We help growing businesses get paid for work they have already done.
Most small and mid sized service businesses do not have a sales problem. They have cash stuck between an approved proposal and a payment in the bank. We find it, and fix the process that traps it.
Late payment rarely looks like a crisis. It looks like normal work.
- scheduleAn invoice goes out a week after the work was approved
- scheduleSomeone checks the aging report by hand every Friday
- scheduleA customer question sits in an inbox while the invoice ages
- scheduleFollow up depends on who happens to manage the account
- schedulePayments arrive but take days to match in the books
Each one feels small. Together, they keep your cash outside your business.
Small delays add up to a lot of cash.
Every day between finishing the work and getting paid, your money sits with someone else. You still pay staff, rent and suppliers on time.
Most businesses never add these days up. When they do, the number is usually bigger than they expected.
| Delay before cash arrives | Cash tied up at any time |
|---|---|
| 3 days late to invoice | $20,000 |
| 7 days late to invoice | $46,700 |
| 7 days late, plus 10 days of slow follow up | $113,300 |
Illustrative arithmetic on a 30 day month: monthly billing ÷ 30 × days of delay. Your numbers will differ.
This is not a small business quirk. It is widespread and expensive.
Late payments cost the UK economy almost £11 billion a year. About 14,000 businesses close each year because of them, around 38 every day.
UK Department for Business and Trade and Office of the Small Business Commissioner, July 2025
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Businesses hit by late payment spend on average 86 hours of staff time a year chasing it, and are owed about £17,000 each at any given time.
UK Department for Business and Trade and Office of the Small Business Commissioner, July 2025
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More than half of US employer firms cite uneven cash flows as a financial challenge, and 56% cite paying operating expenses.
Federal Reserve Banks, Small Business Credit Survey, 2025 Report on Employer Firms
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Each year across Europe, thousands of small and medium sized businesses go bankrupt waiting for their invoices to be paid.
European Commission, Late payment
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We start with your process, not a product.
- 01
Find the delays
We map how work moves from approval to payment and show you where cash waits.
- 02
Fix the process
We automate the routine steps and set clear ownership for the rest.
- 03
Keep it running
Your team handles only the exceptions. We can support the rest.
Two ways we help.
Proposal-to-Cash
Invoices go out when the work is approved. Follow up happens on time, every time. Exceptions reach a person before they become late payments.
Explore Proposal-to-Cash arrow_forwardAccounting Operations
Bookkeeping, reconciliations, month end close and reporting, so the numbers are current and payments are matched without cleanup.
Explore Accounting Operations arrow_forwardBuilt for businesses that bill after the work is agreed.
If you send proposals, bill on milestones or run recurring contracts, the same gaps tend to appear.
Built on years of enterprise finance systems experience.
Airan was founded by Himanshu Gupta, whose background spans enterprise technology, finance systems, business operations and large scale transformation programmes.
That experience shapes one simple rule: understand the process properly before changing anything. If there is no real problem to solve, we will tell you.
How much cash is waiting in your process?
Show us how work moves from approval to payment today. We will show you where the delays are.