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// service · spreadsheet replacement

The spreadsheet running your business is a database in disguise.

One workbook has quietly become your system of record — and now it's full of version chaos, broken formulas and overwrite conflicts. We turn it into a real, right-sized app with validation, access control, backups and an audit trail. It works until it doesn't; let's fix it before the "doesn't".

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// spreadsheet-as-a-database

The classic warning signs.

  • One workbook, whole businessIt's the business-critical system of record, and everyone knows it.
  • Version chaosMultiple people editing — broken formulas, overwrite conflicts, "which copy is current?"
  • No guardrailsNo validation, no audit trail, no access control, and no backups worth the name.
  • Copy-paste between systemsThe same data re-keyed by hand into Xero, your CRM, or another tool.

// what we deliver

The same job, done properly.

  1. Step 1

    Model the real process

    We read the spreadsheet carefully — it's the spec. Who does what, the rules, the entities — captured before we replace a thing.

  2. Step 2

    Build the right-sized replacement

    Microsoft Lists + Power Apps when you're M365-native and want low-code you can partly own; a small web app when the logic or UX needs it; a tool like Airtable when speed-to-value wins. The lowest-complexity option that genuinely solves it.

  3. Step 3

    Migrate, secure & integrate

    We move your data across, add validation, an audit trail and access control, and connect it to Xero and your other tools so the double-entry disappears.

// right-sized, not over-built

We won't sell you a bespoke app you don't need.

Bias to the simplest thing that solves it and that you can live with. We won't build a custom application where a List and a form will do — and we won't cram a genuinely relational, multi-user workflow into Lists where it'll hit the same wall you're on now. The point is to fit the problem, not to be impressive.

  • → Microsoft Lists + Power Apps
  • → A small web app, when it's warranted
  • → Airtable & similar, for speed
  • → Validation, audit trail, access control

// start a conversation

Get off the workbook.

A short discovery and a fixed-price build is usually all it takes. Send us the spreadsheet and tell us what it's secretly doing — we'll tell you the simplest way to make it real.

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