Billing took days of chasing WhatsApps and timesheets. Prices lived in the owner's head and nobody knew what a job really made.
What changed: one job system from quote to invoice, margin on every job, and a real sales engine.
Read the storyFast Dry
Builders kept ringing, but the whole business ran on one phone and one memory. Machines went out on trust.
What changed: pricing that reflects his value, and an automated hire system with signed agreements, automatic payments and QR-tracked machines.
Read the storyBold Media
Good clients and a growing reputation, but the business lived in the founder's head. Invoices went unchased, there was no breakeven number, and leads were tracked from memory.
What changed: a weekly breakeven number, every enquiry in a proper pipeline, prices that reflect the work, and a team ready to grow.
Read the storyAn AI technology company
A best-in-class product with no business around it: no onboarding, no pricing logic and no clear story.
What changed: a prioritised commercial plan, a sharper story and a partner programme to take it to market.
Read the story
In their words
Hear it from the owners.
About us
We've been the owner who couldn't switch off.
Over eight years, Taylor and Leigh built a property management business to 100+ properties and over 20 staff at the height of its growth, then sold it. We made most of the mistakes along the way: doing everything ourselves, hiring before we'd worked out the roles, buying software nobody used.
Praxis exists so you can skip them.
Taylor Norman
Works with the business and the team: systems, processes, automation and the numbers that tell you whether it's working.
Leigh Ashbee
Works with you as the owner: sales, culture and mindset, drawing on 30+ years leading large teams.
Free Business Readiness Scorecard
How ready is your business to run without you?
Answer 15 quick questions and get your score straight away, across the same five areas we look at in every Health Check. Under three minutes, completely free.
- Sales engine 2 questions
- Systems and operations 2 questions
- Numbers and profit 2 questions
- Team and roles 2 questions
- You as the owner 2 questions
Get in touch
Pop us a call, or drop us an email.
Tell us a little about your business and what's getting in the way. Taylor will come back to you personally.
Phone07534 814147