Business automation in Liskeard.
A market town with farming either side and the moor behind it. Businesses here carry more compliance paperwork than almost any other sector and get less software help with it than anyone.
Autaimate builds business automation and custom software for Liskeard businesses, from a studio in St Austell. Commissions start with a £750 scoping session, then run at a fixed price from £8,500, typically live in about four weeks. You own the code.
Recorded twice, once in the yard and once at the table
Liskeard is a market town in the proper sense. Agriculture surrounds it, and a large share of local businesses either farm, supply farms, or service the machinery and buildings that farms depend on — agricultural engineering, feed and supply, veterinary, contracting, haulage.
Farming is among the most heavily documented activities in the country. Movement records, medicine records, assurance scheme audits, environmental schemes, machinery maintenance. Almost all of it lands on one person, and almost all of it is recorded twice: once roughly in the yard at the time, then again properly at a kitchen table in the evening by somebody who has already done a full day.
The businesses supplying that sector inherit the same shape without anyone designing it that way. Delivery notes, service records and certification generated out in a field, reconciled later in an office by a person who was not there and is working from handwriting.
Recording it once
Four builds aimed squarely at removing the second pass.
Compliance and assurance records
Captured once, at the point it happens, in a form that produces the audit evidence automatically. The evening spent turning paper into a spreadsheet disappears entirely, which is usually the whole business case on its own.
Field and yard capture
Offline-first recording on a phone, syncing when a signal returns. Between the moor and the valleys, anything requiring a live connection will fail often enough that people stop trusting it.
Costing and margin
Where the numbers that actually decide whether an enterprise is worth continuing live in a spreadsheet one person built. Turned into a proper tool with the logic documented and visible to whoever needs it.
Service and maintenance scheduling
Planned maintenance that triggers itself and records its own completion, rather than depending on a diary, a wall planner and a good memory in the middle of silage.
What we bring, and what you bring
We are not agronomists and we would not pretend to be. What we build for is businesses with heavy record-keeping obligations and work that happens a long way from a desk — which describes agriculture and its supply chain almost perfectly.
The proof that it works in those conditions is Cornwall Play Safety Ltd, who use our voice-first inspection app to produce BS EN 1176 playground reports across Cornwall. Spoken on site, finished before leaving, working with no signal. The domain is different; the constraints are identical.
Autaimate is based in St Austell, so Liskeard is a short run. For agricultural work the useful scoping session happens in a yard during a normal working day, not in an office with a whiteboard.
Liskeard questions
Do you build for agriculture? +
We build for businesses with heavy record-keeping obligations and work happening away from a desk, which describes agriculture precisely. We do not claim agronomic expertise — you bring the domain knowledge, we bring how to turn a process into something that actually gets used in a yard.
Will it work in a field or a yard with no signal? +
Yes. Everything built for outdoor work records and calculates on the device and syncs when a connection returns. In this part of Cornwall anything else would be abandoned within a week.
What does it cost for a farm or a small contracting business? +
Commissions start with a £750 scoping session, then a fixed price from £8,500. The honest comparison is against the evenings currently spent typing up what was already written down once — for most operations that is well over a hundred hours a year.
Will it satisfy an assurance scheme audit? +
It will produce a consistent, dated, attributed record in the format you specify, with an audit trail. What the scheme requires comes from the scheme, not from us — we build to that specification rather than guessing at it.
Most of our records are on paper. Is that a problem? +
No, and it is often a good starting point because the process is already clear. What we would not do is digitise paper for its own sake — if the paper is working and costs nobody an evening, leave it alone.
Do we own the software? +
Yes. Repository, documentation and deployment configuration transferred on delivery. No annual licence to renew and nothing that stops working if you fall out with us.
Also covering
How many evenings does the paperwork take?
That number is usually the whole business case. Tell us what gets written down twice and we will tell you whether it is worth building something for.