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Bespoke software & automation for small businesses

A better way to get things done

From simplifying everyday tasks to bringing a new idea to life, we build software around your business

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Duet

Here’s one we built for real.

Real case · store and chain not named

Four hours to build & about £3,000 a month saved.

A supermarket store needed a delivery rota that worked around ten rules and every driver’s availability. By hand it would have taken the best part of a week. We built a tool in about four hours that found the most efficient use of the hours, and the fewest new hires needed to fill the gaps.

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By hand

Every rule checked by eye

By hand: about a week’s work, and 73 rules broken.

With the tool

10 rules · every driver’s availability and notes

With the tool: about 4 hours to build, then a new rota in a minute or two.

About £3,000 a month saved.

Reconstructed for this page.

Duet

Most of what we build is one of three things.

Three kinds of job & one way of working.

Duet is a software studio in Bath. We build bespoke software and automations for small businesses across Bristol and the South West, at a fixed price agreed before we start.

  1. Build a tool Software made to measure, for the job off-the-shelf doesn’t fit. Van planner · Prototype week
  2. Automate admin The copying and chasing between your apps, done for you. Invoice routine
  3. Make information useful Paperwork and documents turned into figures and answers. Receipts · Your files

Jo, Mill Lane Deliveries

We run three vans and plan the day’s drops on a whiteboard every morning. It works while Sue’s in, but when she’s off nobody else really knows how she does it, and the drivers end up ringing round. Could something do the planning for us?

Duet

It could. A planner that shares the drops between your vans, and re-plans when one’s off the road.

Build a tool

Software made to measure & yours to keep.

Small tools for the jobs off-the-shelf software doesn’t quite fit. They run on the computers you already have, and they’re yours.

Example

Van planner

Re-plans the day’s deliveries when a van’s off the road.

Example

Prototype week

Not sure it’ll work? A working first version by Friday, to try with real people.

Priya, Bookkeeper

Every invoice that comes in, I save it to the shared drive, type it into a spreadsheet, then enter it again in Xero, and chase anything overdue. It takes most of my Monday. Can any of that happen on its own?

Duet

Most of it. Your apps can pass it between themselves and tell you when it’s done.

Automate admin

The copying & chasing, handled.

We connect the apps you already use, so routine jobs happen without you and you hear when they’re done.

Example

Invoice routine

An invoice arrives by email, and it’s filed, added to your spreadsheet and drafted in Xero.

Dan, Builder

My receipts stay in the van until the accountant asks for them at the end of the quarter. Then it’s a weekend of typing them in, and some have faded too much to read. Is there an easier way to keep on top of it?

Duet

Post them in as they arrive. We’ll read them into your books and ask you about anything unclear.

Make information useful

Your paperwork, read & put to work.

What you already have, made usable: receipts read into your books, and contracts and letters that answer questions.

Example

Receipts, filed

Send receipts in as they arrive. The figures land in your books, and anything unclear comes back as a question.

Example

Ask your files

Ask a tenancy, a policy or a letter a question in plain English, and get the answer with the page it’s on.

Tom, Solicitor

Our files are confidential, so before we use anything like this I need to know where our data goes, who can see it, and whether it ever leaves the UK.

Duet

Wherever you choose. Here are the options.

Clever AI, kept close & kept yours.

Some work is fine on a mainstream AI service. Some should never leave the building. You choose where it runs, from a UK data centre to a machine in your office with no internet connection, and we build to suit.

UK-hosted · on your own network · fully offline if it has to be

Where your words go: Our UK cloud the open internet · other countries EU data centres a UK data centre your network your office your files stay here you your team AI the model your words

Where your words go: Nowhere outside the UK. Your files and the model both live in a UK data centre we run.

Ali, Café owner

I’ve had quotes from agencies that went up halfway through. How does this work, and how do you price it?

Duet

One conversation, then a fixed price, agreed before we build anything.

One price & no surprises.

We talk the job through, on a call or in person. You get one fixed price in writing before anything is built, then a working tool in days. This site was made the same way. See how

  1. Step 1: A conversation

    Tell us the job, on a call or at your place in Bath or Bristol.

  2. Step 2: A fixed quote

    One price for the whole job, in writing, before anything is built.

  3. Step 3: The build, in days

    Most jobs take days, not months, and you see it come together.

  4. Step 4: A handover in person

    We install it and show your team. Care afterwards is optional.

Duet

Your turn. Which job takes longer than it should?

Tell us the job & get a fixed quote.

Or email [email protected] · We’ll come to you in Bath or Bristol.