AleCodex is an independent software consultancy. I build custom applications, websites, eCommerce stores and automation for businesses that want real results, not billable hours.
# Listing pipeline: 400 products, unattended
from alecodex import Catalogue, Shopify
async def publish(batch):
items = await Catalogue.enrich(batch)
copy = await Catalogue.describe(items, tone="brand")
return await Shopify.upsert(
copy, images=True, seo=True
)
# 6 hours of manual work → 90 seconds
await publish(catalogue.pending(limit=400))Custom applications, websites and stores built to fit how you actually work.
Shopify, payment providers, ERPs and APIs, all talking to each other automatically.
Sensible auth, secrets handling, backups and logging baked in from day one.
Handover docs, monitoring and a real person on the other end of the phone.
You brief the person who writes the code. That removes the account managers, the telephone game, and most of the reasons software projects go sideways.
Bespoke tools, internal systems and desktop or server applications built around your process instead of forcing you into someone else's.
Fast, accessible, search-friendly websites and web apps, from a sharp brochure site to a full customer portal with logins and live data.
Shopify builds, migrations and deep customisation, plus the catalogue automation that stops product listing eating your week.
Custom automation that removes the repetitive middle of your business: content generation, data extraction, processing and workflow orchestration.
An engineer's read on the decision in front of you: build vs buy, stack choices, where automation genuinely pays off, and what your current system is costing you.
Someone who knows the codebase, on hand when it matters. Monitoring, fixes, small enhancements and a documented handover if you ever move on.
Not opinion. Published research from Ofcom, Google and BrightLocal on what people actually do before they get in touch — and what it costs when a site makes them wait.
of UK adults use Google Search — around 3 billion searches a month in the UK alone
Ofcom, Online Nation 2025 [1]the average UK adult now spends online every day, up ten minutes on last year
Ofcom, Online Nation 2025 [1]of consumers read online reviews of a business — only 4% never do
BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2025 [2]Google, 55 and Deloitte tracked 30 million user sessions across 37 European and American brand sites. This is the measured effect of making a mobile site just 0.1 seconds faster.
By the time someone contacts you, they have already decided whether you look like a safe pair of hands. A slow, dated or missing website is part of that judgement.
Lloyds Bank surveyed 1,968 UK businesses for its Business Digital Index. Those with the strongest digital capability were almost twice as likely to have grown turnover over the previous year as those with the weakest.
A UK eCommerce retailer with a large catalogue and a listing process done almost entirely by hand. I automated the pipeline across several departments over 2025–26. This is measured on the system itself, not an industry average.
Products enriched, described and published in one unattended run
Years building production software across automation, trading and games
Languages and runtimes in active use, from Python to MQL5
Point of contact. The engineer who builds it is the one you brief
Most small businesses get stuck choosing between a cheap freelancer who disappears and an agency that bills for meetings. AleCodex is the third option: senior engineering, delivered directly, with commercial results as the measure of success.
30 minutes to understand your business, what you're trying to achieve and where I can help most.
Scope, milestones, timeline and a fixed price. No surprises later.
Weekly demos against real data, so you steer while it's still cheap to steer.
Deployment, documentation, training and an optional retainer.
No trend-chasing. The stack gets picked for the job, your team's ability to maintain it, and the cost of running it in three years' time.
Whether it's a website that's overdue a rebuild, a store drowning in manual listing, or a process a machine should be handling, the first conversation is free and useful either way.