Software built around how you work.
Sometimes nothing off the shelf fits. A small, focused tool built for your business can do the one job your other software does badly.
Book a free 30-minute callWhat is it?
Custom AI software is a tool built for your business rather than bought off the shelf: a dashboard, a planner, a simple app for your team, often with AI inside to search your records or draft from templates. We build it around the way your business actually runs, and only when off-the-shelf software isn’t the better answer.
What it can do.
Dashboards
The numbers you check every week, pulled from your systems into one view that keeps itself up to date.
Planners
Who’s free, what’s booked and what’s at risk, in one place the office and the team can rely on.
Internal tools
A simple app for a job your current software handles badly, like rotas, order changes or job sign-off.
AI built in
Search across your own records, or draft documents from your templates, inside the tool your team already uses.
Examples.
Illustrative examples of where this fits. A Fit check finds what fits your business.
Order changes
- What it does
- Carries a changed quantity or date from the order through to the production plan and materials list.
- What a person does
- Confirms the new plan.
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Rotas and cover
- What it does
- Shows who’s free and qualified when someone’s off, and suggests cover for the day.
- What a person does
- Decides who goes.
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The weekly numbers
- What it does
- Pulls jobs, invoices and hours into one dashboard that keeps itself up to date.
- What a person does
- Reads it and decides what to do.
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Our approach.
- It’s built around how your team works, and tried with them before it’s relied on.
- With ongoing support, we keep it working and improve it as your business changes.
How we work.
Three stages. You decide after each one whether to go on.
- FindA Fit checkA paid look at how your business runs, ending in a written plan with a price for anything worth building.How the Fit check works
- BuildBuilt around your toolsAssistants, automation and software that fit the way you already work.How we build
- RunOngoing supportWe monitor, fix and improve what we’ve built, and train your team.How ongoing support works
Plain answers.
More in the full list of questions.
Why not just buy software?
Often you should, and we’ll say so. Custom software makes sense when off-the-shelf tools don’t fit the way you work, or you’d be paying for a lot you don’t need to get the one thing you do.
How long does it take to build?
It depends on what’s involved. A Fit check ends with a written plan that sets out what we’d build, roughly how long it would take and what it would cost, before you decide anything.
Will our team be able to use it?
That’s the point of building it around them. We work with the people who’ll use it, keep it simple, and train them before it goes live.
We also build.
- AI assistants and agentsAI that drafts, sorts and summarises routine work, and agents that carry a task through several steps.
- Workflow automationThe routine steps between your tools happen on their own, so details are entered once.
- Ongoing supportWe monitor, fix and improve what we’ve built, and train your team, so it keeps working.
Book a free 30-minute call.
On Google Meet, with Jacob. Tell us about one job that takes more effort than it should, or how a normal week goes.
Pick a timeOr email jacob@propelai.co.uk