You don't need another chatbot. You need the admin handled — safely.
A busy solo professional loses hours a week to triage: which emails matter, what's due, who's waiting. Mainstream AI assistants can help — but they're rented SaaS that hold your clients' data, and for regulated work that's a non-starter.
Three things nobody sells you off the shelf
Anyone can access a chatbot. What you can't buy is an assistant that works ahead of you, asks before it acts, and keeps everything on your own machine.
Proactive, not prompted
It wakes up, reads your inbox and calendar, and surfaces the handful of decisions that need you today — before you've thought to ask.
Approval-gated
Every reply, booking or action is drafted and held for your yes. Nothing is sent, spent or deleted without you. Irreversible steps always come to you first.
Private & self-hosted
Runs on infrastructure you control, with your own AI key. Your emails and client data never pool in someone else's platform — the version regulated professionals are actually allowed to use.
How a morning with Avanta goes
From a full inbox to three clear decisions — most of it before your first coffee.
It reads
Avanta scans your inbox and calendar and filters the noise from what matters.
It surfaces
You get the three-or-so things that genuinely need a decision today — not fifty notifications.
It drafts
For each one it prepares the reply or next action, ready to go — on your rules, in your voice.
You approve
One tap sends it. Anything irreversible waits for you. You stay in control of every outcome.
What Avanta handles
Avanta is a private AI chief of staff for busy professionals. Instead of waiting for prompts, it works through your inbox in the background and brings you a short, decided list — with the replies already drafted. Here's what it does day to day.
Triages your inbox
Reads every message and sorts the real work from the noise — client, billing, support, partnership or spam — so you're not the filter.
Flags what needs you
Surfaces the few emails that genuinely need a decision, judged on real signals — a known client, a deadline, an amount — not guesswork.
Drafts your replies
Prepares a ready-to-send reply for each one, in your tone and on your rules — you tap approve or edit, never start from a blank page.
Proposes the next action
Suggests the follow-through — log a new lead, open a ticket, save a contact — and leaves it staged for your yes.
Holds everything for approval
Every send, booking or change is queued for you. Anything irreversible always comes to you first. Nothing happens on its own.
Briefs you each morning
"Three things need you today" — as a quick read or a short audio note you can play in the car. The decisions up front, the detail underneath.
Keeps a watchlist
Tracks the handful of things you're exposed to — a key client, a regulator, an HMRC deadline — and tells you only when something actually moves.
Stays on your device
Self-hosted with your own AI key. Your emails and client data never pool in anyone else's platform — the version regulated work allows.
Yours to own
A one-time licence, not a subscription. Bring your own AI key and pay your provider directly at cost — no per-message fees, no lock-in.
Built for people who can't put client data in a SaaS
Solicitors, accountants, financial advisers and consultants have confidentiality obligations that rule out piping correspondence through a third-party AI service. Avanta is self-hosted with a bring-your-own-key model, so the data stays with you and the AI provider is billed directly at cost — no markup, no lock-in.
Early-access pricing
A one-time licence, not a subscription. Bring your own AI key and pay your provider directly at cost (typically a few pounds a month). Founding customers get set up on their own briefing before committing.
Starter · Self-Install
For technical users happy to self-host.
- Full Avanta licence — you own it
- One-command self-host (Docker)
- Built-in
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Professional · Done-For-You
We set it up on your box, end to end.
- Everything in Starter
- We install & configure it for you
- Connect your Gmail & calendar
- Your daily briefing tuned to you
- 30 days of support
Bespoke
Tailored to your practice.
- Everything in Professional
- One custom integration or workflow
- 90 days of priority support
- Built around your tools
Prices are early-access and in GBP. You pay your AI provider (e.g. Anthropic) directly for usage — Avanta adds no per-message fee. Full breakdown on the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
What is an AI chief of staff?
A proactive assistant that works ahead of you rather than waiting to be asked. Avanta reads your own inbox and calendar, decides what needs your attention today, drafts the replies and next actions, and presents them for you to approve — you make the calls, it handles the legwork.
Is my data private?
Yes. Avanta is self-hosted: it runs on infrastructure you control, using your own AI provider key. Your emails, calendar and client information never pool in someone else's platform — which is exactly why it suits regulated professionals.
Will it send emails or take actions on its own?
No. Every outward or irreversible action is drafted and held for your approval. Nothing is sent, spent or deleted without your explicit yes.
Who is Avanta for?
Busy solo professionals — solicitors, accountants, consultants, financial advisers and other practitioners with a full inbox, no assistant, and confidentiality obligations that rule out mainstream AI SaaS.
How is it priced?
A one-time licence, not a subscription — you own it. Bring your own AI key and pay your provider directly at cost. Starter (self-install) £249, Professional (done-for-you) £595, Bespoke from £1,200. See the pricing page.
Can I try it first?
Avanta is in early access. Join the waitlist and we'll walk you through it on your own briefing before you commit — you see it prove itself first, then decide.
Get your mornings back
Join the early-access waitlist and we'll set Avanta up on your own inbox — privately, on your device — so you can see it work before you commit.
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