Founder of HiveSuite — business software for contractors
I build software that actually gets used.
No fluff. No bloated features.
Just tools that do the job properly.
What I'm building
Most tools for contractors are overcomplicated.
HiveSuite fixes that.
Quotes, invoices, job scheduling, payments, and team management - all in one place, without the bloat. Most tradespeople are running their business across a spreadsheet, a WhatsApp group, and whatever their accountant recommended. None of it talks to each other. HiveSuite replaces all of it.
About
I kept watching tradespeople get sold software built for office workers — tools with workflows that made no sense for someone spending most of their day on site. The options were either too complex, too expensive, or both.
So I started building something different. Building solo, no investors, no roadmap theatre.
Staying self-funded was deliberate. No investors means no pressure to chase metrics that don't matter. The only people I'm accountable to are the contractors actually using HiveSuite every day.
Current focus
Building HiveSuite toward 100 paying users. All core features are live — HiveCRM, HivePlanner, HiveCrew, and HiveIntel. Right now it's about distribution: getting in front of more contractors, earning their trust, and iterating based on what they actually need.
Not planning. Not positioning. Shipping.
How I build
Ship early, iterate fast
Real feedback from real users beats any amount of upfront planning. Get something working, put it in front of people, then make it better.
Build for the worker, not the manager
The person using the software every day matters more than the one approving the budget. Optimise for that person.
Fewer features, done properly
One thing that works reliably beats five things that are almost there. Scope down. Build it right.
Revenue is the metric
Not signups, not traffic, not vanity numbers. Are people paying for it and coming back? That's the only signal that matters.