Software that runs
your whole business.
Sydebarn builds the software your business actually runs on, end to end. Turnkey when you want it handled for you, fully custom when your business is one of a kind. Sized and priced for small business, and yours to keep.
What we build
Not templates. Real tools that fit how you actually work, and talk to each other.
What it actually looks like
Real tools, built for how you work. A few are interactive, go on, have a click.
See every lead, quote and follow-up
A simple pipeline that shows what's new, what's quoted and what's won, with the follow-ups that fall through the cracks handled for you.
- Drag leads through stages
- Automatic follow-up reminders
- Quotes and history in one place
Incidents logged, actions chased, audits ready
Report an incident on a phone, tag where and how, attach photos, and the corrective action raises and chases itself until it's closed.
- Severity, body-map and photos
- Auto-raised corrective actions
- Audit trail that fills itself
Branded quotes, invoices and certificates on demand
The moment a job is done, a clean branded PDF is generated, filed and ready to send. No manual formatting, no print-to-PDF.
- Generated the instant a form is submitted
- Consistent branding every time
- Filed and searchable automatically
Read, sort and act, in seconds
Put AI on the boring jobs: triage the inbox, score reported emails for risk, block the phishing and flag what needs a human.
- Every message triaged automatically
- Phishing blocked before a click
- Only the real ones reach you
Take bookings and run the job from a phone
Customers book online; crews run the day from an installable app that works offline and files everything the moment there's signal.
- Online booking, no double-ups
- Offline-capable field forms
- Everything syncs when back in range
Secure & private
Proper logins, roles, encrypted data and access logs. Built in from day one, not bolted on later.
Fast
Quick to load, quick to use, and a first working version in weeks, not months.
Reasonable pricing
Priced for small business. Pay once and own it, with no per-seat SaaS tax.
Self-managed or managed
Run it yourself, or let us look after it. Your call, and never locked in.
Turn the paperwork into one tidy system
Most small businesses run on paper forms, a pile of spreadsheets and a few Word templates. We turn that into one place: digital forms, proper records and clean documents generated for you. Flip the switch to see the idea.
Paper forms, a dozen spreadsheets across five drives, and “ask someone where the file is”. Click one— it works, until it doesn't.
One tidy system. Filled in from a phone, generating clean documents, searchable in seconds, backed up automatically, and it's yours. Tap a tile.
Your business shouldn't have to fit the software.
Off-the-shelf tools ask you to change how you work and pay for a pile of features you'll never touch. Software built for you follows how you already work.
And custom doesn't mean a big, scary project. Often it's one small tool that removes a daily annoyance. Start with the thing that's costing you most, then grow from there.
Read more on this →Made for small and medium business
We help smaller businesses grow with automation, better processes and tidy records, all explained in plain English. We're not the right shop for a giant enterprise build, and we'll happily tell you so.
- You're a small or medium business, not a tech company
- You want to automate repetitive work and cut the paperwork
- You're buried in spreadsheets, Word docs and manual steps
- You want proper records without a bloated, pricey system
- You'd like it explained in plain English and made easy
- You want fair, small-business pricing, and to own what you get
What could automation give you back?
Most small teams lose hours every week to copy-paste, chasing and re-typing. Drag the sliders for a rough idea of what that's costing.
A rough guide only. It assumes automation removes about 70% of the repetitive work. We'll give you a real number after a quick chat.
Get a real estimate →Who we help
Small and medium businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets and off-the-shelf apps.
A taste of recent work
The kind of things we've shipped, from a single automation to an entire platform. Details kept deliberately vague.
What it feels like after
Anonymised, because the work is theirs, not ours to show off.
It replaced three subscriptions and a pile of spreadsheets. The team actually uses it, which is the part I didn't expect.
We went from chasing paper forms to everything filed automatically. I get my evenings back.
Honest advice from the first chat. Told us what we didn't need, which saved us money before we'd spent a cent.
How it works
Scope
A quick chat to map what actually moves the needle, and what to ignore.
Build
Shipped in small increments so you see it working early and steer as we go.
Launch & own
Live fast, then iterate, and you keep the code, the data and the keys.
Questions, answered
The things people ask before getting in touch.
Less than you'd think, and you only pay once. A focused tool or automation can start small; a full platform is staged so cost spreads over time and you see value early. After a quick chat we give you a fixed range before anything starts.
You own it. The code, the data and the keys are yours. No per-seat SaaS tax, no vendor lock-in. If we ever part ways, everything hands over cleanly.
We ship in small increments, so you usually see something working within a couple of weeks. You steer as it grows rather than waiting months for a big-bang launch.
No. We connect to the tools you keep and only replace what's actually holding you back. Xero, your inbox, spreadsheets and existing sites can all stay in the loop.
It's live and it's yours. We can hand over completely, or stay on for support and improvements. Your choice, month to month, never locked in.
Security and access control are built in from day one: proper logins, roles that decide who sees what, audit trails and encrypted storage. The same standards used on much larger platforms.
We love a referral, and a good chunk of our work arrives that way, but it's not a requirement. If you found us on your own and the project's a good fit, you're just as welcome to get in touch.
Got a clunky process, a spreadsheet from hell, or an idea?
Tell us what's slowing you down. We'll tell you, honestly, whether software can fix it and what it'd take.