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Internal tools & dashboards · UK

Internal tools,
built for how you work. Not off-the-shelf software.

We build internal tools and dashboards for UK businesses — live views of your data, scraping pipelines that watch public or partner sites, and internal apps that replace the spreadsheet or manual check somebody does every day. Usually built on Supabase and Next.js, an internal tool just needs to show the right people the right information, updated automatically, without anyone opening ten browser tabs to piece it together.

The problem

Why this keeps happening.

A lot of businesses are one person's daily routine away from a proper system — someone opens the same six websites every morning and copies what's changed into a spreadsheet, and that spreadsheet is the only record anyone has. It works until that person is on holiday, or a site changes its layout, or the business grows past what one person checking by hand can keep up with. An internal tool takes that routine and runs it automatically, then shows you the result in one place instead of a shared spreadsheet nobody fully trusts.

What we build

Example workflows

  1. 01

    Public or partner websites → scraped on a schedule with Playwright → structured data written straight into your own dashboard

  2. 02

    Live dashboard → shows the current state of your business — bookings, stock, applications, leads — refreshed automatically, not a snapshot from last week

  3. 03

    Threshold or change detected → an alert goes out by email, Slack or WhatsApp the moment something needs a person's attention

  4. 04

    Several data sources → reconciled into one internal view, so nobody's cross-referencing three systems by hand to answer a simple question

  5. 05

    Staff-facing tool → replaces a shared spreadsheet or a rigid off-the-shelf app that almost fits, built instead around how your team actually works

  6. 06

    Historical data → kept and queryable, so you can see trends over time rather than just today's snapshot

From £1,500
Proof it works
PlusRooms

PlusRooms needed daily coverage of planning applications across England — previously a full working day of one person trawling council websites by hand. We built Planscope: a Playwright scraping pipeline covering 97% of London boroughs, feeding a live dashboard with alerts, refreshed on a 24-hour cycle. Nobody has to check a council website again.

97%

London borough coverage, refreshed every 24 hours

Common questions

Answers before you ask.

Should we build a custom internal tool, or buy off-the-shelf software?+

Buy first, if something already does exactly what you need — there's no point paying to rebuild a stock-management tool that's already a solved problem. Custom is worth it once you're bending an off-the-shelf tool to do something it wasn't designed for, or once the 'software' you're actually running is a spreadsheet and someone's memory. We'll tell you honestly which side of that line you're on before quoting anything.

Why Supabase and Next.js specifically?+

Supabase gives us a proper Postgres database with authentication and real-time updates out of the box, and Next.js builds a fast, straightforward dashboard on top of it — together they get you from spreadsheet to a real internal tool without a six-month build. It's also a stack you're not locked into: a standard database and a standard web app, not a proprietary platform you can't leave.

How much does an internal tool or dashboard cost?+

A single dashboard showing live data from one or two sources starts at £1,500, fixed price. A scraping pipeline covering many sources, with alerts and historical data, is quoted after a scoping call — always fixed, and sized to what the tool actually needs to do rather than billed by the hour.

What happens if it breaks or a data source changes?+

We build in monitoring so a scraping pipeline that stops matching a site's layout gets flagged rather than silently going stale, and we offer an ongoing retainer for fixes and small changes as your needs shift. Most clients keep us on a light retainer specifically for this — data sources change, and someone needs to notice when they do.

Can you migrate our existing spreadsheet into a proper tool?+

Yes — that's often exactly how these projects start. We take what's in the spreadsheet, clean it up, and build the dashboard or database around it, so you don't lose the history you already have while gaining something that updates itself.

Who ends up using the tool day to day?+

Whoever currently does the manual version of the job — usually one or two people who go from checking things by hand every morning to glancing at a dashboard instead. We build the interface around what they actually need to see, not a generic admin panel.

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