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What it costs.
Most bespoke software companies will not tell you until you have sat through a call. Here it is.
From £30 per person, per month
No setup fee. No deposit. Nothing at all to pay until you have seen your system and decided you want it built.
The range runs from about £30 to £100 per person per month. Where you land depends on how much system you need, not on how well the negotiation goes.
What the monthly always covers
All of it, for as long as you use the system. There is no separate hosting bill, no support contract and no upgrade fee.
What moves the number
The base covers the core of a working system: the day, the people, the jobs, the customers and the money. Most of the range above that is capability you choose to add.
| What you add | Roughly |
|---|---|
| Base system | £30 a person |
| Scheduling and dispatch | plus £8 to £15 |
| Certificates, compliance and documents | plus £8 to £15 |
| Stock, plant or materials | plus £8 to £15 |
| AI drafting, reading and flagging | plus £8 to £15 |
| A customer facing portal | plus £8 to £15 |
A company using most of it lands near £100 a person. A company that needs the core and nothing else stays near £30. You are not billed for modules you do not have.
Three real shapes
The same three companies that are on our home page, priced the way they would be.
Small, base only
£90
a month, 3 people
A round, the day's work and getting paid. No modules, because a three person company does not need them and should not be paying for them.
Typical trade company
£440
a month, 8 people
Base plus scheduling and certificates. Jobs, engineers, the diary, compliance and invoicing that chases itself.
Larger contractor
£3,750
a month, 50 people
Most of the modules: crews across sites, RAMS, plant, certifications, timesheets and reporting in the format each main contractor wants.
Illustrative, and all before VAT. Your figure comes out of one conversation, not a discovery invoice.
The initial term
There is an initial term of two years, and it exists for one reason: we build the entire system before you have paid for any of it. There is no upfront fee, so the cost of building it is recovered over the term instead of charged at the start. The same system bought outright elsewhere is twenty to eighty thousand pounds before anybody switches it on.
After two years you are month to month and can stop whenever you like.
If you would rather own it
You can buy the system outright and host it yourself. It is priced on the size of the system and starts at £10,000. You get it under a licence to use inside your own company, and from that point the servers, the backups and the security patching are yours. Support and updates from us afterwards are optional, at 20% of the buy-out a year.
Most companies should not do this, and we will say so. The monthly exists precisely so that none of it is ever your problem.
What we do not charge for
- Seeing it first. We build the opening screens in your branding, with your words and demo data, before you have paid anything.
- Setup or onboarding. There is no implementation fee.
- Support. Asking us something is not a billable event.
- Most changes. Ask, and you get a straight answer about whether it is possible and whether it affects the monthly. Usually it does not.
- Getting your data out. It is yours, in a standard format, whenever you want it, including on the way out.
Is it worth it?
Sometimes not, and we would rather tell you that on a call than take you on and watch it go wrong. If your company works the way off-the-shelf software assumes, buy that instead. It is cheaper and it is available this afternoon.
This is worth it when the fit is the problem: when there is a spreadsheet beside the software doing the real work, when the same job gets typed in twice, and when "can it do this" has been answered no for two years. Work out what you are paying now and compare it against that, rather than against nothing.
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