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Metalique

Software company · Chigwell, Essex

We make the software the operation runs on.

Custom operations software for UK hire, rental, and ops-heavy SMEs — bookings, kit, deposits, van stock, and job cards on one system instead of WhatsApp, Excel, and a notebook.

Selected work

Eleven operations. One kind of system.

Each still is a case. Open one for the live product — kits, bays, waves, snags, members, trucks.

Harbour Hire

01 / Equipment rental

Harbour Hire

A custom operations app for kits, jobs, deposits, and utilisation — one record from warehouse to invoice.

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Northfield

02 / Field service

Northfield

A dispatch and invoicing app: the visit, van stock, and invoice are the same object.

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Practice

03 / Clinics

Practice

A day-list app beyond a diary: chairs, consumables, and balances on the same day.

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Ellison Dist.

04 / Wholesale

Ellison Dist.

An order and credit app across locations — month-end is a statement, not a reconstruction.

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Nandakumar

05 / Job shop

Nandakumar

A quote-to-delivery app: the job card, materials, and invoice stay on one thread.

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Benedetti

06 / Short-stay

Benedetti

A property operations app: units, turnovers, maintenance, and owner reports in one place.

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Keel

07 / Independent garage

Keel

A workshop app: the job card, MOT slot, courtesy car, and keys-hold are the same object.

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Redoubt

08 / Fulfilment

Redoubt

A 3PL app: waves, inbound, carriers, and client stock that is not a pool.

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Voss

09 / Fit-out

Voss

A contracting app: snags, variations, certificates, and retention on one register.

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Marrow

10 / Membership

Marrow

A club app: door, class capacity, direct debit, and freeze on the same member.

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No Transport

11 / Heavy haul

No Transport

A fleet app for 68 trucks: coils, other loads, invoices, finance, workshop, and driver pay on one record.

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Live product

Click the menu. Filter. Open a record.

Harbour Hire — the same model as the case, running here.

Full case

Harbour / Inventory

Synced 09:42
12 kits · 6 jobs · 3 clashes · write-lock off · pick scans on

On hire / transit

5

Yard · available

4

Open clashes

3

Deposits live

£10,900

KitStateUtil
LED wash ×12KIT-0142 · Lighting · Dock A · van 2Out86%
Line array AKIT-0088 · Audio · Civic · flownOut74%
Followspot 1.2kKIT-0190 · Lighting · Dock A · boothOut61%
Uplight · goldKIT-0211 · Lighting · Bay 3 · chargingYard41%
Truss 3m · 8pcKIT-0067 · Staging · Bay 1Yard55%
Stage deck 8×4KIT-0034 · Staging · WorkshopDamage22%
Wireless mics · 8chKIT-0118 · Audio · Bay 2 · cageHold68%
Fog + hazeKIT-0220 · FX · Bay 4Yard33%
Console · lightingKIT-0155 · Lighting · Van 1 · 12 min outTransit79%
IEM · 4 mixKIT-0091 · Audio · Civic · FOHOut58%
LED wall 3×2KIT-0244 · Video · Bay 5 · crateYard44%
Power distro 63AKIT-0177 · Power · Bay 1 · idleYard19%

The floor is the spec

How we work

  1. 01 Discover

    How work, stock, and money move today — including the exceptions.

  2. 02 Design

    Roles and screens for the floor, not a demo deck.

  3. 03 Build

    Shipped in reviewable slices. History migrated, not discarded.

  4. 04 Launch

    Training, monitoring, an operating change — not a URL.

  5. 05 Care

    A named contact. Fixes and small features on retainer.

The approach

From the floor

“Kits leave on a handshake. Deposits sit in a notebook. By Saturday nobody can say what is on a job, what is overdue, or what is actually earning.”

Illustrative scenario · regional event hire

Not a client quote.

Hire operations

Booking, kit, and money on one thread.

The same week as Harbour Hire — a custom system for the floor, not another diary with an inventory tab.

More operations

Chairs, bays, cards, units, waves, snags, members.

Same kind of system as hire — the object the floor actually runs, not another generic diary. Typical models, not named clients.

United Kingdom

A UK studio for UK operations.

Based in Chigwell, Essex. We work with hire companies, workshops, field teams, and other ops-heavy SMEs across the UK — discovery, a written scope, then the system the week already needs.

If the work still lives in a spreadsheet, book a call.