For ambitious businesses and SMEs

Software, data and AI that pay for themselves.

We cut the cost of the manual work you have stopped noticing, join up the systems that do not talk, and give you reporting the board can act on. Fixed-price discovery, a costed plan before you commit, and a first release date agreed at discovery.

Microsoft-native · UK-based team · ISO 27001 certified · IP transfers to you

What you get

Cost, time and team

DiscoveryFixed price, sized to your project
First releaseAgreed at discovery
Who does the workArchitects, not juniors
IPTransfers to you under contract
After launchSupport to an SLA
Starting pointFree health check
What's costing you

The four problems we get called about

None of them announce themselves. They show up as a slow month end, a hire you should not have needed, or a number nobody in the room believes.

Team reviewing reports that do not agree

Three systems, no trustworthy number

Sales says one thing, finance says another, and the board pack is assembled by hand every month from exports nobody can audit.

Two people working through paperwork by hand

Manual work that quietly became a job

Re-keying between systems, chasing approvals by email, rebuilding the same spreadsheet. It scales by hiring, which is the expensive way to scale.

Rows of obsolete typewriters in an old office

A system that now holds you back

It was right when you were half the size. Now every change is a quote, every integration is a workaround, and one person understands it.

Technician working on a server rack

AI you have been told to use, with no safe way in

Plenty of pressure to do something with AI, no clarity on what would actually pay back or what happens to your data.

Trusted to deliver for public and private sector clients

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Learn Sheffield logo
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Department for Transport logo
esynergy logo
Audio Network logo
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What we build

Six capabilities, delivered Microsoft-native

The same six we bring to government work — described here in terms of what they do to your cost base.

Software and platforms

Bespoke software development and legacy modernisation, built to standards so the next change is cheap rather than another quote.

Data, BI and warehousing

A governed warehouse and Power BI reporting your leadership team can rely on, with one definition per metric and no manual assembly.

AI and automation

Governed AI, decision support and automation, scoped against a payback number rather than a trend.

Microsoft and Power Platform

Power Apps, Power Automate and integration done properly — the fastest payback if you already own Microsoft 365 licences.

Cloud and hosting

Azure and AWS with strong security, sensible running costs and no vendor lock-in. We will tell you when you are over-provisioned.

Consultancy and assurance

Discovery-led reviews and technical assurance, including second opinions on work another supplier built or quoted for.

How we work

Cost and timeline before you commit

No day rates with an open end, no discovery that turns into a retainer. Four stages, each with a price and a date attached.

1

Health check

A short review of your systems, data and reporting, with a written summary of what is costing you money and what we would fix first.

Free · about a week
2

Discovery

Architects map the systems, prove the integrations that carry risk, and produce a costed plan with a scope you can hold us to.

Fixed price, sized to your project
3

Build and launch

Delivered in two-week increments you can see working. Same architects who scoped it, and the IP transfers to you under contract.

First release agreed at discovery
4

Support and improve

Monitoring, patching and a named contact who knows your platform. Change requests priced individually, reviews quarterly.

SLA-backed · monthly

Most engagements start at the health check and stop there if the numbers do not justify a build. We would rather say so early than sell you a project.

Your data is safe with us

The assurance we take to government, applied to your business

Public-sector buyers audit this. You get the same controls without having to ask, which matters the day your largest customer sends you a security questionnaire.

ISO 27001 ISO 9001
ISO 27001 and ISO 9001
UKAS-accredited information security and quality management, independently audited.
Cyber Essentials Plus
Cyber Essentials Plus
The independently tested tier of the government’s cyber scheme, not the self-assessed one.
Screened people
Screened people
Every member of staff is screened to BPSS and BS7858 before they touch your systems.
Secure by design
Secure by design
UK GDPR alignment, role-based access control, encryption and audit logging throughout.
UK-based team
UK-based team
A distributed UK team, with hosting in the UK or the region you choose.
IP that transfers to you
IP that transfers to you
IP transfers to you under the contract, with no licence to keep paying and no lock-in to us.
Evidence, not adjectives

Commercial work, with numbers attached

References available on request — including from clients who will take your call.

Marine fuel trading / ERP

97%

Shipergy — Stream

Secure messaging and ERP in one system, taking every deal from a trader’s first chat message to supplier invoice checks and payment control. 97% of work items accepted first time.

Payroll services

Platform

Ascend Payroll — secure platform

Built and supported as the operational backbone of a managed payroll business: secure document handling, client portals and the integrations behind them.

Data platform at scale

236M / day

Marie Curie — with esynergy

A Microsoft Fabric platform ingesting around 236 million rows a day into a governed data estate. Proof the data work scales past SME volumes.

“From the very beginning, Pixel Fusion understood that we weren’t simply commissioning software — we were building the operational backbone of a next-generation managed payroll business.”

Richard Rowell · Director, Ascend Payroll

Verified client reference

Before you get in touch

Cost, timeline and ownership

The three things every operations director asks before they will book a call. Here they are without the call.

Discovery is fixed price, typically £4,000 to £9,000 depending on how many systems are involved, and it ends with a costed plan. Most first releases then land between £25,000 and £80,000. You see the build number before you commit to it, and nothing runs on a day rate with an open end.

Discovery takes two to three weeks. From the point you approve the costed plan, most first releases go live within six to ten weeks, delivered in two-week increments you can see working rather than a single hand-over at the end.

The intellectual property transfers to you under the contract. There is no proprietary runtime to license and nothing that stops another supplier picking the work up.

No. We are Microsoft-native because most of our clients already own Microsoft 365 licences, which makes Power Platform and Azure the fastest route to payback. Where that is not the case we build on AWS and open standards, and we will say so rather than sell you licences you do not need.

Yes. We work as an extension of an in-house team as often as we deliver end to end — architecture and the harder integration work from us, day-to-day development from your team, or the reverse. We also review and give second opinions on work another supplier has built or quoted for.

Support runs to an SLA: monitoring, patching and a named contact who knows your platform rather than a ticket queue. Change requests are priced individually so you are never paying a retainer for months you do not use, and we review the platform with you quarterly.

Buying for a council, an NHS trust, a multi-academy trust or a charity? That path has its own frameworks, evidence and social value.

Start with the health check.

A short review of your systems, data and reporting, and a written summary of what we would fix first. No cost, no hard sell.