In the workshop

What we’re building right now.

We’re a small software house that ships continuously. Alongside the products already in daily use, there’s always something on the bench - some destined to become products in their own right, some built for a single business that needed software shaped around the way they actually work.

We keep the detail light here. If something below sounds like your problem, get in touch and we’ll show you properly.

In testing For property developers & small builders

Running a whole development from one place.

Small developers juggle the appraisal, the build costs, the subcontractors and the sale of every plot - usually across a pile of spreadsheets that only one person fully understands. We’re building the single place that holds all of it, priced for a small firm rather than a national house-builder. It’s in testing with real schemes now.

Nearly in testing For independent shops & retailers

A till and stock system that belongs to the shop.

Most small retailers are choosing between an ageing till that does nothing clever and a cloud subscription that stops working the moment the broadband does. We’re building the middle option: tills and stock control that run on the shop’s own hardware, keep serving customers when the internet drops, and keep an honest running record of every sale and stock movement. It’s close to going into testing.

In testing For builders, developers & facilities teams

Drawings, shown on the building itself.

Plans live in a folder; the building is in front of you. We’re working on an augmented-reality layer that brings the two together on an ordinary phone or tablet - no headset, nothing to issue to a site team. It’s now in testing, and we’re putting a small group together to refine it on real structures rather than in a demo room.

In testing For any business with kit to keep track of

The asset register that remembers the dates.

Every business owns things with a date attached - the van’s MOT, the PAT tests, a boiler service, a warranty quietly running out. Our receipts-and-warranties app StillCovered already does this for households; the business edition puts every asset on the register, remembers every key date, and nudges before any of them bite. The build is done and it’s moving into testing now.

In testing For landlords & small portfolios

Property management, standalone.

Our lettings software grew up serving agents and housing providers, with all the machinery that comes with them. Not everyone needs that. This is the core of it on its own - for landlords who simply want their own portfolio in order, at a price that suits a handful of properties rather than an agency with a department. The engine underneath is already proven in daily use; the standalone edition is in testing.

Nearly ready For salons, barbers & chair renters

A salon platform with its own name.

Bookings, walk-ins, the day’s takings, staff and chair-renters who each run their own book - salon software usually forces one way of working on everyone. Ours is built around how the salon actually splits its work, whether that’s employed stylists, self-employed renters, or both. It’s far enough along to have its own name and a waiting list - meet Lushera.

Nearly ready For practices, clubs & anyone who writes to people on a rhythm

The reminders that send themselves.

Renewal letters, subscription reminders, the annual round of “it’s that time again” - anywhere a business writes to the same people on repeating dates, someone is keeping a list and hoping they remember. Keep Posted holds the dates and does the sending, including the catch-up when the computer was off on the day. The product is built; we’re finishing the final licensing work before release.

In development Bespoke - built for one business

Software shaped around one company.

Not every job should be a product. Some businesses have a way of working that no off-the-shelf app fits, and bending the business to suit the software is the wrong way round. On the bench at the moment:

A dog walking app - late testing, release close

Everything a professional dog walker needs in one place on their phone - GPS-tracked walks with the route mapped and the mileage counted, each dog’s details, photos for owners, and the month’s invoicing handled without a spreadsheet in sight. In late testing now, with release approaching.

A desktop toolkit for an accountancy office

A family of small, sharp tools built for one practice’s real week - turning bank statement PDFs into clean spreadsheets, checking client records against Companies House, sending encrypted documents, and tracking the post that carries them.

A fair-checkout collectibles store

An online store for one-of-a-kind items, where the first buyer to claim a piece genuinely gets it - no two carts holding the same item, no disappointment at the payment screen.

A mural artist’s tracing companion

Turns a sketch or photo into a scaled outline a painter can put on a wall - the doodle-grid method, done by the phone instead of a ruler.

We keep client work private unless our clients choose otherwise, so there are no names here. If you’ve got a job that software should be doing for you, tell us about it.

Want a first look?

Early access is how these get better - the useful changes almost always come from someone doing the actual job telling us what’s wrong with it. If any of the above is close to what you need, get in touch and we’ll walk you through where it’s up to.