Services · Scale tierfrom £3,000 · 3–6 weeks

Replace your spreadsheets with something that actually works.

Custom booking systems, admin portals, and automation tools — built to match how your business actually operates, not how generic software assumes it does.

Starting from
£3,000
Typical timeline
3–6 weeks
Stack
Postgres · Stripe · React
Post-launch support
30 days, free
The problem

Your operations are held together by people doing what software should do.

Bookings come in via WhatsApp. Attendance is tracked in a shared Google Sheet. Reminders go out manually the night before. Payments are chased by hand. When the person who manages all of this is off sick, everything grinds to a halt.

Off-the-shelf software never quite fits — you're always adapting your process to the tool rather than the other way around. A custom system built around how you actually work costs less than you think and saves more time than you'd expect.

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Examples

The kinds of things I build.

Studios · Clinics · Training providers

Booking & scheduling

Online booking with payment, automated confirmations, waitlists, cancellation handling, and attendance tracking.

Awarding bodies · Education

Exam & assessment portals

Candidate registration, results management, certificate generation, and examiner dashboards — replacing spreadsheets entirely.

Any small business with operations

Internal admin systems

Staff management, shift scheduling, document workflows, or any process currently run through WhatsApp and shared drives.

Service businesses · Consultancies

Lead capture & automation

Smart intake forms, instant auto-replies, CRM-style lead tracking, follow-up sequences, and notification routing.

Who it's for

Small businesses running on manual effort.

Good fit

  • +Dance studios or fitness businesses managing bookings manually
  • +Training providers tracking attendance in spreadsheets
  • +Awarding bodies running exam records in Excel
  • +Any business whose "system" is a person remembering things
  • +Teams spending hours a week on tasks a computer should do

You might need something else

  • You need a website, not a web application — see the Grow tier
  • You need a very large-scale platform with hundreds of concurrent users
  • You already have software that mostly works — a small integration may be enough
What's included

Built to run your business, not to impress a demo.

Custom web application — booking, portal, dashboard, or admin system
Database design and backend logic built around how you actually work
Stripe payment integration (subscriptions, one-off payments, or both)
Admin panel your staff can use without technical knowledge
Automated notifications — email and SMS reminders, confirmations
AI-assisted features where genuinely useful (not bolted-on gimmicks)
Deployment, documentation, and staff training session
30 days of post-launch support included
Timeline

Three to six weeks, no surprises.

01 · 30–45 min

Discovery call

Longer than a website project. We map out your current process — every step, every workaround, every spreadsheet column that shouldn't exist.

02 · ~5 days

Scope + proposal

A detailed written spec. What the system does, what it doesn't do, the data model, and the exact price. No surprises after you sign.

03 · 3–6 weeks

Iterative build

Weekly live previews from week one. You test real data in real workflows throughout the build — not just at the end.

04 · 1 week

Handover + training

Deployment, staff training, documentation. Full access to code and infrastructure. 30 days free support while your team settles in.

Scale tier · from £3,000

Ready to automate the parts of your business that are eating your time?

Describe your current process — the spreadsheets, the manual steps, the workarounds. I'll tell you what's worth automating and what it would cost. No commitment.

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