Built from the inside out.
We spent years inside engineering and commercial environments - and saw how much of the week goes on admin that software should be doing.
We started Smart Solutions because we kept seeing the same problem: capable firms doing excellent work and losing hours to retyping, chasing and paperwork - timesheets, certificates, invoices.
Work with usEngineer first. 15+ years inside engineering firms - Babcock, Atkins and specialist consultancies - now building the software he wished those firms had.
Bristol-based, with a small team of trusted specialists, working with construction and M&E firms across the UK.
A career built across engineering, commercial analysis and finance - in organisations that demand precision.
Business analysis and commercial management in one of the UK's most demanding engineering environments.
Commercial and project management across complex, multi-stakeholder engineering programmes.
Specialist engineering consultancy work - where the gap between good delivery and the admin behind it became impossible to ignore.
Sat inside construction firms' numbers as their part-time finance lead - and saw exactly where the hours go.
Building the software larger businesses take for granted - for construction and M&E firms.
Edward spent 15+ years inside the kind of organisations that construction and M&E firms supply into - Babcock, Atkins Global and specialist consultancies. The same gap kept appearing: firms winning genuinely good work, then losing the margin to admin - hours retyped from paper, certificates done twice, invoices chased by hand.
This wasn't a theory. It was something Edward watched play out - in businesses that were busy, good at the work, and still losing every Friday afternoon to paperwork.
Taking the admin off your desk, so the work - and the margin - gets your attention.
You see your fix working, with the price on it, before you commit. If it is not right, it has cost you a conversation.
It fits around Xero, your accountant and the way your team already works.
Construction, M&E, specialist subcontracting. We understand CIS, TR19, site timesheets and the paperwork this industry runs on.
Each one started as somebody's lost morning. Open any of them in the showroom.
"Eddie was brought in to support the next phase of the business - strengthening structure, controls, and long-term stability."
"Bringing Eddie and Smart in gave us proper control of our numbers for the first time. Real insight into cashflow, margins, and what was coming next."
If you're ready to take the admin off your desk, let's have a straightforward conversation about where the time goes.