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Case studies

Real engagements.
Real numbers.

A small selection of work from the last few years. Where we have a client’s permission to name them we have done; otherwise the engagement is described in enough detail that anyone in the same sector will recognise the shape of it.

DMS · Live in production

The operations layer for a Church of England diocese.

Religious bodies · Diocesan administration

A single operations platform that replaced a stack of spreadsheets, Access databases and Outlook inboxes built up over decades. Over 25 operational areas, from safeguarding and DBS through faculty, finance and net zero, each running on its own cycle and escalation, all sat on top of the National CMS without trying to replace it.

It now runs across several UK dioceses on a monthly release cadence, with a role-scoped AI assistant available to diocesan secretaries.

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25+
Operational areas in one mental model
UK
Azure-hosted · audit-trailed
5+ yr
Average client tenure on the platform
Live
Across multiple UK dioceses
Property · Spreadsheet retirement

A diocesan housing portfolio recovered half an FTE’s worth of admin.

Religious bodies · Multi-site landlord

The team was running a portfolio out of one master Excel workbook (HOUSING_MASTER_v47), eleven supporting workbooks and 3,200 PDFs in a OneDrive folder. Audit prep took a fortnight every year. Compliance visibility was a quarterly ritual.

We migrated the portfolio onto a database-backed compliance platform. Re-keying, weekly reconciliation, document hunts and the quarterly compliance ritual collapsed to ~30 hours combined per year. Audit prep dropped to a day.

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275
Hours per year recovered (~£14k of staff time)
18 mo
Pure-financial payback period
8
Compliance cycles automated
0
Spreadsheets in the critical path post-launch
Event Jamboree · Scout-built

A 400-attendee scout camp run from one tab.

Scouts & youth orgs · Annual residential camp

A district camp organiser was running annual camps from a wall of post-its, three Google Sheets and a paper register. Bookings sat in one place, leader rotas in another, dietary requirements somewhere else again, and each was held in the head of one volunteer.

We ported the whole pipeline into one platform. Public booking pages with capacity caps. Leader records with DBS expiry tracking. Activity rotas. Catering numbers fed straight to the kitchen. QR check-in on arrival. Phone-friendly throughout, because most of the use happens in a field with patchy signal.

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400+
Attendees on a single platform
68
Leaders · DBS expiry tracked
18
Activity bases · live timetabling
0
Spreadsheets on the day

More case studies in preparation. We don’t name clients without permission, so it sometimes takes a while.

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