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SEASONED VETERAN / BUSINESS AUTOMATION

Less chasing.
More doing.

Richard Abear

I’m Richard. I like making complicated work feel simple.
I build the tools, automations, and practical AI that connect the dots—and give your team a little breathing room.

17 years of hands-on software engineering.
Now putting that experience to work for your business.

OBJECT 01 / THE HANDOFF
Manual work → automation → ready for you
A little engineering. A lot less repetition.
Made to be useful. Go on, give it a try.
BUSINESS TOOLSCONNECTED SYSTEMSWORKFLOW AUTOMATIONAPPLIED AI
The right tools. An experienced hand.

Top-quality products.
A fraction of the time.

I combine 17 years of engineering experience with the right AI tools to move from idea to working product faster. More room to explore, test, and refine the details that make it great.

AI helps me build faster. I bring the judgement, architecture, and testing that make the result worth using.

A little less friction

What could work better?

Start with the task you wish would take care of itself.

01

Automate the everyday.

Less copying, chasing, and checking. Connect the steps in your process so the routine work gets done.

Enquiries · Onboarding · Reporting
02

Build the tool you need.

A clearer dashboard. A better client portal. A custom tool that fits the way your team actually works.

Internal tools · Portals · Integrations
03

Put AI to useful work.

Make sense of documents, find the right information, and prepare useful first drafts—with people in control.

Document workflows · Search · Assistants
A small example

Keep the human.
Lose the busywork.

The right automation handles the repetitive parts, so you can focus on the decision.

THE WORK, WORKING BETTERIllustrative workflow
It starts here

A new enquiry lands.

Website form or email

Your tools do the groundwork

Details captured. Draft prepared.

Organise the request and prepare a response.

Automated
Over to you

Review, personalise, send.

Your judgement. Your relationship.

Richard Abear smiling, wearing a cap and black shirt
17 years.Building things that work.
Richard Abear / your builder, from start to finish.
A person, not a platform

I build the tools.
We solve the problem.

I started software engineering at 16, while I was in college. Seventeen years of building software solutions and SaaS have shaped how I work today: understand the business, simplify the process, and build tools that make a real difference.

We start with a conversation about your business. I’ll help you work out what’s worth building, explain the choices clearly, and stay close to the details.

Richard AbearThe person you’ll work with.
From my notebook

Things worth sharing.

All writing

Practical notes on automation, business tools, and building things that work.

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Let’s untangle it

What’s taking up
too much of your day?

Bring the messy process, the half-formed idea, or the “there must be a better way.”
That’s a good place to start.