About us

Built by operators, from a village the Vikings named.

Strømline exists because we automated our own business first, and discovered how much of a company's week can be handed to systems that do not forget, do not get busy and do not take leave. We build the same discipline for others.

strøm
/strøm/ · noun · Old Norse
  1. 1.The flow of water in a river or the sea.
  2. 2.The flow of electricity through a conductor.
  3. 3.The flow of work and information through a business, once the systems are connected.
The first two are the name. The third is the business.
0°40'W0°30'W0°20'W 53°45'N53°40'N 2.13.44.86.27.99.612.414.15.33.910.88.32.8 Humber Bridge, 1981 Hull Barton-upon-Humber Trent Falls to Spurn Head Ferriby boats, c. 2000 BC North Ferriby 53.72° N · 0.51° W N THE HUMBER · NORTH BANK Soundings in metres. Strømline, North Ferriby.

We run a business too.

Its enquiries are answered in minutes, its quotations go out the same day, and its follow-ups have not been missed once since the systems went live. We know what breaks at month end because it is our month end as well. Everything on this site was built for ourselves before it was offered to anyone else.

Cargo has moved through this estuary for four thousand years.

We work from North Ferriby on the Humber, where the oldest plank-built boats found in Europe were lifted from the foreshore. Moving things efficiently is a local tradition. We have simply changed the cargo, and we take on a limited number of builds at a time so that each one is done properly.

c. 2000 BC

Three sewn-plank boats are abandoned on the Ferriby foreshore. Rediscovered in 1937, they remain the oldest of their kind found in Europe.

1981

The Humber Bridge opens, joining two banks that had spent four thousand years facing each other across the water. For seventeen years it was the longest single span in the world. Connecting things that were built apart is the local trade. It is also ours.

2026

Strømline. Cargo of a different kind: the work and information of a business, carried by systems that were built to talk to each other.

Who we work with

Growing businesses with more process than people.

01

Established and growing

Businesses that have outgrown the spreadsheet stage and are feeling it: more enquiries, more invoices, more handovers, and the same number of hours in the day.

02

Any sector

Professional services, trades, logistics, manufacturing, software. The bottlenecks are remarkably similar; the fix is always specific to the business.

03

Decision-makers

We work directly with owners, directors and the senior people who carry the cost of the problem and the authority to fix it.

04

Serious about the return

Clients who want the build measured against the time and revenue it recovers, and who expect a straight answer when the numbers do not stack up.

You know your business. We know what can run itself.

Put the two together for twenty minutes. At worst, you leave with a clearer picture of your own processes; at best, with the hours of your week you are about to get back.