East Midlands
Derby's economy is built on engineering. Rolls-Royce assembles and tests civil aero engines at Sinfin, Toyota builds cars at nearby Burnaston, and the city has been chosen as the home of Great British Railways. We build the software those firms run on, from quoting tools and supplier portals to websites and web apps, and deliver every project remotely.
Local context
High-value engineering is everywhere you look in Derby. Marketing Derby, the city's investment agency, reports that Rolls-Royce is expanding assembly, test and shop visit capacity at its civil aerospace site in Sinfin, an investment set to create hundreds of jobs. Just outside the city, Toyota's UK vehicle plant at Burnaston in Derbyshire has been building cars since the first one left the line in December 1992. Suppliers to customers of that scale are expected to work to exacting standards and prove it on paper.
Rail is the other defining industry. In 2023 the government named Derby as the home of the Great British Railways headquarters, saying the city came top of six shortlisted locations in both the formal assessment and the public vote, helped by its well-established connections with the rail industry and supply chain. In October 2026 the headquarters site was unveiled, alongside a new apprenticeship scheme for young people in the area.
Making things here goes back a long way. The Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site runs for fifteen miles down the valley from Matlock Bath to Derby, preserving mill complexes that tell the story of industrial and social life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill sits at its southern end. The result is a business community used to precise specifications, audits and long product lifecycles.
Sectors
Suppliers working to aerospace standards need first-article inspection records, controlled drawings, non-conformance reports and certificates linked to every batch. We build systems that make those records easy to produce and impossible to lose.
Contractors and component makers in the rail supply chain ask for asset and maintenance records, competence tracking for staff and reporting dashboards that a client can check without waiting for a monthly pack.
From tier-two suppliers to independent garages and dealers, motor businesses need job cards, parts ordering, vehicle histories and customer updates. Software that joins those up saves hours each week.
Warehouses and carriers serving the city's manufacturers want slot booking, inbound and outbound tracking and proof of delivery, shared with customers through a simple login.
Agencies and training providers placing engineers and apprentices need candidate pipelines, compliance documents, course bookings and placement tracking in one secure system.
Common requests
In a city shaped by engineering, the briefs we see usually start with control, evidence and repeatability. These are typical:
Inspection results, certificates and concessions stored against each part and batch, with reports produced on demand instead of assembled by hand.
Orders, drawings, delivery schedules and documents exchanged through a secure login, so neither side is chasing email attachments.
Pricing rules, machine rates and material costs held in software, so estimates are consistent whoever prepares them.
Who is trained, certified and authorised for which task, with expiry alerts and evidence that clients and regulators can review.
Purchase orders and schedules pulled automatically from large customers' platforms into your own order book.
Services
Engineering buyers shortlist suppliers online, often before any contact. We build clear, fast sites that set out capabilities, approvals and sectors served, and make technical enquiries easy to send.
When the quality system, job tracking and order book do not talk to each other, we build one web application around how your Derby shop floor and office actually operate.
Inspectors, fitters and drivers can use a single web app on phones, tablets and workstations, installed from the browser, able to capture photos and readings, and updated centrally.
If your team has built a compliance or maintenance tool that others in rail, aerospace or automotive would buy, we help turn it into a subscription product with proper accounts and billing.
For distributors of parts, tooling and consumables we build trade ordering with account pricing, approval limits, technical data sheets and links into stock and accounting.
We connect ERP, MRP, accounting and customer procurement systems so orders and schedules flow automatically. Read more about our integration work.
How we work
We deliver Derby projects without anyone needing to travel. Discovery sessions and milestone demonstrations are held over video around production schedules and shift handovers, and the client panel holds specifications, test builds and decisions so engineers and managers can review them in their own time.
You receive a written proposal covering scope, milestones and price before development begins. As with any controlled process, each stage is reviewed and approved by you before the next one starts.
A video call to understand the business, the people who will use the software and what has to change.
Scope, milestones and price in writing. Nothing starts until you accept it.
Each milestone is reviewed with you; progress, files and decisions stay in your client panel.
Go-live when you are ready, then maintenance and hosting if you want them.
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FAQ
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