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Our story

Made on the tools. Not in a boardroom.

Founder of RunwiseOS on a real UK roofing site, wearing hi-vis and using a gas torch to install flat roofing membrane

RunwiseOS was started by a working roofing contractor who'd had enough. Enough of running the week off three apps and a notebook. Enough of CIS taking up his Sundays. Enough of paying for American software made by people who'd never set foot on a UK site.

He tried every tool on the market. The big-name ones were built for HVAC firms in Texas. The cheap ones were a glorified spreadsheet. Nothing handled Domestic Reverse Charge properly. Nothing felt like it was made by someone who'd actually carried a tile up a ladder.

So he built his own — first for his own crew, then for the contractors who kept asking how he was running such a tidy operation. It started in roofing, but the same problems show up on every job: quotes that need to go out before the customer cools off, CIS returns due tomorrow, a downpour that ruins a Thursday. Today RunwiseOS is used across the trades — roofing, building, electrical, plumbing, joinery, plastering, groundworks, landscaping.

We're not a software house dressing up as a trades brand. We're contractors who happen to have built software. That's the whole point.

Our promise

  • Every feature gets shaped by working contractors before it ships.
  • UK construction tax — CIS and DRC — handled properly, not bolted on.
  • Plain English everywhere. No jargon, no fluff.
  • Support from people who know what a hip lap is.

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