About SoloDesks

Most job-management software is built for a firm and then sold down to the sole trader with the team features greyed out. You can tell, because it charges per user. That is a pricing model which assumes there will one day be more of you, and it quietly taxes the decision to stay small.

The one-person business is not a stage on the way to a real business. It is the most common shape of business in Britain: three quarters of UK private sector businesses employ nobody at all, and construction has more businesses than any other industry. SoloDesks is built for that person and priced per business, not per seat.

What that decision costs is written down rather than left to be discovered: the list of things SoloDesks does not do is on the product page, next to what to use instead.

SoloDesks was founded in 2026 by Sage Vinson, who designs, writes, supports and answers the email for it. There is no team, no support queue and no outsourced content desk. The guides on this site are written by the same person who writes the software, which is why they are specific about trades and vague about nothing.

Worth saying plainly, because you would find out anyway: that person is a developer, not a tradesperson. No time on the tools, no family in the trade, and not based in the UK. SoloDesks exists because the software sold to one-person trade businesses is mostly software built for firms and priced per seat, and that is a problem you can see clearly from outside.

It does mean this site has no war stories, and it will never pretend to. What it has instead is a rule: every tax threshold, statutory interest rate and day-rate figure published here carries the source it came from and the date a human last checked it. Someone who has been on site for twenty years can tell you what the CIS deduction is from memory. This site would rather show you where the number came from, which you can check without trusting anybody.

If you email support@solodesks.com, that is who replies.

This site publishes tax thresholds, statutory interest rates and trade day rates, and people make decisions with them. Every figure carries the source it came from and the date a human last checked it, statutory facts are kept separate from third-party estimates, and nothing is published that cannot be traced to a named publisher.

The full policy, including what we do when a rate changes and what we will not publish, is set out in the editorial and sourcing policy. Our own analysis of public data lives in Research.