Not a platform. A tool that removes one task, and nothing else.
Most of what a business needs is too specific for off-the-shelf software and too small for a development agency. That gap is the whole of our work.
If it is one job, done the same way every week, it can be built.
What follows is the work that comes up most often, not a menu. If what you need is not here, describe it anyway — most jobs worth doing have never appeared on anyone's list of services.
Operational tooling
Converters, calculators and checkers that sit between a business's files and whatever consumes them, enforcing the constraints that really apply.
Case and document systems
Portals that replace shared folders and email threads, with the right view for each role and a visible status on every item.
Paperwork pipelines
Extraction and reporting that take handwritten or scanned documents and return structured, consistent output in a house template.
Forecasting algorithms
Demand and sales forecasting built on your own trading history — what to buy, how much, and when — using the same methods large retailers run across tens of thousands of lines.
Pricing and risk models
Prediction where a decision has money attached: where your prices sit against the market, which customers or orders carry risk, and how confident the answer actually is.
Getting the data straight
Prediction needs history, and most businesses have it scattered across systems that disagree. Pulling it together into one reliable record is often the first job, and sometimes valuable enough to be the only one.
A forecast is only as good as the history behind it. Before any model is built we look at what data exists and say plainly whether it supports a useful prediction yet — and if it does not, what would need to be recorded first.
One job, in whatever line of work you are in.
Pick a trade. If yours is not here it means nothing — these are examples, and the job is what matters, not the sector.
Production planned against what the machines can actually take.
Output recorded as it happens, not reconstructed on Friday afternoon.
Reorder points worked out per line from your own sales history.
Instead of a number somebody set three years ago and nobody has revisited.
Rounds sequenced against drop windows and vehicle capacity.
With confirmation of what was actually delivered, not what was planned.
Quotes priced from the materials list and your own margins.
So two estimators quoting the same job arrive at the same number.
Demand forecast line by line, before the buying decision.
Buying quantities and markdown timing stop being a matter of opinion.
Covers predicted by day and by service.
Staffing and ordering set against the forecast rather than against last week.
Client onboarding paperwork read once and filed automatically.
Rather than retyped into three systems that then disagree.
Candidate documents tracked by role, with a status on every item.
Nothing chased by phone, nothing sitting unread in somebody's inbox.
Missed appointments predicted before they happen.
So reminders and overbooking are aimed where they actually recover money.
Inspection reports built from the photographs and notes taken on site.
In your own template, before the inspector has driven home.
Job sheets, parts used and turnaround times in one place.
So you can see which kinds of work actually make money.
Artwork checked against machine limits before it reaches the floor.
Rather than after a spoiled run and a reprint nobody is paying for.
Batch records and traceability captured as the work is done.
An audit then takes an afternoon instead of a fortnight.
Inputs, yields and costs pulled together per field or per herd.
And next season forecast from your own records rather than a rule of thumb.
Grant and impact reporting assembled from records you already keep.
In whichever format each funder insists on, without rebuilding it by hand.
Renewals predicted and lapses flagged early.
From the subscription history already sitting in your spreadsheet.
These tools pay for themselves in small percentages of large numbers.
The figures below are illustrations, not results from past clients — invented numbers, chosen to show how the arithmetic works. The point is that you can do this sum for your own business before you talk to anybody, including us.
Stock held more accurately
- Stock held£400,000
- Overstock cut by5%
- Cash released£20,000
Released once, then held down. Fewer stockouts usually follow, which is additional and harder to put a number on.
A weekly job removed
- Hours a week6
- Loaded cost an hour£22
- Weeks a year46
- Recovered each year£6,072
Before counting the errors that get made at four o'clock on a Friday, which is usually where the real money is.
Prices set with better information
- Annual revenue£2,000,000
- Margin improvement1%
- Added each year£20,000
One percent is a modest assumption when the alternative is pricing from memory and last year's list.
Your numbers will not be these ones. Before you commit to anything, we work the same sum using your real figures and put it in the written quote alongside the price. If the job is not worth more than it costs, that is what the quote will say.
You show us the job. You do not write a specification.
Nobody running a business should have to translate their own work into requirements before anyone will listen. That translation is ours to do, and it is most of the value.
Watch the work
Half a day on site, with the person who actually does the task. No forms to fill in beforehand.
One page, one price
Within two working days: what we would build, what it would not do, and a fixed cost.
Build on real files
Four to six weeks, using your own documents and designs, with one review in the middle.
Hand over and keep it running
Training, a written guide, one round of changes, then hosting and small tweaks monthly.