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Software studio · Surrey & London · Worldwide

We build the software your business is missing.

Fixed prices from £250 · the same person from first call to launch

Live work · open them yourself

Websites and apps,
already at work.

Six real builds on the screens they actually run on — the site your customers see, and the app that runs the business from a phone. Tap through them, then go and open one.

The Windlebrook Estates website on a laptop: an estate agency in Surrey, headline reading What is your home really worth?
The property app on an iPhone: the next viewing at 14 Ashcombe Road with directions and a call button, then counts for contacts, properties, open offers and upcoming viewings.
A property record in the app: guide price, book viewing and log offer buttons, beds and baths, the viewings booked on it and a matching applicant.

Estate agency, Surrey · website + iPhone app

Windlebrook EstatesOpen it →

The public website is generated by the platform behind it — listings, the sixty-second valuation and the buyer register all keep themselves up to date. The team works the same data from the App Store app.

On the phones: the property app · App Store

Screenshots of live builds, taken this week. Private client systems are shown with every name, client and figure changed.

What we build

One studio for the
whole system.

Most firms end up with five tools that don't talk to each other and a spreadsheet holding it together. We replace that with one thing, built around how you work — and we build every layer of it ourselves. The result: one login, one set of numbers you can trust, and a business that stops depending on your memory.

01

Websites that sell

Fast, beautiful, findable. Built to rank, built to convert, and built so you can change the words yourself.

  • Marketing sites
  • SEO
  • Landing pages
  • E-commerce
02

CRMs & back offices

The engine room. Leads, jobs, quotes, invoices, chasing, reporting — one place, multi-user, multi-branch.

  • Pipelines
  • Quoting
  • Invoicing
  • Reporting
03

Mobile apps

Native iOS and Android from one codebase, shipped through the App Store and Play. Your team's job, in their pocket.

  • React Native
  • Offline-first
  • Camera & scanning
  • Push
04

Till & EPOS systems

Sell, refund, discount, cash up. Barcode scanning that works on a dim market stall, and a tin that balances at close.

  • Barcodes
  • Card & cash
  • Cash-up
  • Stock
05

AI & automation

The admin nobody wants to do: valuations, tagging, drafting, chasing, reconciling. Done quietly in the background.

  • AI assistants
  • Document generation
  • Scheduled jobs
  • Data clean-up
06

Integrations & portals

Making other people's systems behave. Live feeds, payment rails, mail, calendars, accounting — connected and monitored.

  • Live feeds
  • Stripe
  • Email & SMS
  • APIs
07

Booking & scheduling systems

Let people book you themselves, at eleven at night, without a phone call — and never take two bookings for the same slot again. Deposits taken up front, confirmations and reminders sent on their own, and one diary the whole team works from.

  • Self-service booking
  • Live availability
  • Deposits via Stripe
  • Automatic reminders
  • Cancellations & waitlists
  • No-shows
  • Recurring classes
  • Staff, rooms, courts, vans

Built for

Clubs and gyms, salons and clinics, tradespeople, restaurants, classes and courses, viewings and site visits — anywhere a slot, a room, a court, a table or a van has to be held for someone.

Already built, three times over

Booking is already running in three platforms we've built: property viewings for estate agents, survey and move dates for removals firms, and courts, classes and tee times for clubs. We're not learning this one on your project. Try a working one →

Not sure which one you need?
Describe the bit of your week that hurts — we'll tell you what to build, and what it costs.

Ask us

Selected work

Platforms we built,
working every day.

Different trades, the same job every time: take the part of a business that's still done by hand and put it into software. These are live platforms with real customers, real money moving through them and real people relying on them at 8am on a Monday.

Platform build · Estate agency

Foundation Agent

The operating system for an estate agency. Valuations, listings, viewings, offers, chains and compliance in one place — with a live Rightmove feed pushing straight out of it, and an iOS app for the team on the road.

  • AI-assisted valuations and appraisal reports
  • Live Rightmove feed — Zoopla in certification
  • Branded public site per branch, built automatically
  • Mobile app for viewings, photos and diary
  • Runs in the UK and the US from one codebase
foundationagent.co.uk / dashboard
Pipeline
£4.2m
Viewings
28
Valuations
11
14 Hawkes Leap · offer receivedLive
Rightmove feed · 278 listings sentOK

Phones and tablets

Apps we built,
in real hands.

Not a website squeezed onto a small screen. Proper apps that live on the phone, keep working in a hallway with one bar of signal, and catch up the moment it comes back — designed, built and submitted to the stores here.

Both apps are real and in daily use. Every name, figure and record in these screens is invented for this page — we don't publish anyone's real customers.

On the App Store · iPhone & iPad

The property app

Everything an estate agent needs between the car and the front door. Today's viewings with directions and a call button, the whole property list, offers logged on the doorstep, appraisals and the diary — running on the same data as the desk, so nothing gets retyped when they get back.

  • Today's diary, directions and one-tap calling
  • Offers and viewings logged where they happen
  • Photos from the camera straight onto the listing
  • Pipeline, contacts and valuations in a pocket
  • Submitted, reviewed and published on the App Store
The property app on an iPhone: the next viewing at 14 Ashcombe Road with directions and a call button, then counts for contacts, properties, open offers and upcoming viewings.
A property record in the app: guide price, book viewing and log offer buttons, beds and baths, the viewings booked on it and a matching applicant.

Installed on staff phones · works offline

The shop-floor app

A till and a stock system in a pocket. Staff scan a garment in, let it price itself, sell it at the counter and count the tin at the end of the day — and the owner can see what every shop took without ringing round.

  • Barcode scanning through any phone camera
  • Sells, refunds, discounts and cashes up the till
  • Stock ageing — what is sitting still, costing money
  • Keeps working with no signal, syncs when it returns
  • Installs from the browser — no hardware to buy
A shop-floor app: takings and profit today, pieces sold, stock on the floor at cost and at retail, and a doughnut chart of what is on the rail by garment type.
The same app's reports: turnover for the month against the month before, net profit, stock cost and margin, then today against yesterday and this week against last.

And more that can't go on a public page. A removals app with a walk-around survey that measures a house from a phone, a members' portal a private club books itself through, staff apps sitting behind client logins — in TestFlight or in private release. Every one designed, built, submitted and looked after by the same person who answers the phone.

Want one for your business?
Tell us what it has to do — you'll have a fixed price back today.

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How we work

Five steps.
No mystery.

You always know what's being built, what it costs and when it lands — you can log in and watch it happen live. Most projects go from first conversation to something you can click within days — not weeks, not months.

01

Understand the business

We sit with the people doing the job and learn the real process — including the bits held together with a spreadsheet and goodwill.

02

Blueprint & fixed price

A written plan of exactly what gets built, in what order, for what money — projects start from £250. No day rates disappearing into fog.

03

Build in the open

You get a working link early, plus your own client login to track everything — a live progress bar, the build checklist ticking off, screenshots fresh from the workshop, updates and messages. Change your mind while it's cheap to change, not after launch.

04

Launch & move your data

We migrate what you already have, train the team and stand next to you on day one. Nothing goes live half-finished.

05

Look after it

Monitoring, nightly backups, security updates and a person who answers. Software is a living thing, not a delivery.

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Payments wired upIn progress
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This is your login — the real thing, updated as we build.

Step one is a twenty-minute chat.
No spec needed. No obligation. You'll get a fixed price either way.

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Where we work

Small business is
our home turf.

You don't need an enterprise budget to get serious software. We build for the shop, the removals firm, the agency, the café, the one-van operation — the businesses that keep every high street going.

On your doorstep

Surrey, Berkshire & London

We're based in Windlesham, and we'll happily come to you — a coffee and a whiteboard beats a video call. Anywhere within twenty miles, plus the whole of London.

  • Windlesham
  • Woking
  • Guildford
  • Camberley
  • Farnborough
  • Bracknell
  • Ascot
  • Windsor
  • Staines
  • Weybridge
  • Esher
  • Richmond
  • London

And everywhere else

Worldwide, remotely

Software doesn't care about postcodes. We already run systems for businesses trading in the UK and the US, and the whole process works just as well over a call. And the coffee still stands — we'll fly anywhere on the planet for a face-to-face, as long as you're covering the flights.

  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Europe
  • Anywhere with wifi
  • Coffee anywhere — flights on you

Why us

A studio that ships
and stays.

We're small on purpose. No account managers, no ticket queues, no “your call is important to us”. The person who scopes your project builds it, launches it and picks up the phone afterwards — and knows your business by name.

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Projects delivered

Websites, CRMs, apps, tills, feeds and booking systems — for businesses of every shape and size.

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Platforms running today

Across property, removals, retail, media, clubs and leisure — in the UK and the US.

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To a first working build

Typically. You'll be clicking around something real inside three days.

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Monitored & backed up

Nightly verified backups, health checks and alerts on every system we run.

What changes

What this looks
like in real life.

Three systems we built, running right now in three very different businesses. Same pattern every time: the admin disappears into the software, and the owner gets their evenings back.

Evenings back

A removals firm used to write quotes after dinner and chase invoices by hand. Now the quote goes out from the survey, the invoice follows the job, and the chasing happens without anyone remembering to do it.

MoveVault · removals & storage

Money off the rail

A vintage retailer couldn't see which stock was dead. Now every garment is scanned in, priced by AI and aged automatically — so what's been hanging for ninety days is on screen before it eats another month of cash.

Revivio · independent retail

Nothing retyped

An estate agency was keying the same property into four places. Now it's entered once and the live Rightmove feed, the branch website, the brochure and the app all take it from there.

Foundation Agent · property

Your business has a version of this.
Tell us the bit that eats your week — fixed price from £250.

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Do the maths

What's the admin
actually costing you?

Quotes typed at 10pm. Invoices chased by hand. The same details copied between five places. Drag the sliders — this is what it adds up to.

Hours a week on admin 8 hrs
What your hour is worth £30

Nobody starts a business to do data entry. Software does this part for free, forever, without ever mistyping an invoice number.

Left on the table every year
£12,480

of your time, spent on work a system should be doing.

A £250 build pays for itself in about 9 days. Everything after that is profit.

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What things cost

Fixed prices,
agreed up front.

You'll have a number in writing before a line of code is written, and it doesn't move. No day rates, no “scope creep” invoices, no surprises at the end.

Websites

From
£250one-off, built in days — yours outright
  • Designed around your business, not a template
  • Works properly on phones — where your customers actually are
  • Built to be found on Google, with your area and services set up
  • Enquiry form that lands straight in your inbox
  • You can change the words yourself afterwards

Or £220 up front and £19 a month — we host it, back it up nightly, keep the certificate valid and stay on the end of the phone. Compare both →

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Systems, CRMs & booking

Fixed quote
Quoted freeyour fixed number, usually the same working day
  • Booking systems your customers use themselves, day or night
  • Leads, jobs, quotes, invoices and chasing in one place
  • Payments, email and calendars wired together
  • Priced on what it does, not on hours spent
  • Your data moved over from whatever you're on now
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Apps & tills

Fixed quote
Quoted freeApp Store & Google Play submission included
  • iPhone and Android from one build
  • Till systems with barcode scanning and cash-up
  • Works offline, syncs when the signal returns
  • Submitted to the stores for you, under your name
  • Looked after after launch, not handed over and forgotten
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Every project includes hosting set-up, nightly backups and a real person who answers. Nothing gets built until you've seen the price.

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Got an idea?
That's enough.

No spec needed, no right words. Projects start from £250, and the price is fixed before we build a thing. Tap what you're after, tell us who you are, and we'll come back with what we'd build, exactly what it costs and how fast you'd have it.

What do you need? Tap everything that applies

300+ projects delivered First build in 72h Fixed from £250

Two fields and a tap — a real person replies, usually the same working day.

Quick answers

Things people ask before they say yes

How much will it cost?

Websites start at £250 built and handed over, or £220 up front and £19 a month if you'd rather we hosted it and looked after it. Bigger systems are quoted free. Every price is fixed in writing before we build anything — no day rates, no surprises, and if it takes us longer that's our problem, not your bill.

How fast is “fast”?

You'll typically be clicking around a first working build inside 72 hours. Full projects usually land in days, not weeks — and you watch it happen live in your client portal.

Can you build a booking system?

Yes — it's one of the things we build most. Customers pick a slot themselves on their phone, the system refuses to double-book, deposits go through Stripe, and confirmations and reminders send themselves. Waitlists, cancellations, no-shows, recurring classes and multiple staff, rooms, courts or vans are all handled. We've already built booking into three live platforms.

Do I have to pay anything monthly?

Only if you want to. Pay £250 and the site is yours outright — take the files and host them wherever you like. Or pay £220 up front and £19 a month and we host it on our own server, renew the HTTPS certificate, back it up nightly, apply security updates and pick up the phone when something needs changing. Cancel whenever you like; the site and the domain are yours either way.

Can I see progress while you build?

Yes — every client gets a login. A live progress bar, the build checklist ticking off item by item, screenshots as the work takes shape, updates from the studio, and a message box straight to the person building it. No “just checking in” emails needed.

Do we need to be near you?

No. We're based in Windlesham and love a face-to-face anywhere within twenty miles or across London — but we build for businesses worldwide, and we'll fly anywhere for the coffee if you're covering the flights.

Who actually does the work?

The person you speak to on day one. No account managers, no handing your project down a chain — scoped, built, launched and supported by the same pair of hands.

What happens after launch?

We stay. Monitoring, nightly backups, security updates and a real person who answers — every system we've ever launched is still running and still looked after.

Answered?
Two fields and a tap. You'll hear back from a real person, usually today.

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