“I just need an app that does one thing.”

Timothy has spent forty years building software for the organisations that could afford the kind of custom development most businesses only dream about. Enterprise systems. Complex integrations. The expensive stuff.

merebase came from a simple frustration. Every small business he ever worked with or spoke to had the same problem: they needed one custom tool that did one specific thing, and they could not get it. Not because the technology was hard. Because the infrastructure around it, the auth, the storage, the access control, the deployment, cost more than the feature itself. So the feature never got built.

AI changed the cost of building. merebase changes where the result lives. The plugin handles everything behind the scenes so a single HTML file built in Claude or Cursor can be live on a real URL, with real access control, in under a minute.

Timothy is also managing partner of Techshin Partners, a technology leadership consultancy that works with boards, CEOs, and technology functions on how they govern and operate technology — including AI. The work spans board-level governance, C-suite leadership development, and fixing the operating rhythms of technology teams that are technically capable but not delivering. Their positioning is blunt: "Technology has never been the answer. Leadership is what makes it work."

The two projects sit at opposite ends of the same problem. Techshin works with the organisations that have the budget for proper technology leadership. merebase exists for the ones that do not. Same belief. Different scale.