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I write about what I see at companies with 20-250 people: when Excel stops being enough, what losing control of processes looks like at scale and what NIS2 really means. In plain language, from the perspective of someone who has run a company himself and built its systems himself.
The system that spots a departing customer before the sales rep does
A regular buyer fades for months before the thank-you call. A mechanism that reads orders, invoices and payments every day sees it earlier.
Read the article →Stock alerts before the line stops
Demand calculated from accepted orders and a threshold tied to lead times: running out of material stops being a surprise.
Read the article →One message from the shop floor instead of ten phone calls
A concept for a chat that checks production data itself before it asks people. The start of a series from a live project.
Read the article →Orders are coming back to European industry - are you ready for them?
The eurozone PMI rose to 51.9 points in July. Three questions to check whether your processes can carry more orders.
Read the article →A quarter of EU SMEs at very low digital intensity
Six in ten small firms run without ERP. What that costs on the shop floor, and where to start.
Read the article →The AI Act from 2 August - website, content, chatbot
The chatbot has to identify itself as AI, realistic images need labelling, and edited text stays outside the obligation.
Read the article →Traceability - where to start
A customer requires batch tracking? You don't need a big system - you start with a single line and one scan.
Read the article →What your product really costs
Material, labour, machine, scrap, set-ups. Let the system work out the real unit cost, not an old spreadsheet.
Read the article →Technician scheduling without chaos
Jobs, assignment and routes in one place - an end to manual rota-building and double trips.
Read the article →Franchise network - reporting and standard
One place for the whole network's data and a standard enforced by the system - instead of gathering spreadsheets by phone.
Read the article →Accounting firm - more clients, no new hires
E-invoicing, staff shortages, margin pressure. Offload the repetitive steps and serve more clients with the same team.
Read the article →One system or several - tying production to the back office
Not one monolith, not a pile of separate spreadsheets. A third way: tied tools and a single source of truth.
Read the article →Every B2B customer has a different price list
Contract prices, volume discounts, prices with an expiry date - let the system work out the right price, not the salesperson.
Read the article →From finished job to payment - a shorter invoice path
Cash gets stuck between finished work and the invoice. Make the invoice a by-product of closing the job.
Read the article →Why software implementations fail
The technology is rarely to blame. Three causes recur - and all can be avoided.
Read article →Does custom software lock you in to one supplier
Lock-in comes down to one thing - who holds your data and the code. What to ask a supplier.
Read article →How much does custom software cost for 20-250
The first working project is usually a low-to-mid five-figure sum - depending on scope.
Read article →A microservice that cleans up technical PDFs
Automatically strips images and removes tables from technical PDFs - taking tedious manual work off people.
Read article →An accounting-policy generator - ready in fifteen minutes
A web app that assembles a finished draft document from a few questions.
Read article →An interest calculator - a small need, delivered fast
One screen, three interest modes - live on the site in no time.
Read article →When off-the-shelf software, and when a custom-built system
Not every problem needs a bespoke system - and not every one a subscription.
Read article →What to do with 27 spreadsheets
The first reflex is to replace everything at once. It is the most expensive move there is.
Read article →Why I built my first app for myself
The best software comes from your own pain.
Read article →NIS2 for a mid-sized company: what the directive really requires
A clear answer to what the regulator expects of you and what you can do first.
Read article →How I lost control of a 100-person company - and what I made of it
The company grew faster than my knowledge of what was really happening inside it.
Read article →5 signs your company has outgrown Excel
The problem starts when you have so many spreadsheets that, more and more often, you cannot tell which one is the real one.
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The first call is a calm conversation to get to know each other. I check whether I can help at all. No slides, no sales pressure. If I see it is a poor fit, I say so directly.
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