SearchOps Studio · Internal platforms

One platform for the work your tools leave in between.

Most teams don't have a tool problem. They have a gap problem: the spreadsheet that joins the CRM to the booking system, the email thread that chases approvals, the report someone rebuilds every Monday. We build the internal app that closes those gaps, on top of the tools you already pay for.

Projects from
£12,000
Typical timeline
7 to 10 wks
Pricing
Fixed
ops.yourcompany.com / Branches

Branches

42

To approve

7

Changes this week

18

Leeds Central

North

Up to date

Bristol Harbourside

South West

2 to approve

Manchester Deansgate

North

Up to date

Cardiff Bay

Wales

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Sound familiar?

Does this sound like your team?

If two or more of these are true, it is worth twenty minutes to see what a build would look like.

Someone copies data between two systems every week.

Approvals happen in email threads and nobody can see where things are stuck.

Every branch or client has a slightly different spreadsheet.

You have asked a software vendor for the same feature three times.

What we build

The parts of the build, in plain terms

01

Dashboards that join your tools

Numbers from every system on one screen, by location, brand or client, refreshed on a schedule you choose.

02

Workflows and approvals

Requests, sign-offs and handovers with owners, due dates and a full history, so nothing lives in an inbox.

03

Access that matches your structure

Roles by job and visibility by location, brand or client. A branch manager sees their branch; head office sees everything.

04

Two-way connections

Read from and write back to the tools you use, so the platform is where work happens rather than another place to copy into.

05

Alerts and digests

Email, Slack or Teams when something needs a person, and a short summary when it doesn't.

06

A full audit trail

Who changed what and when, on every record. Useful for compliance, and for settling who approved what.

Example builds

What a project like this looks like

Examples of the kind of build we do, to make the scope concrete. They are illustrations, not client case studies.

A service business with 40 branches

Branch operations portal

Before

Head office tracks each branch's reviews, profile changes and local offers across five spreadsheets.

What we build

  • A page per branch with a rollup by region
  • Profile edits proposed by branches, approved centrally, published to Google
  • A Monday digest of what changed and what needs a decision

A marketing agency with 60 clients

Agency client portal

Before

Clients ask for updates by email, and account managers export reports from four tools.

What we build

  • Client logins under the agency's own brand
  • Live reporting from Analytics, Search Console and Ads per client
  • Requests and approvals in one thread per client

A group of private clinics

Enquiry hub for a clinic group

Before

Enquiries arrive by phone, web form and email, and get logged by hand.

What we build

  • One inbox for every enquiry, routed by clinic and treatment
  • Patient data stored and permissioned for health data rules
  • A weekly report of enquiries and bookings by source

Typical projects

What it usually costs

Three common sizes, priced by the same model as the estimator. Load one into the estimator to see how each answer moves the price.

Focused tool

One dashboard or one workflow, two connected tools, used by your team.

£16,000 to £24,000

ex VAT

Timeline
4 to 6 weeks
Discovery
£1,500
Care plan
Standard, £695/mo

Team platform

Three to five workflows, three tools, and roles for different jobs.

£30,500 to £45,500

ex VAT

Timeline
7 to 10 weeks
Discovery
£2,500
Care plan
Standard, £695/mo

Estate platform

Six to ten workflows, access by location or brand, clients or partners log in.

£54,000 to £81,000

ex VAT

Timeline
11 to 16 weeks
Discovery
£4,000
Care plan
Priority, £1,450/mo

What you get

  • A working platform on a production address
  • Source code in your repository from week one
  • Infrastructure in your cloud account, or ours on a care plan
  • An admin guide and technical documentation
  • A handover session for your team
  • 30 days of fixes after launch

What discovery covers

  • Interviews with the people who will use it
  • A map of your tools, your data and who owns each
  • Each workflow, written down step by step
  • A clickable prototype of the main screens
  • A milestone plan with a fixed price for each

How it runs

From first call to running software

Fixed price per milestone, and you can see every task at every stage.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    1 to 2 weeks

    We meet the people who will use it, map the tools and data, and agree a fixed price for each milestone.

  2. 02

    Build in milestones

    7 to 10 weeks, typically

    Each milestone ends in something you can use on a preview link. A shared board shows every task, and you get a short video update each week.

  3. 03

    Launch and handover

    Launch week

    We go live, train your team, hand over the documentation, and fix anything that comes up in the first 30 days.

  4. 04

    Care plan

    From £295/month

    Optional. Hosting, monitoring, updates when connected tools change, and improvement days on the higher plans.

Rough quote

Price your internal platform project

Answer a few questions and the estimate updates as you go. Send it when it looks right, and we reply within one UK working day.

Step 2 of 3 · Internal platform

How much should it do?

Count the jobs people will do in it: a dashboard, an approval flow, a booking screen, a report.

Which tools should it connect to?

Pick everything that applies. Each one is an integration we build and keep working.

Who logs in?
Who sees what?
How should it look?
What kind of data does it handle?
Where are we starting from?
When do you need it?

Questions about internal platforms

All prices are in GBP and exclude VAT, which is added at the prevailing UK rate.