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The expensive part of new software is never the licence. It is the year afterwards, when the business quietly bends itself around a tool that was chosen from a demonstration.
Write down how the work really happens.
Then, and only then, look at software. Almost every disappointing rollout we are asked to rescue skipped this step because it felt slow.
The output is a document you own: the current process, the requirements in the language of your business, and a scored shortlist. You can take it to any vendor, including one that is not us.
What you get
- A map of the process as it actually runs
- Written requirements you own
- Two or three options, scored, with trade-offs
- A migration and cutover plan with a way back
- Documentation and training built in
What happens when the shortlist is the strategy.
of software buyers regret a purchase made in the last year to eighteen months.
of buyers purchase from the shortlist they started with, so the shortlist decides the outcome.
of the average software portfolio goes unused or overlaps something else already paid for.
And what the overruns look like.
organisations reported their ERP project went over budget, most often because of technology nobody had planned for.
over budget and 56% under the predicted value is the average for large IT projects, across 5,400 studied with Oxford.
of organisations running an ERP project reported an intense focus on managing the change for their people.
You cannot migrate your way out of bad records.
Every migration exposes what was already wrong. Cleaning before the move is cheaper than cleaning after it, and it is the only moment anyone will agree to do it.
We clean, deduplicate and agree ownership rules before anything moves, and we write down who is responsible for keeping it clean afterwards.
of their own data is what organisations suspect is inaccurate, and half name human error as the biggest cause.
times a day workers switch between applications, just under four hours a week spent reorienting.
SaaS applications is the average for a company with 1–500 employees.
The tax nobody puts in the budget.
A stack that does not talk to itself makes people the integration layer. They copy, paste, re-key and reconcile, and the cost shows up as slowness rather than as a line item.
We wire the systems that genuinely need to talk and we resist wiring the ones that do not. Fewer connections, properly built, beat a web of fragile ones.
Automate the boring part, not the judgement.
The wins here are unglamorous and reliable: things that get re-typed, chased, or forgotten. We leave the decisions to your people.
Manual re-entry is not just slow, it is measurably wrong. Controlled studies of hand-entered data keep finding error rates high enough to matter for anything you bill from.
of workers spend at least a quarter of the working week on manual, repetitive tasks.
hours a week is what 59% of workers say they would save if the repetitive parts of their job were automated.
of manually entered fields were wrong in a controlled study, and 24% of records contained at least one error.
Scoped and fixed before we start.
| Process map and requirements | Two to four weeks, fixed price. |
|---|---|
| Software selection | Adds two to three weeks. |
| Implementation and migration | Scoped after selection. |
| Documentation and training | Included, or standalone. |
| Ongoing operations | Moves onto a monthly agreement once live. |
Let’s find out what should change first.
A discovery call is thirty minutes. We ask about the business, not the software. You leave knowing what we would do first and what it would cost, whether or not you hire us.
What happens on the call
You talk, we listen
Ten minutes on what is actually going wrong and what you have already tried.
We name the first move
One recommendation, in order of priority, with the reason behind it.
You get a number
A real price range before you leave the call. No proposal cycle, no chasing.
No sales script. No obligation. If we are not the right fit we will say so and point you somewhere better.