May Enterprises
We design and build custom systems for established business owners.
One team, from strategy through deploy — the technical partner you keep, not the vendor you shop around.
Reservations · Client portals · Invoicing · Operations · Reporting
Write to us about your businessThe situation
When the software stops fitting
Our clients run successful businesses — studios, clinics, guesthouses, venues, shops, practices. At some point the tools they run on stop fitting how they actually operate: a patchwork of services stretched past its purpose, a generic platform that covers almost everything, or spreadsheets held together by effort.
The cost rarely shows up as one big failure. It hides in the seams, in moments like these:
- Every morning, someone copies numbers from one tool into another.
- Answering “how are we actually doing this month?” takes half a day and three exports.
- One person holds the whole operation in their head — and cannot take two weeks off.
- Every new customer means work in three systems instead of one.
None of this is dramatic. Together, quietly, it decides how far the business can grow.
Systems
What we build
A custom system can mean many things. For our clients it usually takes one of these shapes — often several of them, joined into one whole.
Reservations & scheduling
Bookings, deposits, and reminders in one calendar that looks after itself. Double bookings stop, and free slots become visible while they can still be filled.
Client portals
Your clients find their appointments, documents, and invoices themselves. The phone rings less, and nothing lives only in an inbox.
Operations & back office
Orders, jobs, and approvals move through one system instead of five tabs and a group chat. Everyone works from the same, current picture.
Invoicing & payments
Invoices issue themselves from work the system already records, and payments match themselves to invoices. Month-end stops being a project.
Overview & reporting
The numbers you steer by — occupancy, margins, unpaid invoices — current and on one screen, with nobody assembling them by hand.
Connections between systems
The shop, the accounting, the warehouse, and the calendar finally speak to each other, so everything is entered once.
If your situation does not fit any of these boxes, that is normal. Finding the shape your system should take is precisely what the diagnostic is for.
The difference
What changes
The software is the means. What you actually gain is a business that is easier to run. Concretely:
Hours spent moving data between tools
Systems that stay in sync by themselves
Questions that take a day to answer
Answers already waiting on the screen
Processes that live in one person’s head
Processes that run the same way, whoever is on shift
Tools the business has to bend around
A system shaped around the business
A different supplier for every problem
One technical partner who knows the whole operation
The real product is clarity. The software is how we get there — a business that is easier to run is what you keep.
Engagements
Three forms of engagement
The relationship deepens in steps. Each engagement stands on its own, each opens the door to the next, and most begin with the diagnostic.
Diagnostic
Two to four weeks · fixed fee
A short, time-boxed engagement: we look at how your business actually runs, find what is breaking and what is holding, and hand over a written assessment with a system proposal. It is the first piece of work rather than a sales call — understanding comes before building, the way a doctor examines before prescribing.
You leave with a written assessment and a system proposal — yours to act on, with us or without us.
System build
Fixed scope · fixed price · fixed timeline
The design, build, and deploy of your custom system. The agreement stands on the outcome, never on hours — you know what it will cost and when it will ship before we begin.
You leave with a production system your team works in every day — and that belongs to you.
Ongoing partnership
Monthly retainer · after launch
After launch, the relationship continues: maintenance, small improvements, and advisory access on a monthly retainer. You keep your technical relationship — we do not disappear after deploy.
You keep a system that fits as the business changes — and one address to write to when anything technical comes up.
The first step is a short email — write to us about your business.
In production
What’s already running
Three of the systems now running in daily use.
A platform for health and movement programs
MOVO eHealth · 2023
Exercise testing, body composition, and training records in one client profile — one shared picture for specialist and client, with PDF reports for both.
Reservations and payments for an aerial acrobatics studio
Flying Stars · 2026
Clients book classes, courses, and workshops and pay by QR code; payments are reconciled automatically against bank transfers, and the studio sees capacity, attendance, and payments in one system.
A booking system for holiday apartments, cabins, and boats
Go Adria · 2026
The calendar enforces each product’s season rules, bookings move through one approval queue, and confirmations send themselves.
We write a case study only once a system has proved itself and its outcomes can be described concretely.
The practice
Who we are
May Enterprises was founded and is led by Dorien May. We keep the work undivided by design: strategy, architecture, design, code, and deploy stay together from first conversation to launch. Nothing is lost in the handover between understanding a business and building for it, because there is no handover.
Built like production software, because it is
Real architecture, payments that reconcile, backups that restore, deploys without a maintenance window. The systems we build carry the daily run of real businesses, so we build them to production grade — not as templates stretched until they almost fit.
An eye for how it feels
Our background also runs through music, photography, and film, and it shows in the work: we care how a system reads, how it feels at seven in the morning at the front desk, whether the everyday screens respect the person using them. A lot of business software works and is still unpleasant to live in. It does not have to be.
We run a business here too
May Enterprises is a Slovak s.r.o. We invoice, file, and operate under the same conditions as our clients, so the daily reality of running a business here is not something anyone needs to explain to us.
We work primarily with Slovak owner-operators, and increasingly internationally.
Questions
Before you write
What does it cost?
A serious figure depends on what the system has to do, so it belongs in the proposal, where we can name it precisely and stand behind it. We charge the same way every time: a fixed price for the diagnostic, a fixed price for a fixed build scope, a flat monthly retainer for the partnership. You will not hear an hourly rate from us.
How long does it take?
The diagnostic takes two to four weeks. A build usually runs a few months, depending on what we are building — and since the timeline is fixed in the agreement, you know it before we start, not after.
Do we have to replace everything we use today?
No. A system usually starts where the seams cost the most and grows from there. What already works, we connect to rather than rebuild — the goal is a system that fits, not a bigger one.
What if we part ways one day?
The system is yours: it runs under your accounts, and the code and the data belong to you. The partnership exists to keep the system improving, not to hold you in place. If we ever part ways, you hand the keys to whoever comes after us.
How much of our time will it take?
Less than you may fear, but not none. The diagnostic needs a few honest conversations with the people who actually run the operation. During the build, we come back at regular intervals with working software and need decisions from you, not supervision.
Are we big enough for this?
Size is not the question — fit is. Our clients are established businesses whose operation has outgrown its tools. If the team is drowning in a spreadsheet that once fit on one screen, that is usually the moment. And if you are not sure, write to us. Sometimes the honest answer is no, and we will tell you.
Contact
Write to us about your business
Two or three paragraphs are enough: what the business does, and what stopped fitting.
What happens after you write
- We read every message ourselves and reply within two working days.
- If it looks like a fit, we talk — one conversation about how your business actually runs.
- You receive a written proposal for the first step, usually the diagnostic.
If you prefer email, write directly to dorien@mayenterprises.sk.
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