Software consultancy

Practical software,
built to last.

Horizontal Solutions helps businesses turn ideas and messy processes into reliable, well-engineered software - from first prototype to production.

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What we do

Services

A small, focused consultancy means you work directly with the people building your software - no hand-offs, no account managers.

Custom software development

Web applications, internal tools and APIs designed around how your business actually works.

Integration & automation

Connect the systems you already use and remove the manual, repetitive work between them.

Power BI report development

Clear, reliable Power BI reports and dashboards that turn your data into insight your team can act on.

How we work

A simple, transparent process

Every project is different, but the approach stays the same: understand the problem, ship a prototype early, and improve it with real feedback.

  1. Discover

    A short call to understand your goals, constraints and what success looks like.

  2. Plan

    A clear proposal with scope, timeline and cost - no surprises.

  3. Build

    Iterative delivery with regular demos so you see progress every week.

  4. Support

    Handover, documentation and ongoing support so the software keeps working for you.

Selected work

Recent work

Client work and what we’re building now. More detail available on request.

Cleve Hill Solar Park: construction logistics

Client: Private Energy Partners

Logistics management software for the construction of Cleve Hill Solar Park. It tracked compliance against the Traffic Management Plan, helping to assure local communities that the developer was keeping to the planning conditions on construction traffic movements.

  • Daily vehicle movements captured and recorded
  • Breaches of speed restrictions recorded and reported to site marshals
  • On the one-way road system, vehicles were held back automatically while deliveries were travelling in the opposite direction
LogisticsComplianceEnergy infrastructure
In development

Parod: governance, risk & performance

Horizontal Solutions product

A SaaS platform that brings governance work into one place, replacing the spreadsheets and email chains it is often spread across.

  • Run meetings: agendas, papers, minutes, decisions and actions
  • Keep risk registers current, with risks scored, assigned and reviewed
  • Collect performance metric submissions from teams on a schedule

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