Compliance
File it, check it, and be able to prove it.
Compliance is where a practice-management tool usually stops and a stack of separate subscriptions begins — one for AML, one for company secretarial, and HMRC in a browser tab. The Link connects to HMRC and Companies House directly, runs identity checks from the client record, and timestamps every filing and every check as it happens, so a regulatory question is a report rather than an afternoon.
What it does
HMRC digital submissions
VAT under Making Tax Digital, Income Tax Self Assessment, Corporation Tax, CIS and SA302s, plus agent authorisation status tracked per client and per individual. Submissions carry the fraud-prevention headers HMRC requires, and the connection is monitored rather than assumed.
Companies House, four ways
Public data lookups that keep client records current, confirmation statements and statutory filings through the XML Gateway, the REST filing API, and identity verification. Officer details are verified and corrected before a filing goes, not after it bounces.
AML and identity verification
Run a CreditSafe identity check straight from the client record. Results come back in seconds with a risk assessment, match confidence and a downloadable AML certificate — no separate console, no re-keying the client's details into somebody else's form.
Government ID extractionAI
Passports and driving licences are read automatically, including MRZ check-digit validation, so a document that has been altered does not quietly pass a visual check.
Professional clearance
A dedicated workflow for taking on a client from another firm: clearance requests sent and tracked, outstanding items listed, response status visible. The handover stops being a chain of emails nobody owns.
Risk register and renewal cadence
Client risk ratings with a review cadence that comes round on its own, so a low-risk assessment from three years ago does not sit there being treated as current.
Compliance audit trail
Every filing, every check, every submission — timestamped, attributed and logged. Pull a compliance report in seconds for an internal review or a regulatory inspection, rather than reconstructing it from folders.
Capabilities marked AI are part of the AI that ships inside The Link — not a roadmap, and not a separate product.
Two categories of subscription, gone
Connected to
Every one of these is wired, with token storage, error handling and — where the provider needs it — a refresh job that keeps the connection alive.
- HMRC MTD
- HMRC XML Gateway
- Companies House Public Data API
- Companies House XML Gateway
- Companies House REST Filing API
- Companies House IDV
- Creditsafe
The rest of the platform
Practice management
Jobs, stages, owners, capacity and time — the spine the rest of the firm hangs off.
Communications
Email, calls, meetings, internal chat and campaigns — all attached to the client they belong to.
Bookkeeping
Bank statements, receipts and supplier documents read by AI and pushed to the ledger — without a separate auto-entry licence.
Proposals & engagement
Scoped proposals, engagement letters and e-signature — signed, countersigned and filed without leaving the platform.
Billing & credit control
Direct Debit, recurring fees, payment links and a chase ladder that runs without anyone remembering to.
Reporting & intelligence
Thirty named reports, a pivot builder, and an AI you can ask questions of in plain English.
Client experience
What your clients actually touch — the portal, the app, and every page they land on to approve, sign or send you something.
See compliance against your own firm.
Thirty minutes, screen shared, your work on the table. Or answer six questions and get a deck built around what you said matters.