Moving from a notebook to proper books
The usual starting point is a shoebox of receipts and a bank account that mixes business and family spending. Upload twelve months of bank statements as PDF or Excel and the agent sorts the lines into income, supplier payments, salaries and personal drawings, asking about anything it cannot place. The owner answers in plain English, and the rules it learns are reused next month.
From there you get a real balance sheet and profit and loss. For a business preparing to register for VAT or corporate tax, that first clean year of records is the part that takes longest, and the part the AI speeds up most.