Give us your heaviest problem.

The report you assemble by hand every Friday. The system you pay for but still work around. Tell us what’s heaviest and we’ll build the small tool that lifts it. Fixed price. Yours forever.

Bespoke software at a fraction of a traditional developer’s cost.

Based in Cheltenham. We work in person around Gloucestershire and remotely everywhere else.

An ancient Greek figure scratching his head, wondering how to move a giant stone block with a lever — the raising water mascot
The lever principle

Big lift, minimal effort.

“Give me a lever long enough and I shall move the world.”

— Archimedes, the man behind our name

We’re less ambitious, but the principle holds. We build small, precise levers with modern AI tools, which is why a bespoke build costs a fraction of what a traditional developer would charge.

01

The heavy load

Hours lost every week to manual admin, or hundreds a month on subscriptions that almost fit but never quite do. Often both.

02

The lever

One small tool that does exactly your workflow and nothing else. The price is fixed and agreed up front. Then it's yours outright.

03

The lift

Most builds cost less than a year of the time and software they replace. Once you're past break-even, the lever keeps lifting for free.

Figures are illustrative. Every project gets a fixed quote before any work starts, and if your current setup is already the better deal, we’ll say so.

Real numbers, from real work

Anonymised where clients prefer it, and they often do. The numbers are real.

£3,500 → £29 a month

The website takeover

An agency-run website, rebuilt and brought in-house in a month. The same site, owned outright, for over £41,000 a year less.

Read the case study

Two months → days

The annual survey

An annual survey that used to swallow two months of staff time, automated end to end. It asks better questions now, too.

Licences for leavers

The quiet drain

Accounts still billing for people who left long ago, found in a routine workspace review. It's the most common saving there is.

About the £295 audit

Try it yourself

We built a couple of free tools to show you what’s possible. No sign-up required.

What are you really paying to rent?

Add up your subscriptions and agency retainers, and see the yearly and three-year total, plus where a bespoke tool could replace them.

Just what you need

Describe an admin task or over-featured software, and see the small bespoke tool that would do exactly that, with the bloat left out.

Case studies

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So, what’s your heaviest problem?

Tell us what eats your week. We’ll tell you honestly what a small tool could lift, and exactly what it would cost.