I'm Dan. An engineer who builds the tools small businesses run on.

I've spent my career as a design engineer, most recently leading design engineering for a robotics and automation firm, and before that building websites and CRMs. The common thread is the same: understand how something really works, then build the simplest thing that does the job properly.

Daniel Tyas Design is me putting that to work for businesses near home. I don't hand you to a team. I come and see you, I ask a lot of questions, and I build what the answers say you need. When it's live I'm still here to look after it.

It isn't only software I build. Plenty of small businesses come to me first because the everyday digital side is a mess: email on a personal address, nobody sure who owns the domain, files on three laptops, and no safe way to get at anything from home. I set up Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, email, shared files, remote access and VPNs, and company portals, so the business owns all of it and it just works. I don't do on-site hardware, printers or networks.

The jobs I like best are the ones where a bit of well-placed software takes a weight off someone. A quoting process that used to take an evening. A customer list that was in three spreadsheets. If that sounds like your business, we should talk.