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Your whole business.
One engine room.

When you're up a ladder, who's answering the emails? Who's chasing the quote you sent last Tuesday? Who's getting the paperwork ready for the accountant? The Engine Room does — a single screen, branded as your business, where enquiries become tickets, quotes chase themselves and the books stay ready for export.

Your logoYour coloursYour email addressOne login
Inbox · 3 Quotes Customers Follow-ups Reports Accounts TODAY'S TICKETS QUOTES SENT CHASING Follow-up sent Day 5 nudge QUOTE ACCEPTED Garage rewire · Mrs K. Month end? Invoices & jobs ready for your accountant Export to accounts BALANCED ✓ New lead caught Missed call · texted back
What's inside

One login. Six jobs off your plate.

Every tool works with the others — a caught lead becomes a ticket, the ticket becomes a quote, the quote chases itself, the win lands in your books.

An inbox that runs itself

Your business email flows into the hub and every message becomes a ticket — assigned, tracked and impossible to forget. Nothing sits unanswered at the bottom of a phone screen ever again.

The quote agent

Load your products and prices once. Then build a smart, branded quote in under a minute — from the van, if need be — and send it straight from your own email address.

Follow-ups on autopilot

Every quote is tracked from the moment it's sent. Polite reminders go out at day 2, 5 and 10 — in your voice — and stop the instant the customer replies. No more "I meant to chase that".

The lead catcher

Missed calls get texted back in seconds and website enquiries land in the same inbox — so every lead, from every direction, ends up in one place with a name on it.

Every customer, remembered

One customer record holds every email, quote, job and note — so when Mrs K. rings back a year later, you look like you never forgot her. Because the Engine Room didn't.

Accounts, already sorted

Jobs and invoices stay export-ready all month. When the accountant asks, it's one click to a clean file for Xero, QuickBooks, Sage or a plain spreadsheet — not a weekend of shoebox receipts.

How it flows

From "phone rings" to "money in the books"

This is the journey every enquiry takes through your Engine Room — automatically.

Enquiry in call, email or website Ticket raised nothing gets forgotten Quote sent from your price list Chased politely day 2, 5 and 10 — auto Job won invoice raised in the hub Into your accounts Xero · QuickBooks · Sage
Your brand, front and centre

Your customers see your business — not ours

Every Engine Room is set up as its owner's: your logo on the login screen, your colours on every page, quotes and follow-ups sent from your own email address. We build it, run it and back it up quietly behind the scenes.

Branded as yours

Logo, colours and wording set up for you on day one. To your customers it's simply "your system" — and it makes a one-van business feel like a bigger one.

Works where you work

Phone, tablet, laptop, office PC — same login, same live picture. Send a quote from the van and see it marked "opened" before you've left the street.

Looked after by humans

This isn't software you're left alone with. We set it up, we keep it running, and when you want something changed you call us — you're a customer, not a support ticket.

Value-added services

Everything around it, handled too

The Engine Room runs your day-to-day — and because we're an IT company first, everything it plugs into can come from us as well. One supplier, one phone number, no finger-pointing between providers.

Website design & hosting

A fast, AI-ready website designed, built and hosted by us — with your Engine Room catching every enquiry it sends you.

Business email

Proper you@yourbusiness.co.uk email, set up and looked after — with the SPF, DKIM and DMARC records that keep your quotes out of spam folders.

Domains & DNS

Your domain names registered, renewed and managed properly, with DNS handled by people who know what every record does.

Security & backups

Your hub, website and email backed up and protected — so one stolen laptop or dodgy link never becomes a business problem.

Microsoft 365 & workplace tools

Licences, setup and migration for the everyday tools — files, calendars, Teams — connected up to your Engine Room.

IT support on call

Twenty years of hands-on IT behind every account. When anything tech misbehaves, you already know who to ring.

Add any of these to your plan whenever you're ready — each one quoted simply, in minutes.

Getting started

Four stages to a business that runs itself

1

The setup week

One relaxed session: your logo and colours go on, your products and prices go in, your email connects. We do the work — you approve the result.

2

Switch-on day

Emails start arriving as tickets and you send your first branded quote. Most owners say this is the day the phone stops feeling like the enemy.

3

It just runs

Leads caught, quotes chased, reminders sent, customer history building — automatically, every day, while you're doing the actual work.

4

Month-one review

We sit down with your first report — enquiries in, quotes out, jobs won — and run your first one-click export to your accounts package together.

Be a founding Engine Room business

We're bringing early-access businesses on board one at a time, set up personally. One simple monthly plan, nothing upfront — tell us about your business and we'll show you yours.

Get early access