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[PRO SERVICES / BUILD]

Turn Your Spreadsheets
Into Software

Every business has the spreadsheet. The one nobody's allowed to touch, that breaks on a paste, that one person understands. We replace it with proper internal software your team actually wants to use.

From spreadsheet to software

Bespoke

NOT OFF-THE-SHELF

Weeks

TO FIRST VERSION

Yours

CODE, DATA AND IP

[THE SHIFT]

Stop running your business on a spreadsheet.

Sheets are great for thinking. They're a terrible way to run an operation that more than one person depends on.

A bespoke internal tool used to mean six months and a six-figure cheque. With AI-assisted development, that's now weeks and a fraction of the cost.

The economics flipped. The spreadsheet doesn't have to win anymore.

TODAY'S SPREADSHEET

  • Locks when two people open it
  • Formulas only one person understands
  • No permissions, no audit log
  • Breaks on a paste, dies with its author
  • Can't notify, can't integrate

BESPOKE SOFTWARE

  • Multi-user, real-time, no locking
  • Rules named, tested, visible to the team
  • Role-based access and full audit log
  • Validated inputs, daily backups
  • Sends alerts, talks to everything else
[THE PATTERN]

Every sheet hides the same five parts.

A spreadsheet is software in disguise. Once you can see the parts, you can build them properly.

01

Data model

The tables your sheet was pretending to be. Customers, jobs, invoices, stock. Defined once, used everywhere.

02

Inputs

Forms, imports, integrations. No more typing into cells, no more pasting from email.

03

Rules

Your formulas, but named, tested and visible to the team. Not buried in column AF.

04

Views

Dashboards, lists and reports per role. Not one mega-sheet that nobody can read.

05

Automations

Emails, reminders, syncs and approvals that used to be someone's job. The software does them.

[HOW WE WORK]

Where we come in.

We've replaced the master spreadsheet for recruiters, financial advisers, engineering firms, builders and bedroom manufacturers. Same pattern every time.

No twelve-month consulting engagement. Fixed-scope phases, working software in weeks, you own the code.

START A SHEET AUDIT
01

Sheet audit

Send us the spreadsheet. We map what it actually does, who uses it, where it breaks. Scope and price up front, no slide decks.

02

Model the data

We turn the tabs and formulas into proper entities, rules and roles. You see the shape before we write a line of production code.

03

Ship the first version

Usable internal tool live in weeks. Your team starts moving off the sheet the same week. We migrate the existing data.

04

Iterate weekly

New fields, views and integrations as you find them. Small releases, no big-bang rebuilds, no months between updates.

[IN THE WILD]

Sheets we've already replaced.

Engineering firms, recruiters, financial advisers, builders, manufacturers. All started on spreadsheets. None of them are anymore.

SEE OUR WORK
[QUESTIONS]

The ones we get asked first.

Q.01

Can't we just buy a SaaS for this?

Sometimes you can, and we'll tell you when. Usually the sheet exists because no off-the-shelf product fits the way you actually work, and the ones that come close cost more in licences than building your own.

Q.02

How long does it take?

First usable version in weeks, not quarters. Most of our spreadsheet replacements go live for the team in four to eight weeks, then keep getting better from there.

Q.03

Who owns the code?

You do. Source code, data, IP. We can host it for you, or hand it over to your team. No lock-in.

Q.04

What about the existing data?

We migrate it. Years of rows, the merged cells, the colour-coded statuses, the comments in the corners. Cleaned up and loaded in.

Q.05

How much does it cost?

Priced per phase, fixed before we start. First version is usually in the low tens of thousands, not the hundreds. We tell you up front.

Q.06

What if we change our mind halfway?

Good. That's why we ship small and iterate. You see working software every week, so changes happen while it's cheap, not at the end.

Vu Agency working session

Got a spreadsheet holding the business together?

Send it over. We'll tell you what it would take to replace it, what we'd build first, and what to leave alone. Thirty minutes, no slides.

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