An engineer inside the business
Two or more days a week, ongoing
One of us joins your team. We learn how the business runs, then fix what slows it down: the spreadsheets, the double entry, the reports nobody trusts.
Three ways to work with us
Every engagement starts with a conversation. We pick the shape once we understand the problem.
A fixed-price build
A price agreed before work starts
A specific tool, designed, built and live in weeks. You own the software and the data from the first day.
A diagnosis
A few days, by the day
We follow the work from start to finish and hand you a plain-English plan, biggest wins first. It is yours to keep, whether or not we build it.
How an engagement runs
- 1
We listen
A first conversation about the business, at no cost. If software is not the answer, we say so.
- 2
We sit with the people doing the work
Quoters, project managers, the office. We follow a job from the first call to the final invoice.
- 3
We build, and you see it every week
Working software early, in your hands, with your real data. No long silence before a big reveal.
- 4
We stay
We move your team onto it, train them, and keep it running. We run our own products, so we know what live software needs.
Recent work
For businesses with trucks, crews and paperwork, not only screens.
Coffs Coast Building & Pest Inspections
Inspection reports, written from a day on site
An app that turns a day of inspection photos and notes into a print-ready report. The owner gets the evenings back.
“Love the new features. Once again my time will be reduced in processing these reports.”
An electrical and engineering contractor
Revenue forecasts for every job
Forecasts per job, synced from three Simpro accounts, so the leadership team stopped rebuilding spreadsheets each month.
A removals and storage company
One feed for every tender
Every tender from three broker portals in one place each morning, with the jobs that fit a truck already matched.
We also build and run our own products
Running software for paying customers is how we learned to build software that lasts.
The studio
NelsonWorks began on the Coffs Coast, building software for local businesses. Before that, Oli spent years as an engineer at Uscreen, Rapid Global and Nirovision. Before software, Oli was a professional jazz drummer.
The habit carried over. Listen first, play what the room needs, and leave out what it does not.
What you can count on
- You own everything
- The code, the accounts and the data are yours from the first day.
- Prices before work
- You know the cost before we start. No open-ended bills.
- Plain English
- We explain each decision in words your team uses.
- No lock-in
- If it stops working for you, you leave with everything.
Tell us what is slowing the business down.
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