Bespoke systems: a website built around how you work, or software that does one job on a schedule.
The work somebody does by hand every Tuesday that could have run itself on Monday night.
Take a website and CRM integration.
Every enquiry from your site lands in the CRM you already use, and nobody types it in twice.
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What you need is a specification precise enough to build from, and a price that holds.
What would you stop doing if this existed?
- Sales. The businesses worth ringing, found overnight and on your desk by morning.
- Bookings. Customers book and pay on the site, and the diary fills itself.
- Quotes. A price that builds itself from the customer’s answers, sent before you’ve hung up.
- Content. Your articles written and published on a schedule, so the site stays found.
- The numbers. The figures you put together by hand each week, ready before you’ve sat down.
Every one is built for one business, does one job, and keeps doing it after everyone’s gone home.
How it’s scoped and priced
Four steps. You know the price before anything’s built, and you can stop after the first one.
1. The scoping session, £350
One session, working through the job as it’s actually done today, with the people who do it.
The £350 comes off the build in full.
2. The specification
What you get back, in writing: what the system does, what it runs on and what that costs each month, and a fixed price to build it.
It’s precise enough for your own developer to build from, if you’d rather.
And if it isn’t worth building, it says so. You’ve spent £350 finding out, not £1,500.
3. The build, from £1,500
The scoping session sets the price. Half to start, with your £350 taken off it, and half before it goes live.
Anything outside the specification is agreed before it’s done, at £95 an hour. That’s the only rate.
4. Running it
What it costs to run each month is in the specification before you say yes.
Nothing’s bought to run it until a signed job needs it, so you’re never paying to keep something alive that hasn’t earned its place.
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Questions people ask
Why a scoping fee?
Because a price given before anyone’s looked at the work is an estimate, and estimates move.
The specification gives you a number that holds.
Is this part of a website, or something separate?
This is for a build with moving parts, which a standard site hasn’t got.
A quote form or a price list belongs on a website, and comes with one.
When the site has to take bookings and payments, or run a process your customers step through, it’s a system.
So is a job that isn’t a site at all, but something that runs on a schedule. Either way it’s scoped and built as one.
What happens to the data?
It stays yours, on accounts in your name, and the system holds the least it can get away with.
Anything it stores about your customers is set out in the specification before a line is written: what, where, and for how long.
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Send me the problem.
Tell me what the work is, who does it now, and roughly how long it takes them each week.
I read every one myself, and I’ll ring you.