
About

Founder
Marelize Bott
I’ve worked in finance since 1989, long before I understood how deeply numbers affect the direction of a business and the wellbeing of the person running it.
After moving to the UK in 2017, I founded Add-Worth in 2020. The firm grew rapidly to over 350 clients, yet the pressure, lack of profit and constant firefighting showed me that growth alone doesn’t create security.
That experience reshaped everything.
Today, I work as a Life-Centred Accountant, helping service-based business owners under financial pressure bring steadiness back to their numbers and find a calmer way forward.

From Compliance Accountant to Life-Centred Accountant
I did what most accountants are trained to do. I prepared accounts, submitted returns and made sure everything was accurate, compliant and tidy. But something never quite sat right with me.
Many of the businesses I worked with were focused almost entirely on paying as little tax as possible. The numbers were something to get through once a year, not something they wanted to understand or use. There was little interest in what the figures were really saying or how they could support better decisions.
Yet behind the scenes, those same businesses often felt stuck. Money came in, but it never felt secure or predictable. Cashflow stayed tight, even in good months, and decisions were made reactively rather than with confidence.
The numbers existed, but the meaning behind them was missing.
That realisation changed everything.
I stopped asking, “Have we filed this correctly?” and started asking, “What is this business actually telling us?” Because when business owners truly understand their numbers, fear softens, pressure eases and options begin to appear.
The potential was never absent. It was simply hidden.
A different way of working with numbers
My heart has always been that of an entrepreneur. I have built businesses myself, made costly mistakes, experienced cashflow pressure first-hand and felt the weight of keeping everything going when the numbers felt overwhelming.
That personal journey led me away from pure compliance and into Growth Accounting and Profit Improvement. Through training as a Profit Improvement Coach, qualifying as a Business Advisor and becoming a Life-Centred Accountant, I learned how to turn financial data into something practical, human and grounding.
Not reports for the sake of reports. Not dashboards without direction. But numbers that help you breathe again.
Where growth actually begins
In a world full of automation, dashboards and constant AI noise, something deeply human is often lost.
Behind every set of numbers is a person carrying responsibility, pressure and hope for the future. That is why my work focuses on more than just profit and performance.
We look at the financial numbers, the money in the bank and the hidden numbers too. The hours you work. The stress you carry. The confidence you feel when making decisions. The sense of safety inside your own business.
Because growth does not begin with spreadsheets. It begins with steadiness.
What I help business owners do today
Today, I support service-based business owners who are under financial pressure and tired of constantly firefighting.
Together, we slow things down. We stabilise the foundations. We remove fear from the numbers so you can understand where you truly stand.
The goal is not hustle or grind.
It is calm progress you can feel.
A business that supports your life again, rather than consuming it.
