See it working · Live demos

Platforms from our own businesses, live and clickable.

These are platforms we have actually built and run in our own businesses, shown here with sample data under the Long Lever name. They are examples, not a menu: if we understand your process, we can show your team how to build the version you need. We're the guide, not the software house: we show you what's possible with the data you already have, then train your team and give them the tools to build their own, in your branding. What you build is yours, with no subscription.

Fictitious example · real build

Every demo carries this badge: the build is real, the organisation and the figures are invented.

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Step 1

We show what is possible

Your data, your processes, and a working demonstration of what the two together could do. Not a slide, not a mock-up.

Step 2

Your team builds it with us

We hand over the tools and the know-how, session by session, until your people can make the changes themselves.

Step 3

You own it, and can change it

It sits above your existing systems, read-only. No subscription, no lock-in, nothing ripped out.

Live demos

Click around. That is the point.

Each demo opens full screen with its own menu, a guided tour that walks the highlights, and a strip saying what it replaces.

Fictitious example · real buildFlagship · 40,000-product national distributor

Long Lever Intelligence 360

Commercial intelligence for a large supply distributor: what sold, what it earned, who is drifting and where the stock is stuck. The morning briefing, the account health scores, the questions with their workings, and the board pack, all from the systems that already exist.

40,200: products
316: brands
2,840: trade accounts
24: months of data

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Morning briefing · Thursday 5 November 2026

Sales month to date: £4.26m; +4.2% on last year
Gross margin: 23.6%; +0.5 points on the year
Open orders: 1,842; 214 due this week
Recoverable accounts: £475k; 27 accounts lapsing
Stock over 90 days: £882k; 18.7% of holding

Three actions for today

1Call the five largest lapsing accounts before Friday; the list is ranked by recovery value.
2Review heating pricing on the twenty largest lines and stop discounting below 21%.
3Push £140k of lighting and cabling spend to Halden and Brindley to land both rebate tiers.

Going well

Cabling and tools both grew faster than the market, and margin on both improved.
Lighting margin is up 1.2 points since the rebate was renegotiated.
Average order value on trade accounts is up 3.8% on the same month last year.

Going badly

Heating margin is 19.8%, 3.8 points under the company average, with the highest slow stock.
27 accounts have not ordered in 90 days, £475k of margin recoverable if we call them.
Two of the five supplier rebates are within 8% of the next tier and will be missed without a push.

Sales and gross margin · 24 months£46.5m last 12 months · 23.6% margin

Sales (£k)
Gross margin (%)

Sales in £000 on the left, gross margin percentage on the right. Both moved up across the two years, which is the only combination worth reporting.

Sales by category8 quarters

Cabling and lighting
Tools and fixings
Consumables and PPE

Stacked quarters. Consumables is the flat line at the bottom: steady, low margin, but it is what keeps accounts ordering.

Top 10 customers by gross profit£000, last 12 months

Gross profit, not sales. The two lists are not the same order, which is always the first conversation with a commercial director.

Customer health distribution186 accounts

Scored on order frequency, basket change, returns and payment behaviour. 18 accounts are in the red and worth a call this week.

Slow-moving stock by category£882k over 90 days

Valued at landed cost. Lighting and cabling are 47% of the slow book between them.

Rebate tier progress

5 suppliers · 6 weeks to run

Northgate Cable Co£1.84m of £2.00m · 92%
Brindley Tools£0.96m of £1.20m · 80%
Halden Lighting£1.26m of £1.50m · 84%
Weaver Heating£0.68m of £0.75m · 91%
Pennine PPE£0.41m of £0.50m · 82%

The money is in the last few percent. Three suppliers need a push, not a discount.

Lapsing accounts

£475k recoverable

Account	Last order	12m spend	Recovery
Ashworth Contracts falling	14 Aug 2026	£248k	£164k
Brightwell Systems flat	02 Jul 2026	£186k	£121k
Copeland Site Services falling	21 Sep 2026	£142k	£98k
Drayton Mechanical falling	08 Jun 2026	£96k	£54k
Elmswood Electrical flat	30 Sep 2026	£61k	£38k

Ranked by recovery value, not by spend. The call list is the same every Monday.

Customer health, momentum and the gap in the basket

£178k of cross-sell in six accounts

Account	Health	Not buying yet	Cross-sell
Northgate Electrical	92	Lighting and PPE	£41k
Riverside Mechanical	84	Fixings	£28k
Long Lever Facilities	78	Consumables	£33k
Meridian Building	64	PPE	£22k
Harbour Point	58	Cabling	£36k
Oakfield Interiors	47	Lighting	£18k

Momentum is the direction of the last three months, not the score today. A 78 falling is worth more attention than a 64 climbing.

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Typed in plain English. The answer comes back with the arithmetic that produced it, so it can be checked rather than believed.

Board pack generator

Five sections, refreshed from the same data, ready for the folder the night before.

Trading summary
Category performance
Customer health
Stock and rebates
Actions

The layer above your systems

Read-only

Finance ledgerSales, margin, rebates

Warehouse systemStock, movements, slow lines

Order and CRMAccounts, baskets, contacts

Trade websiteSearches, baskets, quotes

reads

Long Lever layer

Morning briefing
Customer and account health
Ask a question, with workings
Board pack

Nothing is written back to the finance, warehouse or order systems. Nothing is ripped out and replaced. If it is switched off tomorrow, those systems carry on exactly as they are.

The charts above are a sample of the live demo. Everything is fictitious: no real supplier, customer or brand is named anywhere.

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Fictitious example · real buildMulti-site trusts and estates

Long Lever OneView

Contract performance for eight schools in one place: hours against budget, audit scores, open actions and absence, with a monthly report built for three different readers in a click.

Trust overview with every site on a map, coloured by its worst measure.
Site drill-down: audits by area, actions with owners and dates, periodic evidence, staffing and cover.
One month, three audiences: director, client, site team.

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Worked example: distribution reporting

Fictitious example · real buildTender and bid teams

Long Lever Bid Studio

Tender writing and bid management: a pipeline that cannot quietly stall, questions with their weights and word limits, and a checker that scores an answer the way an evaluator will.

Pipeline board with value bands, deadlines and owners.
Strength checker on every answer: specific, measurable, site-specific, evidenced.
Answer library and lessons from past evaluations, dated and traced to a debrief.

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Worked example: the tender guide

Fictitious example · real buildFacilities and procurement

Long Lever Specification and Hours Builder

Pick the building, enter the areas, choose frequencies. Out comes a zoned cleaning plan, job cards, weekly hours, a periodic programme and a branded specification a contractor can actually price.

Live recalculation as areas and frequencies change.
Job cards and a periodic programme generated from the same zones.
CAD (DWG, DXF), PDF and scanned floor plans imported and measured.

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Worked example: the tender guide

Fictitious example · real buildOperations and site teams

Long Lever Field Reporting

Patrol, inspection and site visit app: check in, work the checklist, add photographs, raise what you find. The office sees it live, and the client evidence pack writes itself.

Phone-sized app, works offline, no app store and no licence per user.
Office dashboard with response times, completed visits and open issues.
Client-ready evidence pack from the record, not assembled on the last Friday.

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Worked example: the retail park guide

Fictitious example · real buildRecruiting managers

Long Lever People

Recruitment and onboarding: post once and publish everywhere, run a real applicant pipeline with the right checks per site, answer every applicant, and report recruitment by site and manager.

Vacancy manager with Google Jobs ready adverts.
Applicant pipeline screening right to work and DBS per site.
Automatic replies at every stage, including the no.

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Worked example: the recruitment guide

The honest comparison

Three ways to get this, and what each one costs you later.

Off-the-shelf software is not the enemy, and neither are good agencies. The difference is who holds the knowledge when the invoice is paid.

Option 1

Buy off the shelf

Software designed for an average of everybody.

You change your process to fit the software.
A subscription per user, every month, forever.
You cannot change it. The roadmap belongs to somebody else.
Your data lives wherever they decide to host it.
Support is a ticket queue, and the answer is usually “that is by design”.

Option 2

Agency build

A project, then a handover, then a bill.

Quoted before anything has been scoped properly.
Built to a brief, and the brief moves once the build starts.
You can change it, if you can brief a developer.
Every change is a new purchase order.
The knowledge leaves with the contractor.

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The Long Lever way

We guide. Your team builds it. You own it.

Built around your processes, not a template of somebody else’s.
No subscription. What gets built is yours.
Your team can change it, because your team built it with us.
It sits above your existing systems, read-only, nothing ripped out.
We stay for the know-how, not for the dependency.

We are the guide, not the software house. What you build is yours, with no subscription.

Start with a free discovery check.

About five minutes, rough answers are fine. You will get a short summary of where the first opportunity is likely to be, and what the sensible next step looks like.

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