What we build
Tell us the problem. We’ll build the fix.
You don’t need to know what kind of software you need, or how it works. These are the problems we solve most often: what the work looks like today, and what changes once it’s built.
01
Stop typing the same thing twice
We connect the programs you already use so information moves by itself, and set up the follow-ups, alerts and paperwork that happen without anyone lifting a finger.
Seen inCenterSuiteWeb Messaging
Today: Orders copied out of email and typed in again
Once it’s built: Orders arrive in the system on their own
Today: Reminders sent when somebody remembers
Once it’s built: Reminders go out on time, every time
Today: An afternoon a week building the report
Once it’s built: The report is ready when you open it
02
Replace the spreadsheet everyone’s afraid of
Spreadsheets are brilliant until the whole business depends on one. A real tool means everyone sees the same up-to-date information, mistakes can be undone, and nothing breaks when someone adds a row.
Today: One file only one person dares to edit
Once it’s built: One shared tool the whole team works in at once
Today: Copies of copies, and nobody sure which is current
Once it’s built: Every change recorded, and any of them undone
Today: Colors that mean something to one person
Once it’s built: The rules built in, not remembered
03
Turn your idea into a product
You’ve built a way of working others in your industry would pay for. We turn it into software you can sell, and keep it improving without breaking anything for the people already using it.
Seen inCenterSuite
Today: A way of working you’ve proved by hand
Once it’s built: Customers sign up, each in a private space of their own
Today: Other businesses asking how you do it
Once it’s built: Payments come in every month
Today: Spreadsheets and email holding it together
Once it’s built: New features go out without breaking anything
04
A website that brings in customers
A website has one job: turning the people who find you into calls, bookings or enquiries. We build each one around that job, connect it to what you already use, and give you a simple editor for the things you change yourself.
Seen inHistoric Kempton HotelYellow Bird YogaThe Beach House
How a website project worksToday: A site you can’t change without waiting on someone
Once it’s built: Hours, prices and photos changed in a minute
Today: Visitors calling to ask what the site should say
Once it’s built: One clear next step on every page
Today: Bookings in a system the site barely mentions
Once it’s built: Booking right there in the pages
05
Computers and networks that just work
The computers, Wi-Fi, servers and backups a business runs on, planned for how you work. We can buy and set up new equipment, or take over what you already have, then keep it updated, secure and backed up.
What we set up and look afterToday: Wi-Fi that drops out in the back room
Once it’s built: A network planned for your space, and written down
Today: Updates nobody has installed in months
Once it’s built: Every computer updated and secured on schedule
Today: Backups nobody has ever tried to restore
Once it’s built: Backups tested by restoring them
06
Keep your data under your own roof
Not everything belongs on someone else’s servers. We build software that runs on a machine you own, and set it up to update and back itself up.
Today: Private information on someone else’s servers
Once it’s built: Software running on a machine you own
Today: Subscription costs that rise with every hire
Once it’s built: No monthly fee for each new person
Today: Work that stops when the internet drops
Once it’s built: Work that carries on, and catches up later
07
Apps that work anywhere, even offline
Some jobs happen in a truck, a warehouse or a back room with no signal. We build apps that open straight from a link, sit on the home screen like any other app, and keep working without a connection.
Today: Paper forms filled in out in the field
Once it’s built: An app on their phone, opened from a link
Today: Typed up again back at the office
Once it’s built: Entries saved even with no signal
Today: No signal where the work happens
Once it’s built: Synced the moment there’s a connection
08
Everyone on the same page, live
When several people work from the same thing as it changes, a job board, a schedule, a shared order, every screen should stay in step, and each person should see exactly what they should.
Today: “Is this still current?” texts all day
Once it’s built: Every screen updates the moment something changes
Today: Two people changing the same list, and clashing
Once it’s built: Changes from everyone, without clashes
Today: Everyone able to see everything
Once it’s built: Each person sees just what they should
Where it lives
Your software has to live somewhere.
Where it lives decides what it costs each month, who can see your information, and what happens when the internet drops. We’ll recommend one and explain why in plain terms; you decide.
On the internet
- Best for
- Lots of people in lots of places, and software you sell
- The catch
- A monthly hosting bill that grows as you do
- Example
- CenterSuite
On a computer you own
- Best for
- Private information, and work that can’t stop when the internet does
- The catch
- It needs looking after, so we set it up to look after itself
- Example
- Self-hosted voice assistant
On the phone itself
- Best for
- Personal information, speed, and nothing to sign up for
- The catch
- Harder to share between several people
- Example
- The Modern Person
Next step
Not sure which of these you need? That’s fine.
Describe the problem in a few sentences. Within one working day you’ll hear whether software would fix it, roughly what it would take, and what we’d look at first.