Services, the shape of a project, and what it costs

Three kinds of work, often combined. Every project starts with a free call and ends with a fixed quote, so the ranges below are there to tell you whether we are in the right neighbourhood before you pick up the phone.

Custom software

For when off-the-shelf tools almost fit, and your team spends hours bridging the gap with spreadsheets and copy-paste.

What you get

A web application your team signs into, built around the way you already work: quotes, jobs, bookings, stock, compliance records.
An admin area for the boring-but-vital parts: users, permissions, exports, audit history.
Connections to what you already use, such as your accounts package, email and calendar, where they offer a sensible API.
The source code in a repository you own, and a written guide to running it.

The typical shape of a project

ScopingOne call and a written scope. Up to a week.

BuildFour to ten weeks, with something to try every Friday.

Settle inTwo weeks of fixes and small changes after launch, included.

Price shape

£4,000 to £18,000fixed price for a typical build

£550 a dayfor open-ended or exploratory work

Indicative, excluding VAT. A smaller tool such as a single form with a dashboard sits at the lower end; a customer-facing portal with payments sits at the top.

Agentic-AI automation

For the reading, sorting and retyping that takes someone a morning a week, and which nobody chose as their career.

What you get

An automation that reads incoming documents or messages, pulls out what matters and does the agreed next step: files it, drafts a reply, updates a record.
A review queue where a person approves anything above a threshold you set. The agent stops and asks when it is unsure, rather than guessing.
A log of every run: what came in, what the model decided, and why.
A clear monthly running-cost estimate before anything is built, and a choice between hosted and self-hosted models where your data calls for it.

The typical shape of a project

Sample and measureWe run 50 to 100 of your real documents through a prototype. One to two weeks.

Build with guard railsRules, review queue and logging. Two to four weeks.

Shadow, then switch onIt runs alongside the person doing the job until you trust it.

Price shape

£1,800 to £7,500per automation, fixed price

£20 to £200 a monthtypical model and hosting costs, paid at cost

Indicative, excluding VAT. If the sample run shows the job is not a good fit for automation, the project stops there and you pay only for the sample stage.

DevOps and self-hosted infrastructure

For the servers, backups and deployments underneath everything, which tend to get attention only when they fail.

What you get

A review of what you run today, where it lives, and what it costs, written up in plain English.
Hosting that suits the job: a modest cloud server, a small machine in your office, or both, with automated deployments.
Backups that are tested by actually restoring them, on a schedule, with a report you can read.
Monitoring and alerts, and a runbook so that anyone competent could take over.

The typical shape of a project

AuditA look at everything you run and pay for. A few days.

Move or buildMigration planned around your quiet hours. One to three weeks.

CarePatching, monitoring and a monthly restore test, if you want it.

Price shape

£1,200 to £5,000audit and setup, fixed price

From £180 a monthcare plan, cancellable with a month's notice

Indicative, excluding VAT. Hardware and cloud bills are in your name and paid directly by you, so you always own the account.

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