An agency that builds the site, the app and the backend.
HiveForge does software, web development, design and AI. Websites in 48 hours. Custom systems when a brochure site is not enough. You only pay if you are happy with the work.
What HiveForge actually does
Live work
Patch Access
A Wiltshire taxi system HiveForge built and still runs. Booking, staff desk, drivers — click it.
Customer booking on the web, a staff desk for jobs, driver tools, maps and calendar. Same chassis another operator would run under their own name — not a private fork per firm.
- ✓Customer website and online booking
- ✓One-tap ping for a pickup
- ✓Admin desk and job record
- ✓Driver portal
- ✓Android test apps (sideload, not store listings yet)
- ✓AI chat on the site
Websites
I build the site first. You only pay if you are happy. No deposit on brochure work.
Operator software is different: 50% setup deposit, then monthly. Adule, HiveForge
Who's actually doing this
No agency team, no computer science degree — just me. I've been coding as a hobbyist since 2020, building real sites and using AI to move faster. Most of what I know now came from that: learning how to prompt properly, how to say what you actually want so the AI gives you a usable answer instead of a guess, and which model is actually good at which job. Patch Access is what that looks like when it's not a side project — a real business running on it, every day.
— Adule, HiveForge
What we ship
Products, not filler clients
Software, web, design and AI. The live example is Patch Access.
Websites
Marketing sites with booking or enquiry, live in 48 hours. Local SEO and a call button that actually works on a phone.
Software
Customer apps, staff desks, backends. Private fork onto your accounts — not a shared SaaS tenancy.
Design & AI
Brand on the product, not a logo sticker. Chat and automation where it saves a real job, not a gimmick widget.
What changes
Brochure site vs a working system
A brochure site versus the operator system we actually ship.
- ✕A page that looks fine on a laptop and dies on a phone
- ✕No way to book or ping while you are out
- ✕Jobs logged in a notebook or someone else's radio sheet
- ✕Chatbot theatre with no backend
- ✓Mobile-first site, live in 48 hours if that is the job
- ✓Booking, ping, or a full customer app
- ✓Admin desk, driver tools, payments, maps
- ✓AI that sits on the same stack as the rest of the product
Prices
Websites and operator software
Prices as shown. Not VAT registered. Websites: pay if you are happy. Operator software: 50% setup deposit, monthly by direct debit, 30 days' notice. One chassis — your name, not a private fork per firm.
Websites
Core Website
Marketing site, live in 48 hours, one round of revisions.
- Mobile-first site on your domain
- Call / enquiry CTA
- Local SEO schema
- 1 round of revisions
- AI chatbot
- Monthly SEO content
Growth Retainer
Site plus chatbot, Google Business updates and 2 SEO posts.
- Everything in Core Website
- AI chatbot managed
- 2 SEO posts per month
- Google Business updates
- Monthly report
Full Retainer
Growth plus fuller SEO, priority support and a strategy call.
- Everything in Growth
- Fuller local SEO
- Strategy call
- Priority support
Operator software
Same product as patchaccess.uk. One system, your name and drivers. Tick add-ons or strip a line if you already have a site. More than two add-ons on Operator and it is Growth Enterprise.
Operator
Spreadsheet and WhatsApp firms. Desk + drivers on the phone. No public booking site required.
£795 setup
- Admin desk in the browser
- Driver portal (phone browser / PWA)
- Type-in jobs from a call, text or email
- SMS on the booking
- Booking record (who, when, pickup, drop, driver, vehicle)
- First 5 drivers included, then £8 / driver / month
- Passenger booking website
- Native apps / store listings
Growth Enterprise
Same chassis, public face on. Branded booking site + desk + drivers. For firms that want to look bigger than the group chat.
£1,995 setup
- Everything in Operator
- Passenger website + online booking on your domain
- Maps, quotes and calendar
- Apply-your-brand pass (colours, name, existing logo)
- First 10 drivers included, then £8 / driver / month
- Payments (Square) as an add-on
- Native apps / store listings as add-ons
Add-ons and wire-in
| Line | Price |
|---|---|
| Wire-in (keep your existing site) | £1,495 setup |
| Admin app on your phone (Android sideload) | £295 |
| iOS staff shell + your Apple account | £495 |
| Passenger or driver store listing | Quoted |
| Square payments | £150 setup |
| Maps + quotes if not in the package | £150 |
| Apply existing logo / colours | £150 |
| New logo / identity | £400–£800 |
SMS and maps on your keys where possible, so usage is your bill. Android sideload is proven. Store listings need your developer accounts and are quoted. New features outside the card are quoted.
Facts, not filler
What is actually running
Live
Patch Access
patchaccess.uk
48h
Website builds
from enquiry to live
2
Product faces
customer app and staff app
£0
Until you are happy
no deposit
Simple process
How a job runs
Websites in 48 hours. Custom software on a short, named itinerary.
Research
We look at the job: website, app, backend, or all three.
Build
We build the site, the product, or the system — with your brand on it.
Go live
Websites go live in 48 hours. Software follows the quoted itinerary.
Onboarding call
A call plus a Loom: how to run what we built, not a 40-page handover PDF.
Keep growing
Optional retainer for hosting, fixes, and small changes. Bigger work is quoted.
Where we work
South West UK, based in Wiltshire
HiveForge is run from Codford and takes on work across Salisbury, Warminster, Trowbridge, Bath, Devizes, Amesbury and Andover first. The live operator example, Patch Access, runs on the same patch.
Home base. Software and web work is remote across the UK.
South West UK
Salisbury, Bath, Trowbridge and around — the primary patch
Wiltshire
Home base — Patch Access is live here
Your accounts
Private fork — not a shared tenancy
Not in the South West? Get in touch anyway — we work remotely across the UK.
Questions
Straight answers
Software, web development, design and AI. Websites in 48 hours. Operator software when a brochure site is not enough. Patch Access is the live example — your firm runs as a tenant on the same chassis, not a one-off rewrite.
Yes. Websites: £997 Core, then £97 or £197 a month if you want a retainer. Operator software: Operator is £795 setup + £99/month. Growth Enterprise is £1,995 setup + £229/month. Add-ons are on the card. Not VAT registered. Scope can change a quote.
https://www.patchaccess.uk — booking, ping, driver tools. A live Wiltshire taxi system HiveForge built and still runs.
No. Start on the browser / PWA. Android staff sideload is an add-on. Store submission is quoted separately. Developer accounts are yours.
One product, separate tenant. Your name, drivers, number and booking records. Not a git fork per firm, and not a from-scratch rebuild. HiveForge keeps access so we can support it.
Websites: you only pay if you are happy, no deposit. Operator software: 50% setup deposit, monthly by direct debit, cancel with 30 days' notice.