Bespoke software & automation in Surrey
Read about our work hereOver 30 years' experience between the founders.
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Working with Surrey businesses
We are a Surrey business. We do not "serve Surrey" from an office somewhere else. CM System Designs has built bespoke systems from Dorking since 2017, for firms across Guildford, Woking, Reigate, Leatherhead and Epsom, Camberley, Farnham, Godalming, Haslemere and Staines, and the towns between them. We are a short drive from most of our clients, so a face-to-face workshop is how a project usually starts.
Between them, the founders have over 30 years' experience building bespoke systems, including for Surrey SMEs, so we have already seen most of the workflows that cost a growing business time and money. That includes manufacturers in Woking, professional services firms in Reigate and Redhill, and trades and logistics businesses in Epsom, Leatherhead and the towns along the A25 towards Guildford. Typical work is quoting that takes three tools instead of one, job sheets that stay on paper until someone re-keys them at the end of the day, and reporting that means pulling numbers together by hand. We have built bespoke systems for organisations of every size, including BT, Apple, Microsoft and Pizza Express, alongside the Surrey SMEs that make up most of our client base. The senior team and the fixed-scope process are the same whatever the size of the business.
Being Surrey-based, rather than a London agency with a Surrey sales patch, shows up in what a project costs. There is no city-centre office and no account-management layer. Lower overheads mean lower fees for the same senior-led delivery. The businesses we work with, from Guildford to Camberley and Woking to Warlingham, tend to stay after the system is live. We are still down the road. We do not disappear after handover.
If your business runs on spreadsheets that only one person understands, or your field team re-enters the same job twice a day, that is the kind of problem the founders have spent over 30 years solving. We received a Queen's Award for Enterprise. That award, and the founders' experience, is the record.
What we fix for Surrey SMEs
The problems we see most often in this area, and the ones a bespoke system is built to remove.
- Established firms running operations on linked spreadsheets that only one person understands
- Field teams re-keying job sheets into the office system every evening
- Owners who want to use AI but know their data is not ready
Where to start
Most Surrey projects begin with the workflow that takes the most staff time, or with a check of whether the data is ready for AI.
Bespoke software development
Business management systems shaped around how you actually work, with quoting, job tracking, scheduling, invoicing and reporting in one place.
Is your business AI-ready?
A check of whether your workflows and data are ready for AI, before you pay for tools that cannot use them.
Towns we cover in Surrey
We work with businesses in Guildford, Woking, Dorking, Reigate, Redhill, Epsom, Leatherhead, Farnham, Camberley, Staines-upon-Thames, Weybridge, Godalming, and across the rest of Surrey.
Working with us in Surrey
- Do you only work with Surrey businesses?
- Surrey is home. We are in Dorking. We also build for SMEs across the South East, and we run projects remotely with on-site workshops where they help.
- Can we meet in person before committing?
- Yes. Most Surrey clients start with a face-to-face workshop at your premises or ours in Dorking; it's the fastest way to map the workflow that hurts most.
What could work better
in your business?
You don’t need a finished brief to start a conversation.