Software
Built around the business you actually run.
Custom software and internal systems for the work your spreadsheet was never meant to do — quoting, scheduling, tracking, reporting, and everything the whiteboard currently holds. Handle more work without hiring someone to re-type it.
What it replaces
You already have a system
It's a spreadsheet, a whiteboard, and a group chat. We build what they've been standing in for.
Quoting and estimating tools — for the spreadsheet only one person can safely edit
Job scheduling and dispatch — for the whiteboard that runs the week
Client portals — for the inbox full of “any update?”
Inventory and stock tracking — for the binder count nobody quite trusts
Intake and booking systems — for the WhatsApp group where jobs get lost
Internal dashboards and reporting — for the month-end scramble across five files, and for knowing which work is worth taking
Industries
Who we build these for
Different trades, same spreadsheet.
Our approach
The software bends, not the business
Off-the-shelf software makes the business bend to fit it. We start from the other end: how a job moves through your company, from first call to final invoice, and where it slows down or slips through.
The software gets shaped to that — not the other way around. It's also how we keep scope honest: we build what the business needs, not everything it could imagine.
Two things tend to come out of it that nobody asks for up front. You stop being able to grow only by adding people, because the volume goes through the system rather than through somebody's inbox. And for the first time the numbers are in one place, so which jobs actually make money stops being a matter of opinion.
How we build
Understand first, build second
Map the work
How a job actually moves through the business, and where it leaks time or money.
Scope and price
A written scope and a fixed price, agreed before anything is built.
Build in stages
The first useful piece ships early — you work with it while we build the rest.
Test and hand over
Tested, documented, and handed over with every account and access in your name.
We use AI to move faster. We review everything it writes, and we test for the vulnerabilities it introduces.
See the full processHow we'd approach it
A worked example
No software case study to show yet — so here's the thinking, in the open.
A contractor is quoting from his truck at 9pm, working from a spreadsheet he can't properly open on his phone. Every quote means squinting, scrolling, and copying numbers into a text message — and some quotes just don't get sent.
We'd start with his last twenty quotes and rebuild the pricing logic exactly as he runs it — materials, labour, margins, judgment calls included. The first version would do one thing: turn a walkthrough into a priced, sendable quote from a phone, in minutes, at 9pm.
The spreadsheet would stay until the tool beats it. Only then would we look at what's next — usually the follow-up: which quotes went out, which were accepted, and which need a nudge.
A worked example, not a case study — this contractor isn't a client. It's how we'd think about your version of him.
Why Latchford
Four promises, in writing
Fixed price, agreed before we start
Written scope, so you know what you're getting
You own everything — code, domain, and accounts
We're here after launch, not just until it ships
Tell us what you're trying to get done.We'll tell you what it takes.