Not sure where to start?
Technology review
I look at how you work and give you a prioritised plan.
Hey, I'm Sean
your technical partner.
Your business has more technical potential than you realise.
I uncover the opportunities between your existing software, people and processes, so you get more from what you already have, with one technical partner who grows with you.
Businesses, teams and products I've worked on
Adam White Bike Fit
paperhook
Run Orbital
BetterByTraining.com
Not simply consulting
From a technical bottleneck to a different way of operating, in a short period of time.
I've worked with complex systems and lean teams where getting things done matters more than producing another strategy document.
Business first
I understand how the business works before recommending any technology.
Find what is possible
I uncover the connections and opportunities you may not know exist.
Actually build it
Practical advice combined with the ability to design, build, connect and deploy the solution.
Stay involved
I can remain your ongoing technical partner, so you never start from zero again.
The problem
The business keeps moving. The technology doesn't always keep up.
Things that made sense five or ten years ago don't always make sense today. I help you work out what should stay, what could improve and what needs changing.
Sometimes that's
Connecting two existing systems.
Moving to a more suitable platform.
Automating a time-consuming process.
Building and deploying custom software.
Introducing AI where it genuinely helps.
And sometimes the best advice is to leave something alone.
The goal isn't more technology. It's a business that works better.
Sound familiar?
You've probably already tried the obvious fixes.
You bought another subscription.
Now there is one more login and the same manual work.
You hired an agency or a freelancer.
It got built, they moved on, and nobody is sure how it works.
You held it together with spreadsheets.
It works, for as long as the person who understands them stays.
Someone vibe-coded an app.
It worked on day one. Now the business depends on it.
The answer usually isn't starting again. It's making what you already have work properly.
How it works
Where are you right now?
Pick the line that sounds most like you. We can start from there.
Stage 01 of 07
Understand
How the business works today, the tools it uses and where friction exists.
Best place to start
Technology review
Book your free 1-hour consultationStage 02 of 07
Prioritise
What you'd like to achieve, what's possible and what's worth the investment.
Best place to start
Technology review
Book your free 1-hour consultationStage 03 of 07
Design
Choose the right solution, whether that's existing software, new tools or custom development.
Best place to start
Technology projects
Book your free 1-hour consultationStage 04 of 07
Demo
Demonstrate, prototype or test the approach before committing to a wider change.
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Technology projects
Book your free 1-hour consultationStage 05 of 07
Connect
Configure tools, integrate systems, automate workflows and develop what's missing.
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Technology projects
Book your free 1-hour consultationStage 06 of 07
Deploy
Roll out the solution, move data where needed and help people adopt the change.
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Technology projects
Book your free 1-hour consultationStage 07 of 07
Support and repeat
Keep things working, learn what can be better and tackle the next opportunity.
Best place to start
Technical partner
Book your free 1-hour consultation
Bring your team with you
Training and workshops, at any stage.
I can deliver training and workshops at any point in the process, for technical and non-technical teams, so people understand the change and can use what gets built.
Book a workshopServices
The business modernisation sprint
Two weeks to find your most expensive inefficiencies and fix them.
- Fixed price
- From £7,500
- Duration
- 2 weeks
Large custom applications and complex migrations are priced separately.
Or three other ways to work together
Know what you need?
Technology projects
One solution, scoped and delivered at a fixed price.
Want ongoing help?
Technical partner
Monthly support from someone who knows your business.
Not a 40-page report.
You get a useful, concise document explaining what currently happens, what could work better, recommended solutions, estimated costs and a sensible order to do it in.
Not IT support.
This isn't a helpdesk, and I won't be setting up your printer. It's technical judgement and delivery for businesses that don't need an internal technology department.
Case study
Adam White Bike Fit
adamwhitebikefit.co.ukHe had reached the limit of what one person could physically manage. So we removed the constraints that were stopping the business from growing.
Marketing website
A complete rebuild of the marketing website, with custom graphics and animations, blogs and articles, and free customer-facing tools for lead generation and SEO.
Bookings and client admin
A custom booking service with deposits, CRM tracking, pre-service questionnaires and post-service reports. Deposits took weekly cancellations down to almost never, and there is no more chasing forms or preparing reports by hand.
Google Workspace and Claude as the central hub
The business moved to Google Workspace, with Claude at the centre. Custom connected AI workflows link it to the booking system, so bookings, client enquiries and notes are handled from one place instead of jumping between tools.
Bespoke analysis platform
A custom system around his work and clients. From Garmin file parsing in Rust, a web app, an API and an MCP server connecting it to the rest of the business became easy.
Things I've built
paperhook
From paper to payload
Turns invoices, contracts, receipts and medical forms into structured data for the systems you already use. Documents are checked automatically, mismatches are flagged line by line, and no templates are needed.
invoice.pdfIllustrative
{"supplier": "Acme Ltd","invoice": "INV-0042","total": 1250.00}
Run Orbital
The Agent Launchpad
Agentic functions as a service. Give an agent a job and it runs in its own isolated workspace, so teams can add agentic functions to their app without a backend, isolated sandbox infrastructure, custom loops, file handling.
New agent jobIllustrative
Summarise this quarter's invoices
- Start isolated workspace
- Read the files
- Run the analysis
- Publish the report
BetterByTraining.com
Understand every ride. Plan the next one.
Training analysis and coaching for cyclists. Ride analysis, fitness and season planning, coaching, notes and reports for riders and their coaches.
Saturday rideIllustrative
Next week
Experience
From finance teams to platforms handling billions of checks.
13+
Years delivering business-critical systems
66%
Lower infrastructure costs after a migration I led
Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
Creative finance automation, before AI was a thing.
Nine years leading finance systems and reporting at a large national charity, sitting between IT and finance. Finance automation with VBA and Power Platform, and paper documents scanned straight into the ERP with no retyping.
I didn't always have access to IT infrastructure, tools or privileges, so solving problems took creativity and a real understanding of the people at the other end.
01 / 05Paper to system
Scanning paper documents straight into the ERP, with no retyping.
Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
Enterprise ERP
ERP integrations, SQL Server data modelling, Power BI reporting and system migrations. I can read a P&L as comfortably as a stack trace.
Oh Dear
Small team, high agency
Lead developer in a small remote team, writing the infrastructure behind billions of uptime checks.
Redwood Software
Enterprise automation
Multi-tenant SaaS, job processing and automation platforms, and high-scale observability.
Clarity Global
Proof of concept to launch
Took an app from proof of concept to public launch, and led AI enablement across the team in 3 months.
AI, practically
AI where it genuinely helps. Not everything needs to be an agent.
I was automating business processes long before it was cool. AI is a powerful addition to the toolkit, but the goal is still a business that works better, not more technology.
Built tools with AI
Run Orbital, an agentic execution platform. paperhook, which turns business documents into structured data. MCP servers that connect a business to its AI tools.
AI visibility monitoring
Took Surfacd from proof of concept to public launch: data pipelines tracking how brands appear in AI answers, with LLM usage benchmarked across the pipeline.
AI enablement
Led workshops, hackathons and training to help technical and non-technical teams adopt AI-assisted workflows safely.
Vibe-coded app?
Get a senior developer to take it over before it breaks your business.
AI makes it easy to build something that works on day one. Keeping it secure, reliable and easy to change once the business depends on it is a different job.
- Review the code and fix what puts the business at risk.
- Add tests, so changes stop breaking things.
- Set up monitoring, so you know when something goes wrong.
- Take it over as your ongoing technical partner.
$ npm test
No tests found. Deploying straight to production.
# After the takeover
$ npm test
240 tests passing. Safe to keep building.
Who it's for
You need technical judgement and delivery, not a technology department.
The lean, busy business
A small team doing a disproportionate amount of work. The owner needs to free up capacity, remove repetitive admin and make the operation less dependent on individual people.
The established, traditional business
Healthy revenue, years of accumulated systems and processes, and probably some significant inefficiencies. Not looking for a complete digital transformation, just sensible modernisation without disrupting what already works.
How many of these sound like you?
You own it
It's your business. So it's your technology.
- Your accounts
- Hosting, software and AI tools run in accounts you own and pay for directly.
- Your code and data
- Anything I build for you is yours. I'll tell you plainly where your data goes and who can see it.
- Written down
- Everything is documented in plain English, so your team or another developer can pick it up.
- If I'm not around
- I'm one person, so this matters. Access, documentation and handover are set up from the start, so someone else can take over.
- No long contract
- The monthly partnership runs month-to-month, with a checkpoint after the first month. If it isn't working, you walk away.
Point of view
A calm approach to technical success.
It can feel overwhelming. Too many ideas, competitors appearing to move fast, and influencers telling you everything you're doing is wrong.
Don't outsource your business-critical thinking.
It's about figuring out what a good process looks like for you.
Roll your own processes.
You don't have to buy into someone else's thought process or theory. Your processes should fit your business.
Lean in, calmly.
Dipping a toe in rarely gets you anywhere, and diving in head first is overwhelming. A steady, deliberate approach works, even with staff leaving and joining.
Questions
A few things you might be wondering.
We don't really know what we need. Is that a problem?
No, that's usually where it starts. Show me how your business works, and we'll work out what should stay, what could improve and what needs changing.
Do we have to replace what we've got?
Usually not. Often it's about connecting what you have, introducing what makes sense and building what's missing. Sometimes the best advice is to leave something alone.
Do we need AI?
Not necessarily. I'll suggest it where it genuinely helps. The goal isn't more technology. It's a business that works better.
Why not just hire someone?
You might not have the work, budget or desire for an internal technology department. A technical partner gets to know your business without you having to employ them.
Is this IT support?
No. I won't be running a helpdesk or setting up your printer. I help with the technical decisions and the delivery.
What do we get from a review?
A useful, concise document, not a 40-page report. It covers what currently happens, what could work better, recommended solutions, estimated costs and a sensible order to do it in.
Can we start small?
Yes. You can begin with a review, a single project or reliable technical capability each month. It can be a small improvement or an entirely new way of working.
What does it cost?
Your first hour is a free consultation. Reviews and projects get a fixed-price proposal tied to defined outcomes. The business modernisation sprint starts from £7,500 for two weeks. Large custom applications and complex migrations are priced separately.
Someone built our app with AI. Can you take it over?
Yes. I'll review it, fix what puts the business at risk and take it on from there.
What happens once it's live?
I can stay involved, keeping things working, learning what can be better and tackling the next opportunity as your business grows.
Got a different question?
Email me at sean@yourtechnicalpartner.com.