Rent Own your software.

Burclea designs and builds the systems your business runs on, so you own them instead of paying for them every month.

£/mo£/mo£/mo£/mo£/mo RENTEDOWNED

Do the sum

people times £ a month

equals £93,600 over five years

That is one per-user licence if nothing changes. Put your own numbers in.

Most businesses pay rent on software they could own.

Subscriptions arrive one at a time and never leave. A licence per user here, an add-on there, a platform that charges more as you grow. Each one is small. Together they are a monthly bill that only goes up.

Much of that software does a job that is specific to you and does not change often. Those are the parts worth building once and owning. We help you find them, and then we build them.

Monthly software statement

Example

  • CRM licences24 users at £65 £1,560Owned
  • Field service add-on12 users at £40 £480Owned
  • Forms and workflow toolFlat monthly fee £290Owned
  • Reporting connectorJoins two rented systems £180Owned
  • Email and documentsCheaper to rent £240Keep renting

Rent each month

£240was £2,750

Example figures to show the idea. Replacing software has a one-off build cost, which we quote before you commit.

Built on Ghostables

Trust us with the data you cannot afford to lose

A breach costs more than the fine. It costs customers, time and trust. As more business data is fed into AI tools and third-party platforms, the simplest protection is for that data to be unreadable to anyone who should not have it.

We do not bolt security on. We built Ghostables, a platform that seals sensitive records before they are stored, and we build client systems on it. When we say we cannot read your data, that is how the system works, not a promise about our behaviour.

  • Stored records the host cannot read
  • Changes made outside the proper path are flagged
  • Runs in your own infrastructure

In the app

NameAlex Morgan

Emailalex@example.co.uk

NotesRenewal due in March

In the database

Name

Email

Notes

How an engagement works

Four steps, each with a clear decision at the end of it.

  1. Review

    We go through what you pay for each month, who uses it and what it does for you.

  2. Decide

    You get a short written plan: what to keep, what to replace, the cost to build and when it pays for itself.

  3. Build

    We build in stages you can see and use, and move your data across with you.

  4. Hand over

    The system is yours. We stay on for support and changes for as long as you want us to.

How we keep the cost down

Fast because of AI. Safe because every change is checked

A small senior team with AI agents builds what used to need a department. The saving is only real if the work is right, so nothing ships unchecked.

AI agents do the groundwork

Agents write and test code at a speed no team can match. That is where the cost comes out, and it is why a build can be measured in weeks.

Wardrail checks every change

Each change an agent makes is checked against the written rules for your project by Wardrail, a product we built for exactly this.

About Wardrail

A person signs it off

Tools do not replace judgement. Work is reviewed by someone who understands your system before it reaches you.

Find out what you could stop paying for

Tell us what you run and what it costs. We will tell you honestly whether building it is worth it.