What we build for Bristol businesses
We're a software studio with our registered address in Bristol. We build bespoke business systems for Bristol companies of roughly 5 to 250 staff: engineering suppliers around Filton, creative and production companies, and professional firms near Temple Meads. Discovery happens at your premises. The build runs remotely, with a demo every week.
Bristol has no shortage of developers
The city has a large tech sector, with agencies, product studios and contractors. Picking the right kind matters more than picking a Bristol address.
Where we fit
- Your business makes, designs or advises on something, and software runs the operation behind it.
- The problem is an old system, a spreadsheet or two packages that do not talk to each other.
- You want the person who builds it in the room at discovery.
- You want fixed-price phases and the code handed over at the end.
Hire a product team instead
If software is the product, and you are raising money to build it, you need your own engineers. A studio like ours can help with a first version. Long term, the team should sit in-house.
Bristol sectors and the systems they run on
| Sector | Where it hurts | What we build |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospace and engineering suppliers | Job travellers on paper, inspection records in spreadsheets, and exports from an ERP nobody likes | Job management with document control and inspection sign-off on a tablet |
| Creative and production companies | Kit, crew and studio space booked in a shared calendar, quotes built in a spreadsheet | A booking and quoting system with the same rates and people in both |
| Professional services | Client onboarding by email and a CRM that only holds names | A customer portal for documents and sign-off, linked to the CRM |
| Hospitality and independent retail | An online shop and a till that disagree on stock | An online shop that shares stock and posts sales to Xero |
Engineering firms north of the city
Filton has built aircraft since before the First World War, and Airbus and Rolls-Royce still have large sites in and around it. A long chain of smaller machine shops and specialist suppliers sits around them. Plenty still run their quality paperwork on a mix of an ERP, Excel and printed job travellers.
That paperwork is a good fit for a bespoke system. Inspection records, non-conformance reports and certificates of conformity follow a fixed shape. Your quality team owns the procedure and the audit. We build the software that records it, with every change logged.
What Bristol businesses ask us for
Bespoke software development
Systems built around how your operation already runs, with the code and data handed over to you.
Read moreJob management
Jobs, travellers, inspection and sign-off in one place, on the office PC and the shop-floor tablet.
Read moreCustomer portals
Client logins for documents, approvals and progress, so fewer updates go by email.
Read moreReplacing old systems
Moving off a desktop program or an outgrown package, with the old data counted on both sides.
Read moreThe scene around Temple Meads
The Engine Shed, next to Temple Meads station, houses the SETsquared incubator and a lot of the city's start-up activity. TechSPARK runs events and a newsletter for the wider West of England tech community. Both are good places to meet in-house developers or a technical co-founder.
We are more useful to the businesses that never go to those events. Their software is a means to an end.
For them, discovery happens on the shop floor or in the studio, with the people who do the work. You get a written scope and a fixed price for the first phase. The build then runs remotely, with a working demo every week, and we come back on site for training and launch.
Questions from Bristol businesses
Do you come to us in Bristol?
Yes. Discovery, training and launch happen at your premises. The build runs remotely in between, with a demo on a video call every week so you can test as we go.
Are you a Bristol software company?
Yes. Our registered address is in Bristol, and we're also based in South Devon. We work with businesses across the UK, but Bristol clients get more of the project in person.
Can you work alongside our in-house developers?
Yes, if the split is clear. We can build a separate system that talks to yours through an API, or hand over a codebase your team takes on. We agree that in the written scope.
Can you build software for an AS9100 supplier?
Yes, for the internal systems: job travellers, inspection records and document control. We build to your procedures and log every change. Certification and audits stay with your quality team.
Will it connect to our accounts and payments?
Usually, yes. Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, Stripe and GoCardless all have APIs we work with. See [payments and accounting](/integrations/payments-and-accounting).
Show us the system your Bristol business runs on
Book a 30-minute initial alignment call. You'll talk to the person who'd build it, and we can arrange discovery at your premises.