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AB Systems

Built in Hastings, for East Sussex

Take on more work without hiring.

Somewhere in your week a job is being done by hand that should not be. We find it, put a number on it, and build the one tool that takes it off your team.

What you get from it
  • Free either way
  • We drive to you
  • £500 a day, one day minimum

What the audit gives you

  • The one job capping your team, named
  • What it costs you a year, from your hours
  • A fixed price before you decide anything

30 minutes. Free either way.

Which of these are yours?

0/8

Tick the ones that are yours.

Most owners get to three before they finish the list.

The maths that decides it

Busy is not a budget line. The hours are.

Twelve hours a week is what one repeat job costs a typical office. It is the hours that are the problem, not the people.

230

£10£40

Wage plus National Insurance, pension and the desk. On a £25,000 job that lands around £15 an hour.

That admin costs you

£8,280

a year, every year, at 12 hrs a week over 46 working weeks

In hours
552

About 15 working weeks of one person's year.

Against hiring
33%

of the £25,000 a year another pair of hands would cost.

A build that removes that job is a few thousand pounds, once. £500 a day, minimum one, typically three to five days, agreed before we start.

These are your numbers, not ours. The audit replaces them with what your team actually logs in a week.

Nothing off the shelf

We build the tools nobody sells you.

Pick what you do. This is the job we would go looking for, and the shape of the thing we would build to remove it.

The job we go looking for

Jobs go out by phone or WhatsApp and come back as a photo of a scribbled sheet. Someone in the office types it into the diary, then again into the invoice, then chases the engineer for the bit that is missing.

The tool we would build

A job sheet the engineer fills in on his phone before he leaves site. Parts, hours, photos, signature. It lands in the office already priced, and the invoice writes itself.

Today's jobsSketch
Boiler service, OreDave · signed off 11:40
Consumer unit, BexhillRyan · on site
Leak, St LeonardsWaiting on a part
0jobs waiting to be typed up

These are the jobs we go looking for, not projects we have already run for someone in your trade. Yours will be its own thing. Finding out which one it is is exactly what the free audit does.

The offer

A free systems audit. You get the answer either way.

  1. 1

    We come to you

    Thirty minutes at your place, not a video call. You walk us through how the work moves through the office.

  2. 2

    A week of real numbers

    Optional. A simple sheet your team fills in for a week, so the answer runs on hours rather than guesses.

  3. 3

    We come back with the answer

    The job that is eating your week, what it costs a year, and what we would build. Yours to keep either way.

What you walk away with

  • The one job capping your team, named
  • What it costs you a year, from your hours
  • The tool we would build, in plain English
  • A fixed price and a day count
  • Anything you should just fix yourself, free

Nothing is bought, signed or quoted until all of that is in front of you.

Nobody has to change how they work.

The same things come in. They just stop being re-typed.

  • Phone calls

    Written on a pad

  • Shared inbox

    Three people wading through it

  • Whiteboard diary

    One person can read it

  • Spreadsheets

    The number is in there somewhere

Where it lands now

Typed into the job sheet
Typed again into the diary
Typed a third time into the invoice

“Where's that job at?” Let me check.

Where it lands after

One tool
Today's jobs9
Waiting on a part4
Quoted, not booked6

Entered once. Everyone can see where every job is.

Before: calls, the shared inbox, the whiteboard diary and the spreadsheets all get re-typed into three separate places, and the answer to where a job is up to is always let me check. After: the same four things arrive in one tool, entered once, and everyone can see where every job is.

If you go ahead, here is the whole deal.

£500

a day

Day count agreed before we start, minimum one day. Most builds are three to five. No part days, no hourly rate.

£0

if we overrun

Takes longer than we said? You pay the quote. Not a penny more.

100%

yours

The code is yours to keep. No licence, no lock-in.

Local, and it matters

We drive to you, and we come back.

Being twenty minutes away is why the audit works. We sit in your office and watch the job happen instead of asking you to describe it. Then every three months we come back, free, to check it is still earning its keep.

  • Uckfield
  • Heathfield
  • Battle
  • Rye
  • Hailsham
  • Bexhill
  • St Leonards
  • Hastings
  • Eastbourne

Worth saying plainly

This is not about cutting staff.

The jobs we remove are the boring ones. Nobody came to work to retype the same address into a third system. The same people get their week back for the work that brings money in.

Every business we have done this for ended up doing more with the same team, not the same with fewer.

A good fit

  • Four or more staff
  • Someone in an office coordinating other people's work
  • Scheduling, dispatch, enquiries, job sheets, paperwork
  • Established, with the work already coming in

Not a fit

  • One-person businesses
  • Franchises where head office picks the software
  • Anyone with no real time problem

Book the free audit.

Thirty minutes, at your place. Tell us roughly what the office spends its day on and we will do the rest.

Tell us where it jams

We reply the same day, usually within the hour.

Runs through our own enquiry platform, the tool we build for clients.

Or just pick a time

Custom software for local businesses in Hastings and East Sussex · AB Systems