For companies whose problem has no off the shelf fix.

Butler and Pixels builds operational software for businesses that have already tried the ready made options and found none of them fit the way the work actually happens.

The tools exist. They just were not built for your operation.

Most businesses reach us the same way. They have bought the generic platform and found it wants the business reshaped around its assumptions. They have priced the enterprise system and found it wants a budget that cannot be justified. In between sits the actual operation, still held together by spreadsheets, messaging apps and people remembering things.

We start from the opposite direction. Before anything is designed we map how the work moves today, where it stalls, and which handoffs quietly depend on one person being available. Only then do we build, and what we build fits the operation rather than asking the operation to change shape.

That method is the product. The code is different for every client. The discipline of understanding the operation first is the same every time, and it is the reason the systems we build get used rather than worked around.

JA

James O Abiose

Founder, Butler and Pixels

James has worked in retail, supply chain management, hospitality and inside a design agency. Butler and Pixels sits at the intersection of all four, which is the only reason it works the way it does.

Retail and supply taught him what actually breaks at scale, and it is rarely the technology. It is the handoffs between people, the reorder nobody raised, the approval sitting in an inbox, the stock figure that two systems disagree about. Hospitality taught him that a process only holds up if the people running it under pressure find it faster than the workaround.

Agency work taught him the other half. A system nobody enjoys using does not get used, whatever the specification says, so interface quality is treated here as an engineering requirement rather than a finishing touch.

He works across the full range of a build, from the first workflow interview through the design system, the database schema and the release that lands on a warehouse team's phones. There is no handover between the person who understood the problem and the person who wrote the code, because they are the same person. He works with clients globally.

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A client engagement, start to finish.

Sprint Drives is an industrial supply business trading power tools, garden equipment and industrial parts. This is how the work went.

01

The call

They came to us after trialling two off the shelf platforms. Neither could handle the way their approvals actually ran, and the quotes for an enterprise system came back at several times what the problem was worth. The brief was simple: something that fits us, not something we have to fit.

02

The issue

Quotations, purchase orders, stock, supplier records and team communication were spread across nine separate tools with no shared data. Reconciliation took two days. Nobody could answer a question about spend without opening four systems, and leadership had no reliable view of supplier performance or operational risk.

03

We mapped the operation before writing anything

Every approval route, every document that had to exist for compliance, every point where a person retyped something a machine already knew. That map became the system blueprint, and it is the first thing we produce for any client.

04

We built it in the open, in iterations

RFQ and quotations first, then purchase orders and LPOs, then inventory, finance, team chat and analytics. Each part went live with their team using it, so every wrong assumption surfaced within days rather than at the end of a long silent build.

05

It shipped everywhere the work happens

A web application for the office and native mobile apps for the warehouse and the road, sharing one live source of data. Nine tools became one system, manual procurement steps dropped by roughly three quarters, and quote to order runs about three times faster.

“Reconciliation that used to take two days now happens in real time. For the first time we have complete visibility over procurement and spend.”
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Operations Director

Sprint Drives Ltd

How we work, and what we will not do.

01

The operation comes before the software

We will not quote a build before we understand how your business moves. Every engagement starts with discovery and a system blueprint, so you know exactly what you are buying before you commit to it.

02

Nothing is delivered as a black box

You see working software within weeks and at every iteration after. If something is heading the wrong way, you find out while it is still cheap to change.

03

Design and engineering are one decision

A system your team avoids is a system that failed, however correct the logic underneath. Interface quality is an engineering requirement here, not a finishing touch.

04

We stay after the launch

Your operation keeps changing and the system changes with it. We are not looking for a delivery date to disappear on. We are looking for a long relationship with a business we understand.

Tell us how your
operation actually runs.

A conversation, not a pitch. Thirty minutes to understand your workflow and show you what a system built around it would change.

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