Replace the spreadsheet
Scheduling boards, job trackers, inventory and order systems — one proper app your whole team works from, instead of a file everyone is scared to break.
Open
Taking on new projects — quoted on scope, priced for small businesses
Software built around your business, at a fair price.
Batsford Systems builds custom software for small and mid-sized businesses — the internal tools, customer portals and field apps that off-the-shelf products never quite fit, without the agency price tag.
Project briefNo. 0012
Client
Northside Demolition LLC
Office of 4 · 9 trucks
| Today | Replaced by | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Job spreadsheet | Booking board | Shipped |
| Paper run sheets | Driver app | Building |
| Phone updates | Customer page | Next |
QuoteNo. Q‑0012
- Scope
- 3 phases
- First release
- Week 3
- Updates
- Every week
- Changes
- Agreed first
Priced onScope
QuotedBefore build
Price
On scope
Weekly update · release 4
"Booking board is live — try it Monday"
"Booking board is live — try it Monday"
95
releases shipped on our first build, since July 2026
5
apps built for one business, sharing one database
1
person you talk to — the one writing the code
Jan2027
go‑live for our first build at Contento's
What we build
The software your business keeps wishing existed.
Most small businesses run on a patchwork — a spreadsheet, a whiteboard, a group chat and a subscription that does 60% of the job. We build the missing piece, shaped around how your team already works.
Let customers help themselves
A page where your customers see their orders, bookings or account and send requests — so the phone rings less and nobody has to ask "where's it at?"
Apps for people who aren't at a desk
Phone apps for drivers, technicians and crews — built to keep working with no signal and to send everything back to the office when it reconnects.
Forms, reports and filings
Turn carbon-copy forms into records, and have the monthly report or regulatory filing come straight out of the work you already log.
Make your tools talk
Stop re-keying the same details between systems. We connect what you have — or replace the parts that are holding you back.
See how the business is doing
Revenue, margins, jobs and workload in one read-only view for the owner — built from the records you already keep, not a monthly export.
How it works
Small steps, a clear quote, and software you can use early.
No six-month disappearing act. You see working software within weeks and it grows release by release, with a say at every step.
01 — Talk
Show us the work
A no-cost conversation, ideally on site. We learn how the job really flows today — the spreadsheet, the forms, the workarounds.
02 — Quote
Agree the scope
A plain-English write-up of what we'll build, split into phases, with a quote based on that scope before any work starts.
03 — Build
Release early, often
The most useful piece ships first. Your team uses it for real while the rest is built, and what they say shapes what comes next.
04 — Support
Keep it running
Training for your team, a proper handover, and support afterwards — so the software keeps up as the business changes.
Pricing
Custom software shouldn't need an enterprise budget.
We're a small, founder-led company with low overheads, so we can build for businesses that agencies quote out of reach. Every project is quoted on its scope — here's what that means in practice.
Quoted on scope
- Each project is priced on what it actually involves — no standard package
- You see the scope and the quote before any work starts
Start small
- Begin with the one piece that saves the most time
- Pay for the next phase only once the first is earning its keep
Scope changes, quote follows
- New ideas mid-build are scoped and quoted before they're added
- Support and hosting are scoped and quoted on their own
Our work · case study
Tally: a whole business, off paper, for one customer.
Our first build is Tally, made for Contento's container & recycling business in New York. It replaces a dispatch whiteboard, paper weigh tickets and year-end permit reports with one system. Tally is exclusive to Contento's, and it's here to show the kind of work we do for a client.
Shipped Ahead
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July 2026
The first release
Dispatch board, container tracking, loads and weighing, and a billing worksheet — the core of the yard in one desktop app that updates itself.
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August 2026
Built around the rules of the trade
Buying scrap over the scale with New York's seller-record rules built in, and both annual DEC permit filings generated from day-to-day records.
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September 2026
From one app to five
A driver app that works with no signal, a customer portal on the company's own domain, vehicle compliance tracking and an owner's analytics view — all on the same records.
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14 September 2026 Latest
Release 1.37 — one home per customer
- A page for every customer, with a shared timeline
- A requests board — New to Done, drag to move
- One inbox for requests, replies and driver problems
- Working hours, and a morning summary
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October 2026
Crew training begins
The office and drivers learn Tally on their own workflows.
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January 2027
Go-live
The yard moves off paper and onto Tally.
Name
Jordan Batsford
Age
22
Role
Founder & engineer
Company
Batsford Systems
Founder
Sit with the people doing the work, learn how it really runs, and build the software they should have had all along.
Jordan Batsford started Batsford Systems at 22, after building Tally alongside a working container and recycling business — learning how a delivery sheet, a scale ticket and a permit report actually move through a yard.
The pattern turned out to be everywhere: a capable business held together by a whiteboard, a stack of forms and one person who knows how it really works. The options were a subscription that almost fits, or an agency quote priced for a company ten times the size.
Batsford Systems is the third option: custom software at a price that makes sense for a small business. Jordan still writes the code and still does the site visits.
— Jordan Batsford, Batsford Systems
Start a project
Got a process that's outgrown the spreadsheet?
Tell us what's slowing your team down. We'll talk it through at no cost, and if custom software is the right answer, you'll get a clear scope and price before anything is built.
Independent & founder-led · Custom software for small & mid-sized businesses