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The top 37 problems UK firms are worried about.
Ranked by how many firms flagged each — from AI paralysis at the top to cross-border clients at the tail.
Two-thirds of firms don't know where to start with AI.
The single most-picked problem at the show — and it's the smallest firms feeling most lost, not the biggest.
Hiring one person halves your worry list.
Sole practitioners listed 11.1 worries on average. Firms with 2–10 staff averaged 5.9.
Burnout isn't a long-hours problem.
It travels with month-end (1.92×), not with the longest weeks (1.06×). The cause isn't what most assume.
11–50 staff firms are the most operationally broken.
Too big for the founder to hold it all, too small for real systems — they flag more operational pain than anyone.
6 top worries are fixed by 1 tool: document management.
Chasing records, disconnected stacks, document chaos, slow onboarding — one capability quietly sits under all of them.
A designed report you'll actually want to read.
Six of the top worries. One root cause.
Look closely and a single capability sits under six of the most-flagged problems — where client documents live, and who can find them.
904 answers from 48 UK firms, collected at Accountex London in May 2026. Survey data collected by AutoEvent. Unsubscribe anytime — see our privacy notice.
