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Bespoke web applications and IT support, Hampshire

Software built around how your business actually works.

If your week runs on spreadsheets, paper and typing the same thing twice, we can build the system that replaces them. Then we’ll look after it, and the IT it runs on.

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ls our-work

cat how-work-moves.txt

One system, from the first enquiry to the invoice.

Most businesses retype the same job at every step. We build the line that carries it through, so each person sees what’s theirs and nobody has to ask where it’s got to.

An illustration. Each business’s line is different, which is why we build it around yours.

The same thing, typed twice

An order goes into the quote, the job sheet, the delivery note and the invoice, and each copy is a chance to get it wrong.

Answers that live in someone’s head

If finding out means asking the one person who knows, or walking round to look, the business doesn’t really have that information.

The spreadsheet nobody dares change

It started as a quick list. Now the business depends on it, and one person understands it.

Off-the-shelf that nearly fits

You pay for a hundred features, use six, and still keep a spreadsheet for the part that matters to you.

ls ~/our-work

Some of what we’ve built, and who uses it.

clarke lane engineering · sheet metalFrom first enquiry to signed deliveryAI sorts the enquiries, the shop floor ticks each process on a tablet, and the driver gets a signature on a phone.
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msa safety · health and safetySite inspections, filed from the siteAdvisors write reports on a phone, even with no signal. Submitting files the Word and PDF reports and completes the visit.
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onsite commercials · commercial vehiclesEvery call-out logged, paid and checkedFrom the phone in the cab to the pay run, with anything paid for but not yet invoiced showing up.
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gecko hq · our own businessThe morning check, in minutesAccounts, monitoring, backups and timesheets in one place, with what needs doing first at the top.
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How we work

You see it working before you commit.

We build in small steps with the people who’ll use it, so nothing arrives as a surprise six months later.

More on how we build
  1. A chat about where the time goesIt takes half an hour. We don’t charge for it and we won’t try to sell you anything.
  2. A mock-up you can clickYour words and your process on a screen, so we find out what’s wrong early.
  3. A first version in real useWe start with the smallest thing that helps, and that takes days or weeks.
  4. Changes as you learnYour team will think of things nobody thought of in the first meeting.

systemctl status it-support

We’re an IT company first, so we keep the software running too.

We’ve looked after businesses’ computers since 2003, and today that means Microsoft 365, backups and phones too. So when you ring about the software, or the printer, you get the same people.

dmesg | grep gecko

We started in a garage, and we still answer the phone ourselves.

We’re Philip and Jack Morris. We’ve spent twenty-three years learning how businesses work, and that’s what makes the new tools useful to us.

Our story

  1. [ ok ]2003gecko starts trading, from a garage
  2. [ ok ]23 yrslooking after local firms. still turning things off and on again
  3. [ ok ]2025jack joins: it, ai and web applications
  4. [ ok ]2026bespoke systems: clarke lane, msa, onsite
  5. [ ok ]2026cyber essentials certified, assessed by iasme
  6. [ .. ]nowa motor dealer’s system, in beta

What our clients say

“Having worked with Phil, Jack and Gecko IT for over a decade, we can’t speak of them highly enough. Personable, professional and more than capable, they have maintained P&M Packing’s IT requirements across two different sites.”

Chris King
P&M Packing · Google review

“Recently we have had an upgrade to our IT system. We have been thoroughly pleased with the thought and procedure put into the upgrade. Glad everything is running smoothly.”

Rob Clarke
Clarke Lane Engineering · Google review

Bring us the spreadsheet you hate.

Give us half an hour and tell us what takes too long, and we’ll tell you whether software would fix it. There’s no charge for the chat, and sometimes the answer is a setting you already pay for.

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Call 02381 800171