Apex Agents Get your numbers — free
For temp & contract recruitment agencies · England

Grow the desk. Not the headcount.

We build the software that does a temp desk's office work — timesheets chased and checked, documents collected, workers confirmed before first shift. So taking more orders stops meaning hiring more admin. Built once. Yours forever.

Fixed price — published below You own it — source code included No monthly software fee
Apex Agent Systems Ltd · registered in England & Wales, no. 17410168 15-minute replies in working hours — in the contract England temp & contract desks only
What we do

Five jobs your team does by hand. We build the system that does them.

Never all five at once — only what pays for itself inside twelve months on your numbers.

Timesheets & payroll prep

Collected, checked, assembled for the pay run — never keyed twice.

Worker onboarding & right-to-work

Documents chased and filed with a proper audit trail, not lost in a mailbox.

Compliance & expiry tracking

Licences, tickets, insurance — expiry dates that chase themselves.

Availability & shift confirmation

No-shows surfaced before first shift, not after the client calls.

Order intake & redeployment

A client order becomes a record and a shortlist, not a Post-it.

Why it matters

Every one of these grows with worker count. Do them by hand and your headcount has to grow too. Do them by system and it doesn't.

The numbers, with receipts

Every figure on this page carries its source.

17.7 hrsof admin behind every vacancy a UK recruiter fillsTotaljobs / Stepstone · 748 HR leaders · 2025
£17,000lost per recruiter, per year, to that adminTotaljobs / Stepstone · same study
15%employer National Insurance since April 2025 — every admin hire costs more nowHM Treasury, Autumn Budget 2024 · gov.uk
2031how long that higher cost is locked in for — not a spike you can wait outAutumn Budget 2025 · gov.uk
£12.71minimum wage from April 2026. When pay can't drop, admin per worker is the only cost left to cutLow Pay Commission / gov.uk · 21-and-over rate
12 wksuntil agency workers gain equal-treatment rights — your records have to survive that clockAgency Workers Regulations 2010
The 30-second sum

What is the paperwork costing you now?

Why buy a system? Because doing this work by hand costs more than most desks realise. Slide three numbers you already know — nothing is sent anywhere.

Everyone on assignment, all branches.
240 workers
Timesheets, checking, keying, chasing, queries. Honest desks land between 6 and 14.
9 minutes
Salary + employer NI + pension. £28,000 pay ≈ £33,000 all in.
£33,000
Time spent on paperwork, every week
36.0 hours
That's this much of a full-time person96%
Cost per year£31,680
Over three years, unchanged£95,040
Our mid-range build (£11,500) pays back in4.4 months

Workers × minutes × 52 weeks, at the wage you set. Your sum — check any line of it.

See it run

A Monday morning, handled before the kettle's boiled.

The pile

Every weekend timesheet, gathered into one place.

Read & matched

Hours matched to worker, site and rate. Odd ones flagged.

The chase

Missing sheets chased automatically. Your team calls only the silent ones.

Payroll pack

Checked hours, ready for a human sign-off. Nothing pays out on its own.

The receipt

What it did, what it flagged, the minutes it took. In writing, weekly.

We build you a working demonstration of this — on your workflow, before you pay anything. Always labelled a demonstration, always invented data.

The honest comparison

When the paperwork outgrows the team, you have two options.

Option one — the usual answerHire another administrator~£33,000 every year
  • Year one£28,000 salary + £3,450 employer NI + pension — before desk, phone and training.
  • Every year afterThe same again, rising. The NI stays high until at least 2031.
  • Sick or on holidayThe work stops, or lands back on someone else.
  • Win a new siteThe pile grows — eventually, so does headcount.
  • If business slowsNotice periods and redundancy. The cost stays through quiet months.
Option two — what we buildA system that does the same work£8,000–£15,000 once
  • Year oneFixed price, in writing, paid in stages. No NI, no pension, no recruitment fee.
  • Every year afterNothing — or optional care from £900/month. Cancel on 60 days' notice.
  • Sick daysNone. Anything unusual still goes to your named person.
  • Win a new siteThe same system stretches. The paperwork stops growing with worker count.
  • If you leave usYou own it all — source code included. It keeps running.

The calculator above prices the payback on your desk, not an invented one. Under ~220 workers a week? Then neither option is worth it yet — and we'll say so.

Prices — published and fixed

Four steps. Stop after any of them.

Step 1 · Start here

Desk Snapshot

£250
fully credited against an audit within 60 days

Twenty minutes on your numbers, together. Every leak ranked by weekly cost.

Same week
Step 2

Leak Audit

£1,500
£750 off a build within 60 days

Five days beside the people doing the work, timing it. Every fix ranked by payback — and what not to build.

5 working days
Step 3

The Build

£8,000–£15,000
paid in stages — never one payment

Fixed price, agreed first. Working system, walkthrough video, plain guide, source code — yours. 30 days of free fixes.

4–6 weeks
Step 4 · Optional

Care

£900–£2,000/mo
rolling · cancel on 60 days' notice

We watch it, fix it, improve it — and send a monthly note that includes what didn't work.

Rolling

The middle of the build range costs less than five months of one administrator — with no NI, no notice period, nothing to make redundant.

In writing, before you pay

Six promises. Ask anyone else for the same list.

Demonstration first

You see it working on your workflow before you spend a pound.

Fixed price

If it takes longer than we said, that's our cost — not an extra invoice.

You own everything

Source code, guide, handover. It runs without us.

Nothing switches off early

Old way and new way run side by side until you sign off.

Humans handle exceptions

Anything odd goes to a named person — never guessed at.

15-minute replies

Working hours, every message. It's in the contract.

Where we draw the line

Four things we refuse — before you ask.

Desks under ~220 workers a week

The maths doesn't work at our prices. We'll tell you not to buy.

Payroll on a first job

It touches wages. It's earned on job two, after job one runs clean.

Worker-facing systems with nobody behind them

Guessing machines are how agencies end up at tribunals.

Switching anything off without a parallel run

You sign off the comparison, or the old way keeps running.

Straight talk

We're new. We're not pretending otherwise.

Apex Agent Systems Ltd is a new company with no clients in temp recruitment yet. You'd be the first. So: no borrowed case studies, no invented "£40,000 of value" claims.

Instead, we show you the arithmetic on your own desk — including the case for doing nothing — before you spend anything. Everything here that looks like a working system is a demonstration build, labelled as one.

That's why the first paid step is £250, prices are published, and the risk of overruns is ours. If being first doesn't sit right, say so on the first email — that's a fair position.

— Apex Agents

Do we have to change our software?

No. We build around what you already use. The system does the moving between your tools — that's the part eating the hours.

Who owns it if we part ways?

You do. Source code, documentation, everything. It keeps running without us.

What if we're under 220 workers?

Then don't buy a build — we mean it. The £250 snapshot will tell you what to fix yourself and when to come back.

The first step is free

Send two numbers. Get your arithmetic back.

No charge. No call. No sign-up. One email:

  1. How many workers you run in an average week
  2. Who does the timesheets, and roughly how long it takes

We reply with the sum from this page done properly on your desk — and tell you plainly if a build isn't worth your money yet.

info@apexagentsystems.co

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