I help businesses in Telford and across Shropshire find the admin that eats their team's week (re-keying orders, updating spreadsheets, chasing paperwork) and replace it with systems that do it for them.
Book a free 20-minute callSteps and prices ↓You don't have to commit to a software project to find out whether one is worth it. Each step is small, priced up front, and you can stop after any of them.
20 min, no charge
Tell me which task takes the most time, and I'll say honestly whether it's worth looking at.
£2,450 + VAT, fixed
I work with the people who do the job, map where the hours and errors go, and give you a costed, prioritised plan, usually within two to three weeks.
Why start with an audit rather than a build? Here's the project that taught me that.
Fixed quote, in phases
If a custom system is the right answer, I build it in small phases. The audit fee is credited if you go ahead within 90 days.
Monthly, agreed up front
Hosting, maintenance and agreed response times.
A rough figure is enough to know whether it's worth a conversation. Try it with one task your team does every week.
Your figures
Salary plus employer NI and pension, divided by hours worked. £16 to £20 is typical for admin roles.
Per year
Every year, that task costs you about
£14,904
828 hours of staff time
Based on 46 working weeks. It doesn't count the cost of errors that reach customers, or the work that doesn't get done while people are re-keying.
Most of my work is internal software that clients' teams use every day, so it isn't something you can click around in. These examples of systems I've built are anonymised.
A tyre service looking after company car fleets ran on paper worksheets, a notebook in the warehouse manager's pocket, and one man's memory. Six years on, it runs on one system — and has grown from one warehouse to six with the same number of people.
Its owner now works six-hour days, and recently took a fortnight off.
Barnabas, Founder
I'm Barnabas Kecskes, a senior software developer with 15 years building in-house admin systems for businesses. I started in 2011 and set up Riverskies in 2014. There's no account manager or junior hand-off: the person you speak to on the first call is the person who does the work.
Most of that work has been the same thing: taking repetitive admin off people's desks and cutting out the errors that come with it. You can check my background on LinkedIn.
Only if it's genuinely the problem. Often the better answer is connecting systems you already have, such as Sage, Xero or your CRM, or using features you're paying for but not using.
Not always. Part of the audit is saying plainly where an off-the-shelf tool will do the job for less. Custom systems make sense when your process is what sets you apart, or when nothing off the shelf fits without constant workarounds.
Mostly owner-managed businesses where a few people carry most of the office admin. Headcount matters less than whether admin is eating time that should go on the work you're good at, so a six-person firm can be as good a fit as a sixty-person one. The same handful of patterns show up across most sectors.
I focus on Telford, Shrewsbury and the surrounding area because audits involve time on site. For the right project I'll travel further, and some work can be done remotely.
Support plans cover hosting, updates and fixes, with response times agreed in writing before the system goes live.
Tell me which task takes the most time. You'll get an honest view of whether it's worth fixing, and no follow-up pressure either way.
Book a callI take on one or two new clients a month.
