cloudship.co.uk

Software development in Norfolk

Cloudship is in Bungay, on the Suffolk side of the Waveney. Norwich is about fifteen miles up the A146, and we are happy to drive out to see the job. We would rather sit across a table from you than start with a video call.

We build software for Norfolk businesses, small apps and large ones. A program that reads the morning's market reports for a grain merchant. An online shop. A system that gets the till and the accounts talking. Websites too (a starter site is £250), and AI where it saves real hours.

Dewing Grain: six hours a week saved

Case Study

Dewing Grain: six hours a week saved

A grain merchant in Aylsham was spending six or more hours every week tracking and analysing grain market data by hand. We built a platform that reads the market reports as they arrive, pulls out the prices and trends, and shows them on a dashboard. Six hours a week back.

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How it works

Tell us the idea.

Or the job that eats your week. We tell you what we would build and roughly what it would cost. If something off the shelf would do, we say so.

Half a day. £300.

Start at nine with the spreadsheet you use now. By lunch the tool is live on a web address and holds your data. You can keep using it free for a month, whether or not we carry on.

The build. From £2,000.

Whether it is one tool or the system the business runs on, the price is in writing before any work starts. Keeping it running costs from £39 a month: backups, security patches and a phone number that gets answered.

Norfolk businesses

Where we see the hours going in Norfolk:

  • Arable farming and grain: market reports, assurance paperwork, supplier invoices, yield and input records. Dewing Grain's market reports are now read by a program.
  • Holiday lets on the Broads and the coast: from Wroxham to Cromer and Great Yarmouth, one booking calendar instead of three, arrival details sent the day before, and a changeover list the cleaner can see on a phone.
  • Energy and engineering around Great Yarmouth: offshore wind and its supply chain produce inspection reports and certificates by the hundred. Software can file them, flag the missing fields and pull out the figures someone currently types in.
  • Offices in Norwich: solicitors, accountants and agents with years of files. Drafting letters, summarising documents and finding the answer in old correspondence.

Across the county

Norwich, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn, Thetford, Diss, Dereham, Wymondham and Cromer are all a drive. We will come and see the job before we say what to build.

Common questions

Do I need a clear brief first? No. Tell us what is slowing you down and we will set out the options in plain English.

What if software isn't the answer? We'll say so. Often the better fix is a simple integration or a tidier process, and we would rather save you the money.

How quickly will I see results? Within half a day: describe the job at nine and by lunch it is on a web address with your own data in it. Most tools take another one to three weeks to finish.

Are we too small for this? Almost certainly not. Most of the businesses we work for are small or medium-sized, and that is where a few hours saved each week shows up fastest. Large jobs are fine too: we quote them in writing, and when one needs more hands we bring in developers we have worked with for years.

Got an idea? Let's talk.

Tell us what the job is and where in Norfolk you are. We can talk on the phone, or we'll drive out and see it.