Map the process
Two to four weeks with the people who do the work, ending in a written plan and a clickable prototype.
We build and run booking, logistics and internal software.
Northfold is a studio of fourteen engineers and designers in Manchester. Most of our clients are UK companies with a few hundred staff and a process that outgrew its spreadsheets.
14engineers and designers
62systems shipped since 2016
9 yrsaverage client relationship
99.97%uptime across hosted systems
What we do
Three kinds of work, usually in this order.
Ship in small releases
Fortnightly releases to real users from the first month, with tests and monitoring from day one.
Host and support
We operate what we build: on-call, upgrades and a named engineer for each system.
Selected work
Recent systems we built and still run.
18 June 2026
A booking system for 40 freight depots
Halden Freight replaced phone and email bookings with a system depots can use offline.
Read 3 November 2025Scheduling for a chain of 22 physiotherapy clinics
Kestrel Physio moved from a paper diary per clinic to shared scheduling with text reminders.
Read 21 March 2025Stock and picking for a food wholesaler
Marlow Foods replaced a 15-year-old stock database with scanning and live stock levels.
ReadA depot lost its network at 2 a.m. on a Saturday. Northfold had bookings switched to the offline queue before our night manager finished the phone call.
Tell us what the process looks like today.
A short call is enough to tell whether we are the right studio for it. We reply within two working days.