Start a conversation
One form, one address, and a direct route to the person who would do the work. You do not need a specification to make contact. A description of the problem, who uses the software now, and what machines it has to run on is enough to start a useful conversation.
Elmhurst Enterprises works from 8 Mill Lane, Calcot, Reading, England. Most projects are delivered remotely with clients across the UK.
Phone
+44 118 425 2191Hours
Mon–Fri, 9:00–18:00
Project enquiry
Direct to the bench
Before you send
The most useful thing you can send is the problem in your own words. Something like: we have an internal quoting tool that will not run on our new laptops, three people use it daily, and nobody has the source code. That single sentence tells us more than a requirements document.
Roughly how many people would use the software — a headcount, not a licence count.
Who it is forWhether it needs to connect to an existing system — even just the name of it helps.
Ties inWhether anything already exists that we would be replacing or extending.
Old / newTechnical detail you do not have — leave it out. Checking whether a build is reproducible and which dependencies are unsupported is part of an assessment.
Not needed yetIf something exists
What shapes the first call
If there is existing software, mention it and tell us what you know about it. The name of the original developer, the year it was built, whether there is source code and where it runs all shape the first conversation.
Do not worry about technical detail you do not have. Checking whether a build is reproducible and which dependencies are unsupported is part of an assessment, and we would rather look at the software than rely on a description of it.
Depends on
Assessment covers whether the code still builds and what it relies on.
Kept
Nothing you describe here is shared outside the studio.
Deployment and IT constraints
It is a question that gets skipped in a lot of early conversations and causes difficulty later. If you are not sure who handles it, send the form anyway and we will ask.
On the bench
If updates go through a management platform, if users cannot install things themselves, or if there is a standard build that varies by site — say so. These shape the packaging and deployment plan from day one, and knowing them now saves a second pass later.
Managed install
Software pushed by an IT team through a central platform, rather than installed by each user.
Standard builds
A single image of a machine that everyone in an office gets, sometimes slightly different per site.
What happens after you send this
We do not run an automated qualification process, and we do not pass enquiries to anyone else.
Your message arrives directly with the person who would do the work. Nothing is forwarded.
We read it. If the project looks like a fit, you get a reply with either questions or a suggestion for a call.
If it is clearly not something we should take on, you get a straight answer rather than silence.
We cannot give a delivery date from a form submission, and any studio that does is guessing. What we can do is read what you send, tell you whether it is the kind of work we do, and set up a conversation about scope.
The studio
A short drive from Junction 12 of the M4. Meetings in person are possible around Reading and the M4 corridor; most projects are still delivered remotely across the UK.
Address
Elmhurst EnterprisesLocation · 8 Mill Lane, Calcot
Still not sure where to start?
If you would rather read before writing, the services page lists the kind of desktop work the studio takes on, and the process page describes how a project runs from assessment to handover.
