Ian Edwards
Ian is a senior engineer and the founder of Tessellium. Combining over a decade of technical experience with his background as a business owner, he specializes in untangling complex operational bottlenecks and getting stalled software projects over the finish line.
Most software works perfectly until it hits real-world business realities. The real test happens at the messy edge cases - where a stubborn system issue halts your operations, or a critical technology project stalls just before the finish line. That is where I do my best work.
I don’t look at technology in a vacuum. Because I’ve founded businesses myself and spent years managing everything from frontline operations and marketing to customer service, I understand the day-to-day friction of running a company. I know how frustrating it is when expensive software fails to deliver, forcing your highest-paid staff to spend their weeks manually moving data between systems just to keep things moving.
With a career spanning high-stakes sectors like finance, legal, and retail, I bring a practical, senior perspective to technical problems. I don’t care about flashy, fragile tech trends; I care about building reliable systems that run quietly in the background so you can focus on growth.
Whether you need to fix a long-standing system headache, rescue a delayed software launch, or ensure your technology actually aligns with your commercial goals, I provide the straight-talking, dependable execution needed to get it sorted.
Articles by Ian Edwards
Data Automation Risks: A Practical Checklist Before You Start
A straightforward checklist to evaluate whether your automation project is set up for success or headed for silent failure. Use this before you commit …
How to Decide If a Task Is Worth Automating
Stop guessing which tasks to automate. A practical framework with a simple formula to calculate the real ROI of any automation project - before you …
Stop Being the Dashboard: How to Delegate Automation Trust Without Losing Visibility
Are you the human dashboard your automations report to? Here's how to build monitoring that works while you sleep, so you stop being the alert system.
The Disadvantages of Data Automation Nobody Puts in the Sales Pitch
Automation isn't a free win. An honest look at the real disadvantages of data automation - from scaled-up errors to silent failures to endless upkeep.
Why AI Agents Don't Care About Your Balance Sheet
AI can write poetry and low-code can move text blocks, but who takes responsibility when it corrupts your ledger?
How Human Middleware Taxes Growing Businesses
Do you ever feel like you're an add-on to your tools? When integrations fail, businesses turn staff into manual data pipelines, taxing operational …
When Modern Financial APIs Meet Legacy Reporting Warehouses
Upgrading your accounting platform shouldn't blind your business intelligence. Discover why legacy data warehouses fail when forced to ingest modern, …
The Square Peg Problem: When Your Billing Logic Outgrows Pre-Baked Software Integrations
When your UK business outgrows standard native integrations, rigid plugins force you to warp your operations. We discuss why bespoke billing logic …
The Copy-Paste Tax
Manual data entry is a hidden drain on your UK business. Learn how to calculate the true cost of copy-pasting data between Shopify, HubSpot, and Xero.
The Ghost in the CRM: When Your Business Automations Stop Pulling Their Weight
Is your CRM failing silently? Learn how to spot 'automation rot' in your Zapier or HubSpot syncs before stale data costs your business time and money.
Static Solutions in a Shifting Tech Stack
Treating custom integrations as a one-time project introduces a ticking clock of silent failures. A look at why dynamic software stacks require …
The Path Less Travelled
Building robust workflows by gracefully handling automation failures and avoiding the happy path bandits.
Running Before You Walk
Everybody wants to be the best. But are you trying to operate at an advanced level before you've covered the basics?
Deciding What To Automate
You have a ton of jobs to do. You know you can automate some. But which?
The Technical Rescue: Solving Complex Financial Reporting Where Self-Serve Tools Fail
A deep dive into how we rescued a Xero-to-FTP integration by implementing a database-powered transformation layer that outclassed standard no-code …
Scaling Success: How a Fragrance Retailer Reclaimed 15+ Hours Weekly via Automated Returns
See how we bridged the gap between Shipstation and DPD for a UK retailer, automating 800+ daily order registrations and eliminating manual admin …
How Do You Know When An Automation Is Working?
There’s a thought that goes through everyone’s mind the first time they let a computer execute a task: “how do I know if it …
When Built-In Automation Tools Aren't Enough
The daily chore
Billing is simultaneously the most important, and also the most frustrating task for a business. Important because, well, it’s …