Bespoke systems, built around
how your business works.
When spreadsheets, paper and off-the-shelf software stop fitting, I design and build the web application that actually matches how you operate. Asset managers, booking systems, portals and the tools in between.
Outgrown your spreadsheets?
Most businesses don't need more software. They need one system that matches how they actually work.
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The business runs on spreadsheets
Versions everywhere, formulas only one person understands, and no way of knowing which copy is the truth.
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Five tools that refuse to talk
The same customer typed into three systems, data copied back and forth by hand, and mistakes creeping in at every step.
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Off-the-shelf software that almost fits
A monthly subscription you fight instead of use, with workarounds baked so deep they have become the process.
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The process lives in one person’s head
When they are off sick or on holiday, nobody else knows how the job actually gets done.
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A legacy system nobody dares touch
The business depends on it daily, the person who built it is long gone, and every change feels like a gamble.
This is the work I love most. A system shaped around how your business actually operates, not the other way round.
One system, shaped to fit.
Every business is different, but the systems they need tend to take familiar shapes. Yours might be one of these, a mix of several, or something else entirely.
Asset & inventory management
One live register of your equipment, stock or property: where it is, what state it is in, and the full history behind it.
Bookings & activity management
Trips, sessions, appointments or events, with the scheduling, capacity and admin handled in one place instead of a paper diary.
Portals & member areas
Secure logins for your clients, members or volunteers, so they can see their own information and do things for themselves.
Quoting, jobs & workflow
The path from enquiry to quote to job to invoice, tracked end to end, so nothing falls between the cracks.
Dashboards & reporting
The numbers you currently dig out of exports and spreadsheets, live on screen whenever you need them.
Integrations & automation
Your existing tools connected together, with the retyping, chasing and copy-paste steps automated away.
You see it working before you commit to it.
Discovery first
We map how the work actually flows today, find the friction, and agree exactly what version one needs to do.
See it working early
You get live, clickable concepts from the start, not documents and diagrams. We shape the system together as it takes form.
Built in stages
A focused version one that starts earning its keep quickly, then improvements in planned steps as the business proves what it needs next.
Yours, and supported
You own the system outright, with no per-seat fees. I host, maintain and evolve it for as long as you want me to.
Your website and your system, one ecosystem.
Most of my clients pair the two: WordPress as the public face, a bespoke application running the business behind it. One developer across both means nothing gets lost between suppliers.
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WordPress out front
The marketing site, content and SEO stay on the platform built for exactly that, the one I have specialised in since 2010.
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Your application behind it
Bookings, stock, members or jobs flow between the two through secure APIs, so the website and the back office always agree.
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One person accountable
No gaps between a web agency and a software house. When something needs doing, you message me and it gets done.
Bespoke system questions, answered.
What businesses usually ask before commissioning custom software.
What exactly is a bespoke web application?
Software built specifically for your business, running in the browser. Instead of bending your process around an off-the-shelf product, the system is designed around how you already work: your terminology, your workflow, your rules.
Why do you build on Laravel?
Laravel is the most widely used PHP application framework in the world: mature, secure, actively developed. Boring, dependable foundations any good developer could pick up, not something exotic you are locked into.
Can it work with my WordPress website?
Yes, the pairing is a speciality. WordPress stays the public face, the application runs the business behind it, and they share data through secure APIs. One developer across both.
What does a bespoke system cost?
Projects start at £4,000 and run well beyond it, because scope decides and these systems vary enormously. That is why discovery comes first: we define a focused version one, you get a fixed quote before anything is built, and the system grows in planned, priced stages.
Who owns the code and the data?
You do, outright. No per-seat licences, no subscription that switches your business off, and your data is always yours to export.
What happens after launch?
Hosting, backups, monitoring and support, plus ongoing improvements as your team finds what it needs next. You are never left holding software with nobody behind it.
Got a project in mind?
Let's talk.
Tell me about the build, plugin, integration or app you have in mind. First call is free, no obligation.