kempt /kɛmpt/ adjective — neat, tidy; in good order. Exactly how your books will be at the end of the year.

Books in good order. All year.

Kempt is accounting for freelancers and one-person companies. It keeps the tax set aside as you earn, tells you what's actually safe to take out, and shows where every pound went — so year-end is a formality, not a fright.

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Free while we're new. No card, no tiers, no nonsense. Privacy

Tax, set aside as you earn

No January surprise.

Every time an invoice is paid, Kempt quietly marks the taxman's slice as spoken for. The bill builds in plain sight, all year — so when it arrives, the money is already there.

Income · FY 26/27 try it — mark one paid
MeThree
KMP-2026-0014 · £1,960.00
paid
Castle & Co
KMP-2026-0015 · £840.00
paid
Fern Studio
KMP-2026-0016 · £2,400.00
paid
Set aside for tax £2,944.59

One honest number

Know what's actually yours.

Your bank balance isn't your money — some of it is spoken for. Kempt does the subtraction you do on the back of an envelope, continuously: cash, minus tax set aside, equals what you can take out today without wincing later.

Safe to withdraw
Cash in bank£8,420.00
Set aside for tax−£2,944.59
Yours, today£5,475.41
Updates with every invoice, expense and import. No spreadsheet, no guessing.

The money map

See where it all went.

A year of invoices, expenses, salary and dividends — folded into one picture. Every pound in, accounted for; nothing vague, nothing missing. That's what kempt means.

FY 25/26 · where the money went
Invoiced£46,250
Kept in the business£21,17046%
Set aside for tax£9,56020%
Salary£9,10020%
Costs£6,42014%

Not a finance suite.

No 400 features you'll never open, no chart of accounts to memorise. If you've got one company and it's yours, this is the right size.

Speaks English.

"Set aside for tax", not "provision for liabilities". You shouldn't need an accountancy qualification to know how your own business is doing.

Year-end, included.

The numbers arrive at year-end already tidy — accounts, CT600, self assessment — because they were kept kempt all along.

What it costs£0 /month, for now

Kempt is free while we're new. It's a crowded space, and we'd rather earn a reputation than invoice you for one.

There'll be a fair price eventually — and founding users will keep a deal worth having. Until then: use it, lean on it, tell us where it falls short.

Get your books kempt.

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