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Every business has one system it's been missing

The version of your operations you can't quite reach. We've spent over a decade building exactly that.

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Companies I've built for

adidas
Harrods
ASOS
Macy's
JD Sports
Reebok
Zalando
Sports Direct
boohoo Group
About You
Zalora
The Couture Club
Rangers FC
Black White Denim
Lovell Soccer
Whispering Smith
Granada Cranes
Atlas & Aisle
adidas
Harrods
ASOS
Macy's
JD Sports
Reebok
Zalando
Sports Direct
boohoo Group
adidas
Harrods
ASOS
Macy's
JD Sports
Reebok
Zalando
Sports Direct
boohoo Group
adidas
Harrods
ASOS
Macy's
JD Sports
Reebok
Zalando
Sports Direct
boohoo Group
About You
Zalora
The Couture Club
Rangers FC
Black White Denim
Lovell Soccer
Whispering Smith
Granada Cranes
Atlas & Aisle
About You
Zalora
The Couture Club
Rangers FC
Black White Denim
Lovell Soccer
Whispering Smith
Granada Cranes
Atlas & Aisle
About You
Zalora
The Couture Club
Rangers FC
Black White Denim
Lovell Soccer
Whispering Smith
Granada Cranes
Atlas & Aisle
What I can build for you

I help companies build the systems they're missing.

Whatever your operation is fighting with right now, there's probably a custom system that would fix it. Here's the kind of work I do.

Operational platforms

The system your business actually runs on. Custom-built around how you operate, not the other way round.

Digital retail intelligence

Wholesale brands regaining control across hundreds of retailers. Visibility, performance and accountability in one place.

Product development

Custom software products built end to end. Discovery, design, build and the years of running it afterwards.

Bespoke business applications

One-off custom builds when off-the-shelf can't do what your business actually needs.

Internal tools & dashboards

Custom interfaces that replace the spreadsheets and Slack threads holding teams back.

API & system integrations

Connecting the websites, EPOS, finance and ops systems you already use into one coherent layer.

AI & automation

Practical AI inside the systems you run. Automating real work, surfacing real insight, no bolted-on novelty.

Technical consultancy

A senior pair of eyes on architecture, hiring, or untangling something that's gone wrong.

Where 2026 budgets go

The market is loud on AI. The money is moving somewhere quieter.

Executives name AI first, but most of the 2026 budget is going to modernisation, integration and compliance - the foundations AI actually depends on. These are the seven areas we build for, ordered by where boards are spending.

71%

of CIOs name application modernisation their number one priority for 2026.

Gartner 2026 CIO Agenda - 3,100 CIOs

01

AI-Enabled Operations

We build AI into the systems your teams already use, aimed at the back-office work where returns are proven, not pilots that stall. Applied, not agent hype.

56% of companies report no financial return from AI to date.
40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027, Gartner expects.
11% of organisations have AI agents actually in production.
02

Compliance and Governance

Custom compliance tooling for UAE and Saudi rules, with audit trails, data residency and reporting in from day one.

PDPL / DIFC
03

Process Automation

We redesign the workflow first, then automate it, so you remove the manual work instead of hard-wiring the mess.

04

Real-Time Operations

Live dashboards and operational tooling that put the true state of the business on one screen.

05

System Integration

We connect the platforms, APIs and data you already run, so nothing is retyped and nothing is lost.

06

Legacy Modernisation

We replace spreadsheets and ageing systems with platforms built to run for a decade, not to be rebuilt in two years.

Gartner #1 CIO priority
07

Decision Analytics

We turn the data your systems already hold into numbers your team can act on.

Industries we serve

Built for 29 industries, shaped to each one.

Every platform is built around the workflows, compliance and operational reality of your sector. Tap into any industry for the full picture.

Who builds it

Operational platforms for businesses that have outgrown the workarounds.

Most engineers build what they're handed. I work the other way round: I go in, audit how the operation actually runs, then design the system around how the business needs to work - not just the software, the operational thinking behind it. That's what sets me apart from most studios. I design and engineer it personally, founder direct from start to finish, with a trusted network of senior specialists for larger or faster work.

Paul Banks Founder

15+ years of software engineering, from startups to global brands. Operations-first, code second.

How we work

Most teams solve the wrong problem well.

Businesses rarely fail to build solutions. They build good solutions to the wrong problem. Every BY BANKS engagement starts with diagnosis - what is actually broken, and where the constraint really sits - before a line of code is written.

85%

of C-suite executives say their organisation is bad at diagnosing problems.

HBR survey - 106 executives, 17 countries

The market
Accepts the brief as written
Builds against the symptom
Diagnoses from the meeting room
Starts from one industry's playbook
BY BANKS
Treats the brief as a hypothesis, then tests it
Maps the operation and finds the constraint
Stands in the operation and watches it run
Carries proven patterns across 29 industries

Diagnosis before design

Whether the brief describes the disease or the symptom is a question we answer first. Reframing a problem is usually worth more than any feature built against the wrong one.

Go and see

Reports summarise. Operations reveal. We watch the process run at the source - the warehouse, the site office, the shop floor - before proposing a system to run it.

Range as method

Research shows the hardest problems are usually cracked by someone from outside the field. 29 industries gives us a library of solved problems, ready to transfer into yours.

See the method applied to your operation

Discovery runs 2-4 weeks and produces a working prototype and a build-ready blueprint. You see the thing before you commit to the thing.

Start with Discovery
Questions worth asking

What it's like to work with us.

Complex operations with a lot of moving parts. The more tangled it looks, the better - a favourite line from our meetings is "you've got the perfect amount of chaos for us to come in and sort out." That's where we're strongest: businesses where nothing quite talks to anything else and the whole thing needs joining up properly.

Genuinely end to end. Take a developer in construction: we'd build the promotional website, the backend system that powers the entire operation, the booking system, the field apps for site teams - the lot, working as one. If your operation has deep, complex, moving parts, that's exactly the kind of work we take on.

Yes, and it's some of our best work. We build the tech behind critical compliance and controls: statutory certification tracking, audit trails that stand up to scrutiny, sealed and governed processes. When getting it wrong means a failed audit or an illegal operation, that's precisely when you want senior engineering rather than a junior team learning on your systems.

You work directly with the person building your software. No account managers, no junior developers on your budget, no handoffs between a sales team and a delivery team who never speak. The person who scopes it is the person who builds it - senior judgment from the first conversation to the last deploy.

Most engagements start with a paid discovery. We go in, audit how the operation actually runs, then design the system around how the business needs to work. From there it's milestone-based delivery with working software in front of you regularly, not a black box you wait six months for.

Yes. We work with formal procurement, including through prime contractors on larger programmes, and we're comfortable with the documentation, security and commercial requirements of enterprise and public-sector work. If you have a procurement process, we'll fit it.

Custom code, not page builders or WordPress. Typically PHP or Node with PostgreSQL, and Nuxt or Vue on the front end, on modern infrastructure. We self-host fonts and avoid unnecessary third-party dependencies, so what we build is fast, owned by you, and not tied to someone else's platform.

A fair question, and the honest answer is the opposite. You get more senior attention, not less, with none of the diffusion of responsibility you get in a big team. For larger or faster work we bring in a trusted network of senior specialists we've worked with for years, so capacity scales without dropping the quality bar. You always know who's accountable.

Yes. The work on this page is anonymised, but on a call we can go through the real builds in detail - the problems, the decisions, what we would do differently. It is the fastest way to judge whether we are right for your project. Book a call.

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and intelligence your business needs.

Paul Banks
Paul Banks Founder & Lead Consultant I handle all enquiries personally and look forward to hearing about your project.

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