A small team building practical software for small businesses.
Small businesses keep track of an enormous amount, and have the least time of anyone to sort out how. That gap is the whole reason Cache Consulting exists. A ten-person shop running everything out of one spreadsheet. An owner still typing in every order by hand at the end of the night. An office manager holding things together with a system nobody left on staff really understands.
We built this around businesses that size, and we stay small on purpose. You work directly with the people doing the work rather than someone forwarding your messages along, and what we build is sized to match. Sometimes that is one well-made form. Sometimes it is a tidier version of the spreadsheet you already have. It is never a huge piece of software you will only ever use a corner of.
We start with what you are already paying for and already comfortable using, then get more out of it. When something genuinely new is needed, we pick tools that are affordable and easy to live with, and we explain the reasoning without assuming you speak our language. We never recommend something we would not use ourselves, and we never take on more than we can finish properly.
Most of our work comes from people we have worked with before, or from someone they told about us. That is the part we are proudest of.
Six things we believe.
It has to still work in five years.
Anything can look good on day one. We build things that keep working long after the novelty wears off, and long after we have moved on.
You should never feel lost in a conversation.
If you cannot follow what we are proposing in two sentences, we have not explained it well enough yet. That is our job to fix, not yours.
You always know what is happening.
We agree together on what we are building before anything starts, and you see it coming together as we go rather than all at the end.
The right tool, not our favourite tool.
We are not tied to any one product. We have told plenty of businesses that what they already have is working fine.
Your team should be able to run it.
If the next person to sit down at it cannot pick it up and keep going, we have not finished the job. Every build ends with proper training.
We build things that keep working.
The best builds end with a quiet email six months later: everything still works, and it has just quietly done its job the whole time.
You work with the people who build it.
We stay small on purpose. It is the reason the work turns out the way it does.
The same people all the way through.
Whoever plans your build is the person who builds it, and the person who answers when you write in six months later.
Nobody in the middle.
No one forwarding your questions on to somebody else. You talk directly to the people doing the work.
Small enough to really care.
We only take on a few builds at a time, on purpose, so every one of them gets proper attention.
The people who scope your build are the people who build it.
Our team has spent years building and repairing the software small businesses depend on: the systems holding customers and orders, the ones that grew tangled and needed untangling, the ageing platforms that needed replacing, and the automation that quietly joins all of it together.
That work spans finance, security, law, real estate, health and wellness, and research. It is a long way of saying that by now, most problems look familiar.
Cache Consulting exists because of one observation that kept repeating: the businesses with the most to keep track of are the ones with the least time to sort it out. We keep the team small and senior on purpose, so you are never handed to a stranger, a junior, or a support queue.
We would rather do a few things well than many things halfway.
Only a handful of builds run at a time. It means the work gets real attention, and when you call, you reach someone who remembers exactly how your setup is put together.
If keeping track of everything feels like a chore, that is a fixable problem.
The team at Cache Consulting
We would much rather have one real conversation about your business than send you a brochure. Say hello whenever you are ready.
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