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Services · for businesses and teams

Can it be built?
We'll tell you straight.

Plain Systems, the studio behind Time Wheel, also builds for businesses and teams: internal tools, dashboards, automations and admin systems. Bring an idea, a messy process or a tool you wish existed. You'll hear whether it can be built and what it would take. Every price is agreed in writing before work starts.

Or write to plainsystems@outlook.com from any email account.

How it goes

Three steps

The first answer is free, and you're under no obligation after it.

  1. Send the idea

    An email is enough. A few lines on what it should do, who will use it, and what you use now.

  2. Get a straight answer

    Yes, no, or yes with changes, with a rough price. If it can't be done sensibly, you'll be told that too.

  3. You decide

    Go ahead at a fixed price agreed in writing, or leave it there. It's your call.

Three ways in

Start where you are

Each one has a clear price and a clear next step.

Free

Can it be built?

You have an idea for a tool, an app or an automation. Send it in a few lines: what it should do, who will use it, and what you use now.

  • A straight answer: yes, no, or yes with changes
  • Roughly how it would work
  • A rough price to build it
No charge, no obligationSend your idea
£300 fixed

Systems audit

For when admin is eating your week and you don't know what to fix first. Fill in a written intake form, or talk it through on one call of up to 60 minutes.

  • A written plan within five working days
  • Three to seven changes, in order of priority
  • The tools to use for each one
  • A rough idea of the time each one saves

It's based on what you share in the intake form or call, so nobody needs access to your systems. The audit doesn't include building anything.

Invoiced · paid by bank transferBook an audit
Quoted per job

Custom builds

Small tools, dashboards and automations, built for you or for your whole team.

  • A fixed price, agreed in writing before any work starts
  • What's included, written into the same agreement
  • A plain note on what it does and where its limits are
Quoted after the first answerAsk for a quote

Not sure which? If you know what you want built, start with Can it be built?. If you only know that something takes too long, start with the audit.

What you can count on

The small print, up front

A few things that hold for every job.

No access needed

The audit works from what you share. Nobody needs a login to your systems.

Price first

Nothing is charged until the price and what's included are agreed in writing.

Invoiced

Audits and builds are invoiced and paid by bank transfer, not through a shop checkout.

No hard sell

If an idea can't be built sensibly, you'll hear that, not a pitch for something else.

See the work first

Time Wheel is Plain Systems' own work: a Windows app, a sync service and a website with accounts. Try its sorting in your browser, or look at The 90% Brain.

Start with an email

Send the idea, the problem or the question. We read every email and reply with a straight answer.

plainsystems@outlook.com