ANNA becomes the first UK provider to let an AI register a business, end-to-end

19 August, 2025 · 3 min read

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With agentic AI tipped to be the next big leap in technology, ANNA just made a giant stride: we’ve officially proven that a Large Language Model (LLM) agent – the same kind of tech behind today’s cleverest chatbots – can successfully register a UK business on its own. That includes everything. Full authorisation. Identity verification. Payment. The works.

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Business registration: now a job for bots?
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Business registration: now a job for bots?

If you’ve ever tried registering a business yourself, you’ll know it’s no walk in the park. Forms to fill, identities to prove, money to send – it’s a lot. Now imagine handing all of that off to an AI agent that does it for you while you sip your coffee.

That’s what we just tested. And it worked.

ANNA ran an experiment using an LLM agent acting as a human customer. The AI navigated our entire company registration process through the web interface – collecting details, logging in securely, verifying ID, making a payment, and submitting everything to Companies House. It even got the business account up and running with a virtual card, ready to go.

Frankly, the fact it worked first-time was extraordinary. LLM agents can struggle with something as common as checking in for a flight, yet here we saw it handle one of the most complicated and regulated sign-up processes in the UK – end-to-end, payment included. That’s a real milestone for agentic AI in financial services.

Boris Diakonov

Co-founder and co-CEO at ANNA

Built for today, ready for tomorrow

The best part? We didn’t need to overhaul our systems to make this happen. But we’re not stopping there. ANNA is already working on a “robot-ready” version of the journey – a slicker, more streamlined integration that makes life even easier for LLMs and autonomous agents.

Soon, any AI assistant built into your favourite app, tool or platform could register a company and open a business account in minutes. That means real-world tasks completed by software, not just suggested or nudged along.

By being first to prove this capability, ANNA is positioning itself at the forefront of the AI-powered economy, where autonomous software doesn’t just assist people, it acts on their behalf to get things done. It’s a breakthrough that demonstrates ANNA’s leadership in financial innovation and its readiness for the next generation of digital business services.

Boris Diakonov

Co-founder and co-CEO at ANNA

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