Power PlatformProfessional services

Running my own business on a CRM I built myself

Help Technical runs on a Power Platform CRM I built for myself: pipeline, projects, tasks and renewals in one place. The same kind of build I do for clients, dogfooded daily.

Help Technical Ltd (my own business)
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Web & codeDance & performing arts

A dance school website the owners update from a Google Sheet

Brand identity, a new Squarespace site, class timetables that run from a Google Sheet, and AI-assisted tools that turn a day of blog writing into twenty minutes. Built for Innovation Dance Studios, Finchley and Ealing.

Innovation Dance StudiosA day to write and publish one blog post, before
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Microsoft 365Renewable energy

Sixty monthly tabs, rebuilt as one solar performance report

A UK solar company's site reports came out of a workbook that had grown by accretion since 2022. Rebuilt on a single daily-data table with Power Query and a Power Pivot data model, branded, exportable to PDF in one click, then extended with safety, security, spares and maintenance tracking.

UK solar company (anonymised)
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Microsoft 365Food distribution

A pricing job that was nearly a full-time role, down to an hour or two

A US food distributor rebuilt customer pricing sheets by hand from two suppliers' cost files, in whichever layout each customer expected. An Excel engine with Power Query imports and a one-click VBA refresh now does it in an hour or two.

US food distributor (anonymised)Near full-time the manual job, each cycle
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Web & codeHealth & wellbeing

A calm, credible website for a London psychotherapy practice

A Squarespace site for Vikara: Gestalt psychotherapy across three London locations and online, with services, credentials and booking laid out so a nervous first-time visitor can find their way in.

Vikara Psychotherapy
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Web & codeProperty development

One website, three audiences: buyers, vendors and investors

A Squarespace site for Xenova Developments, a Liverpool property developer. Three routes in from the homepage, before-and-after project reveals, and a portfolio that grows as the homes do.

Xenova Developments
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Microsoft 365

A 3–4 day compile job, down to 15 minutes

A US team spent three to four days compiling a recurring process by hand. A VBA automation now does it in about fifteen minutes.

US business (anonymised)3–4 days the old manual process
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Web & codePet services

A dog trainer's website that puts the trainer front and centre

A Squarespace site for The London Dog Trainer: five services, a clear booking path, and a personal promise ('When you book, you get me') that no template would have written.

The London Dog Trainer (Dean Ashton)
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Microsoft 365

The Mac macro job 8 out of 10 experts turned down

Automating one process across 69 workbooks, on a Mac, where most VBA specialists would not go. The client asked around: most said it could not be done.

European client (anonymised)69 workbooks automated in one pass
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