AI dashboards, automations and websites for Derby businesses.

Working in Derby

An engineering city, with the admin to match.

Derby is an engineering city, and proud of it. Rolls-Royce builds aero engines at Sinfin, Alstom builds trains at Litchurch Lane, Toyota builds cars at Burnaston, and Great British Railways has made the city the home of the UK's rail industry. Beneath those names sits a deep supply chain of smaller engineering firms: machine shops, fabricators, tooling specialists and test houses doing exacting work to tight deadlines. Around them, the trades, accountants, solicitors, restaurants and independent shops of the Cathedral Quarter, Pride Park and the suburbs keep everyone fed, housed and advised.

What those businesses share is not a shortage of work. It is the admin wrapped around the work: enquiries arriving by text, phone and email, quotes written from scratch every time, purchase orders matched by hand, invoices chased when someone remembers, and a whole operation living in the owner's head. A precision machining firm in Spondon waiting on sign-off from a tier-one customer and a heating engineer in Allestree chasing forty small invoices have the same leaks, just in different colours. Both are losing hours a week to work that earns nothing.

We fix that with three things, built to order. A dashboard that shows the whole pipeline on one screen, from first enquiry to paid invoice, so nothing sits forgotten in an inbox. Automations that send the follow-up, the reminder and the review request without being asked, reliably, every time. And a website that turns local searches into enquiries you never lose. AI drafts the words where it helps, and you approve everything before it goes out. Each one is built around how your business already runs, not the other way round, and you own it outright when it is done.

It starts with a Discovery Day. We are based in Nottingham, about half an hour along the A52 or twenty minutes on the train, so we come to your premises and spend a working day on site alongside your team, watching how enquiries arrive, how jobs get booked and how invoices get chased. You get a plain-English report of what we would fix first, each item with a fixed price and no obligation to build any of it. Derby is close enough that we can be there at short notice, and back again whenever you need us, for training, tweaks or the next phase.