We fix that. A named MultiValue developer, a fixed number of days each month, and AI that documents your system as we work. Your own MultiValue department, for less than one hire.
UniVerse · UniData · D3 · jBASE · mvBase · OpenQM
You cannot hire your way out. Almost no one learns Pick or MultiValue any more. So the risk just sits there, getting bigger.
Six months or more to find them, if you find them at all. Then salary, employer's NI and pension, for a workload that may be five days a month.
A different face each visit, and MultiValue is a sideline for them.
The backlog and the key-person risk grow every month. The Health Check will tell you exactly how fast.
A named, experienced MultiValue developer, for a fixed number of days each month. Not a ticket queue. Not a different face every time. The same person, who learns your system, your data and your business.
But you get more than a developer. You get a department. Cover when things break. Upgrades done, not dodged. And AI working alongside us the whole time: every program documented in plain English, every fix feeding a knowledge base your team can ask anything. Month by month, your system goes from liability to asset. And if you ever want to move off it, everything is mapped, documented and ready.
£2,961 fixed price · 3 days
Before any package, we audit your system. You get a report that answers the questions you cannot answer today:
Straight answers, in plain English, about your system. The report is yours to keep, whatever you decide next.
And if you go ahead, the Health Check costs you nothing. Choose any monthly option within 30 days of your report and the full Health Check fee comes off your first month.
The report tells you where you stand. Then you choose how much help you want each month.
| Keep-Alive | Standard | Embedded | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your named MultiValue developer | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Days per month | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Response to urgent issues | 3 working days | 1 working day | 4 business hours |
| Every fix documented and searchable | No | Yes | Yes |
| Review and roadmap | Yearly | Quarterly | Quarterly |
| Named backup developer | No | No | Yes |
| CTO on call | No | No | Yes |
| AI knowledge base | No | Access | Full build included |
| AI code documentation | No | 10 programs/month | 25 programs/month |
Response means a qualified MultiValue developer has picked up your issue and replied, within business hours.
Retainers start at under £2,000 a month, for less than the real cost of one hire.
We keep every promise on this page, or your first month is free.
We feed your source code, your documentation and recorded interviews with your MV staff into a private AI assistant. Your team then asks it questions in plain English: "what does this program do?", "which programs write to this file?", "why does the month-end job run twice?". The knowledge stops living in one person's head. Standard clients get access as we build it through monthly work. Embedded clients get a full build when they join. Also available on its own.
We run your programs through our documentation pipeline and write up each one in plain English: what it does, what it reads and writes, what calls it, and its known quirks. A 30-year-old system becomes something a new hire can find their way around. Included every month at Standard and Embedded. Also available in one-off batches.
Plain-English questions over your MultiValue data, for staff who are not technical. "Show me customers who ordered last year but not this year", answered on the spot, with no developer needed. Available as a standalone setup with a small monthly platform fee.
Structured, recorded interviews with your retiring or departing MV developer before they walk out the door, written up and fed into your knowledge base. If your last MultiValue person has a leaving date, this is worth more than anything else on this page.
Once a year we restore your system from backup onto clean kit and prove it comes back up. Most MultiValue sites have never tested this. Included at Embedded. Available as a one-day add-on for everyone else.
UK businesses in manufacturing, distribution, logistics and similar sectors, running a Pick or MultiValue system in production, with few or no in-house MV developers. The system is too important to walk away from and too neglected to leave alone.
Tell us what you run and what worries you. We will tell you, honestly, whether we can help. If the fit is right, the Health Check comes first. No monthly commitment until you have read the report.
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