About
Built by someone who
owned the numbers.
Wevo comes from 25 years inside financial services and the public sector - and from watching, again and again, what finance teams have had to put up with from their reporting tools.
Why it had to be built
General Ledger systems store transactions as flat rows. Finance teams think in structures - divisions, cost centres, account groups, and the person accountable for each. For decades the tools bridging that gap were slow, batch-bound and dependent on IT for every change, and they were poor at the one question that actually matters: what is behind this number?
Wevo is a purpose-built management reporting layer over the General Ledger you already run. Not a dashboard layer over an existing tool, and not a BI platform configured to look like GL reporting. It was designed around how ledger data really behaves, how management reporting follows lines of responsibility, and how finance teams actually need to interrogate their own figures.
"Wevo is not a wrapper around another product. It is a fresh design, informed by 25 years of seeing what finance teams need - and what they have had to accept as normal for far too long."
The idea has deep roots. An earlier version ran on the mainframe and was bought by two of Scotland's largest banks. Wevo takes that hard-won ground and rebuilds it as a modern platform that runs on one ordinary server.
Who builds it
Alan Webster
Founder · Professional Software Ltd
I spent 25 years as a senior technical business analyst inside financial services and the public sector - tier-1 banking, government and logistics - most of it on management reporting and cost and profit centre analytics. I was usually the person sitting between a finance team and whatever their reporting system would not do.
Wevo is the product I kept wishing existed. An earlier generation of the idea ran on the mainframe and was bought by two of Scotland's largest banks. This is that ground rebuilt for the systems finance teams actually run today.
You will deal with me directly - through the demo, the proof of concept and the implementation itself. That fairly raises the question of what happens if I am not here, so it is worth saying plainly: the full source code ships with the product under a Continuity Licence, so nothing you build on depends on me.
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Principles
Three decisions that
shaped the product
Current data is the default
Not an option added later. The architecture assumes the figures are current - there is no overnight batch sitting between the ledger and the report, because there was never meant to be one.
Finance owns the structure
Restructuring is something your team does, not something it requests. A reorganisation or a chart of accounts change is handled by updating the structure - no ticket, no consultant, no project.
The numbers are provably right
Every calculation lives in the data layer where your own team can inspect it, and an automated test suite covers hundreds of scenarios. Nothing is hidden in a black box.