Built for Cumbrian businesses

We build systems that give Cumbrian business owners their evenings and weekends back.

You shouldn't have to spend your evenings sorting quotes, emails, and invoices. We build digital systems that take boring, repetitive admin off your plate. Plain English. No tech-bro jargon. So you can get back to the real work that makes money.

TWO DOORS Full build (The Marra Method) or training-only—your choice.

THE SECOND SHIFT

15–18 hours every week lost to the admin grind

Cumbrian business owners are working a hidden "second shift". After the day job — on site, with customers, or in the workshop — they spend their evenings on quoting, invoicing, chasing payments, and wrestling with emails and compliance.

This is a manual overhead that costs the average local business owner over 800 hours a year of personal time. The research is clear: this administrative burden is the real ceiling on growth for businesses across construction, tourism, agriculture and trades in Cumbria.

34
hours / week total admin
11
hours on email alone
5.5
hours quoting & estimating
WEEKLY TIME DRAIN
📋
Quoting & Estimating
Construction & Trades hit hardest
5.5h
💰
Invoicing & Credit Control
4h
📨
Email & Communications
11h
📊
Data Entry & Compliance
11h
Research: Cumbrian Business Productivity Report 2026
Full sources

This is the hidden cost keeping Cumbrian businesses from growing. The Marra Method was built specifically to eliminate it.

See how we fix the grind

THE MARRA METHOD

We do not just sell software

We take the chaos out of your business and turn it into a practical system that actually works for you. Using the Marra Method, we follow three steps in strict order:

1. Docs — turn your tribal knowledge into a clear written rulebook
2. Data — create one clean, searchable home for all your information
3. Marras — build custom automations that handle repetitive tasks

We do them in this exact order. Skip the first two and you’ll just speed up the mess.

1

Getting it out of your head

PHASE 1 · THE RULEBOOK

If you want a holiday and the business cannot run without you, the standards still live in your head. We pull that knowledge into a clear, written rulebook—how jobs really flow from enquiry to paid.

2

Sorting the mess

PHASE 2 · ONE SOURCE OF TRUTH

No more notebook, email, and text message just to build one quote. We replace filing-cabinet sprawl with one clean, searchable place where customer details, prices, and history actually line up.

3

Automated admin

PHASE 3 · THE DIGITAL GRAVEYARD SHIFT

When the rulebook and the data are right, we plug in help that runs while you are off the tools: read the enquiry, draft the quote, nudge late payers—with you still in charge at the edges.

AI TRAINING · SEPARATE TRACK

Not ready for a full rebuild? Let’s talk about AI.

You keep hearing “AI” in the news, but it sounds like jargon that does not apply to a real local business. Training is for owners who want plain-English demystifying—not a mandate to buy a big build.

We run straightforward sessions for you and your team: how it actually works, how other Cumbrian firms are using it, and sensible first steps you can try without turning your week upside down.

  • Demystifying the “word calculator”—on your terms
  • Real local context, not Silicon Valley hype
  • Workshops and one-to-one coaching options
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“We speak your language.”

I am a Workington lad, a systems thinker, and an AI developer. I did not learn this in a boardroom abroad—I learned it stripping down nuclear compliance processes and fixing local bottlenecks. We build tech that feels like an ally, not something you fight every Monday.

— Kris, Marra AI

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Ready to stop living out of filing cabinets?

Whether you want a serious operational reset or a cup of tea and an honest chat about how AI fits a firm like yours, start with a conversation.

Contact Marra AI

Based in Workington · Serving all of Cumbria