Bespoke systems for businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets and off-the-shelf software
We find the bottlenecks and quiet inefficiencies costing you money — then build calm, dependable software shaped to how your operation actually works. Twenty years of looking inside businesses with data, not assumptions.
Two members of the InsideData team sitting alongside a client at their desk, looking at a laptop together.
Most of our work fits a particular shape.
If your business looks like the below, we can probably help. If it doesn’t, we’ll say so on the first call and point you at someone who’s a better fit.
10–200 staff
Big enough to have proper process. Small enough that everyone still knows everyone’s name.
Operationally complex
Logistics, manufacturing, finance, professional services. Real workflows, not marketing sites.
Multiple systems + spreadsheets
You’re already paying the workaround tax. We help you stop.
£25k–£150k
Real project budgets for software that has to be there on a Tuesday morning.
If you can think it, we can build it.
A line we’ve been saying to clients for 20 years. Almost always true. When it isn’t, the answer is usually a better version of what you originally had in mind.
Where the operational pain usually lives.
Operations, finance, scheduling, fulfilment, reporting; whatever the rough edges of your business look like, we’ve fixed something like it before. And we’ve almost certainly seen the workaround you’re currently living with.
AI in your back office
AI inside the workflow; extracting data from documents, drafting from your own systems, surfacing anomalies. Humans still in charge of the calls that matter.
Operations & workflow
Orchestrate the day-to-day; jobs, tickets, schedules, approvals. Replace the spreadsheet zoo with software that fits the actual work.
Finance & reporting
Invoicing, billing, margins, cash flow. Pull in data from the systems you already use and make it actually useful.
Integrations & automation
Stitch together accounting, CRM, ERP, couriers and bank feeds. Quiet jobs that just work overnight.
Modernising legacy systems
Rebuild the Access database, the excel spreadsheets, the VB6 tool, the WinForms app without losing the institutional knowledge baked in.
We don’t just build what you ask for. We work out what you actually need.
Most businesses we meet have grown past the systems they started with. Workarounds have quietly become process. Spreadsheets have quietly become law. “This is how we’ve always done it” is the most expensive sentence in business software and the hardest to hear from inside.
We come in fresh, look at the data, ask the awkward questions, and shine a torch on the bits everyone’s stopped seeing. Sometimes that means a better-shaped version of what you asked for. Occasionally it means saving you the cost of building it at all.
We assume nothing.
Including your requirements. Especially your requirements.
We use data, not vibes.
We measure where time goes and where errors land before we sketch a screen.
We build what fits.
Software shaped to the work we found, not the work someone assumed in a meeting.
A calm, transparent process.
No surprises, no theatre. Five steps from first conversation to ongoing partnership.
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01Discovery
We come in fresh and shine a torch on how the work actually flows.
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02Design
A working prototype in days, not months. You click through it before we build it.
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03Build
Iterative releases every two weeks. Real software in your hands the whole way.
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04Launch
Migration, training, hand-holding. We don’t disappear at go-live.
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05Ongoing
Most clients stay with us for years. Software is never really done.
Let’s talk about your back office
Start with a free 30-minute discovery call. No slides, no sales pitch; just a real conversation about where your business is and where it could be.