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Software that does the work nobody has time for

Websites, apps and business systems. Four reasons businesses come to us: find the one that sounds like yours, and we will tell you what we would build for it and what it would cost.

How it works

Tell us what you need on a short call. We plan it with you and give you one price before any work begins. It works the same way whatever we build.

Watch the briefing

A 12 min video: where businesses lose time and money to admin, and how we fix it.

See everything we build
What we build
Websites, online shops, booking, apps, portals and business systems
Price
One set price, agreed before we start
How it is built
In stages, and you see it working as we go
After launch
We stay responsible for it

Websites, apps and the systems behind them

Some businesses need a website, some an app, and most need the system that runs behind both. We build all three, so they share the same customers and the same records.

It starts as one idea about your business.

A website that wins you the work.

An app that keeps your customers close.

A system that runs the jobs, the diary and the money.

Website, app and system. We build all three.

Shown: The DFC Experience website, the ProFlow Academy app, and Brackenhall, a demonstration system.

Four reasons businesses come to us

Most arrive with one of these. Find yours.

Less done by hand

Work that took an afternoon starts happening on its own

Why this matters

The most valuable software in most businesses is not impressive to look at. It is the thing that quietly does the job somebody used to spend a morning a week on, every week, for years.

Usually means

  • Quotes and proposals
  • Chasing and follow-up
  • Onboarding a new customer
  • Recurring billing
  • Details entered once, not three times
  • Rotas and job checklists

Customers serve themselves

People can buy, book and pay without ringing you

Why this matters

Every transaction that needs a phone call is capped by how many phone calls you can take. Moving one of them online is usually the shortest route from where a business is to where it wants to be.

Usually means

  • Checkout and payment links
  • Booking with deposits and reminders
  • Applications and registrations
  • Client portals
  • Accounts and memberships

Visibility

You can see what is happening without asking anyone

Why this matters

Most owners find out something is wrong a fortnight late, from a customer. The fix is rarely a bigger report, it is the handful of numbers that matter arriving on their own.

Usually means

  • Dashboards for whoever runs it
  • Weekly email digests
  • One place the work lives
  • Permissions and an audit trail
  • Alerts when something breaks

When software is the product

The thing you sell is the software itself

Why this matters

A different job from the three above: this has to earn money from strangers rather than save time for people you employ. That changes what matters, and it changes what gets built first.

Usually means

  • A first product people can pay for
  • Web and mobile apps
  • Marketplaces and multi-sided products
  • An internal tool turned into something you sell

Sound like one of yours?

Tell us what is getting in the way, and we will tell you what it would take to fix it.

Everything we build, by name

Already know what you are after? Each page says what it is, when a business needs it, and what we have built in that shape.

Software development

Building the thing itself, when what a business needs does not exist as a product it can buy.

What each one is
Custom software development
Software built around how your business already works, instead of bending it to fit a generic tool.
Web application development
Software that runs in a browser, for the work your team does at a desk and your customers do at home.
Mobile app development
iOS and Android apps, built when the thing has to be in somebody's pocket rather than on their desk.
SaaS and software products
When the software is the thing you sell, not the thing that saves you time. A first version people can pay for.

Business systems

The software a business runs on internally: where the work lives, who can see it, and what happens next.

What each one is
Internal business systems
One place the work lives, with the dashboards and reporting that tell you what is happening in it.
Custom CRM development
A CRM shaped like your pipeline, not a product you bend your business around and still pay per seat for.
Client and customer portals
A login where your client sees their own job, their own documents and their own next step.
Booking and scheduling systems
Taking a booking and a deposit without a phone call, and without sending people to somebody else's branded page.
Quoting and estimating systems
Pricing a job the same way twice, and turning a yes into a paid deposit before it cools off.

Automation and integration

Taking the repeated work off people, inside a system built around how you work.

What each one is
Business process automation
The jobs that happen every week because somebody remembers to do them, happening on their own instead.
Integrations and APIs
Making your own system work with your accounts, payments and the other software it needs, and building the interface when there is not one.

Web and commerce

The public side: the site people judge you on, and the routes by which they buy, book and join.

What each one is
Website design and development
The site people judge you on, built to be edited by you and to earn its place in search.
Memberships and subscriptions
Selling access rather than hours: recurring payment, a members area, and content released on your terms.

None of that is the limit

The useful question is not whether we have built your exact thing before. It is whether the work is repetitive, rule-based or living in a spreadsheet. If it is, it can almost certainly be built.

123 things we have already built and run for other businesses are listed here, and there are far more we have never written down.

Tell us the problem. We will tell you what it takes.

Leyland-based, remote-first, NDA-friendly by default. Plain language, and decisions written down. See how a project actually goes.

Every change, every time

Nothing ships until it passes.

These are the checks that run against this website before anything reaches you. Not a mockup of a process: the real ones, with the numbers they actually report.

Your project gets the same treatment, which is why things do not quietly break after launch.

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