# Sage

> Sage is a British business-software company that supplies accounting, financial management, payroll, HR and enterprise tools to millions of small and mid-sized businesses. Its portfolio stretches from bookkeeping for sole traders to cloud financials for growing organizations and operational software for manufacturers and distributors. Sage is now layering finance-specific AI agents and Sage Copilot into those workflows while leaning on a subscription model, an extensive accountant and reseller network, and more than four decades of compliance expertise.

- **Founded:** 1981
- **Headquarters:** Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- **Founders:** David Goldman (Co-founder), Paul Muller (Co-founder and computer scientist), Graham Wylie (Co-founder and software developer)
- **Team size:** Approximately 11,000 employees worldwide as of October 2025
- **Products:** Sage Accounting, Sage Intacct, Sage X3, Sage 50, Sage Payroll and Sage HR
- **Notable:** Listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1989, eight years after its founding., Entered the FTSE 100 in 1999., Reached £2.574 billion in annualized recurring revenue in FY2025, up 11% year over year.

## Products & services

- **Sage Accounting** — Cloud accounting for small businesses, covering invoicing, cash flow, bank reconciliation and tax workflows.
- **Sage Intacct** — Cloud-native financial management for growing and mid-sized organizations, with accounting, planning, analytics, multi-entity consolidation and industry modules.
- **Sage X3** — Business management and ERP software for product-centric organizations, particularly manufacturers and distributors managing supply chains, production, sales and finance.
- **Sage 50** — Desktop-connected accounting and payroll software for small and medium businesses, now enhanced with cloud services and Sage Copilot in supported markets.
- **Sage Payroll and Sage HR** — Payroll processing, compliance, employee records, leave, scheduling and people-management tools for small and growing employers.
- **Sage People** — A global cloud HR and people system, built on Salesforce, for organizations with roughly 200 to 5,000 employees.
- **Sage Copilot and AI agents** — Embedded, finance-specific AI for invoice chasing, close orchestration, anomaly detection, search, forecasting and workflow automation across Sage products.
- **Sage for Accountants** — Practice tools for accountants and bookkeepers, including client management, data capture, tax, proposals, forecasting and payroll bureau workflows.
- **Sage Developer Platform and Marketplace** — APIs, integration tooling, Agent Builder, an AI Gateway and a marketplace through which partners extend Sage products.

## Achievements

- Listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1989, eight years after its founding.
- Entered the FTSE 100 in 1999.
- Reached £2.574 billion in annualized recurring revenue in FY2025, up 11% year over year.
- Generated £2.513 billion of FY2025 revenue, with more than 97% of underlying revenue recurring.
- Reached 83% software subscription penetration in FY2025 and 84% in the first nine months of FY2026.
- Sage Business Cloud revenue grew 15% in the first nine months of FY2026, while cloud-native revenue grew 25%.
- Sage Intacct manages 65 million customer records and 35 million vendor relationships, according to Sage.
- Approximately one quarter of UK employees are paid through Sage software, according to Sage.
- Invested £379 million in research and development in FY2025.
- Introduced an AI Trust Label proof of concept and later advanced a 'glass box' AI approach centered on explainability and auditability.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Sage reported 11% revenue growth to £2.062 billion for the first nine months of FY2026; Sage Business Cloud grew 15% and cloud-native revenue grew 25%.
- **2026-07** — Sage and Satago expanded their partnership to embed accounting data into invoice-finance and cash-flow products for lenders, sole traders and micro businesses.
- **2026-07** — Sage-sponsored IDC research found that 71% of surveyed finance leaders would reject a 99%-accurate AI tool if it could not explain its answers.
- **2026-06** — Sage released new X3 capabilities aimed at giving manufacturers and distributors AI-assisted operational insight and improved visibility.
- **2026-05** — Half-year FY2026 revenue grew 11% to £1.363 billion and annualized recurring revenue reached £2.727 billion.
- **2026-05** — At Sage Future 2026, the company demonstrated explainable 'glass box' AI, Agent Builder and connected finance workflows with human oversight.
- **2026-04** — Sage acquired Doyen AI to automate extraction, mapping and validation during financial-system migrations.
- **2026-03** — Barclays and Sage announced a strategic partnership connecting business banking, accounting and UK tax administration.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sage.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sage-software
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sagegroupplc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sagegroupplc
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sageofficial/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SageUK/

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Last updated: 2026-08-11