AI customer experience layer · for service operators

Handle 70% of customer admin without lifting a phone.

An AI agent and branded portal that sits on top of the systems you already run. Customers get instant answers, document access, and live status. Your team gets back the hours they currently spend explaining and chasing.

Live in 30 days Works with your stack No platform lock-in
Service AI · live ↓ 0.4s avg · 12 sources
Sarah · The Old MillWhen was the last fire alarm test, and is the cert in date?
AService AILast tested 14 Feb 2026 by Tom Reilly. Certificate is valid until 14 May 2026. Pulled from your Drive — link in your portal.
Sarah · The Old MillCan we move next month's deep clean to a Monday?
Action queuedTwo Mondays available — 11 May or 18 May. Confirm and I'll update the schedule and notify Tom's team.
Reading from monday.com Drive Xero SOPs
Why it's different

Not another field-service tool you bend to fit.

Most service software wants to replace your stack and own your data. Client Portal layers on top of what you already run — and the AI does the work that admin staff used to.

Generic FSM tools

Joblogic, Commusoft, BigChange

  • Replaces your stack — migrate or lose data
  • Per-user pricing punishes growth
  • AI bolted on top of legacy code
  • Generic portal you brand around the edges
  • Works as configured, not how you run
Client Portal

AI-native, integration-first

  • Sits on top of monday, Drive, Xero, your tools
  • Flat monthly fee — scale without penalty
  • AI agent at the core, not retrofitted
  • Built around your service, not a template
  • Mutherboard delivers and runs it for you
The cost of doing nothing

You hired ops people. They became customer support.

14h

Lost per ops person, per week

Answering "where's my job?", "can I have that cert again?", and "when's the next visit?" — questions the system already knows the answer to.

3-in-5

Larger contracts now demand a portal

RFPs from facilities managers, public sector, and corporates increasingly require client-facing visibility. No portal, no shortlist.

£50k+

Revenue lost to admin churn

The smaller clients who churned because the service felt unprofessional. The bigger ones who never bought because you couldn't show them what was happening.

How it works

An AI layer that knows your business.

Three components working together. The AI agent does the talking. The integration layer keeps it honest. The portal is the surface customers see.

01

AI agent at the core

Trained on your jobs, contracts, SOPs, and historical records. Answers in your voice. Cites the document or job it pulled from. Escalates when it should — never invents.

02

Integration that respects your stack

Reads from monday.com, Drive, SharePoint, Xero, Sage, your CRM, your job tools. No migration. No replacement. The systems running your business stay running your business.

03

The branded portal

The surface customers see. White-labelled, mobile-first. They report jobs, track status, find documents, sign off work — and chat with the AI when they have a question.

What's inside

The boring admin work, automated.

AI agent

Answers customer questions before your team sees them.

Trained on every job, document, SOP, and contract you've ever produced. Handles the routine asks instantly. Knows when it shouldn't.

  • Reads your full document history, not a generic FAQ
  • Triages new requests to the right team or queue
  • Schedules, reschedules, and updates with one approval
  • Always cites the source — auditable, not hallucinated
Customer questions answered without a human
71%
Average response time
0.4s
Admin hours saved per week
14h
Escalation accuracy
96%
Integration layer

Works with what you already run. Won't replace it.

The reason most field-service tools fail is that they ask you to abandon your stack. Client Portal connects to it instead — your jobs, docs, finance, calendars, comms, all in one consistent customer experience.

  • monday.com, Asana, ClickUp, ProjectWorks
  • Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent
  • Drive, SharePoint, Dropbox, Notion
  • Slack, Teams, WhatsApp Business, email
Client PortalAI layer
monday.com
Drive
Xero
Slack
SharePoint
WhatsApp
Branded portal

The customer surface. Your brand, not ours.

White-labelled, mobile-first. Customers report jobs, track status, find every cert and contract, and sign off completed work. The portal is the visible part — the AI and integration are doing the work behind it.

  • Branded with your logo, colours, and domain
  • Mobile-first — customers access on the go
  • Document hub auto-organised by job, site, date
  • Permissions per customer, per site, per role
acme-fm.clientportal.app
Good morning, Sarah
3 active jobs · 1 awaiting your sign-off
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Documents
#2451 · Boardroom deep cleanIn progress
#2447 · Quarterly complianceDone
#2452 · Washroom dispenserTue
The economics

Repurpose two FTE salaries a year.

★ The Mutherboard ROI anchor

The point isn't software cost. It's the salary line you stop spending on customer admin and start spending on the work that grows the business.

Most service businesses we talk to have 1–3 people whose jobs have quietly turned into "answer customer questions and chase documents". Client Portal hands that work back to the system.

Annual ROI · typical 50-staff service business
Hours lost to "where's my job?"−£32,400
Lost certs, rework, document hunts−£14,800
Admin chasing approvals and sign-offs−£21,600
Churn from below-par service experience−£18,000
Reclaimed annual capacity£86,800
Indicative figures based on Mutherboard client benchmarks. Your audit produces a calc against your actual numbers.
Who it's for

Built for a specific kind of service business.

If you've outgrown email-and-spreadsheets but don't want to rip out your whole stack — that's exactly the gap Client Portal fills.

A great fit if

You're nodding along to most of these

  • You're a UK service operator, 20–150 staff
  • You run on a real stack already (monday, Xero, Drive, etc.)
  • One or two ops people are quietly drowning in customer admin
  • You're losing RFPs because you can't show clients a portal
  • You've tried generic FSM tools and hated being squeezed into their workflow
  • You want AI to do the work, not just generate marketing copy
Probably not for you if

We'd rather tell you upfront

  • You're a sole trader or under 10 staff (try ServiceM8 or Tradify instead)
  • You want a fully off-the-shelf SaaS with no setup work
  • You don't have an existing stack to integrate with
  • You're in a regulated vertical needing certified industry compliance forms (Joblogic does this well)
  • You want to migrate everything into one platform
Pricing

One flat monthly fee. Scale without penalty.

No per-user charges. No per-customer charges. The price is the price — and it includes the AI agent, the integrations, and the team that runs it for you.

Starter
For 20–40 staff teams shipping a first AI layer
£995/month
12-month minimum · setup included
  • Branded customer portal
  • AI agent with up to 3 integrations
  • Document intelligence, up to 5 GB
  • Up to 100 customer accounts
  • Email + ticket support
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Platform
For 80+ staff teams and complex operations
£3,250/month
12-month minimum · custom build
  • Everything in Growth
  • AI agents tailored to your SOPs and verticals
  • Deep ERP / CRM / accounting integrations
  • Unlimited customer accounts
  • Custom roles and permissions
  • SLA + priority delivery
Talk to us
Questions

You'll probably want to ask.

Talk to us if there's something not covered — we'd rather have a 15-minute call than have you guess.

How is this different from Joblogic, BigChange, or Commusoft? +
They're field-service platforms that want to replace your stack and charge per user. We're an AI and integration layer that sits on top of what you already run, with a flat monthly fee. They lead with software; we lead with the AI agent that does the customer admin. Different shape of product for a different shape of buyer.
Is the AI agent actually safe to put in front of customers? +
Every answer is grounded in your real documents and job data — it cites the source, doesn't invent. We set escalation thresholds with you so anything outside the agent's confidence goes to a human. We don't ship until you're comfortable with what it will and won't say.
How long until we're live? +
Starter portals go live in 30 days. Growth tier in 6–8 weeks. Platform tier 8–12 weeks depending on integration depth. We work in fixed-scope sprints with weekly check-ins.
What if our customers won't use it? +
The portal works alongside email, phone, and WhatsApp — it doesn't force a behaviour change. Adoption climbs naturally because the AI answers questions faster than chasing your team. We typically see 60%+ adoption inside the first quarter.
Do we own the data? +
Yes. Your data is yours, your branding is yours, your customers are yours. The platform is licenced — but if you ever leave us, you take everything with you, including the trained agent context.
What about security and compliance? +
UK-hosted, GDPR-compliant, role-based permissions, full audit trail of every AI response. We complete supplier security questionnaires and provide DPAs as standard. AI calls run through providers with no-training data agreements.
Why Mutherboard, not a SaaS portal vendor? +
SaaS vendors sell software and leave you to make it work. We deliver the build, run the integrations, train the agent on your business, and stay past go-live to optimise it. We've shipped 50+ UK service operations and the consultancy is part of the price.
Next step

See Client Portal
with your data.

30-minute demo. No slides. We'll show you the AI agent answering questions about a real customer scenario from your business — pulled live from a sample of your documents.

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Or email tania@mutherboard.com · UK office hours