Custom builds

Software for small firms, built by someone who has run one.

Internal tools, job trackers and integrations for trades, contractors and charities — designed and built by Peter Edwards, who has run a surfacing firm, chaired a charity and kept a pub for nine years.

Start with an email Shape your brief
YOUR WORK, CONNECTED
SpreadsheetsJob sheetsConversations
BUILT AROUND YOUYour next working tool.
Less re-keying. More doing.

One connected place for the work.

Real workflowsWorking softwareOne person

A small tool for your next big idea

Less blank page.
More starting point.

You know the work. This helps put it into words. Pick what gets in the way, and shape a brief you can take to Peter.

How it works

How a build usually goes.

It starts with how the work actually runs — who does what, where it lives now, what goes wrong on a bad week. Peter builds a tool to fit that, shows you working software early, and adjusts it against real use. You deal with the same person from the first email to the finished tool.

  1. 01

    Show the working day.

    Who does what, where it lives now, and what goes wrong on a bad week.

  2. 02

    See it take shape.

    Working software early, built around the way your business actually runs.

  3. 03

    Make it work for you.

    Adjust it against real use, with the same person from start to finish.

What gets built

The kind of thing that gets built.

  • A better home for the details

    Internal tools to take over from a spreadsheet that has outgrown itself.

  • Every crew, every job

    Job trackers and scheduling tools shaped around how your crews work.

  • Tools that talk to each other

    Integrations that stop the re-keying — Sage, Xero, WhatsApp.

  • Ready for the real world

    Apps delivered properly, including through the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Why it works

Built close to the work.

Custom software tends to come unstuck when the people building it have never done the job it is for. Peter has run the schedule, chased the invoices, kept the charity's books straight and cashed up the till. The products on this site — CrewBook, Studiobooks, OurSpace, Almoner — all started as tools he built because he needed them, and yours would be built the same way.

Start with an email.

A few plain words about what's slow, what's on paper and what gets lost is enough to begin with. Peter reads every email himself, and he'll say if he doesn't think it's worth building.

Email Peter