Technology leadershipfor multi-site hospitality.
Developer by trade, agency owner by accident, operator by choice. I run seven venues and the platform they trade on, oversee a team that builds for everyone else, and advise operators and the companies selling to them.
Your VAT return takes a fortnight.
Bookings don't show on the till. Four systems nobody chose, and someone re-keys between them every morning. I'll say what to keep, what to bin and what goes in the middle.
Two founders, a contractor, no CTO.
Most investors can read a P&L but not a codebase. I read it before diligence does and write down what's solid, what's fragile and what to fix first.
Someone has to run the IT.
I run IT for hospitality groups on a fractional basis: the network, the card estate, Microsoft 365, the MSP and the compliance. Senior cover without a full-time hire.
You need a site, an app or the bit in the middle.
Websites, ecommerce, booking flows and integrations between systems that weren't made to talk. Built by my team, run on our hosting.
Pre-raise technical review
You built it fast, and someone technical is about to go through it. I find what they'll find first and put it in plain English.For founders raising, investors doing diligence
Stack audit
What to keep, what to bin, what to build in the middle. Messy integrations drain the time of your employees. I can fix that.For operators with more than three sites
Operator in residence
Your product team has never worked a Saturday. I'll tell you what a duty manager does at eleven at night, then be on the floor to prove it.For hospitality tech companies
Fractional IT Director
Infrastructure, suppliers, security and compliance, run for you on a fractional basis for as long as it is needed.For multi-site groups without an IT lead
Product and web development
Websites, platforms and integrations, designed and built in-house and hosted by us. From a brochure site to a full SaaS product.For businesses in and outside hospitality
Products
Control Suite, Prooflive.ai and Table Order. I take an idea to something people trade on, then keep it running.
Agency
Focus & Co: websites, ecommerce, hosting and bespoke integrations for 600+ clients since 2013. Hospitality, retail, legal and plenty in between.
Team
I head up a team of designers, developers and IT engineers. I still write code every week.
Most groups already have the numbers. They sit in four systems that don't talk, and nobody looks until the month is closed. I put the few that move a week's trading on one screen, then change the thing behind them: the rota, the booking rules, the till layout, the supplier.
Saturday, this year against last
Saturday trade against the rota
Clicks to get through a shift, before and after
Example shapes, not client data.
Prooflive.ai2026
A website platform for UK businesses: sites made in a conversation from the owner's design, then hosted with email, enquiries and search set up. This site runs on it.prooflive.ai
Control Suite2024
All-in-one hospitality software: EPOS, table bookings, stock, rotas, loyalty and customer messaging. My own group trades on it, plus five external clients.controlsuite.co.uk
A fifth of UK hospitality has no EPOS at all.
No public data says what British hospitality runs on, so I measured it. Edition one, 2026. Free.
Read the report500 covers, three bar staff, under four minutes.
How the ticket display was set up for the masquerade ball, and what it changed behind the bar. More in my work.
Most people building for this industry have never worked a busy shift.
I've been in it for twenty years and written the software that keeps it slick. Tell me what's going on.