The manual admin tax
Most established businesses run on good software that refuses to talk to itself. The CRM doesn't sync cleanly with the accounts package. Website enquiries get re-keyed into the operations database. Compliance documents get chased by hand, and the same reports get rebuilt every week from exports and spreadsheets.
So your staff become the integration layer — capable people paid to copy-paste data between systems that should already be connected.
There are three ways businesses usually try to fix this, and none of them fit well:
- Hire another administrator — a £30,000+ salary plus employer NI, pension and recruitment costs, spent acting as human glue between systems.
- Commission a digital agency — an agency discovery phase before any code ships, with the build often handed to juniors.
- Hire a full-time senior developer — a big commitment when you may not have enough work to keep one busy.
There's a fourth option: bring in a senior developer who diagnoses the bottleneck, builds the bridge in days, and keeps it running for a predictable monthly cost.
What we build
Systems integration & digital transformation
We connect the software you already pay for — CRMs, accounting systems, portals and back-office databases — into reliable pipelines that end double entry for good. Systems integration and digital transformation.
Practical AI & document automation
AI workflows that do real work: reading inbound documents and emails, extracting the data, filing it where it belongs and flagging the exceptions a human should see. AI agents and business automation.
SQL Server, .NET & legacy rescue
Mission-critical SQL Server databases that have slowed to a crawl, and bespoke .NET applications whose original developer moved on — audited, stabilised and modernised without stopping the business. SQL Server consultancy and ASP.NET consulting.
Data privacy, GDPR & information security
Compliance handled by the person who builds your systems: GDPR consultancy and outsourced DPO services, Cyber Essentials-aligned security and ICO-registered data handling. Data privacy & GDPR consultancy and information security.
How we work
- Start with the 5-Day Sprint — one manual workflow, automated in five business days for a fixed £2,500 + VAT. See how the Sprint works.
- Keep it running on a retainer — optional monthly plans from £595 + VAT cover managed hosting, monitoring, failed-run recovery and steady improvement. See the retainer tiers.
You own the code and the data either way. If you have hosting we can access we deploy there; if not, we supply managed hosting and you can move to your own at any time — a retainer exists because systems need looking after, not because you're locked in.
More in our work — including the fixed-price websites we still build for smaller businesses.
