Who I build for
A trade, a service round, a shop floor. If it fits in a notebook, it can be a system
These are grouped by how the work happens, not by what gets sold. A bike workshop and a dog groomer have nothing in common on paper, and yet both lose appointments in the same Messenger thread. And both only need one screen with the appointments in order, where nobody has to go looking for them.
I build custom systems for workshops and repair shops, for trades that travel to the customer, for equipment hire, and for businesses that live on booked appointments. Websites start at €470, custom systems at €1,400, and the first working version usually lands within a week.
Workshops and bench service
- Bike workshops built and running Jobs in a notebook, slots over Messenger, and a monthly fee to a booking portal that owns your customer. See what it looks like →
- Car and tyre workshops Job sheets in a binder, the tyre stock kept in your head, and a phone that never stops ringing during the tyre-change season. See what it looks like →
- Garden machinery service In spring a pile of mowers with no name tags, in winter an empty workshop, and parts you order only once the customer is already waiting. See what it looks like →
Work at the customer site
- Boiler and heating service built and running A technician in the field, paperwork on paper, and inspection dates you track in your head or a calendar. See what it looks like →
- Air conditioning and heat pumps In summer you install from dawn to dusk, in winter it goes quiet, and somewhere in between the regular servicing was supposed to happen, which only you know about. See what it looks like →
- Refrigeration and catering equipment Restaurants report breakdowns at half past six in the morning, nobody keeps track of the units sitting at each venue, and service contracts get invoiced from memory. See what it looks like →
- Machine and CNC service Breakdowns show up exactly when production is down, and the technician only finds out on site which control unit is actually there. See what it looks like →
- Plumbers, water and heating Emergencies squeezed between booked jobs, parts from the van scribbled on a scrap of paper, and quotes you rewrite from the last one. See what it looks like →
- Electricians You jot down materials from the van on a scrap of paper, keep inspection dates in your head and invoice on Sunday night. See what it looks like →
- Chimney sweeps The customer remembers the inspection on their own once every three years, and you dig paper reports out of a binder sorted by date. See what it looks like →
- Drain cleaning They call you on a Saturday at ten in the evening, the price gets agreed over the phone and the camera footage ends up on a drive in the van. See what it looks like →
- Inspections and inspection technicians The client watches the deadlines, reports get written in Word from scratch, and there is no overview of what is overdue. See what it looks like →
- Cameras and security Recorder access details in an Excel file on someone's desktop, installation configs living in the technician's head, and service that starts once the recording stops. See what it looks like →
Construction and trades
- Paving and landscape design built and running The area gets measured on paper in the evening, waste is a guess, and the quote leaves three days later, once the client has already signed with someone else. See what it looks like →
- Roofers and sheet metal workers Covering usage gets guessed from a sketch on your knee, the quote leaves a week later, and crews get planned around the weather. See what it looks like →
- Joiners and custom furniture The cut list gets written by hand, waste from each board is a guess, and the price comes from a gut feeling nobody has checked in years. See what it looks like →
- Window and shading fitting The measurement lives on paper, the quote gets retyped from the configurator, and the fitting date depends on when the delivery finally shows up. See what it looks like →
- Locksmith and metal fabrication Price gets guessed from weight, offcuts from bar stock go uncounted, and galvanizing only gets added up after the job is done. See what it looks like →
- Insulation and facades Facade area gets measured wall by wall by hand, openings are subtracted by guesswork and scaffolding gets priced only later. See what it looks like →
- Construction firms and renovations The budget lives in Excel, drawdown is guessed, and whether the job actually made money you only learn once it is finished. See what it looks like →
- Pools and wellness In May you can not keep up with openings, in October with winterizing, and in between nobody knows how many pools you actually look after. See what it looks like →
Equipment, hire and transport
- Scaffolding hire built and running Parts counted by hand from dimensions, stock estimated by eye, and quotes from a spreadsheet nobody has audited in years. See what it looks like →
- Construction equipment rentals Bookings live in a notebook, you learn about damage at the next handover, and rent is worked out from dates someone happens to remember. See what it looks like →
- Car and van rentals Reservations live on a wall calendar, damage gets argued without photos, and fines land six months later when nobody remembers who was behind the wheel. See what it looks like →
- Earthworks and excavators Engine hours scribbled on paper in the cab, diesel guessed, and invoicing based on whatever the operator managed to remember. See what it looks like →
- Wells and boreholes The price is agreed per meter, but the real depth and the rock only show up once you drill, and the argument over the extra charge always follows. See what it looks like →
- Moving services The price gets guessed over the phone, the crew is planned in your head, and you only hear about what got damaged on the way from the customer. See what it looks like →
- Waste removal and containers Only the driver knows where each container stands and since when. Billing runs off a weighbridge slip that sometimes turns up. See what it looks like →
- Small hauliers Orders arrive by email and phone, delivery notes ride around in the cab, and invoicing happens whenever a spare moment shows up. See what it looks like →
What they have in common
In all three cases the business works. Customers come, there is plenty of work, money moves. The problem is not demand. The problem is that the record of that demand lives in five places at once: a notebook by the counter, the owner phone, a spreadsheet, Messenger threads, and the head of one person who remembers all of it.
That holds while the company is small. Then comes the day a job goes missing, a price comes out wrong, or two people write down the same slot. Nobody calls it a crisis. It is called normal operations, and it costs a few hours every week that nobody measures.
So my work does not start with code. It starts with sitting down over that notebook and that spreadsheet and taking them apart. On the scaffolding hire job that is how I found ten bugs in the client spreadsheet, the one he had been quoting from for years.
And if your industry is not on the list?
Then write to me. The list is not a condition, it is a sample. It grows with the work I actually do, so if your trade is missing it only means I have had nothing truthful to say about it yet. The principle is the same whatever you sell: if you keep records on paper or in a spreadsheet and it has started to grate, something can be done about it.
The first call is free and commits you to nothing
You leave it either with a plan or with the certainty that building this is not worth it yet. Both answers are fine.
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