Built inside a working accounting practice.
Maddiq is not software designed by people guessing what accountants need. It is built by a practising accountant and used every day on a real firm’s real clients. When something is awkward, slow or wrong, we find out the same week, because it is our own deadline too.
Why it exists
A typical UK practice runs on five systems: one for the pipeline, one for letters and signatures, one for the books, one for payroll and another for the returns. The same client is typed in again and again, and the chasing happens by memory and sticky note.
Maddiq puts the whole life of a client in one place, from the first enquiry to the filed return: the quote, the engagement letter and terms, the identity checks, the books, the VAT, the accounts and the corporation tax, all sharing the same client and the same figures.
How it is built
Four rules that decide how every feature is made.
Checked against HMRC’s own answers
Payroll is tested against HMRC’s published test cases. The fingerprint method behind every corporation tax submission reproduces HMRC’s own example exactly. Every VAT return is compared with the VAT account before it goes, and any difference is shown to the penny.
Every figure has one home
A client’s VAT registration, a firm’s prices, the rules a contract must meet: each lives in one place, so a change cannot leave another screen quietly out of date.
It says what it cannot do yet
Where something is still waiting on HMRC, or still being built, Maddiq and this website say so. You should never discover a gap at a deadline.
Your judgement stays yours
Maddiq drafts, checks, reminds and prepares. You approve what is filed and what is signed, and automatic emails only go once you switch them on. Nothing is filed or signed in your name without you.
An assistant, not a replacement
Nicai, Maddiq’s assistant, takes on the work that fills a practice’s day without needing a qualification: drafting quotes from your own prices, chasing unsigned letters and missing documents, spotting the lead that has gone quiet and the deadline that is close.
That leaves the part only you can do: the advice, the relationships and the judgement calls. It is how a modern practice can offer fixed, fair fees and still have time to think.
Built for people with accessibility needs
Accounting software is read for hours at a time, and for many people small grey text and cramped screens are a real barrier. Maddiq is built for people with accessibility needs from the start, not adapted for them afterwards: strong contrast, clear type, layouts that hold together when you zoom in, and meaning that is not left to colour alone.
We are working towards voice next, so you can ask Nicai a question out loud and hear her answer.
Who is behind it
Maddiq is built by Clayton Maddock, a practising accountant, member of the Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers, and founder of Maddock & Co. UK Ltd. His own firm runs on Maddiq, so it is shaped by a real practice’s month ends, deadlines and clients.
Where it is going
Next come direct corporation tax filing with HMRC, access controls for firms with several branches, and groups of companies, including international ones, running their clients and their accounts across every company they own. The aim, over the coming years, is one connected system for UK accounting, and then beyond it.
See it for yourself
Maddiq is free while we are in early access, and we would like to hear what your practice needs.
Maddiq Ltd is registered in England and Wales, company number 17437923.