Row circle Shape Decorative svg added to bottom

Business Applications

Staying Human in a World Run by Machines

By Jade Bliss / March 26, 2026

I’ve spent most of my career in and around digital delivery. Different organisations, different sectors, different technology stacks. Across all of it, I’ve had a version of the same conversation more times than I care to admit. A client comes in with a clear ask – build us a Power App, automate this process, give…

From Rubber Keys to Robot Code – The Journey to Gen AI

By Pete Oare / March 5, 2026

If you grew up in the UK in the 1980s, your first experience with coding likely didn’t involve a sleek MacBook and a GitHub repository. It involved a beige box, a cassette tape player, and a noise that sounded like a fax machine screaming in agony.  Whether you were Team Sinclair – battling the rubber keys of…

Silent Waste: The Hidden Cost of Weak Digital Foundations

By Richard Asquith / February 23, 2026

Most business leaders know when something isn’t quite right. Revenue grows, teams stay busy, technology spend is healthy, yet margins remain flat and everyone feels permanently stretched. The visible costs are managed deliberately – headcount, technology, premises – but something else is consuming resources without appearing cleanly on the profit and loss account. It’s the…

The Split-Brain Workflow

By Pete Oare / January 28, 2026

Why I Hired Claude Opus as My Architect and Gemini 3 as My Consultant For a long time, I tried to be “AI monogamous”. I wanted one subscription, one chat window and one answer. I spent months trying to force Google Gemini to be a perfect in-line code architect, and just as long trying to…

How Falcon Contract Flooring Doubled Their Turnover Without Adding Operational Overhead Through Digital Transformation

By Richard Asquith / January 14, 2026

How Falcon Contract Flooring Doubled Turnover Without Adding Overhead Falcon Contract Flooring is a leading UK commercial flooring specialist operating in a fast-moving, delivery-critical environment. As the business grew, maintaining control across jobs, teams and suppliers became essential to scaling without adding overhead. Read business case study Client Snapshot Client: Falcon Contract Flooring Sector: Commercial…

An Alternative History of Computing

By Richard Asquith / October 17, 2025

An Alternative History of Computing – Part One Editors Note: All images created using Sora AI by OpenAI and are based on how the writer remembers them. After a recent #GreggsWalk we sat around the diner at work discussing various things – wide ranging topics such as BBC Sounds podcasts, football, the features and benefits…

Anthony Gold selects Circyl to deliver Dynamics 365 CRM

By Richard Asquith / September 30, 2025

Circyl secures Dynamics 365 CRM project with London based Law Firm Anthony Gold We are excited to announce that Circyl has been selected by Anthony Gold, a leading London law firm, to design and implement a firm-wide CRM solution on Microsoft Dynamics 365. The initiative will modernise how the firm captures and manages new enquiries,…

The Revolution Taking Place at the Heart of Client Engagement

By Rubina Kumari / August 29, 2025

How Custom Applications Can Revolutionise Client Engagement Client engagement is no longer something that happens by chance. In almost every sector, supplier choice is broad, procurement cycles are rigorous and attention is split across competing priorities. The organisations that thrive are those that create meaningful, sustained connections with their clients and stakeholders. An increasingly powerful…

Leading UK debt charity, Money Advice Trust, implement modern, scalable CRM & Power BI reporting

By Richard Asquith / July 22, 2025

Transforming Lives with Data That Delivers Money Advice Trust is one of the UK’s leading debt advice charities, supporting thousands of people every day with practical guidance during moments of acute financial stress. Rising demand – and a goal to triple the volume of support provided – meant the charity needed a more joined-up, insight-driven…

Replacing Manual Paper Processes with Power Apps: A Practical Route to Digital Transformation 

By Joe Majoros / June 6, 2025

Across every industry, businesses are trying to work faster, smarter and with less waste. Despite this, many still rely on manual, paper-based processes – systems that slow people down, introduce errors and make day-to-day work harder than it should be.  Power Apps, Microsoft’s low-code/no-code application builder, replaces outdated paperwork with tailored digital tools. It helps…