Retire the spreadsheet that runs your business
Somewhere in your company there's a spreadsheet everyone fears: seventeen tabs, one person who understands it, emailed around with "_FINAL_v3" in the name. We replace those with small, sharp internal tools — built around how your team actually works.
Tools we build for teams
Operations dashboards
Jobs, orders, stock, capacity — live in one screen instead of assembled every Monday from four systems and someone's memory.
Workflow & approval systems
Requests, quotes, sign-offs and handoffs with clear states and an audit trail. The process your wiki describes, made real and enforced gently by software.
Reporting & data tools
The numbers management asks for, generated on demand instead of hand-built monthly. Often the fastest payback of anything on this page.
Quoting & job costing
Price lists, margins and rules encoded once — so every quote is fast, consistent and doesn't depend on the one person who knows the pricing.
System glue
Small tools that sit between your existing systems — syncing, deduplicating, flagging exceptions — and quietly delete a category of manual work.
Spreadsheet replacements
We interview the spreadsheet's keeper, map what it really does (always more than anyone admits), and replace it with something multi-user, validated and backed up.
Build vs. buy, answered honestly
If a £30/month SaaS product genuinely fits your process, we'll point you at it and wish you well — custom software you don't need is the most expensive kind. Custom wins when your process is your edge, when off-the-shelf forces workarounds that cost more than the subscription saves, or when the tool needs to talk to systems no SaaS vendor cares about. That assessment is the first conversation, and it's free.
Common questions
Our process changes often. Won't custom software go stale?
Built rigidly, yes. We build configuration where change is likely — statuses, rules, templates editable by your admins — and keep a support retainer available for the rest. Many internal tools evolve monthly with their teams.
What does an internal tool cost?
Focused tools typically start around £10,000–£20,000. We phase releases so the highest-value workflow ships first and starts paying back while the rest is built.
Can you work with our messy existing data?
Messy data is the normal case. Import, cleaning and validation are part of the build — and the new tool's job is to keep it clean from then on.
Which spreadsheet scares you most?
Describe it — or the manual process behind it — and a developer will sketch what replacing it looks like, usually the same day.
Discuss your tool