Your back office shouldn’t run on spreadsheets and workarounds
If you’re a director at a company with 20–250 people, you already know the cost: duplicated data, slow reporting, and teams patching gaps with tools that were never meant to last. We find where that friction is costing you money — then build calm, dependable software shaped to how your operation actually works.
No slides. No sales pitch. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so on the first call.
What happens on the call
- 1 You walk us through the operational rough edge — the thing that keeps landing on your desk.
- 2 We ask the questions that clarify whether bespoke software is the right answer (sometimes it isn’t).
- 3 If there’s a fit, we outline a sensible first step — usually a fixed-scope discovery sprint from £4,500.
The problems directors call us about.
Reporting takes days, not minutes
Figures live in five systems and three spreadsheets. Every board pack is a manual reconciliation exercise — and nobody fully trusts the numbers.
Teams are drowning in workarounds
Copy-paste between tools, shadow spreadsheets, inbox approvals. Your people are clever — but they're spending their talent on plumbing, not the work you hired them for.
Off-the-shelf software almost fits
You've tried configuring a SaaS product or bending an ERP module. It handles 80% well and the critical 20% still lives in Excel — because that's where your edge is.
Past software projects burned you
Over-promised, under-delivered, or built by people who never understood the operation. You need a partner who measures first and builds second.
Built for growing businesses with real operational complexity.
Most of our clients are director-level decision makers at UK companies with 20–250 staff — big enough to have proper process, small enough that a bespoke system can transform how the whole operation runs.
20–250 staff
Large enough for operational pain. Small enough that change can actually stick.
Director-level owners
Operations, finance, IT, or MD — people who feel the cost of inefficiency in their P&L.
Operationally complex
Logistics, manufacturing, finance, professional services — real workflows, not brochureware.
£25k–£150k
Serious project budgets for software that has to be there on a Tuesday morning.
Discovery first. Build second. No guesswork.
After 20 years of looking inside businesses, we’ve learned that the best projects start with data — not assumptions.
Discovery
We measure where time and money are leaking — on-site if needed. You get an honest picture of what to build, what to skip, and what it should cost.
Design & build
Working prototype in days. Fortnightly demos of real software in your hands. Fixed scope, so there are no surprise invoices.
Launch & support
We don't disappear after go-live. Most clients stay on a retainer — because operations change, and the software should keep up.
You’ll talk to the people who do the work.
We’re a senior, UK-based team — no offshore handoffs, no account managers reading from a script. The person on your discovery call is the person who’ll lead the project.
- Twenty years building back-office systems for UK businesses
- Discovery sprints from £4,500 — fixed scope, clear deliverables
- Fortnightly demos so you see progress, not PowerPoints
- Honest scoping: we'll tell you if bespoke isn't the answer
What directors usually ask before booking.
- Is this a sales call?
- No. It’s a working conversation about your operation. We’ll ask good questions, share relevant experience, and tell you honestly whether we can help — and if we can’t, we’ll point you somewhere better.
- We’re not ready to commit to a full project.
- That’s fine. Many clients start with a one- or two-week discovery sprint. You get a clear map of the problem, a right-sized recommendation, and a realistic estimate — without signing up for a six-month build.
- How is this different from hiring a dev agency?
- We don’t take a brief and disappear for three months. We start by measuring how work actually flows in your business, then build software shaped to that — with demos every fortnight and a team that understands operations, not just code.
- What does something like this typically cost?
- Most projects land between £25k and £150k depending on scope. Discovery sprints start from £4,500. We’ll give you a realistic range on the first call — no vague “it depends” without the depends.
Put 30 minutes in the diary.
Tell us what’s not working in your back office. We’ll come back with an honest view on whether bespoke software is the right move — and what a sensible first step looks like.
Book a discovery call
30 minutes. No slides. Pick a time that suits you.
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