Michael Shreeves

I struggle to leave a problem unsolved once I’ve noticed it. Somebody, somewhere, is doing this by hand right now.

Head of IT for a healthcare group, former CTO, and a developer for the twelve years before either. Cyber security, governance and compliance are the job now as much as the code ever was.

Dad to four, gamer, car enthusiast, and still writing code most evenings, once the kids are down.

mash@localhost:~

→ ~ ./whoami.sh

[NOW]Head of IT, Pure Unity Health Group

[BEFORE]Co-founder & CTO, SEEDL Learning

[BUILD]25 tools, 1 shipped, 1 still an idea

[BELIEVE]If it needs someone to remember how it works, it isn’t finished.

[STATUS]Mash achieved. Ready when you are.

mash@localhost:~ $

More about me

The short version. Everything else has its own page.

About

Since 2008 I’ve mostly been the person in the room saying “we could just build that”.

Head of IT for a healthcare group, former CTO, and a developer for the twelve years before either title existed. Why the tools on this site exist, and what I do off the clock.

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Problems I enjoy solving

Not a technology list. The stuff underneath it.

The spreadsheet that became load-bearing, the systems that won’t talk to each other. The patterns behind every tool below, recognised in the wild before they ever became a spec.

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Experience

Twelve years writing the code, then the jobs that needed somebody who had.

The full role-by-role history from 2008: website developer to team lead to senior developer, co-founder & CTO, and now Head of IT.

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Skills

Broad on purpose.

Technology, product & delivery, and leadership & governance: the three areas that have to join up to fix anything.

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What I build

Every one of these started life as somebody’s least favourite Tuesday.

A spreadsheet holding something important together. A subscription costing more than it saves. A job being done three times over because two systems refuse to speak to each other.

Only one of these is shipped. I’d rather say so than hide it, so the filter below shows everything, ideas included. The live one, Foundry, has its own write-up.

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Foundry (Live): The shared design system every other tool on this page is built from: one dashboard shell, one set of accessible components, one theme, so a new idea starts from something proven rather than a blank Bootstrap template.

Estate (Beta): A property and premises register that follows each site from acquisition to closure, with its contracts, services, assets, documents, reminders, audits and compliance records attached to it.

Budget Tool (Beta): Upload budgets in whatever shape the spreadsheets arrived in, standardise them into one approved structure, then track them against actual spend and watch the variance move.

DICOM Viewer (In progress): Review medical imaging in a browser, annotate it against the case it belongs to, and keep an auditable record of both. Self-hosted, so the images never leave your control.

Planner (Beta): A place for a team to plan projects and tasks, with the notifications that mean work moves on without somebody having to chase it.

LeadTracker (Beta): A mapped, searchable database of England’s NHS commissioning landscape (every ICB, PCN, GP practice and GP federation on one map), with the live tenders, funding and contacts a business-development team needs kept against the organisation they belong to.

All-in-One Business Hub (In progress): Tasks, finance, estates, an intranet and incident management behind one login, one organisation model and one set of permissions, instead of several tools that disagree with each other.

Learning Platform (In progress): Set up licences, put your people through training, and prove afterwards exactly who completed what: the part that matters when somebody asks.

VMI & Transport Scheduler (In progress): Recurring customer visits, annual leave, cover assignment and frequency compliance in one schedule, with a full audit trail you can undo and redo.

Signature Tool (Beta): Staff pick a template, fill in their details, and get an email signature that looks right wherever it’s opened: desktop, webmail, or a phone.

Family Hub (Beta): A shared household calendar, chores worth points, reusable checklists and household finances the grown-ups can see, with PIN-protected profiles so children who have no account of their own still get their own view. Built for the tablet on the kitchen wall.

Case Manager (Prototype): A configurable case management platform for firms that run their work as cases (legal, medico-legal, claims and rehabilitation teams), where case types, stages and fields are set up by an administrator, not built by a developer.

Patient Manager (In progress): A fast, simple clinic booking and patient-records system for multi-location clinic groups: calendar and room booking, patient and referrer records, and clinical notes that can’t be quietly edited after the fact.

Trackify (Prototype): Sends a sequence of video content to a named person, records that they genuinely reached the end of it, and collects a structured response afterwards. Used two ways from one codebase: training modules for companies, recovery protocols for clinics.

JobSpace (In progress): Any organisation gets its own branded recruitment site (its own web address, its own colours) where staff post jobs and review applications, and candidates register once and apply everywhere they see it.

WatchLine (Beta): A public map of traffic cameras, CCTV and other public-safety camera infrastructure across the UK, built from openly available sources and verified submissions, so the public, police and solicitors can find out what footage might exist near an incident, and who to ask.

GroupSpace (In progress): Real-time location sharing, an activity feed, discussions and event/convoy coordination for a group of any kind (family, a club, a convoy, a community) in one shared space with one login.

Project Tracker (In progress): A multi-tenant time-tracking and scheduling tool for organisations that bill or budget by the hour: a manager schedules who’s on what, the person logs against it in one click, and planned versus actual against budget hours is visible the moment it’s submitted.

Finance Tool (In progress): A multi-tenant finance platform that gives an organisation with several legal entities one place to build budgets, track spend against them, and route approvals, instead of a spreadsheet per department and a rebuild every time a business is acquired.

Service Management (Idea): A configurable service-desk platform giving an organisation one intake form and one queue for anything a staff member would otherwise report into separate IT, compliance or facilities ticket systems, with breach risk computed automatically from severity and elapsed time, not tracked by hand.

Expense Manager (Prototype): Staff submit expense claims (receipts, invoices, mileage) from a phone, and each one routes to the right approver automatically, with a threshold that escalates straight to a CFO or COO when it needs to.

PO Manager (Prototype): Raise a purchase requisition, see it checked against real budget headroom before it’s approved, and match what arrives and what’s invoiced against what was ordered. Before payment, not after.

Marketool (Beta): Social-media banners and slideshow videos for property listings, built from an agency’s own listings feed or its own photos: pick a property, pick a design and the brand colours, and download a PNG or an MP4 ready to post.

Incident Tracker (Prototype): Incident reporting for organisations with more than one site, healthcare-adjacent first. The foundations are in (accounts, Microsoft sign-in, two-factor, organisations and their sites); reporting, response targets and the evidence record come next.

Airwave (In progress): Software for running a small internet radio station from one control panel: a music library, automatic playout with advert breaks, live and pre-recorded shows, and one stream link that plays in a browser and on a smart speaker. Accounts and sign-in are built; nothing plays yet.

Nothing is called live until it is deployed, backed up, and I have restored from one of those backups. A tool with a link is running somewhere you can look at it; one without isn’t, yet. Full list, filterable the same way, also lives on its own shareable projects page.

The household one isn’t the joke of the set, whatever it looks like next to a clinical imaging viewer. A family tool holds family data (sometimes children’s) belonging to people who’ve never read a data-processing agreement and should not have to. That’s a higher bar than an internal business tool, not a lower one, and it gets held to it.

Guides & tips

Two ways to read what I’ve learned.

Pulled from the same list of things worth automating that built the tools above: longer background pieces on one side, quick one-idea checklists on the other.

Guides

Background, setup, and the edge cases.

Full write-ups on M365 & security, AI & Copilot, and automation. Each one ends with what goes wrong, not just the happy path.

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Tips

One idea, under two minutes.

Short, actionable checklists and snippets on IT and automation, with no padding.

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Latest

If a mailbox script or signature tool stopped working this month, check EWS firstTip · 14 October 2026
Central email signatures in Microsoft 365: there's no API for it, so here are the routes that workGuide · 13 October 2026
Let AI draft the social post, then run five checks before you hit postTip · 12 October 2026

New here? Start with the map of the AI prompts, grouped by the job you're doing. There's also a feed.

Some of it

Things I’m glad I got to do.

Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus Took SEEDL through basic myself, and then supported Pure Unity Health from implementation to documentation.
An NHS patient discharge system Scoped it and built it at Phew, working directly with the people who’d use it.
Concept to live product Co-founded SEEDL and took its learning platform from an idea to something customers ran their training on.
Seventy-plus clinics IT strategy, service delivery and compliance across a group in Primary Care and NHS-affiliated services.

The software wasn’t the hard part.

Technology beliefs

Eighteen years of this leaves you with opinions. Here are a few.

Every spreadsheet is a system of record nobody signed up to own.
If a process only works because one person remembers it, it isn't a process yet.
A tool people route around solved the wrong problem, however well it was built.
Nobody asks for fifteen minutes back each week. Everybody notices when they get it.
A dashboard nobody checks is an expensive decoration.
Most integrations fail because of the data, not the API.
Security is a habit, not a certificate on the wall.
In healthcare IT, compliance isn't paperwork around the job. It is the job.
AI won't fix a bad process. It just helps you do the wrong thing faster.
The best AI projects start with a problem, not a model.

Get in touch

Right then.

I like hearing about what other people are learning, wrestling with, or have actually solved, just as much as I like solving things myself.

So get in touch — whether that’s a problem that smells automatable and you want a second opinion, or you’ve found a better way to do something I’m still doing the long way round. Could be I help you. Could just as easily be the other way round.

Nothing for sale here. I do this because I like solving problems and I like people, plain and simple. Won’t be remotely offended if it drifts onto football or cars.

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