FINE · Business systems and software
FINE · Business systems
I turn business goals into working software
From discovery through to delivery. Ten years in software delivery, seven of them building directly, and one accountable person on the engagement.
Discovery through to delivery, run by one person. Ten years in delivery, seven building directly.
Systems review
A written assessment of what you have, where it is costing you, and what to do about it.
Systems review · $500 fixed
Book a systems reviewHow I work
Things go wrong. Systems get messy. Businesses outgrow the way they used to work.
Fine.
I work out what is actually happening, decide what needs fixing, and build the systems to fix it. One person scopes it, one person builds it, one person answers for it.
01
Steady
Stay calm. See the bigger picture. Good decisions are hard to make while everyone is reacting to the immediate problem.
02
Proper
Do things properly. No unnecessary complexity, and no shortcut dressed up as innovation.
03
Sorted
Leave things better than I found them. The goal is not another report. The goal is that the problem is sorted.
04
Still here
The person who understood the problem is the person who built it, and is still available when it needs attention.
It'll be fine.
Engagement model
01
Discovery
How the business actually operates. Output is a written summary, not a proposal.
02
Specification
Scope, priorities and a fixed price. You approve before anything is built.
03
Build
Working software in visible increments, with regular check ins.
04
Rollout
Data migration, training and documentation. The part most projects underestimate.
05
Support
Ongoing development and maintenance, on retainer or ad hoc.
Ten years in delivery, seven building directly
Over ten years in software delivery, seven of those building directly. I have worked as a project manager and business analyst on platforms delivered by large teams, including a world leading air quality monitoring system, an industry leading parcel tracking platform, national scale wholesale distribution, messaging and community funding, and I have designed and built my own products from scratch. The job has been the same every time. Understand how the business actually works, translate that into something buildable, and see it through to launch.
The limit on that role used to be execution. Planning, analysis and specification are one skill set, writing the code is another, and closing that gap meant hiring a team. It no longer does. Working with AI I take projects from discovery to a deployed product on my own, at a speed and cost that was not possible three years ago, while keeping the process that large project delivery taught me.
At a glance
The written trail, not just the finished screens
Every engagement leaves documents behind. Three extracts from real projects, redacted.
Why this is here
Anyone can list features. The document that decides what gets built, and the log of what was traded away to build it, is the part clients never see before they commit.
A systems review produces one of these for your business, in writing, in one to two weeks.
How the review works →Why this is here
Every project trades things away. A dated record of what was ruled out, and why, is what stops the same argument happening twice six months later.
Every engagement I run keeps one of these from the first week, not added retroactively once something goes wrong.
How the review works →Why this is here
A diagram drawn before the build starts is a commitment, not decoration. It is the thing I hold myself to when a shortcut looks tempting halfway through.
You get this before any code is written, so you can see what you are actually paying for.
How the review works →Services
Selected work
All work →Buqq
A B2B reservation platform for Southeast Asia, taken from idea to live product, including brand, legal framework and go to market.
QR Ordering System
Cloud ordering integrated into an existing point of sale estate, with local bridge agents and KHQR payments.
Dog Park Explorer
A repeatable directory engine, populated at scale and monetised, that can be pointed at any listing market.
RielSync
Records the National Bank of Cambodia's daily official KHR/USD rate and writes it into a client's ERP or POS — Odoo, SambaPOS, QuickBooks Online, Zoho Books, SAP Business One — the day it publishes.
Pricing
Most clients start with a systems review. From there the work is either a defined project with a fixed price, or a monthly retainer where I act as your technical partner on an ongoing basis.
| Offer | Price | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Systems review | $500 fixed | Fixed price written assessment, one to two weeks, deducted if you proceed. |
| Project | from $4,000 | Defined scope and fixed price, quoted after the review. |
| Retainer | from $1,200/mo | Ongoing development and support, monthly planning, priority response. Three month minimum. |
Start with a review. You get a written answer either way.
Tell me what is not working and how you are running it now. I will tell you whether it is worth fixing and what it would take.