Shoothill strengthens leadership team with two senior promotions
Shoothill strengthens leadership team with two senior promotions Shoothill has strengthened its senior leadership team with the promotion of Mike Davis to Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Josh Welch to Chief Innovation and Delivery Officer (CIDO). The appointments reflect the continued growth and evolution of Shoothill, as the business expands its work across software development, […]
Build vs buy: should your business commission custom software?
The question every growing business eventually asks At some point, most growing businesses hit the same wall: the off-the-shelf software that got them here doesn’t fit where they’re going. The question that follows is always the same one: do you keep adapting your business to fit a generic platform, or do you commission something built […]
Why construction firms outgrow off-the-shelf tools
Why construction firms outgrow off-the-shelf tools Growing pains, not growth Sharmans manufactures and distributes Plygene, a gutter lining product sold to contractors working on commercial properties. As the business grew, so did the number of projects, properties and contacts it had to track, and the systems it was running to track them stopped keeping up. […]
Managing projects from enquiry to completion: the Base Architects case study
Managing projects from enquiry to completion: the Base Architects case study Base: Architects & Planning run offices in Shrewsbury, Chester and Conwy, and the practice has been growing fast since it was founded in 2003. Growth is a good problem to have, but it exposed a bad one: leads, quotes, project tracking and staff […]
CRM for housebuilders: build vs buy
The question every housebuilder eventually asks At some point, every housebuilder outgrows spreadsheets and general-purpose sales tools for tracking leads, reservations and choices. For most regional UK housebuilders, the real choice isn’t between five or six generic CRM vendors, it’s between two options built for exactly this business: adopting Housebuilder Pro as it stands, or […]
Why construction and housebuilding need software built around them, not the other way round
Why construction and housebuilding need software built around them, not the other way round Most construction software asks you to change how you work. You adopt a CRM built for volume housebuilders in the US, or a project management tool built for generic agencies, and then spend the next six months bending your processes to […]
What’s actually worth prioritising (the small-business version)
What’s actually worth prioritising (the small-business version) Most of the businesses we talk to already have a rough sense of where their setup is weak. Awareness usually isn’t the problem. Time is. “We know it could be better, we just haven’t had a chance to fix it” is the single most common thing we hear, […]
Website, Web App or Mobile App: Which Do You Need?
Do you need a website, a web app, or a mobile app? Most people start with a simple question: app or website? It’s the wrong question, and answering it wrong is expensive. There are actually three things you might be choosing between, not two. And for most businesses, the right answer is not the one […]
Turning the data you already have into better decisions
Most businesses are sitting on more useful data than they realise, and using almost none of it. It’s in the CRM, the finance system, the job sheets, the spreadsheet one person maintains and everyone relies on. It records what’s happened. It rarely helps decide what to do next. Our background is in making data legible. […]
AI for SMEs: how to start without wasting money
If you run a small or mid-sized business, you’re getting the AI message from every direction. Your software vendors, your competitors’ LinkedIn posts, the trade press, probably your own team. Some of it is real. A lot of it is noise. The hard part isn’t finding things to try, it’s working out which one is […]