A one-person UK software company

You deal with me from the first call to the last commit, with no account manager in between. Projects from £1,500.

How LanceTek works with clients

  • Scope firstA written scope and a fixed price before any work starts.
  • Friday updatesA short email each week: what is done, what is next, what I need from you.
  • Your accountsCode, domains and servers are registered to you, not to LanceTek.
  • Written downEvery system ships with a runbook in plain English.
See how a project runs
Runbook, job tracker · example
3. Restoring a backup
The database is copied every night at 02:00 to the office NAS and to a second copy offsite.
To restore, stop the app, load the newest file, then start the app. It takes about ten minutes.
If the newest file will not load, use the one before it and tell your staff which day's jobs to re-enter.

The stack behind LanceTek. Tools I use every week and review in the Journal.

Python
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Docker
Proxmox
Git
n8n
Claude
Ollama
Grafana
Tailscale
Cloudflare

The homelab where tools are tested first

Before a tool goes near a client, it runs here for weeks: one Proxmox server, backed up offsite and watched by the same monitoring clients get.

  • Why it matters to youUpgrades, restores and failures are rehearsed on my hardware, not on yours.
Read the Proxmox review