It starts with a free conversation. We look at where the friction is, and you get a clear written proposal before anything is built. If a spreadsheet is the right answer, I'll tell you.
Four steps. The first two cost you nothing.
A call, a visit or an email, at no cost. What's slow, what's manual, what can't you see that you need to?
Within a few days you get a one-page proposal: what will be built, how long it takes, and a quote that won't move.
Clearly aligned timescales, agreed before we start. You see progress as it happens.
Walkthrough, thirty days of support, and the code is yours.
Small businesses can't afford systems that fall over or leak. Everything I build is designed around three plain rules.
Held in the UK, encrypted in transit and at rest, with access limited to the people who need it. Nothing is shared with third parties or used to train anything.
Automatic backups, tested restores and monitoring that tells me before it tells you. Systems are built on established, boring technology that will still be running in ten years.
You own the code, the data and the accounts. Full documentation and a walkthrough, so anyone you choose can maintain it after me.
I'm Alistair. By day I run operations at a Lancashire food manufacturer: production, compliance and IT for around fifty people. I started building tools because the ones we needed didn't exist at a price a business our size could justify.
PadSys is that work, offered to other firms like ours. I stay close to what's new in AI and data tooling, and the useful part of that is knowing which developments will matter to a twenty-person business and which are noise.
Everything is priced up front, delivered in weeks, and handed over so you own it outright.
Tell me about it. A straight conversation about whether it's worth fixing, and what it would cost if it is.
hello@padsys.ukBased in Lancashire. Working with businesses across the UK, in person or remotely.