TalonInsights
Custom software for West Midlands businesses.
The region still makes things — and the firms that make them mostly plan the work on spreadsheets, whiteboards and memory. That gap is where a single well-scoped internal tool pays for itself fastest.
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Production planning
Who's doing what, on which job, by when — with clashes and missed deadlines surfaced before they bite rather than discovered on delivery day.
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Quoting and job tracking
Enquiry to quote to invoice without retyping the same numbers into three systems. Your prices, your margins, your rules, encoded once.
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Stock and materials
What's actually on the rack versus what the spreadsheet claims, and what needs ordering before it stops a job.
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Dashboards and reporting
The numbers somebody currently assembles by hand every Friday afternoon, live and always current.
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The thing only your business needs
Bespoke means bespoke. Describe the job and I'll scope the tool — or tell you honestly that you don't need one.
Regional proof
A scheduler running in a Shropshire factory.
David Jackson & Son plan bespoke joinery — every order a different shape, every one moving through eight production stages. It used to live on paper. Now it's a drag-and-drop board that flags a breach before it happens.
Read the case studyBuilt to be trusted with real orders
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Supabasedatabase — the plan survives the browser and is shared by everyone. - Two-factor authentication, because the plan carries customer names.
- Autosave on every change, with one-click backup and restore.
- GitHub →
Vercelpipeline: every change reviewable and reversible.
Pricing
Fixed price, quoted after I've watched the job.
Small internal tool
£6,000 – £10,000
One workflow, done properly
- A scheduler, a planner, a tracker
- Real database backend
- Built for daily use by your people
- Warranty period after launch
Business application
£10,000 – £25,000
Multi-module, admin, authentication
- Multiple connected workflows
- Roles and permissions
- Handover documentation as standard
- A fraction of the agency band for the same scope
Common questions
Asked before, answered straight.
Which areas do you cover?
Telford and Shropshire, Wolverhampton, Birmingham and the wider West Midlands. Software work involves fewer site visits than a website does — usually the Groundwork Visit plus a handful of check-ins — so distance across the region isn't a constraint.
What if we're not sure software is the answer?
That's exactly what the Groundwork Visit is for. If the honest recommendation is "you need a better spreadsheet, not a system", the written scope says so — and you've spent a few hundred pounds to avoid spending thousands.
What does it cost to run afterwards?
Usually a few pounds a month, on hosting in accounts in your own name. The bills go to you and nothing routes through me.
What happens if you're not available later?
Every build ships with handover documentation written so another developer could pick it up, on standard infrastructure you own. That's deliberate — being irreplaceable is a business model I'd rather not have.
Get started
Book a Groundwork Visit — I'll come to you.
No jargon, no pressure, and a written scope you keep whether or not you go ahead. I reply within one working day.