Four services, priced in phases you can see.
Each project is split into short phases with a fixed price. You commit to one phase at a time, and you can stop after any of them with something that works.
Prices below are guides to help you budget, not quotes. Your written proposal sets the actual price. Ad-hoc work is £550 a day.
Custom software
For when off-the-shelf software almost fits but not quite, or when the business is held together by a shared spreadsheet and a lot of memory. I build small, well-made web applications that do one job properly.
Shrewsbury SY3Invoiced
Ludlow SY8Booked
Telford TF2Awaiting parts
Shrewsbury SY1Booked
An illustration of the kind of job tracker that replaces a whiteboard and a spreadsheet. Names and places are invented for the sample.
What you get
- A web application that works on phones and desktops, with logins for your staff
- Your data in a proper database, with nightly backups you can restore from
- Hosting set up in an account you own, not mine
- The source code, and a short written guide to how it fits together
- Thirty days of fixes after handover, included
Typical shape of a project
Price shape
£3,500 to £18,000
Discovery is a fixed £750 and produces a written plan you keep whether or not we carry on. Most small internal tools land between £6,000 and £12,000 across all phases.
AI automation
AI agents are useful for work that is mostly reading, sorting and drafting: enquiries, invoices, supplier emails, job notes. I build them so they do the repetitive part and hand anything with consequences to a person.
If a simple rule or an existing tool would do the job, I'll tell you that first. Not everything needs a language model.
What you get
- One process automated end to end, connected to the tools you already use
- An approval step wherever a customer, money or a record is affected
- A log of every action the agent took, readable by a non-technical person
- Clear limits on what the agent can access, set by you
- Running costs billed to your own account, so you see exactly what it costs
Typical shape of a project
Price shape
£1,800 to £8,000
A pilot on one process is £1,800 to £4,500. If it doesn't save you time during the pilot, we stop there and you have paid only for the pilot.
DevOps and self-hosting
Many small businesses have servers, websites and backups that were set up once by someone who has since moved on. I review what you have, write down what's there, and put it on a footing you can rely on.
Where it makes sense, I'll help you run things yourself (file sharing, password management, internal tools) instead of paying per seat forever.
What you get
- A written review: what you have, what's at risk, and what to fix first
- Backups that are tested by actually restoring them
- Monitoring that tells you when something breaks, before your customers do
- Repeatable deployments, so updates are routine rather than nerve-racking
- Remote access without opening your network to the internet
Typical shape of a project
Price shape
£650 review, then £2,000 to £7,500
The review is a fixed price and the report is yours to act on with anyone. Migrations are priced once we both know what's there.
Ongoing care
Software needs looking after. Care plans cover the dull, important work that keeps things running, plus a set amount of time for small changes each month.
What you get
- Security updates applied and tested each month
- A restore test of your backups every quarter, with a note of the result
- Monitoring alerts come to me first
- Small changes and questions within your monthly hours
- A reply within one working day, from the person who built it
Price shape
£180 to £450 a month
Depends on how many systems and how many hours of changes. Month to month, with one month's notice either way.
Not sure which of these you need?
Describe the problem and I'll suggest where to start, even if the answer is a tool you can buy off the shelf.
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