Your follow-ups go out. Your meetings are prepped. Your clients hear your voice. Even when your focus is elsewhere.
Orca is an AI orchestration app, configured around how you work, who you know, and how you communicate. It conducts the tools you already have, so they finally work together. Not a tool you learn, a role you hand over. It does the job of the junior team member you would hire if you could find, afford, train, and keep one.
Why Orca? The clue is in the name. Orca orchestrates your calendar, inbox, transcripts, CRM, and research into a single workflow. It conducts the tools you already have, so they finally work together.
It is not a tool you learn, it is a role you hand over. Orca does the job of the junior team member you would hire if you could find, afford, train, and keep one. It is the work that should be delegated, done by something you can actually delegate to.
You run a business. You also run your own diary, your own follow-ups, your own meeting prep, and your own inbox. You have tried the AI tools. They do not know your clients, your voice, or your priorities. You do not have time to teach them.
Orca is different. Someone who understands the technology and your world builds it around you. From day one, it knows who you are meeting, what matters, and how you communicate.
This is what Monday morning looks like without Orca.
07:00
Scanning inbox47 emails overnight. Which ones matter? No idea without opening each one.
07:30
Prepping for the 09:30Who was in the last meeting? What did you promise Sarah? Digging through sent items, calendar notes, old threads.
08:15
Writing a follow-upYou know what you want to say but the context is scattered across three apps.
08:45
The missed replyFour days since a client asked about contract amendments. The relationship cost of that silence is real.
09:00
No briefing notesFour back-to-back meetings. Walking in cold to every one.
2.5 hoursof admin before the first meeting starts
Not because you are disorganised. Because nobody is doing the operational layer for you.
When did you stop noticing?
It’s always quicker to just do it yourself… right?!
What changes on day one
Meeting Prep
11:00
Dave Harrington
Meridian Partners
New Business
Meeting Brief
First meeting. 30-person consultancy in Bristol. Connected via James at WCE dinner in November. Exploring managed AI for their ops team.
Connection
Warm intro from James Whitfield. Dave mentioned capacity challenges on LinkedIn last month.
Recent Activity
Meridian won a Home Office contract in January. Hiring across three roles. Company turnover £4.2m.
Suggested Approach
Congratulate on the Home Office win. Ask about onboarding pressure from new hires. Position Orca as operational capacity, not another tool.
Follow-up
Meeting analysedFollow-up draft ready for review
Follow-up Ready
To: Dave HarringtonThreaded · Tone-matched
Re: Great to meet today
Dave,
Good to meet you this morning. Congratulations again on the Home Office contract, that is a significant win for the team.
As discussed, I have put together a short brief on how Orca handles the meeting prep and follow-up workflow. I think the onboarding pressure you mentioned is exactly where this adds the most value.
Happy to set up a short demo next week if useful. James mentioned you are usually free Thursday afternoons.
Best,
Chris
Every Orca installation includes a one-time setup cost tailored to your business. Core features are included as standard. Bespoke features require custom configuration and are priced based on scope and complexity.
CoreIncluded with every installation
Communications
Email send, reply, forward, and draft
Teams channel posts and direct messages
Draft approval queue
Email templates with placeholders
Calendar
View, create, update, and delete events
Multi-account support
Meeting prep briefs
Contacts
Contact search and profiles
Person dossiers with relationship history
Fact tracking and interaction timeline
Tasks
Work items with priority and status
Follow-up and chase tracking
Meeting prep task generation
Intelligence
Daily briefing
Global search across all data
Output browser (prep, follow-ups, proposals)
Input
Conversational AI assistant
Voice input
Image attachments
Integrations
Microsoft 365 (mail, calendar, Teams)
Fireflies meeting transcription
Command palette and keyboard shortcuts
Orca Web App (browser dashboard)
Utilities
Weather and transport
News headlines and RSS feeds
Financial data and currency conversion
BespokeBespoke features for your operation, priced on application
Social Media
AI-drafted news posts from RSS feeds
Comment reply queue with AI drafts
Engagement discovery and analytics
Research Intelligence
Policy watch and regulatory monitoring
Competitor monitoring
Grant radar with deadline tracking
Company and person dossiers
Opportunity Scanner
Signal scoring by region and sector
Quality threshold filtering
Leadership change and expansion alerts
Outreach
Sales pipeline with status tracking
Email sequences and campaign management
Regional analytics and conversion tracking
Podcast Outreach
Podcast guest booking pipeline
Pitch sequences and reply management
Board Pack Generator
Monthly board packs from live data
Pipeline, metrics, and intelligence sections
Energy and Review
Battery-style time allocation per business
Deep work and travel tracking
Six-step weekly review workflow
Automation
15+ configurable background jobs
Scheduler health dashboard
Email autopilot with smart triage
Scheduling autopilot with meeting prep
Push notifications (Pushover)
WhatsApp inbound/outbound channel
Advanced
Multi-tenant Microsoft 365 support
Semantic memory with vector embeddings
Browser automation and LinkedIn posting
Chrome extension for page capture
What three hours a day is actually worth
£0recovered capacity per month
Effective hourly rate£150–£250
Time saved daily2.5–3.5 hours
Working days per month20
Orca costs£350/month
But the real value is not the arithmetic.
The follow-up that went out 20 minutes after the meeting instead of four days later. The meeting where you walked in knowing their company just won a contract and could congratulate them before talking business. The client who felt heard because your email referenced exactly what they asked for, in the tone they are used to from you.
That is not three hours of admin recovered. That is relationships maintained, reputation protected, and revenue retained.
What would you do with an extra afternoon every day?
Not more admin. Not more meetings. The thinking time you used to have before your business outgrew your capacity to run it alone.
Three steps. Then it runs.
1
Discovery Call
20 minutes
We talk about how you work: your calendar, your communication style, your key relationships, your priorities. Four quick questions when you book. Then just a conversation.
2
Build and Configure
One week
Chris builds your Orca instance: voice calibration, contact intelligence, integration with your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, business context, and prompt engineering. You do nothing during this stage.
3
It Runs
From day one
Orca preps your meetings, drafts your follow-ups, triages your inbox, and manages your tasks. It gets better every week as it learns more about your world. If anything needs attention, it comes directly to Chris.
Built for one type of person
CEO, founder, or managing director of a 5-to-50 person professional services firm. You run a relationship-driven business. You have 15 to 30 external meetings a month. You are digitally comfortable but time-poor. You understand what AI can do in principle but do not have time to configure and maintain it yourself.
If you are already spending Sunday evenings prepping for Monday's meetings, or if you have missed a follow-up that cost you a relationship, Orca exists for you.
You need a good junior. You cannot find one, cannot justify one, or cannot face training another.
Self-serve AI tools optimise for scale. They need to work acceptably for millions of users, which means they work brilliantly for nobody. Orca is orchestration optimised for one person at a time. Someone builds the orchestration around you, maintains it for you, and owns the outcome.
Why I built it
I run a consultancy. I have 25 to 30 external meetings a month, a team to manage, and clients who expect me to remember what we discussed three weeks ago.
I was spending two to three hours every morning on the same thing: scanning my inbox, prepping for meetings, writing follow-ups, and trying to remember what I had promised to whom. The AI tools existed but none of them knew my clients, my voice, or my priorities. I did not have time to teach them.
So I built something for myself. I connected my calendar, my email, and my meeting transcripts to a system that understands how I work. It drafts follow-ups in my voice. It briefs me before every meeting with context I would have spent 20 minutes finding manually. It triages my inbox and creates tasks from emails that need action.
The follow-ups that used to take me an hour each morning now go out before I have finished my coffee. The meetings I used to walk into cold, I now walk into knowing exactly what was discussed last time, what I promised, and what has changed in their business since.
I built Orca for myself first. Then other founders started asking for it. Now I build and maintain it for them too.
Chris SimmanceFounder, Orca
3+ hoursrecovered daily
25+meetings prepped automatically each month
Same-dayevery follow-up sent
Your data stays yours
Orca processes your emails, calendar, and meeting transcripts to do its job. Here is exactly what happens with that data:
Your data is stored in a dedicated, isolated database
Never used to train AI models
Never shared with other clients
Full export available at any time
Data Protection Impact Assessment completed (ICO guidance)
Data Processing Agreement provided before onboarding
If you have questions about how your data is handled, you speak directly to the person who built the system. Not a chatbot. Not a support ticket.
Twenty minutes. That is all it takes to see whether Orca is right for you.
No sales pitch. No obligation. Just a conversation about how you work and whether Orca can help.
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Real numbers from inside the work, not headline guesses.
Board prep call with Sarah ChenShe last raised Q2 pipeline concerns. You agreed to share revised forecast.
Prep ready
11:00
Dave Harrington — Meridian PartnersFirst meeting. 30-person consultancy, Bristol. Intro via James at WCE dinner.
New business
14:00
Monthly catch-up with NigelLast month discussed staffing timeline. No outstanding actions.
Recurring
Overdue: Bob Chen’s contract amendment query — 4 days without reply. Draft response ready.
Follow-ups Due
Rachel Hughes — Friday call follow-upDraft ready. Covers partnership proposal and next steps.
Send
Social Media
News Drafts 3
Comments 2
Engage 5
DfE announces new careers funding for 2026Commentary on policy shift · LinkedIn
Ready
Blog reshare: Why simulation beats textbooksWordPress content · LinkedIn + X
Review
Reply to James Whitfield’s commentOn your AI in education post · 2h ago
Reply
Research Intelligence12 new signals
Harris Federation expanding to 6 new academies in South East
92
Multi-academy trust growth signal. 14,000+ students across portfolio. Active procurement cycle.
Source: GIAS · Companies House · 2 days ago
Education Committee inquiry: skills provision in secondary schools
87
Written submissions deadline 14 March. Directly relevant to ES positioning.
Source: Parliament · Policy alert · 5 days ago
Gatsby Foundation announces new benchmark review for 2026/27
74
May impact careers provision requirements. Worth tracking for product alignment.
Source: Gatsby Foundation · Grant radar · 1 week ago
DH
Dave Harrington
CEO, Meridian Partners
Company
Meridian Partners Ltd
Turnover
£4.2m (2025)
Employees
30 (active hiring)
Recent
Won Home Office contract
Opportunity Scanner
Top Signals This Week
0New
0High
1
Harris Federation — South East expansion
MAT GrowthLondon & SE
95
2
Ark Schools — Careers lead recruitment
LeadershipNational
88
3
Outwood Grange — DfE grant recipient
GrantYorkshire
76
4
Dixons Academies — New CEO appointment
LeadershipWest Midlands
71
Energy Monitor
Week of 24 February 2026
Enterprise Skills
45%
OMG Center
32%
Advisory
23%
0Deep work hours
0Travel hours
0Meetings
Within target allocation
Board PackDraft
February 2026
Last updated: today
✓
Pipeline Summary
✓
Revenue Metrics
●
Market Intelligence
●
Product Update
!
Risk Register
●
Actions & Decisions
Pipeline Summary
Complete
Pipeline value stands at £142k across 18 active opportunities, up from £118k last month. Three opportunities moved to proposal stage this month: Harris Federation (£28k), Ark Schools (£18k), and Outwood Grange (£12k).
Conversion rate from discovery to proposal improved to 34% (from 28% in January). Average deal cycle remains at 6.2 weeks.
Two opportunities at risk: Dixons Academies (budget freeze) and Star Academies (procurement delay). Both flagged for board discussion.
ClickUp pipelineSupabase metricsResearch intel
Weekly Review
EnergyIntelCalendarPipelineSignalsStatus
This Week’s Calendar — 22 meetings
Mon 09:30 — Board prep call with Sarah Chen Prepped
Mon 11:00 — Dave Harrington, Meridian Partners Prepped
Tue 10:00 — Quarterly review with Ark Schools Needs prep
Wed 14:00 — Internal ops review No prep
+ 18 more meetings this week
Quick Actions
Daily briefing
⌘1
Who needs chasing
⌘2
Pipeline status
⌘3
Intelligence
Research intelligence feed
Board pack view
Time split this week
Contact Dossier
DH
Dave Harrington
CEO, Meridian Partners · Bristol
New business
Professional Facts
CompanyMeridian Partners Ltd
Turnover£4.2m (2025)
Headcount30 (hiring)
Connected viaJames Whitfield, WCE dinner
Activity Timeline
Today
Meeting at 11:00 — first discovery call
Prep ready. Suggested approach: congratulate Home Office win.
19 Feb
LinkedIn post about capacity challenges
Mentioned struggling with onboarding new hires.
12 Nov
Introduced by James Whitfield at WCE dinner
Brief conversation about AI in professional services.
Pending Drafts
5drafts ready for review
Follow-up: Dave HarringtonRe: Great to meet today · Tone-matched · Threaded
Reply: Bob Chen contract amendmentPriority response · 4 days overdue
Calendar invite: Mary Sullivan reviewThree available slots suggested · Thursday PM
Task: Send revised forecast to SarahCreated from board prep call · Due Friday
Teams message: Nigel — staffing updateMonthly check-in summary · Formatted