UK Statement Converter started from ExactSum, our B2B product for lenders and financial services companies.
About a year ago, I started talking to lenders across the UK. These were companies reviewing hundreds of bank statements every day as part of their affordability assessments. Not simple personal statements with a dozen transactions - I'm talking about statements from pubs, hotels, and construction companies. Hundreds of pages. Thousands of transactions.
The Format Problem
What struck me was the variety. Every bank does things differently.
NatWest has a fairly standard layout. HSBC still uses that old-school mainframe design - you can tell it hasn't changed in decades. Starling goes landscape mode with a modern look. Revolut throws multiple currencies onto a single statement.
For lenders processing hundreds of applications, this inconsistency was painful. Their teams were spending hours manually extracting data, or using generic PDF tools that mangled half the output.
So we built ExactSum - a proper analysis platform with gambling detection, debt tracking, income verification, the works. Enterprise stuff for enterprise problems.
The Question That Kept Coming Up
But then accountants started finding us. Bookkeepers. Small business owners. People who didn't need affordability scoring or compliance dashboards.
They just wanted to convert a PDF to Excel.
That's it. Upload a statement, get clean transaction data out. No training. No sales calls. No enterprise pricing.
We already had the parsing technology. We'd already solved the hard problems - figuring out where tables start and end, handling multi-line descriptions, dealing with the quirks of 50+ UK bank formats.
So we built a simpler interface on top of it.
What UK Statement Converter Does
Upload a PDF. Get Excel or CSV. That's the product.
The same AI that processes complex commercial statements for lenders now handles your Barclays current account or your client's HSBC business statement. Same accuracy. Much simpler interface.
Free tier for occasional use. Paid plans if you're processing volume.
If you need the full analysis suite - income verification, gambling flags, debt patterns - ExactSum is still there for that.
But if you just need your transactions in a spreadsheet, this is the tool.