@aelhawley

The portfolio

Different businesses. One recurring question.

How do we make the systems people depend on more understandable, more honest and more useful? These are the places I’m working on that question.

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Power

Baseline Power

A closer look at the foundations of power: how it is generated, moved and paid for.

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Finance

Powerpacks Finance

Finance for energy infrastructure that needs to make sense beyond the spreadsheet.

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Hydrogen

Oddy Hyds

Oddy Hydraulics is a hydraulic engineering company providing hydraulic repairs, servicing, parts supply, system design, filtration and on-site support for industrial hydraulic equipment — from pumps, valves, cylinders and accumulators to electro-hydraulic power units — using genuine OEM parts and in-house test rigs, with a certified Bosch Rexroth service partnership from its facility in Leeds.

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Local

Calderdale Current

Local energy and infrastructure questions, kept close to the communities they affect.

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Solutions

Hawley Solutions

Hawley Business Solutions is a bookkeeping and accountancy firm providing flexible financial back-office support to small and medium-sized businesses — including bookkeeping, VAT returns, CIS, management accounts, payroll, self-assessment, and company year-end accounts and tax returns — from Clifton House, Brighouse, serving the Halifax, Brighouse and Calderdale area.

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Software house

seam.systems

Software that does the tedious part for you. Seam is a small family of tools, each built to remove one specific piece of busywork (scheduling, online presence, content operations) — so you spend time on the work that matters. Each tool has its own owl mascot.

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Five tools

CANALIS

Problem

running a content business means juggling a dozen disconnected tools.

  • planning, publishing, analytics and landing pages in one place
  • every landing page gets its own free seam.systems address the moment it goes live.
Open CANALIS

TEMPUS

Problem

coordinating one meeting is hard enough; you need eleven.

  • collects everyone's availability and books the earliest time automatically
  • earliest-slot-wins rule means nobody has to compromise.
Open TEMPUS

IMAGO

Problem

most small organisations are invisible online and nobody has time to fix it.

  • manages website, SEO, social and Google Business Profile
  • weekly visibility cycles keep people finding you.
Open IMAGO

SERMO

Problem

interview panels end up with notes scattered across emails, notebooks and memory.

  • runs the whole interview process — panels, questions, notes and reports in one place
  • every interviewer keeps their own notes so no impression gets lost or overwritten.
Open SERMO

PRETIUM

Problem

hard to tell whether a big-ticket purchase is worth it once you run the numbers over its whole lifetime.

  • works out the real cost per hour of up to three options side by side
  • emails a personalised verdict.
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Coming soon

In the works

Horae

time tracking → invoices, without the spreadsheet.

Notae

one clear task list.

Energia

built for energy consultants — site data, surveys, reporting in one system.

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