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How we build and run our systems.
Thinking about replacing a Microsoft Access database? The tables move in an afternoon. The business rules in its forms, queries and VBA are the real project. A practical guide for SMEs in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Most Xero integrations fail because nobody decided which system owns which record. A practical guide to connecting custom operations software to Xero for SMEs in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
When the developer who built your system leaves, the worst move is a panic rewrite. Secure what you own, stabilise it, get an honest review, then decide whether to keep, refactor or rebuild.
An MVP cost has two terms in it: how many weeks of work, and what a week costs. You can work out the first one yourself, in an afternoon, before you talk to anybody.
Somewhere in your business a spreadsheet is doing the job of software you never bought. It marks the exact point where off-the-shelf stopped fitting — and it is where the decision to buy, configure, integrate or build should start.
Stripe is a set of primitives, not a design. Here are the seven decisions inside every hospitality payment flow, and the brief to hand whoever is building yours.
The ranges in every custom software cost guide are real and useless. Here is how the number actually gets built — and the contract clause that matters more than the price.
Half of enterprises have shipped an AI agent that passed every internal evaluation and then failed in front of a customer. The tests weren't skipped - they were the wrong shape.
