What we build

These are the kinds of work we take on, and a single project often combines several. If what you need sits between them, or outside them altogether, tell us about it anyway.

Custom software

One system for your whole business.

We begin by working out with you how the business runs, including who is allowed to change what and what must never happen. Then we build the system around it.

A good fit when

  • Several people work on the same records at once, from different places.
  • Customers want to book, order or pay without calling you.
  • The business runs on spreadsheets and WhatsApp messages, and things are starting to slip.
More on custom software
A deliveries board and a driver's phone. The phone loses its signal, the delivery is saved anyway, and the board catches up when the signal comes back.

Assistants

An assistant that works from your own documents.

Much of what a business knows is already written down, in manuals, policies, price lists and years of emails. We build assistants that work from all of it. They reply in plain language at any hour and show where each answer came from, and when your documents do not cover a question, they say so.

A good fit when

  • The same questions come in every day, and someone has to answer each one.
  • Messages arrive after hours and wait until morning.
  • Staff look things up in a long document while a customer waits.
More on assistants
An assistant replies to a customer after hours using the delivery schedule, then hands over a question that needs a person.

Automation

Routine jobs that run on their own.

Software can now read what arrives in a business, from bank statements to photos of handwritten notes, and see a job through to the end. We plan first for the cases that do not fit, such as a payment that does not match or a smudged scan.

A good fit when

  • Statements, forms or PDFs arrive every week and someone types them in.
  • Someone puts together a monthly report by hand from several files.
  • Approvals travel by email, and nobody is sure who has signed.
More on automation
Six in the morning. A bank statement arrives, 210 of its 212 lines match the books, the other two go to Andrea, and the daily report is sent.

Excel and reporting

Spreadsheets and reports that check every total.

Most of the numbers a business decides by live in spreadsheets, and most of those spreadsheets were never planned. They grew one tab at a time. We build them the way software is built, with a clear layout, consistent formulas, checks that prove the sums and notes that explain them, so the figures can be trusted and someone new can pick up the file safely.

A good fit when

  • Month-end takes days, most of them spent checking one set of figures against another.
  • Only one person understands the spreadsheet, and they are on leave.
  • A change on one sheet breaks a total somewhere else, and nobody notices until later.
More on Excel and reporting
A month-end spreadsheet brings in the bank's lines, checks them, points out two differences and marks the month closed.

Tell us what you want built

A few sentences in your own words are enough to start. We will reply with our questions, then send a plan and a price.

Or write to hello@stratumics.com