Services

Five services. One capability.

Construction and engineering businesses lose hours every week to work that should have been automated years ago. Invoices waiting in an inbox for a signature. Job sheets typed up twice. A Monday morning spent rebuilding the same Excel report. These five services cover the automation, the reporting and the bespoke systems that replace all of it.

Workflow automation

Automate the repetitive office tasks that eat hours every week, so approvals move on their own instead of waiting for someone to chase them.

Fastest to pay back

What it replaces

Invoice approvals that sit in an inbox for days because the approver is on site, not at a desk.
Purchase orders raised in a spreadsheet, emailed as an attachment, then re-keyed by someone in accounts.
Leave requests and job sheets that get printed, signed, scanned and filed twice.

What you get

Approvals that route themselves to the right person, on their phone, with a full audit trail behind every sign-off.
One place to raise and track a PO, a job sheet or a leave request, with the status visible to everyone who needs it.
Automatic reminders and escalation, so nothing stalls because one person is on annual leave.

Examples

Invoice approvals Purchase orders Leave requests Engineer job sheets Email routing Document approvals

Proof: at Rittal CSM I built a digital approval workflow that retired paper sign-off and email chains across the operation. It is still in production today.

AI process automation

AI used where it genuinely removes manual data work, not as a gimmick bolted onto a process that did not need it.

What it replaces

Someone reading supplier invoices and typing the totals into a system by hand.
Pulling figures out of PDF drawings, certificates and reports, one document at a time.
A shared inbox that has to be sorted manually before anyone can act on it.

What you get

Invoices read automatically, with line items and totals extracted and checked against the order before they reach approval.
Information pulled straight out of PDFs into your system, with anything uncertain flagged for a human rather than guessed.
Email categorised and routed on arrival, plus generated summaries and meeting notes that save the write-up.

Examples

Read invoices automatically Extract data from PDFs Categorise emails Generate summaries Meeting notes

Proof: this builds on the same integration and data work as my SAP-connected stock monitor on the production floor. Getting data cleanly out of one system and reliably into another is the hard part, and it is the part I have already done in production.

Reporting & dashboards

Power BI dashboards that replace the manual Excel report someone rebuilds by hand every week.

What it replaces

A Monday morning spent exporting, pasting and reconciling the same spreadsheet.
Project profitability nobody can answer until the job is finished and it is too late to act.
Numbers that disagree depending on which version of the file you opened.

What you get

Dashboards that refresh themselves from the systems you already run, so the report is current when you open it.
Live project profitability and engineer utilisation, visible while a job is still running and can still be corrected.
One version of the numbers, with outstanding jobs, invoice status and cash flow in the same place.

Examples

Project profitability Engineer utilisation Outstanding jobs Invoice status Cash flow reporting

Proof: the OEE and downtime tracker I built on the production floor is real-time reporting on live production data. Same discipline, different audience.

Business systems

Small internal web apps for the jobs Microsoft tools cannot quite do, built around your process rather than a template.

Live demos

What it replaces

A shared spreadsheet that breaks every time two people open it, and that only one person really understands.
Asset and equipment records kept in a filing cabinet, so nobody knows what is where or when it was last checked.
Off-the-shelf software you pay for monthly and still have to work around.

What you get

A bespoke web app on your own infrastructure, with the field names and steps your team already uses.
Offline-resilient capture for site and floor work, which keeps recording through a dead zone and syncs when signal returns.
The full source code, yours outright, deployed on your hardware with handover documentation.

Examples

Asset tracking Job management Quality inspections Internal portals

Proof: this is exactly what I did on the production floor. Four systems, built from scratch, all four still running the plant today. Open the demos and click around them.

Ongoing optimisation

A monthly retainer after the first project, so the system keeps improving instead of quietly going stale.

Optional, month to month

What it replaces

Software that was right at launch and slowly stopped matching how the business actually works.
Waiting on a support ticket queue at an agency that did not build the thing.
New starters learning a system from whoever happens to be free that day.

What you get

Direct access to the engineer who built it, for fixes and minor changes without raising a ticket.
New automations added as you find them, because the second and third one are always easier than the first.
Staff training and process reviews, so the system keeps earning its place as the business changes.

Examples

Improve workflows Add automations Fix issues Train staff Review processes

Proof: the four systems I built did not stop at go-live. I maintained and extended them in production, which is where you learn what a system actually needs.

How these fit together

Same skill, applied to the whole business.

My time on a production floor taught me that the expensive problems are rarely on the machines. They are in the approvals, the re-typing, the reports nobody trusts. These five services are one capability pointed at different parts of the same problem, and most businesses start with one and add the next once it has paid for itself.

Start small

one workflow, scoped and priced up front, live in weeks rather than quarters.

Yours to keep

full source code, on your own infrastructure, with documentation. No lock in.

Direct

designed and written by one engineer. No account managers, no agency overhead.

Not sure which one you need?

Thirty minutes on where the admin actually goes in your week. I will tell you which of these would pay for itself first, or that none of them would.

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