Make life simple
Bespoke dashboards bring
scattered information into one place.
I build dashboards that carry information from your subscription services and the wider web into one site, and custom workflows that act on it.
Example dashboards
How we can help
If you can see it in a web browser, it can almost always go on a dashboard.
Websites you already pay for
Newspapers and trade publications, industry databases, tender services, supplier portals
Public websites
Competitors' prices and stock, marketplaces, job adverts, booking sites, directories, event listings
Official registers and notices
Company filings, public tenders, sold prices, planning registers, licensing and regulators' notices
News, reviews and social media
News sites and blogs, review sites, social networks, forums and groups, video and podcasts
Your own files
Spreadsheets, documents, invoices, PDFs, price lists, exports from your accounts software
Services with an API key
CRMs, accounts software, online shops, payments, booking systems, email marketing
Workflows without AI
Alerts on particular information
A message by text, email, Teams, Slack or WhatsApp when a keyword turns up, a deadline nears, a price crosses a line or a page changes. At once, or in one message each morning.
Straight into a file or web page
Each new item becomes a row in your spreadsheet, a record in your CRM, a date in your calendar or a line on a page of your website, with no retyping and no duplicates.
Using AI intelligence
A shortlist, with reasons
AI scores every new item against a description of the work you want and says why.
Of 140 tenders published today, 6 fit.
Items matched to your clients
Each item paired with the right client, candidate, product or property from your own list.
This vacancy suits three candidates already on your books.
Long documents summed up
A sixty-page tender pack, contract or report cut down to its dates, requirements and anything unusual.
Scored 60% on quality; site visit required on 16 Oct.
Bids and applications drafted
AI answers a tender, grant form or questionnaire from your past answers and policies, and marks the gaps.
Fourteen of twenty questions drafted from last year's bid.
A weekly briefing written for you
A short report in plain words: what changed, what it means for you and what is worth doing about it.
Friday waiting times came up in five reviews; two rivals cut their lunch prices.
Your questions answered
Ask in plain words and get an answer drawn from everything collected, with links to the sources.
"What did our competitors change last month?"
Example workflow
- Lead found
- Lead researched
- Email drafted for your approval
A dashboard suits any business where someone keeps going back to the same websites.
PR and marketing agencies
Worth watching
Journalist requests, trade news, account moves, media diaries, mentions of clients and their rivals
What could happen next
Each request matched to the right client, with a reply drafted before the deadline
Shops and online sellers
Worth watching
Competitors' pricing by SKU, promotions and voucher codes, stock availability, Buy Box ownership on marketplaces, suppliers' trade price lists, review ratings
What could happen next
A message when a rival goes cheaper than you, and a weekly price report
Estate and letting agents
Worth watching
New instructions, price reductions and withdrawals on the portals in your patch, rivals' sold STC rates, Land Registry sold prices, planning applications, EPC and HMO licence registers
What could happen next
A morning list of what came on or dropped in price, with an introduction letter drafted
Recruitment firms
Worth watching
New roles on employers' careers pages and job boards, reposted and long-open vacancies, funding rounds, contract wins, senior hires and leavers, the register of licensed sponsors
What could happen next
New vacancies matched to candidates already on your books
Builders, trades and architects
Worth watching
Tender, pipeline and contract award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, framework openings, ITT deadlines, planning applications from validation to decision
What could happen next
Tenders checked for fit and summed up, with the deadline put in your calendar
Restaurants, hotels and venues
Worth watching
Review scores and rankings across review sites and OTAs, competitors' room rates and availability, rate parity across booking channels, rivals' set-menu pricing, food hygiene ratings
What could happen next
The week's reviews summed up and replies drafted for your OK
Solicitors, accountants and advisers
Worth watching
SRA, FCA and HMRC updates, statutory instruments, practice directions, daily cause lists, Gazette insolvency notices, Companies House filings for clients and counterparties
What could happen next
A plain-English note on what changed and which clients it touches
Charities and fundraisers
Worth watching
Open funding rounds from trusts, foundations and lottery distributors, application windows, funders' published grants data, Charity Commission filings, commissioning opportunities
What could happen next
New funds checked against what you do, and every deadline tracked
Manufacturers and wholesalers
Worth watching
Commodity and raw material indices, distributors' stock and lead times, MOQs and price breaks, end-of-life and product change notices, rivals' datasheets, tariff changes
What could happen next
Price movements charted, and a warning when a supplier runs short
How we could work together
- 1
Discover
A free conversation about what you need, then a written brief and a fixed quote.
- You pay
- Nothing
- 2
Design
I build a proof of concept: your system running on your real information, 80 to 90% of the way there.
- You pay
- A third of the setup fee
- 3
Develop
We refine it together over two weeks.
- You pay
- Another third
- 4
Deliver
Your system goes live. A month later we check that everything is running well, and a couple of small changes then are free.
- You pay
- The final third, then the first monthly fee a month later
Once the brief is agreed, any major change to it is quoted separately.
How much it costs
Every project gets a fixed quote before any money changes hands.
- The first conversation
- Free
- Setup, paid once
- £500 to £3,000+
- Each month
- £20 to £300+
A few public websites on one page
Read from my server each morning and displayed. Nothing else happens.
£500£20Websites, and a spreadsheet that fills itself in
A few subscription and public sites, with a workflow that adds what comes in to an Excel sheet.
£750£50Subscriptions, sorted by AI
A few subscription sites. AI marks the items worth your time, with the reason.
£900£100A daily bulletin for the team
Several subscription sites, one needing a real computer. Two workflows without AI, and a daily bulletin written by AI for each of ten staff.
£1,800£200A system for finding leads
About ten sites, a few needing a real computer. AI scores each lead, researches the good ones and drafts a first email. About 200 leads a month.
£3,000£350Public websites
Very littleVery little
Anything a visitor can see without signing in, read by a program on my server on a timetable.
Services with an API key
Very littleVery little
An API is a service's official way in for other programs. Nothing has to be kept signed in, and a redesign of the site breaks nothing, so it is the most dependable way there is.
Your own files
Very littleVery little
A spreadsheet or an export from your accounts software is read from the shared folder you keep it in. Documents with no fixed layout, such as invoices from many suppliers, are read by AI, which adds to the monthly fee.
Sites that turn servers away
Very littleA little
Some sites, such as large shops and listing sites, only answer a home internet connection, so each visit is sent through one.
Subscription sites
A littleA little
The dashboard has to stay signed in. Sign-ins run out, a site asks for a code sent by email, or its sign-in page changes, and each time the way back in has to be kept working.
Sites that need a real Windows computer
A littleA fair amount
Rarely needed. It is kept for accounts your company cannot afford to lose access to, on websites known for advanced bot detection. A real Windows computer is kept running and its mouse and keyboard are worked for it. The pointer moves and the keys are typed the way a person's hand would, at a person's speed, so it is practically impossible to tell from someone sitting at the desk.
Sites navigated by AI
A littleA fair amount
Where nobody can say in advance where the information will be, as when every council lays out its pages differently, AI visits each site and reads it as a person would. There is little to build, but the AI costs money every time it reads a page.
Workflows without AI
A lotVery little
Something that happens by rule once the information has arrived: a message, a row in your spreadsheet, an entry in your CRM. It costs very little to run. The work is in the building, because every exception has to be thought of in advance and tested.
Workflows using AI
A lotRises with use
Where AI reads, judges, researches or writes. Its running cost rises in step with how much it has to read and write: a system that researches every lead and drafts every email comes to £300 a month or more.
Questions people ask
Do I need to install anything, or be technical?
No. Your dashboard is a web page. It opens in the browser on your computer or your phone. You enter your team's code once and that browser is remembered. I set everything up and keep it running.
Who can see my dashboard?
Only the people you give the code to. It is not public, and nothing on it can be found through a search engine. Each person can have a sign-in of their own instead, where different people should see different things.
How up to date is the information?
As fresh as it is worth being. Fast-moving sources are checked as often as every half hour and slower ones a few times a day. A Refresh button makes the dashboard look again there and then.
What happens when a website changes?
Websites are redesigned and sign-in pages change. When that breaks a source, I repair it. The monthly fee covers that, along with keeping the dashboard online, the checking itself and the AI's running costs.
How reliable is the AI?
Good, and not perfect. It will sometimes misjudge an item or word something badly. That is why drafts wait for your approval, and why every judgement shows its reasons beside a link to the original. Where a mistake would matter, a person checks first.
What do you need from me?
A list of the websites you check, what you look for on each, and the sign-in details for any you subscribe to. If you want a workflow, a description of what you do today once the information is in front of you.
Is it all right to collect information this way?
It depends on the site and on the information. A private dashboard for your own team, fed by public pages and by subscriptions you pay for, is a different thing from republishing someone else's content. Even so, websites have their own terms and personal information has its own rules, so I go through each source with you before quoting and say plainly what I would and would not collect.
Can we start small?
Yes, and most people should. One or two sources shown clearly make a useful dashboard on their own. More sources, or a workflow, can be added later for a quoted price.
What if I stop after the proof of concept?
The project is dropped there, and the third you have paid covers the work done.
A bit about me
I'm Gilbert Glendinning. I studied maths and physics at A level, and I'm now in my gap year.
I'm passionate about AI and the ways it can be put to use. I built UniExams, a website that helps students practise for the ESAT admissions test, and I've built various automated AI systems for family and friends.
I design and build every dashboard myself, so the person you talk to is the person who builds your system and keeps it running.
Start with a free conversation
Tell me which websites you keep going back to and what you wish happened by itself. I will tell you what is possible and roughly what it would cost.