Ausoftware — Bacup, Lancashire — software since the spreadsheet broke
Somewhere in your business is a system a developer half-built and then stopped answering emails about. Everyone works around it. Nobody will touch it. We finish those — and we build the next one so it doesn't happen to you twice.
Why we exist
The last developer left. We get that call a lot.
Ausoftware started because of a spreadsheet. A joinery firm outside Rawtenstall ran its whole order book on one, and the man who wrote the macros retired to Spain. Nobody could open the pricing tab without breaking it. They rang us on a Tuesday, half apologising for how daft it sounded.
It wasn't daft. It was ordinary. We rebuilt that order book, then did much the same for a haulier, a dental group and two accountancy practices, and the pattern was always identical. None of them had been let down by bad code. They had been let down by code that nobody maintained, nobody documented, and nobody was left to explain.
So we work the other way round. We don't sell digital transformation, and we won't quote for a platform when a process change would do. We don't hold source code hostage: every line we write lands in your repository, under your account, from the first day. And if something off the shelf already solves your problem, we will name it, tell you what it costs, and invoice you for the hour it took us to find out.
If nobody left can maintain it, it isn't finished.
Handover documentation · named engineer · your repository, your accounts
What we build
The work, and what it costs
Tap anything below and it carries through to the form at the bottom of the page. You'll get a written scope back, not a day rate.
Prices are a starting point, not a menu. Every quote is fixed in writing after a scoping call, and it stands for thirty days. No day rates, no open-ended hours, no surprise change requests for things we should have asked about at the start.
Recent engagements
Five jobs we can talk about
Client names stay out of it — most of this work sits inside somebody's back office and they'd rather it stayed there. The numbers are the part that matters.
Next step
Tell us what's broken.
Half an hour on a call, no slide deck, no discovery workshop invoice. If we're the wrong people for it we will say so on that call and point you at someone who isn't.
Get in touch
Send us the awkward one
- [email protected]
- Phone
- +44 7988 036 715
- Office
- 14 Inkerman Street
Bacup, Lancashire
OL13 9JD
Open in Maps ↗ - Hours
- Monday to Friday, 08:30–18:00
Support clients get an out-of-hours number.
Ausoftware is run by Aurea Intelligence Ltd, a company registered in England & Wales, company number 17373910, registered office 14 Inkerman Street, Bacup, OL13 9JD.
