AI Workers for Charities and Small Businesses

The work that never stops
should run itself.

I set up autonomous AI workers that handle your research, write your documents, track deadlines, and send alerts — on a schedule, without being asked.

Get In Touch How It Works
This is not a chatbot.  It's a worker that runs on a schedule, connects to your real tools, and gets things done — while your team focuses on people.

From the UK, now based in Slovakia. I work with organisations across Central Europe and the UK.

🇬🇧UK
🇸🇰Slovakia
🇵🇱Poland
🇩🇪Germany
🇦🇹Austria
Who It's For

Built for organisations that run lean and can't afford to run slow.

Whether you're a charity chasing grants or a small business drowning in admin, the problem is the same. There aren't enough hours. The work that matters keeps getting pushed back by the work that's just... necessary.

AI workers change that. Not by replacing people. By handling the repeatable stuff — so your people handle the rest.

Charities and Non-Profits — UK

Your funding officer. Your comms team. Your impact reporter. Automated.

I've worked with UK charities to automate the functions that drain time without draining mission. The Funding Worker is the flagship — a fully autonomous agent that scans for grants, scores opportunities, drafts bids, and flags deadlines. No prompting required.

  • Weekly grant scans across 8+ funding sources
  • Automatic bid drafts triggered by a funder name or PDF drop
  • Impact reports from survey data and session notes
  • Governance alerts for overdue policy reviews and board packs
  • Communications drafted from your team's raw notes
Small and Medium Businesses — UK, Central Europe and Worldwide

The admin that slows you down. Handed to a worker.

For local businesses in the UK and Central Europe — accounting firms, agencies, consultancies — and for online businesses anywhere in the world: I build workers that handle the recurring tasks your team does every week on a computer. Reporting, client summaries, document processing, internal comms. Set it up once. It runs.

  • Weekly reports and client summaries, auto-generated
  • Document processing and data extraction from invoices and forms
  • CRM updates and follow-up drafts from call notes
  • Internal knowledge bases your team can actually query
  • Onboarding workflows and compliance document tracking
"Richard has played a key role in shaping Young Somerset's strategic content through Why Not Bot, enhancing our digital engagement and outreach. His expertise in AI-driven communication has strengthened our ability to efficiently use AI safely in our business processes."
Nik Harwood, Chief Executive — Young Somerset
Real Example

What a Funding Worker actually does on a Monday morning.

Here's exactly what it did on its first autonomous run — no prompting after setup:

Monday 8am — automatic run

It also writes the bids

Drop a funder's PDF into a folder in Google Drive and it reads the guidelines, pulls from your charity's own documents and past applications, and drafts a complete funding application. Saved and ready for your review.

Humans press send

The worker handles every step up to submission. It won't send anything without you. You get alerts when there's a critical deadline, a finished draft, or something that needs a judgement call.

"Thank you, Richard, for your support in developing and implementing the Young Bristol AI Assistant. This innovative tool represents a significant step forward in our commitment to efficiency, quality, and impact. By enhancing our capacity to produce high-quality communications, funding applications, and impact reports, the AI Assistant will enable our team to focus even more on what matters most — empowering young people and strengthening communities across Bristol."
Andy Kimber, Chief Operating Officer — Young Bristol
Simple Setup

How I set it up for you

You don't need to understand the technology. I handle all of it.

1

We talk for 30 minutes

I learn about your organisation — your mission or business, your current workflows, your team's biggest time pressures, and which functions you'd most like to automate first.

2

You send me your documents

Reports, templates, past work, policy docs, process notes. The same materials you'd give a new team member. I upload them to a private knowledge folder and use them to configure the worker.

3

I build and test your workers

I configure the skills, connect your tools (Google Drive, Gmail, and others), set the schedules, and run a live test so you can see exactly what happens before it goes live.

4

You get a walkthrough and a manual

No jargon. I show your team what the worker does, what lands in your Drive, what triggers an alert, and how to keep it improving over time.

5

It runs. You review the outputs.

Scheduled jobs run automatically. When something's ready for a human decision, you get an alert. You review, approve, and act. The worker handles everything else.

About

Richard Patey

Richard Patey

I'm an entrepreneur and AI consultant based in Slovakia, originally from the UK. I've been building with AI tools since before ChatGPT launched — first for charities, now for any organisation that runs lean and has more work than time.

My background is in funding strategy and operations. I've helped charities secure over £500,000 in funding through bid writing, contract negotiation, and strategic planning. I've served on grant assessment panels. I know what funders look for.

Now I apply that operational knowledge to building AI workers — not demos or prototypes, but systems that actually run inside an organisation's existing tools and do useful work on a schedule.

I work with clients across Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Austria, and the UK. If you're a small team doing big work, this is built for you.

Get In Touch

Tell me what your team wastes the most time on.

I'll tell you honestly whether a worker can help, and what that would look like. No jargon. No pressure.

richard@whynot.bot
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