The spreadsheet that runs your business isn't a system.
Custom software for Huddersfield businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets, shared inboxes and the one person who knows how it all works.
Free 30 minutes. No pitch, no obligation.
Most manufacturers around Kirklees run on something that started as a spreadsheet. It worked at twelve staff. At forty it's eleven tabs, three people who understand it, and a panic when one of them is away.
That's the work we do here. Taking a process that lives in a spreadsheet and one person's head, and making it something the whole business can use. Job tracking, quoting, stock, scheduling.
We're at Brooke's Mill in Armitage Bridge. That matters more for software than for a website: the first thing we do is come and watch the work happening. You can't map a process from a brief.
This is probably you if
- The business runs on spreadsheets nobody wants to touch.
- The same figures get typed into three different systems every week.
- One person understands how orders actually flow, and they're retiring.
- You looked at an off the shelf system and it did 70% of the job.
Sound familiar? We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.
Tell us what's going on
What we build
Job and order tracking
Where every job is, without ringing the floor to find out. The single most common thing we're asked for by manufacturers here.
Quoting and pricing tools
Complex pricing with material costs, quantity breaks and trade tiers, so quotes take minutes and come out consistent whoever writes them.
Stock and materials
What you have, what is committed, what needs ordering. Connected to the systems that already know some of the answer.
Integrations with what you run
Sage, Xero, whatever the ERP is, couriers and customer systems, so the same numbers aren't entered twice and quietly disagree.
Replacing the spreadsheet safely
Running alongside the old way until people trust it, because a system nobody trusts gets worked around and you end up with both.
Systems nobody has to be trained on
Built around the words your team already uses. If it needs a manual we've designed it badly.
“Could not be happier with Luke and the team at Six Two Eight. Exceptional service from start to finish: friendly, good communication, and they went above and beyond for us. Great company, great results!”
Jonathan Managing Director of Eight_OneTwo ArchitectsMeet the people who'll actually do the work.
No account managers relaying messages. You talk to the people building the thing.
The Studio
Charlotte Daw
Design & UX Director
Ollie Beckwith
Full Stack Developer
Daniel Reilly
Full Stack Developer
Roger Smith
Growth Specialist
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We're at Brooke's Mill in Armitage Bridge. Come and see the work on a screen bigger than a phone, and meet the two people who will build it.
Read moreWhy people choose us.
Plenty of studios can build you a website. Here's what tends to make the difference.
Design and engineering, one team
The people who name it and draw it sit with the people who build it. No handover between two suppliers, and no gap in the middle for you to manage.
We'll tell you not to spend
If a tidy-up solves it, we'll say so rather than sell you a rebuild. We'd rather lose the bigger job than take money for something that won't pay back.
You talk to the people building it
Founder-led, so there's no account manager relaying your question to someone you never meet. Decisions get made in the same conversation.
A fixed price before we start
You get the number up front, after a free call. No day rate quietly ticking over and no invoice that surprises you at the end.
You own all of it
Code, designs, hosting, repositories. No proprietary platform you can't leave and no licence that grows every time you hire someone.
Offices you can actually visit
Leicester and Huddersfield. Happy to sit down with you and map the thing out in person, happy to keep it to a call if that's easier.
Questions, answered.
Start a project
Build it.
With us.
Tell us what's holding your business back. We'll work with you to design and build what fixes it.
Luke Jagger
Co-Founder & Lead Designer