Businesses still run software from 2005. We modernize it without replacing it.

Your team keeps the system they know. It just starts working with everything else — your website, your CRM, your spreadsheets. No migration, no code changes, no retraining.

We're onboarding a few businesses first, and building each bridge with them directly.

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Shim enters it into your old system

Every entry is screenshotted and logged. Anything unusual is sent to a person before it's saved.

Old software works. It just can't talk to anything.

It has no API

Software built before 2010 was never meant to connect to other tools. There is no way in except the screen.

So people become the API

Staff copy from one window and type into another, all day. Slow, error-prone, and nobody wants that job.

Replacing it is worse

A migration costs a fortune, takes years, and the new system rarely does everything the old one did. So nobody does it.

What Shim does

We watch how your team uses it

One visit. We record each screen your team fills in and where the data comes from.

We build a bridge that works through the screen

Shim runs on a PC in your office. It reads your old software's screens and fills them in — like a careful employee who never gets tired.

Your old system now works with modern tools

Web forms, CRMs, WhatsApp, spreadsheets, email. When something looks off, a person is asked before anything is saved.

Nothing you rely on changes.

You keep

  • The software your team already knows
  • All your existing data, where it is
  • Your reports, your vendor, your habits

You get

  • Connections to the tools you actually use now
  • Hours of re-typing done automatically
  • A log and screenshot of every entry made

Built for businesses that can't afford to break what works

Clinics, accounting firms, distributors, logistics companies, business-setup and PRO firms — anyone running a system that does its job but can't connect to the rest of the business.

Questions people ask

Do you need our source code?

No. We never see or touch your software's code. Shim works through the screens your staff already use — the same windows, the same fields, the same buttons.

This is the whole point of the approach. If the vendor who built your system closed down in 2011, it makes no difference to us.

Will it change or break our system?

No. Nothing is installed inside your software and no file of yours is modified. Shim is a separate program that signs in the same way a member of your staff does.

Switch it off and your system behaves exactly as it did before — because nothing inside it was ever touched.

What do we actually have to install?

One small program, on one Windows PC in your office — usually the machine that already runs your old software. No new servers, no changes to your network, nothing for the rest of your team to learn.

We set it up with you on the first visit.

Where does our data go?

It stays where it already is — inside your software, on your machine. Shim reads a screen and types into a screen. It does not copy your database out or upload your records anywhere.

Screenshots and logs are kept on your PC. We only ever see what you choose to show us.

What happens if it makes a mistake?

It checks every entry against the original before saving. If anything doesn't line up — a name that reads oddly, a number outside the normal range, a screen that doesn't look the way it should — it stops and hands that one entry to a person instead of guessing.

Every entry it makes is saved with a screenshot, so you can look back at exactly what happened and when.

Will it work with our software?

If a person can do it on a screen, Shim can do it. Tally, Marg, Busy, custom software from a vendor who's long gone, green-screen terminal systems, in-house tools written in the nineties.

We confirm it on the first call, by looking at your actual screen.

How long does setup take?

One visit to watch how your team works, then your first workflow is running within a week.

We start with the single most repetitive task you have, prove it works, and add more from there.

What does it cost?

Early customers get set up at no cost while we build the first workflows alongside them — we're learning as much from you as you get from us.

After that it's a monthly fee per workflow, agreed with you before anything starts. The rule we hold ourselves to: it should cost less than the hours it removes.

What if we want to stop?

You turn it off. There's no migration back, nothing to export, no data to untangle — because your data never left your system in the first place.

You end up exactly where you started, minus the re-typing you did in the meantime.

Tell us what you're stuck with.

A few businesses to start with. We'll reply within two days.