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STAGHILL SOFTWARE

We build serious software. Our own products — like PassReady — and bespoke systems for businesses who need the real thing.

We build
payment platforms
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT  •  PAYMENT PLATFORMS  •  BOOKING SYSTEMS  •  BESPOKE SOFTWARE  •  HMRC INTEGRATIONS  •  AI AUTOMATION  •  MOBILE APPS  •  CLOUD ARCHITECTURE  •  PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT  •  PAYMENT PLATFORMS  •  BOOKING SYSTEMS  •  BESPOKE SOFTWARE  •  HMRC INTEGRATIONS  •  AI AUTOMATION  •  MOBILE APPS  •  CLOUD ARCHITECTURE  • 

How it works

We build it. You own it. Here’s how we work.

Whether it’s one of our own products or a bespoke system for your business, the approach is the same: understand the real problem, build the real thing, ship it, and hand you something you own outright.

01 — TALK

Tell us the real problem

Not a feature list — the actual friction in your business. We work out what software should exist to fix it. That conversation is free, and it’s where every good build starts.

02 — BUILD

We build the real thing

Payments, booking, tax, real-time tracking, AI — production-grade, security-hardened, built on the same stack that runs PassReady live. One developer, no agency overhead, a fraction of the cost and time.

03 — SHIP

It goes live

Real software, deployed and working — not a slide deck. Runs on infrastructure that costs pennies a month and scales without a rebuild. Battle-tested, because we run our own products on it.

04 — YOURS

You own it, outright

The code, the accounts, the lot — it’s yours. No lock-in, no per-seat trap, no holding your data hostage. We’d rather you stay because it’s good.

THE CATCH

We'd rather build than pitch.

The first conversation is free and there's no hard sell — we don't do "just checking in" emails. Tell us the problem, and we'll tell you honestly whether software is even the right answer.

We built a platform that runs an entire business for £2.55 a month. Tell us what you need.

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100+

Cloud functions in PassReady

14

Production apps shipped

40K+

Lines in one platform, one dev

£2.55

A month to run PassReady

The proof

Don't take our word for it.

We build our own products and bespoke software for clients. Here's what that actually looks like — click any card for the full story.

Our flagship product · live

PassReady

A full booking, payments and business platform for the UK’s 40,000 driving instructors. Online booking, card payments, pupil progress, an HMRC Making Tax Digital engine, real-time lesson tracking, even an AI-powered phone line — and it’s free for instructors. Designed and built by one developer, end to end.

100+
cloud functions
~£2.55
a month to run
Live
Stripe payments
0
attacks got through*
React TypeScript Firebase Stripe Connect Twilio Whisper AI Cloud Functions
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*A commercial pen-testing firm probed it live — every attack on the payment endpoints was rejected.

Bespoke client work

The same engineering, built for other people's businesses.

BUSINESS AUDIT

Audited a national franchise. Found £40K+ in waste. One week.

Full digital teardown. SEO, security, GDPR, advertising, suppliers. 14 issues nobody had spotted.

SEO Analysis Security Review GDPR Financial Analysis
BUSINESS PLATFORM

40,000 lines of code. Full logistics platform. One developer.

The entire freight lifecycle in one system. Quotes, customs, deliveries, invoicing.

ReactTypeScriptFirebasePaymentsAI Integration
GOVERNMENT API

Built a customs platform that files directly with HMRC.

63 declaration templates, real-time tracking, full audit trail.

ReactTypeScriptFirebaseHMRC APIOAuth2
CONSUMER APP

A content platform with payments, offline support, and 30+ chapters.

Full consumer app. Stripe payments, age verification, works offline on any device.

ReactTypeScriptFirebasePaymentsPWA
MOBILE APPS

Android apps from concept to device. No app store delays.

Custom Android apps with automated builds and direct deployment.

Android SDKPythonAutomationCI/CD
AI AUTOMATION

Automated media production. Hours of manual work, gone.

Voice generation, audio processing, and media pipelines. Manual workflows replaced.

PythonVoice SynthesisAudio ProcessingAutomation

Research & internal projects

Work we do on our own time. It makes the client work better.

SECURITY RESEARCH

Built a security testing lab. AI decides what to test.

AI-driven security assessments. Automated, logged, repeatable.

PythonNetwork SecurityAIThreat Modelling
SECURITY RESEARCH

Tested encryption from Caesar ciphers to AES-256.

Six rounds of escalating attacks. Finding where encryption holds and where it doesn't.

CryptographySecurity AnalysisStatistical Methods
AI RESEARCH

Tested AI safety across nine systems. Documented the gaps.

Where do AI safeguards hold? Where don't they? We tested it.

AI SystemsSafety TestingTechnical Writing
PHYSICS RESEARCH

Built a physics simulation. Shared findings with Cambridge.

Tackling open problems in nuclear physics. 590 automated tests.

Mathematical ModellingSimulation EngineAutomated Testing

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Let’s build something.

Tell us what you’re trying to build, or the problem you’re stuck on. Even “I don’t know where to start” is a fine place to start.