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About Sympl
The biggest software market in the UK is the one nobody builds for.
5.7 million businesses. 32,000 schools. 200,000 charities. Over half of private-sector turnover, running on tools that were never designed to work together.
Sympl is being built for them.
Why the gap exists
Serious software has always come with a serious bill.
Enterprise systems were designed around enterprise budgets, enterprise IT teams and enterprise timescales. An organisation of thirty people doesn't have any of the three. So it makes do — a spreadsheet here, a shared inbox there, and one person quietly holding the join.
That's not a failure of effort. It's what happens when nobody has built the thing you actually need at a price you can actually pay.
What we decided
Three decisions the rest of it hangs off.
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One core, not one product per sector
Remembering, drafting, ownership, follow-up — that layer is the same whether you run a school or a building firm. Building it once is what makes the price possible.
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Sectors are configuration, not code
A pack is your vocabulary, your week and your templates sitting on that core. Days of setting up, not months of building. It also means the sixth sector costs a fraction of the first.
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The setting-up is included, not billed
Most software is sold, then implemented by someone else for more than the software cost. We map your processes and get you running as part of the monthly fee — in the first year and after it.
The honest limit: Sympl does not do everything an enterprise system does. It does the part that actually stops your week working, at a price you can hold.
Who's building it
I founded Sympl to build the business operating system everyone else was never given — and could never afford.
I've spent my career in enterprise IT and service management — programmes, operating models, supplier estates, the regulated end of change. Large organisations, large budgets, the software that comes with them.
What kept striking me was the gap. The disciplines that make a big organisation run — clear ownership, things not getting dropped, someone able to see the whole picture — aren't complicated. They're just packaged in systems that a school or a thirty-person firm will never buy.
Sympl is those disciplines, made small enough and cheap enough to be worth having.
How we work
Do the right thing, make a difference, leave it better.
It's the test every piece of work goes through here, and it's deliberately hard to game. Something can be clever and still fail it.
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We map what actually happens
Not the handbook version. The real week, with the workarounds in it, because that's the thing Sympl has to fit.
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We say when it isn't a fit
If a call tells us Sympl won't help you, we'll say so on the call. A client who shouldn't have bought is worse than no client.
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Your data is yours
Exportable, in your hands, whenever you want it. Nothing about how we're built depends on making it hard to leave.
Book a call
Half an hour. No deck, no pitch.
Where your week goes, and what Sympl would take off it. If it's not a fit we'll say so on the call.
Built to support people, not replace them.