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Using AI well is now a core business skill.
AI has lowered the cost of a whole range of office work, and nowhere more than software. A system that used to take an agency six months and six figures can now be built in weeks, for a fraction of that. The businesses that take advantage will out-compete the ones that do not.
We think small businesses benefit most. You do not need to be an AI expert. What counts is being open to change, and owner-run businesses are far better at that than large ones. A well-run business of your size can go from very little to a genuinely useful piece of software in a matter of weeks.
John spent two decades in and around the software industry before starting Peatling Group. Whether it is choosing the right tools, an audit of what could be automated, or building software that truly fits how you work, that experience is what you get.
Software your team already knows how to use
Off-the-shelf software is built for thousands of businesses at once, so it speaks everyone's language and nobody's in particular. Your team has to learn its names for things, work around screens they never need, and remember which of forty menus hides the one button they use. That is where most of the training time goes.
Bespoke software starts from how you already work. Jobs, rounds, visits and loads are called what you call them. There is nothing on screen you do not use. And each person sees only what matters to them: the engineer sees their jobs, the office sees the diary, the owner sees the numbers. Most teams pick it up without much training, after the first walk-through.
A working proof of concept, before you commit.
We build a small working version of the idea and put it in your hands. Not a slide deck, not a mock-up: a real screen, using your real data, that you and your team can try for a week or two.
If it earns its keep, we carry on and make it fit for daily use.
- CostNothing. No deposit, no invoice, no strings.
- TimeA morning with you to see the job, then one to two weeks of building.
- You getA real screen using your real data, on your own phone or laptop.
- ThenUse it. Keep going, change direction, or stop.
How a build runs
Proof of concept
A small working version of the idea, using your real data.
Live build
We work alongside you, iterating until the software does what you want and gives you time back. We can also optionally act as your advisor for a wider array of AI-related projects. This may last one month or multiple years, depending on your ambitions and company's complexity.
Maintenance
We provide bug fixes, small tweaks and, most importantly, proactive security, to keep your software working well.
What “production-ready” means
A proof of concept is a prototype: it works when we are standing next to it. Making it production-ready is the unglamorous work that lets you forget about it and just use it, the way you would a boiler or a van. Here is what that involves.
- 01Only your people can get inLike giving staff their own keys, not one shared key under the mat.
Everyone signs in as themselves, with access matched to their role. A gardener sees their own day, the manager sees everything, and a leaver loses access the day they go.
- 02We know it is down before you doA smoke alarm rather than waiting to smell smoke.
The system checks itself every few minutes and reports any error the moment it happens, with who was doing what. We are usually fixing a problem before anyone has noticed it.
- 03Your data is safe and yoursA fireproof safe with a spare copy elsewhere.
Backed up automatically, stored in the UK or EU, never shared with anyone else's system. If the worst happened, we can restore yesterday's copy.
- 04A practice copy for trying thingsA rehearsal before opening night.
Changes are tried on a separate copy with sample data first, so nothing new reaches your live system untested. It also doubles as a demo you can show people.
- 05Careful, reversible updatesA test drive before every journey, and a spare key in the glovebox.
Every update runs through automatic checks before it goes live, and can be rolled back in minutes if something is wrong. Quiet updates, no surprises on a Monday morning.
- 06Someone accountableA name and a number, not a ticket queue.
A support line for your team, a monthly check on health and usage, and a written handover so nothing lives only in one person's head, including ours.
Advise
We help you decide what to build, what to buy, and what to leave alone. Scope, specification and choosing suppliers, so you do not spend money on the wrong thing.
Build
We work alongside you hands-on: design, build, put it live, and look after it. Your knowledge of the business, our build. You own the code and the accounts from day one.