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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO, FreeAgent.\n\nRoan Lavery co-founded FreeAgent in Edinburgh in 2007 with Ed Molyneux and Olly Headey and is its chief executive. The three had worked as freelance designers or developers and built the accounting software to escape the mess of their own bookkeeping. NatWest Group acquired the company in 2018.\n\n## What Roan builds\n\n- [FreeAgent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freeagent.md), graded C, 57.2/100, in Accounting \u0026 invoicing. REST API for FreeAgent, the UK small-business accounting product owned by NatWest Group. Co-founder and CEO, FreeAgent, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Ed Molyneux](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ed-molyneux/), Co-founder, FreeAgent\n- [Olly Headey](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/olly-headey/), Co-founder, FreeAgent\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Lightbank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lightbank/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Roan Lavery?\n\nRoan Lavery co-founded FreeAgent in Edinburgh in 2007 with Ed Molyneux and Olly Headey and is its chief executive. The three had worked as freelance designers or developers and built the accounting software to escape the mess of their own bookkeeping. NatWest Group acquired the company in 2018.\n\n### What does FreeAgent make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists FreeAgent API from FreeAgent. REST API for FreeAgent, the UK small-business accounting product owned by NatWest Group.\n\n### Who has invested in FreeAgent?\n\nThe sources our research read name Lightbank.\n\n### How are Roan's tools graded?\n\nFreeAgent API is graded C, 57.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://dev.freeagent.com/docs\n- https://www.freeagent.com/company/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeAgent\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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