Free tools, built properly.

Small things we needed and could not find a decent UK version of, so we built them. No signup, no email wall, and nothing you enter is sent anywhere.

Spreadsheets and data

Most business data problems are invisible until something downstream fails. These find them first.

Anyone importing a customer or supplier list

Data health check

Drop in a CSV and it checks the things that quietly break UK business systems. VAT numbers are run through the HMRC mod-97 checksum rather than just a length test, so it catches a transposed digit that looks perfectly valid. Company numbers are checked for the leading zero Excel strips off, which is the single most common reason a Companies House lookup fails. It also finds mixed date formats, invalid postcodes, duplicate records and the same email address sitting on two different rows.

Nothing is uploaded. The file is read in your browser and never leaves it.

Construction

Money you have already earned but cannot yet access, and the dates that decide when you get it.

Subcontractors and trades

Retention tracker

Retention is rarely disputed. It is forgotten, because the second half falls due twelve months after practical completion when nobody is watching the contract any more. Add your jobs and this works out what is held, whether deduction has passed the cap it should have stopped at, and the date each half falls due. Overdue releases are flagged with the statutory interest accruing on them at eight points over base.

A paid recovery pack turns anything overdue into a formal application for release, with the schedule, the interest calculation and the basis under the Construction Act.

Property and lettings

The licensing rules did not change in 2026. What it costs to get them wrong did.

Landlords and letting agents

HMO licence checker

Four questions tell you whether a property needs a mandatory HMO licence, what a licence typically costs, what documents the council will ask for, and what the penalty is if you let without one. There is also a room size calculator that works out the maximum number of adults who can lawfully sleep in the property, which is often fewer than the number currently living there.

Covers England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, each of which uses a different threshold.

Landlords with certificates to keep on top of

HMO compliance tracker

Add your properties and the date each certificate was last done. It works out every renewal date from there and shows what is overdue, what is due inside 30 days and what is coming in the next quarter. Nine certificate types are covered, from the annual gas safety check through to the five year licence renewal.

Exports to a calendar file with reminders at 90, 30 and 7 days, so the dates live somewhere you will actually see them.

Why these are free

Because the version we get paid for is the one built around a specific business. A tool that works for everyone has to make assumptions, and the assumptions are where the friction comes from. The data health check finds problems in a spreadsheet. It cannot stop them appearing next month, because that means changing how the data gets entered in the first place.

That is the work. These are a reasonable demonstration of how we approach it.

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Something missing?

We add to this as we come across problems worth solving. If there is a calculation or a check you keep doing by hand and think other UK businesses probably do too, tell us and we will look at it. No promises, but the last three came from exactly that.

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