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A builder, a bridal shop, a safety consultancy and a travel agent.

Four businesses with nothing in common, and four builds shaped around them. Three of the four are in use today and the fourth is not finished, which is said plainly on its own page. None of it could be bought off a shelf, because the awkward part of each of their weeks was different. Names stay private, so every screen on this page is drawn with invented information.

Inside the four builds

Supplier quotesSpecial ordersSite walksFittingsDraw packagesTraining recordsDepositsTrip deadlinesInspectionsReport writing

The range is the point

Nothing these four do overlaps.

A studio that has only ever built for one trade will tell you your trade is the one it understands. This is the honest version: four different weeks, four different messes, and the same person working out what the software had to do about each one.

Home building

Supplier quotes, trades, inspections, and the paperwork a lender wants before it releases money.

Bridal retail

Fittings by room, gowns ordered in for a named bride, deposits, and the day somebody finally collects.

Safety and compliance

Site walks, evidence, scoring against a written standard, and a report somebody senior actually reads.

Travel

Trips through their stages, the deadline that arrives first, and the party it belongs to.

Case studies

Four businesses, four different problems.

Each one opens on the screens, so you can see the software before you read a word about it.

Three quotes, priced like for like

BuildTrack

[ live ]

Home building and trades · built for a residential home builder

The problem

Three suppliers price the same job three different ways, and the cheapest looking one is usually the one that quietly left something out.

What it does now

Every quote on the same rows with the gaps priced back in, the whole build drawn to a calendar, and the package the bank asks for each month coming out in one go.

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A boutique's Monday, by fitting room

RingUps

[ live ]

Bridal retail and appointments · built for a bridal boutique

The problem

A shop held together by a paper diary, a deposit book, and one person remembering who ordered what and when it has to be here by.

What it does now

The day laid out by fitting room, every special order on a board that chases itself, and a deposit that stays money owed until she collects the gown.

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A safety assessment, printed for the board

Compliance console

[ live ]

Safety and compliance · built for a safety and compliance consultancy

The problem

Read the client binder, walk the yard with a clipboard, score it against a written standard, then type the whole thing up again as a report.

What it does now

The walk done on a tablet at a site with no reception, and the report the client puts in front of their board coming out of the same day of work.

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A travel agent's Monday

Travelling Tunia

[ in build ]

Travel · built for a travel agency

The problem

Every deadline living in an inbox. Final payments, passport expiries, and deposit dates for trips that go a year out.

What it will do

One screen that says what needs doing this week, and how many days until the next group leaves.

The screens are built and this is what they look like. Nothing is live yet, and no real traveller is on it.

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Every name, figure and date on these screens is invented. The layout is exactly what the software does.

Client names are kept private. What you are looking at is the real layout, redrawn with made-up businesses, people and figures.

What kept coming back

Four trades. The same four problems underneath.

This is the argument for building rather than buying, and it is not a clever one. It is just what turned up every time.

[ 01 ]

Everything gets written down twice

Once on paper at the job, once again at a desk that evening. It turned up at the builder and at the safety consultancy, and the fix was the same both times. Filled in once, on a phone, and it keeps working where there is no signal.

[ 02 ]

Things go quiet

An order nobody placed. A final payment nobody chased. A renewal that came and went. Software is good at noticing that a date has passed. People, in a busy week, are not.

[ 03 ]

It is all in one head

Each of these four had a job only the owner could do. The work is getting the part that is not judgement onto a screen, so somebody else can do it the way the owner would.

[ 04 ]

Proving it takes an afternoon

The lender wants the draw package. The insurer wants the training record. The board wants the report. Every one of those was a folder and an afternoon before it was a button.

One of them, up close

Every item ordered in for a named customer, and what needs chasing.

From the bridal shop. The deadline is worked backwards from the date she actually needs the gown, so an order nobody placed turns amber on this board instead of going quiet until it is too late to fix.

ringups — special orders

4 lines need attention. Brides whose date has passed are hidden — 3 hidden.
Bride placed order2

Sold, but not ready to move

Meghan Doyle · style 6120, size 8

Lindenwood Atelier · wedding 14 Aug 2027

Deposit unpaid

Okpik wedding party · style 3308 ×4

Marchmont Bridal · wedding 22 May 2027

Measurements missing for 2

Ready to be placed3

Deposit paid, details complete

Hana Ito · style 7412, size 6

Lindenwood Atelier · wedding 10 Apr 2027

Place now — 16 days since deposit

Simone Tremblay · style 2255, size 12

Ashgrove Gowns · wedding 27 Mar 2027

Rush

Farah Haddad · style 8801, size 14

Marchmont Bridal · wedding 4 Sep 2027

Order confirmed2

Designer confirmed, with a number and a date

Jasleen Sandhu · style 4470, size 10

PO AG-2287 · expected 30 Nov 2026

Rosa Delgado · style 1190, size 8

PO LW-4468 · expected 15 Oct 2026

Waiting on arrival3

In production or shipping

Priya Anand · style 7412, size 10

Expected 26 Sep 2026

Bev Kowalchuk · style 5533, size 16

Expected 2 Oct 2026

At risk — wedding in 7 weeks

Amara Reyes · style 9007, size 4

Expected 18 Dec 2026

Arrived2

In store, on this list only

Naomi Okpik · style 3308, size 10

Arrived 21 Jul 2026

Pickup overdue — 19 days in store

Novak wedding party · style 6641 ×2

Arrived 4 Aug 2026

Picked up1

Collected recently

Poitras wedding party · style 2210 ×3

Collected 6 Aug 2026

Deadlines worked backwards from the date she actually needs it. An order nobody placed does not go quiet — it turns up on this board.

Every name, figure and date on these screens is invented. The layout is exactly what the software does.

More we have built

Bits and pieces that came out of these four.

Each of these was built for one of the businesses above, and each one turned out to be wanted by the next.

A quote that gets signed and paid without a phone call.

Forms your crew fills in on a phone at a site with no signal.

A link where a customer drops their paperwork, with no account to make.

Training your staff finish, with proof for the insurer at the end of it.

One template that becomes a different finished document for every customer.

A button on every screen that says: this is broken, here.

Several of these are also sold as ready-made tools. See the ready-made tools →

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