Digital Signet is an AI-native software studio: a team of AI agents directed by twenty years of delivery experience. We build the software that replaces the IT budget spreadsheet: cross-source cost dashboards, SaaS spend visibility, forecasting, integrations into your finance systems. Fixed quote in two working days. Builds ship in weeks, not months.
Digital Signet is not a traditional agency. A directed team of AI agents does the volume of the build work. A senior engineer with twenty years of shipped software directs it, reviews everything, and takes responsibility for what goes out. That is the whole model, and it is why the economics look wrong next to an agency quote: senior-grade software in weeks, at a fixed price, without a bench of juniors on the invoice.
The output is deliberately boring. Versioned code in your repository, tests, CI/CD, documentation your engineers can pick up without us in the room. The method is new. The engineering standards are not.
The model is not a theory either. It runs daily on enterprise client work, including AI-anchored Azure platforms for a UK data transformation consultancy, with the CI/CD and review discipline that enterprise clients audit.
Every IT leader has the same spreadsheet. One tab per source system, formulas that break every quarter, a manual reconciliation before every board pack. Cloud spend comes from a billing export. SaaS licence spend comes from an admin console screenshot. Contractor spend comes from accounts payable. Hardware refresh comes from a separate list. Someone spends two working days a month keeping it upright.
Custom software replaces it. Concrete shapes of recent work:
Straight list:
Case studies are anonymised. The technical detail is the point. Three where the build paid for itself in visible cost terms: a licence line removed from the tooling budget, honest numbers used to negotiate with vendors, and a modernisation that avoided an expensive rebuild.
Browser-rendered CAD replaced a full AutoCAD licence on every surveyor's device, removing the per-seat line from the field-engineering tooling budget. Running daily across a national survey fleet, and it kept running through a corporate acquisition of the business unit.
Honest team-scale and time estimates on a strategic programme, with no vendor-favourable padding. The client used those numbers to negotiate the implementation phase with two of the largest enterprise vendors in the world.
A classic-ASP project management system lifted to a modern stack in place, preserving the business logic the team relied on. The cheaper answer defended over the expensive rebuild, which is our default position when clients ask.
We also build and run independent buyer-research tools in this space, including itbudgetcalculator.com. If you arrived here from it, you have already used our work.
Every engagement runs the same shape.
Custom software that pulls spend data from the places it actually sits (cloud billing, SaaS admin consoles, accounts payable, licence registers, HRIS for headcount-tied spend), tags it against the categories your business cares about, and shows the numbers where the decision-maker actually reads them. Replaces the spreadsheet that finance and IT jointly own and neither wants to.
Off-the-shelf FinOps platforms are strongest on cloud spend and weaker on the mid-tail of SaaS licences, contractor spend, hardware refresh cycles and everything else that ends up in the IT budget. If you already run one and it does not cover the questions your CFO is asking, the answer is often a bespoke layer that fills the gap. We build against your existing platform, not instead of it.
Cloud billing (AWS, Azure, GCP). SaaS admin APIs (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, and any SaaS with an admin API). Accounts payable and ERP (Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Sage). Ticketing (Jira, ServiceNow) for cost-per-ticket work. HRIS for headcount-tied spend. Anything with an API is a candidate.
Focused single-view builds (one dashboard against one or two sources) run £4,000 to £12,000 fixed quote, delivered in three to five weeks. Multi-source spend platforms (cloud plus SaaS plus AP, forecasting, drill-downs, monthly board pack) run £15,000 to £45,000, delivered in six to twelve weeks. Ongoing engineering retainers start at £1,500 per month.
You own it and it lives in your infrastructure. We build against your cloud account, your data warehouse if you have one, your BI tool if you already run one. Read-only credentials to source systems where possible. NDA and DPA before scoping. Independent UK consultancy, no offshore team.
A directed team of AI agents produces the volume of the code. A senior engineer with twenty years of delivery experience directs the work, reviews everything, and takes responsibility for what ships. The review, testing and CI/CD discipline is what you would expect from a senior team. What changes is the economics and the speed. The same model runs daily on enterprise client work, not just internal projects.
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Two paragraphs is enough. The source systems, the questions you cannot answer without the spreadsheet, and what "good" looks like. Written back within two working days with a shape, a price and a timeline.
