A hire company
A dashboard
What is out, where it is, and what has not come back.
Custom business systems
You didn't start a business to fight a spreadsheet, a whiteboard, a paper diary, a group chat, or three copies of the same file. a spreadsheet.
Lintel builds the system your business actually runs on — then hosts it, updates it and fixes it every month for one fixed fee.
lin·tel The beam that carries the load across an opening, so everything below it holds.
Data hosted in the EUOne fixed monthly feeYour data exported on requestOne point of contactNightly backups, read backBuilt to how you already workNo per-seat pricingA bounced payment gets a call, not a switch-offSecurity updates includedFixed price agreed before we start
What we build
No two of these are the same
Four businesses, four systems. Yours will be none of them — we start from how your work already happens.
A bakery with three shops
A terminal
Six things, big targets, no typing. It also tells the bakery what to make tomorrow.
A dental practice
A diary that chases
The day down the page. And who is overdue a visit.
A joinery workshop
An order book
Where every order is, and what will stop it — today, not the morning it was due.
One of them, at full size
The hire company’s Monday morning
The whole screen, not a detail of it. Scroll, and watch one job cross it — phone call to invoice.
Today
- 08:30 Excavator 3T Northgate
- 09:15 Scissor lift Riverside
- 09:40 Freezer call-out Harbour
- 11:00 Dumper 6T Kilnfield
- 13:20 Tower light Yard
- 14:05 Compactor Northgate
- 15:30 Trench box Riverside
- Customer
- Harbour Cold Store
- Reported
- Freezer 2 not holding temperature
- Engineer
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- Scheduled
- —
- On site
- —
- Found
- —
- Parts
- —
- Signed
- —
- To invoice
- —
Out now
| Excavator 3T | Northgate | Out |
| Scissor lift 12m | Riverside | Booked |
| Dumper 6T | Kilnfield | 3 over |
| Tower light | Yard | In |
| Compactor | Northgate | Out |
| Trench box | Riverside | Out |
| Breaker 25kg | Harbour | Booked |
| Genset 20kVA | Kilnfield | Out |
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The job comes in
a pad, typed up laterlogged once, customer on file - 2
Assigned and scheduled
a call, then the whiteboardagainst a day everyone can see - 3
Updated from the van
Friday’s paperworkon site, on a phone - 4
The office sees it
ring the engineer and waitalready on screen - 5
Ready to bill
rebuild the week from paperthe invoice is the job
When something breaks
You find out from us, not from your customer
Something will go wrong eventually. What you are buying is what the next two hours look like.
How it usually goes
A customer tells you
Nobody knows what broke
Working again. No idea why
You are the one apologising
How it goes with us
We tell you. Already being fixed
What it stops, and for how long
Fixed. You never opened a laptop
Unchanged
How it works
Three steps, no surprises
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We work out what you need
A proper conversation about how the business runs, and what wastes time. You get a written scope and a fixed price.
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We build it and roll it out
Introduced in stages — a few people first, then the rest on an agreed date. Nobody is dropped in cold.
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We look after it, every month
Hosting, backups, updates, fixes and changes. One number, one monthly fee, and you stop thinking about it.
What you get, every month
On the first of the month, a plain account of it
Not a dashboard. One short email: what your system did, and what was caught before it reached you.
Your system in June
Hi Dan,
Up every time we looked. 8,640 checks across the three parts of your system, all healthy.
Four backups, the last on 28 June — each one opened and read back, so we know it restores.
Two changes you asked for went in:
- The delivery-note printout
- Customer search for two-word names
Two faults caught and fixed — 35 occurrences, both gone the same day. Neither reached your staff.
If any of that does not match what you saw, tell me.
Lintel
What you are paying for
You only ever see the top of it
Three layers. The monthly fee is mostly the two you never open.
- The screens people use The terminal on the counter, the dashboard in the office, the diary at the front desk.
- Your data, held once One set of records underneath every screen, so nothing is entered twice and nothing disagrees.
- The part nobody looks at Hosting, nightly backups, security updates, and something watching it at four in the morning.
What care includes
What you are actually paying for
Everything a live system needs. No separate bills, and nothing that only counts as covered until it happens.
Reliability
It stays up, and there is always a way back.
- Hosting and database, in the fee — no separate accounts or invoices
- Backups taken automatically and proven to restore
- Checked every fifteen minutes, including the database behind the page
Protection
It does not quietly fall behind.
- Security updates applied as they are released
- Faults fixed at no extra charge — you are never billed for a break
Evolution
A business does not stand still, so neither does the system.
- Included hours for changes every month
- Anything beyond them quoted and agreed before it starts
Ownership
It is yours, and it stays yours.
- Data hosted in the EU
- A full export whenever you ask — not only on the way out
- A guaranteed handover period if we ever part ways
Support
One number, one person.
- One point of contact who knows your system
- Email answered within two working days, phone next working day on Care Plus
- A bounced payment gets a phone call, not a switch-off
What it replaces
One system instead of six
Nobody chose this. It accumulated, and now somebody spends their Monday keeping it in step.
- The spreadsheet
- The group chat
- The paper diary
- The shared drive
- The inbox as a to-do list
- The person who remembers
One system
One set of data, one person looking after it.
- One place the answer lives
- One monthly fee
- One number to ring
Pricing
One build fee, then one monthly fee
Every system is different, so every quote is too. Both figures agreed in writing before anything starts.
Step 1 · Always first
Build
One-off, before it goes live
On request
Scoped first, then quoted as a fixed price
- Scoping and written specification
- Design and build
- Moving your existing data across
- Staged rollout and training your team
Step 2 · Then choose how it is looked after
Care
For a system that is running steadily
From€175 / month
Excluding VAT · final figure depends on the system
- Hosting, database and backups included
- Security updates and monitoring
- Faults fixed at no extra charge
- 2 hours of changes each month
- Email support, answered within 2 working days
Care Plus
For a system the whole team depends on daily
From€350 / month
Excluding VAT · final figure depends on the system
- Everything in Care
- 5 hours of changes each month
- Phone support, answered next working day
- Priority on new work
Whichever one fits is agreed as part of the same build quote — there is nothing separate to sign up for. Anything beyond the included hours is €75 an hour, quoted and agreed before the work starts.
What the alternative actually costs
Three or four subscriptions, each doing part of the job, all priced per person. Pick a team size, then point at a bar.
people
A CRM at €40 a seat, scheduling at €25, storage at €12 — and none of the three talk to each other.
Point at a bar to compare it
Lintel Care against all three — you keep
€287 a month
€3,444 a year, and it grows every time you hire. The Lintel figure does not.
Before you ask
The questions we get every time
How long does a build take?
It depends on what is being replaced. You get the timeline in writing alongside the price, and neither moves without you agreeing.
Who owns the data?
You do. Hosted in the EU, and you can ask for a full export whenever you want — not only when you are leaving.
Can you bring our existing spreadsheets across?
Yes. Moving your existing data is part of the build, not an extra.
What happens if we stop working together?
You get a full export of your data and a guaranteed handover period. To confirm: the length of that handover period, and what happens to the software itself.
What counts as one of the included hours?
Small improvements and changes: two hours a month on Care, five on Care Plus. Faults do not count against them — if something breaks, fixing it is covered. Beyond the included hours, €75 an hour, agreed first.
Beyond the included hours it is €75 an hour, always quoted and agreed before the work starts.
How are backups and security handled?
Backups run automatically and are read back, so we know they restore. Security updates go on as they are released, not when someone remembers. Both are in the monthly fee.
What decides the build price and the monthly figure?
The build is scoped, then fixed. The monthly figure follows how much it is looking after — three people is not thirty. We quote it once, and it does not move without you agreeing.
When does Care Plus make sense?
When the whole team depends on it daily. Five hours of changes instead of two, phone support next working day, priority on new work. If Care fits, we say so.
What if a payment fails?
We call you. A card that bounces is not a reason to switch anything off — we sort it out with you. If an account did go unpaid over a long stretch we would talk to you about it well before anything changed, and never without warning.
Start with a conversation
Tell us what your business runs on today and what keeps going wrong. No charge and no obligation for the first conversation.