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Custom business software for SMEs

Your company runs on spreadsheets. It deserves a real tool.

We build the software that replaces your Excel files and gets your tools talking to each other. For SMEs with no tech team.

Construction, transport, training, services, manufacturing: if your business runs on files, we know how to help.

They trusted us
CelaéModern ClubD-ICE Engineering
Sound familiar?

Spreadsheets, emails, messages, and no tool that talks to the others.

If you are here, one of these situations rings a bell. None of these tools was made to run a company, and it is your team that patches the gaps.

Two files, two truths.

"tracking_v3_final" and its copy do not say the same thing. Every decision starts with a check.

What changes
One database, up to date for everyone.

FILEINVOICINGEMAIL× 3, AND ONE ERROR

The same information typed three times.

In the file, then in invoicing, then in an email to the client. And one time in ten, one of the three is wrong.

What changes
Entered once, sent to your accounting software.

? ? ?“WHERE IS THE JOB AT?”

To know where a job stands, you have to call someone.

No screen tells you. You learn about the delay when the client complains.

What changes
The status of every job, in real time.

WHATSAPP · 14 MESSAGES

The schedule goes round on WhatsApp.

Only one person has the current version. When they are on leave, everything slows down.

What changes
Everyone sees their schedule, on computer or phone.

•••• €WRONG RECIPIENT

A payment goes to the wrong person.

A manual calculation, a copy-paste, and the mistake shows up too late.

What changes
Calculation and payment are automatic.

?DRIVE · EMAILS · DESKTOP

The documents are somewhere.

In Drive, in emails, on someone's desktop. Finding the right one takes ten minutes.

What changes
Every document filed with its job, found in two clicks.

If you nodded at least once, you are in the right place. Start by putting a number on it.

What does it cost you?
CelaéCase study · Certification body · 13 employees

Celaé manages its assessments and audits without a spreadsheet

Excel, Google Drive, emails and paper notes. The files kept drifting apart. Today, assessors, scheduling, documents, alerts and invoicing linked to Axonaute live in one place. First version delivered in 21 days.

« Tu es le père Noël : tout ce qu'on demande, on l'obtient. »

François Cohen-Hadria, dirigeant de Celaé
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10 hsaved per week, for each of the 13 employees
-90%data-entry errors
-80%time to decide: activity is tracked in real time
21 dto a usable first version
Modern ClubFinancial management · 3 people

Payouts distributed in minutes instead of days

Manual calculations in Excel, transfers one by one, sometimes an amount sent to the wrong person. Today, everything is calculated and distributed automatically. Delivered in 21 days.

0calculation errors since go-live
+5 hper week for the manager
« Ça change la vie, je distribue les gains en quelques minutes alors qu'avant j'y passais plusieurs jours. »
Thomas Tarbouriech, gérant de Modern Club
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D-ICE EngineeringSatori · Maritime software · 45 employees

A maritime route study in minutes

A calculation stuck between spreadsheets and Power BI, weather imported by hand. Now a routing product sold to shipowners and offshore racers. Project taken over and completed in 3 months.

~15%fuel saved per voyage
Minutesinstead of several days per route study
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And the price?

A fixed price, known before you sign

From €3,900 excl. VAT

The price depends on what the software has to do: how many screens, who uses it, which software it connects to, which data to migrate. After the first call, we send you a proposal with the scope, the price and a mock-up. You pay module by module, as you test them.

  • 21 days, guaranteed. A usable first version, or we keep working without billing.
  • 3 months of free fixes after go-live.
  • No subscription. Hosting and domain name, about €10 a month, in your name.
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Example · project progressDay 11 of 21 · first version delivered on day 21
1
Team schedulingDays 1 to 7
Delivered · tested · paid
100 %
Payment made•• ••• € HT
2
Documents per jobDays 8 to 14
Being tested
60 %
Payment on delivery•• ••• € HT
3
Invoicing linked to your accountingDays 15 to 21
Up next
0 %
Nothing to pay before•• ••• € HT
Migration of your Excel files included · Price set in the proposalTotal •• ••• € excl. VAT
Four options

Excel, off-the-shelf software, no-code or custom?

Custom does not win everywhere. Here is what we answer when we are asked.

Keep ExcelYour current filesOff-the-shelf softwareCRM, ERP, scheduling tool…No-codeAirtable, Notion, Bubble… tools assembled without programmingCustomWhat we do
What it costs up front€0, but your hours from the first weekA subscription from month one, plus set-upA subscription, plus weeks building it yourselfA fixed price, known before you sign
What it costs every monthYour hours, every week, with no endA per-user subscription that grows with the teamA per-user subscription, and someone to maintain itNo subscription, only hosting
The costs you do not see comingErrors, and the time to fix themPaid options, training, connectorsThe time of the person who looks after itNone: what is in the proposal is in the price
Fits the way you workUntil it breaksYou adapt to itPartlyYes, it is built around you
Holds up as the team growsNoYesUp to a pointYes
Someone has to look after it in-houseYesNoYesNo
You own the code and the dataThe files, yesNoNoYes
Right for you if…You are fewer than 5Your business looks like thousands of othersA simple need, and someone to maintain itYour business fits no template

If existing software does the job, take it. We will tell you so during the call. Custom is worth it when you spend your days working around off-the-shelf tools.

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What do your spreadsheets cost you?

An Excel file costs nothing to buy. It is paid for in hours: re-typing, finding the right version, checking, correcting. Five questions to put a number on it. Instant result, no email.

Today, your company runs on…

Calculate what it costs youQuestion 1 of 5 · about 1 minute
How it works

One point of contact, from the call to go-live

Four steps, no specification to write on your side. Your files keep running during development: you switch when it is ready, not before.

  1. 1Free · no commitment
    30'
    30 minutes on video, screen sharedYou share your screen and show us how things run today. Your files as they are will do, nothing to prepare.
  2. 2Fixed price · mock-up included
    Fixed price
    A proposal, with the mock-upThe scope, the fixed price and a first look at the application. You see what it will look like before you sign.
  3. 3First version in 21 days
    Module 1 · SchedulingModule 2 · DocumentsModule 3 · InvoicingFIXED STRAIGHT AWAY
    Development, module by moduleYou test each part as soon as it is ready. Whatever does not fit the way you work is fixed straight away. Your data is migrated.
  4. 4Code and data are yours · 3 months of fixes
    your-company.comCODE IS YOURS
    Go-liveOn your domain name, on a server in your name. We hand over the source code, which lets any developer take over the tool, and the documentation.
FAQ

The questions we get asked

What we get asked most before a project starts. We answer straight, even when the answer is no.

Another question?

Ask it on WhatsApp or during the 30-minute call.

Show us how things run at your company

30 minutes on video, screen shared. You show us your files, your emails, your tools. You leave with a clear idea of what we would do and what it would cost, even if we do not work together.

Free · No commitment