Matt Wilson
You know what the business needs. I build it, fixed price.
From an idea to what the business runs on
You already know what the business needs, and roughly how you'd fix it. A document, a spreadsheet that half does the job, or something you've vibe-coded and had a go at building yourself.
Getting from there to something people open every morning is a different kind of work. Somewhere for it to live, accounts and permissions, a database holding real records. And all of it still standing on the days nobody is thinking about it.
And that part isn't really about hours. It's whose name sits against it the first time it touches real money, and who picks up the phone when it breaks. Weighed against a job you already don't have enough time for, that's usually where a good idea stops.
That's the part I take off you. The burden, not just the stack.
Built for how you actually work
Your specification is the starting point
A document, a spreadsheet, or something half-built. It gets used, not replaced. What I ask about is the rest: who uses it, what it connects to, and what happens when it breaks.
Tailored to your business
Off-the-shelf software is built for a whole industry, so you pay for features you never open and bend your process to fit theirs. Yours is built round how you already work, and it's yours to keep.
Supercharge your workflows
You're doing the same thirty-minute job again, and it's costing you the thing you'd rather be spending on the business. We turn that work into something that runs itself, and hand the time back.
What it costs
Discovery
£550-£1,500
One decision-maker or several. Turns into a fixed-price proposal.
The build
From £1,000
Sites, tools and single workflows from £1k. Larger systems with real integrations from £8k. Fixed price, quoted after discovery.
Retained availability
£400/day
New features and improvements, on demand. No minimum.
Monitoring & maintenance
£100/mo + £75/hr
Flat fee to watch it. Hourly for active fix work.
How working together works
- A paid discovery phase sets the price
- After the first call, a short paid discovery phase covers time in your business and with whoever else holds the requirements. It turns into a fixed-price proposal, and it's a real deliverable either way: if you don't go further, you keep it.
- Fixed price, agreed up front
- You get a number before anything starts, and that's the number. No hourly meter, no invoice that grows while you're not looking.
- Delivered and paid in phases
- Each stage is quoted, started and signed off separately. You can stop between phases and keep what's already built. Deployment is its own stage, quoted on its own.
- You own the code
- It sits in your repository from the first day, under your account. Ownership transfers to you as each phase is paid for, not at the end and not conditionally.
- Professionally insured
- Professional indemnity and public liability cover are in place, with cyber cover for anything touching personal data. Certificates available on request.
- Warranty after go-live
- Thirty days from the day each phase goes live. If delivered code doesn't do what it was demonstrated doing, it gets fixed at no charge.
- Ongoing work, when you need it
- After go-live, help is available on demand, for new features and improvements or for monitoring and maintenance. No ongoing commitment required either way.
- Changes are quoted, never assumed
- Anything outside what was agreed gets written down and re-quoted before a line of it is written. Scope creep becomes your decision rather than your surprise.
What people say
“I've had the pleasure of working with Matt across multiple companies and have seen him continuously grow and adapt his skill set to meet each new challenge. He is hardworking, results-driven, and highly committed to delivering quality outcomes. Matt is also an excellent team player who brings a positive attitude and strong collaboration to any environment.”
Ricardo Brito
Team Lead, Stonehage Fleming
“I had the pleasure of working with Matt Wilson for two years in the IT Business Systems department. Matt is a true Swiss-army-knife developer, equally strong on the frontend and backend, with deep expertise in modern development languages. He highly contributed to the delivery of complex solutions, including a web application for monitoring and valuing a multi-billion fund and a mobile application for a Wealth Management firm. Highly reliable and exceptionally independent, Matt takes full ownership of his work and consistently thinks outside the box. I would recommend him without hesitation — he can build and deliver complete applications from scratch with confidence and skill.”
Florian Munier
Group Head of IT Business Systems, Stonehage Fleming
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What we cover
- How the task is handled right now, step by step
- Who touches it, and where it stalls
- The idea you've had, and what it would take to finish it