Turn Your Spreadsheets
Into Software
Every business has the spreadsheet. The one nobody's allowed to touch, that breaks on a paste, that one person understands. We replace it with proper internal software your team will actually want to use.
Bespoke
NOT OFF-THE-SHELF
Days
TO FIRST VERSION
Yours
CODE, DATA AND IP
Stop running your business on a spreadsheet.
Sheets are great for thinking. They're a terrible way to run an operation that more than one person depends on.
A bespoke internal tool used to mean six months and a big cheque. With AI-assisted development, that's now days.
The economics flipped. The spreadsheet doesn't have to win anymore.
TODAY'S SPREADSHEET
- Locks when two people open it
- Formulas only one person understands
- No permissions, no audit log
- Breaks on a paste, dies with its author
- Can't notify, can't integrate
BESPOKE SOFTWARE
- Multi-user, real-time, no locking
- Rules named, tested, visible to the team
- Role-based access and full audit log
- Validated inputs, daily backups
- Sends alerts, talks to everything else
Every sheet hides the same five parts.
A spreadsheet is software in disguise. Once you can see the parts, you can build them once and let them live where they should.
Data model
The tables your sheet was pretending to be. Customers, jobs, invoices, stock. Defined once, used everywhere.
Inputs
Forms, imports, integrations. No more typing into cells, no more pasting from email.
Rules
Your formulas, but named, tested and visible to the team. Not buried in column AF.
Views
Dashboards, lists and reports per role. Not one mega-sheet that nobody can read.
Automations
Emails, reminders, syncs and approvals that used to be someone's job. The software does them.
Where we come in.
We've replaced the master spreadsheet for recruiters, financial advisers, engineering firms, builders and bedroom manufacturers. Same pattern every time.
No twelve-month consulting engagement. Fixed-scope phases, working software, you own the code.
START A SHEET AUDITSheet audit
Send us the spreadsheet. We map what it actually does, who uses it, where it breaks. Scope and price up front, no slide decks.
Model the data
We turn the tabs and formulas into proper entities, rules and roles. You see the shape before we write a line of production code.
Launch the first version
Usable internal tool live. Your team starts moving off the sheet straight away. We migrate the existing data.
Iterate
New fields, views and integrations as you find them. Small releases, no big-bang rebuilds, no months between updates.
Sheets we've already replaced.
Engineering firms, recruiters, financial advisers, builders, manufacturers. All started on spreadsheets. None of them are anymore.
SEE OUR WORKThe ones we get asked first.
Can't we just buy a SaaS for this?
Sometimes you can, and we'll tell you when. Usually the sheet exists because no off-the-shelf product fits the way you actually work, and the ones that come close cost more in licences than building your own.
How long does it take?
First usable version in days, not quarters. Most of our spreadsheet replacements go live for the team fast, then keep getting better from there.
Who owns the code?
You do. Source code, data, IP. We can host it for you, or hand it over to your team. No lock-in.
What about the existing data?
We migrate it. Years of rows, the merged cells, the colour-coded statuses, the comments in the corners. Cleaned up and loaded in.
How much does it cost?
Priced per phase, fixed before we start. You see the number after the scoping call, before anything's committed.
What if we change our mind halfway?
Good. That's why we build small and iterate. You see working software every week, so changes happen while it's cheap, not at the end.
Got a spreadsheet holding the business together?
Send it over. You'll get a clear answer on what it would take to replace it, what we'd build first, and what to leave alone. Thirty minutes, no slides.