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Business technology in Derby

Rail, aerospace and high-value manufacturing. 19 services, one accountable partner, and someone who can be in the building when it matters.

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Does GTX Digital work with businesses in Derby?

Yes. GTX Digital is a business technology and software development company working across the Midlands Golden Triangle, including Derby and Derbyshire. It delivers 19 services under four pillars — Build, Connect, Automate and Grow — to medium-sized, corporate and enterprise organisations.

  • On site for discovery and the sessions that decide a design.
  • Fixed price per phase, against a written scope.
  • You own the code, the data and the infrastructure.

The local picture

What Derby is built on.

Derby has the highest concentration of high-value engineering in the Triangle. Rail manufacturing and aerospace give the city an unusual industrial profile for its size: long programmes, heavy certification, deep supply chains and documentation obligations that outlast the people who created them.

The practical consequence for software is that systems here are expected to last. A build that cannot be handed over, audited and maintained for a decade is not useful to a business whose products are in service for thirty years.

Sectors

Who we build for in Derby.

The sector character of a place decides what its software has to cope with. These are Derby’s.

  1. Rail engineering

    Design, manufacture and maintenance with configuration control and long-term traceability obligations.

  2. Aerospace

    A supply chain working to exacting documentation and quality standards, where records have to survive far longer than any software project.

  3. Automotive manufacturing

    Large-scale vehicle production and the component suppliers built around it.

  4. Precision & high-value engineering

    Specialist machining, testing and subassembly, usually to customer-dictated quality systems.

  5. Industrial services & maintenance

    Field maintenance and inspection operations covering wide areas from a central depot.

Services

Everything we do, in Derby.

Each one has a page written for Derby specifically. The full scope and phases live on the main service pages.

Build in Derby

Build

  1. Build

    Bespoke Software in Derby

    Operational systems written for one business, not licensed to a whole market.

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  2. Build

    Web Design in Derby

    Websites built for buyers who research you long before they make contact.

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  3. Build

    Web Platforms in Derby

    Logged-in platforms that carry real transactions, not brochure websites.

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  4. Build

    SaaS Products in Derby

    Multi-tenant products with billing, onboarding and the admin tooling to run them.

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  5. Build

    Mobile Apps in Derby

    iOS and Android for field teams, drivers and engineers, offline-first where signal fails.

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  6. Build

    Legacy Replacement in Derby

    Replacing the system nobody dares touch, without stopping the business.

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Connect in Derby

Connect

  1. Connect

    Customer Portals in Derby

    Self-service for customers, so routine questions stop arriving by phone.

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  2. Connect

    API Development in Derby

    APIs and integrations so data is entered once and moves on its own.

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  3. Connect

    CRM Integration in Derby

    CRM joined to quoting, delivery and accounts, so the pipeline reflects reality.

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  4. Connect

    ERP Integration in Derby

    ERP connected to everything around it, without touching the core.

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Automate in Derby

Automate

  1. Automate

    Workflow Automation in Derby

    The rules-based work that eats a week, handed to software that does not forget.

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  2. Automate

    Document AI in Derby

    Invoices, POs and delivery notes read, checked and filed without a keyboard.

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  3. Automate

    Data Pipelines in Derby

    Data moved, cleaned and reconciled on a schedule, so reporting has one source.

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  4. Automate

    Dashboards & Reporting in Derby

    Reporting that answers a decision, not dashboards nobody opens twice.

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Grow in Derby

Grow

  1. Grow

    Technical SEO in Derby

    The engineering half of search: crawling, indexing, rendering and speed.

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  2. Grow

    Answer Engine Optimisation in Derby

    Being the answer that gets extracted, not the tenth link nobody clicks.

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  3. Grow

    Generative Engine Optimisation in Derby

    Being present, and described correctly, when an AI assistant recommends suppliers.

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  4. Grow

    AI Search Visibility in Derby

    Ongoing measurement of what AI assistants say about you, and about rivals.

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  5. Grow

    Conversion & Analytics in Derby

    Measuring what happens after the click, then fixing where it leaks.

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Coverage

Across Derby and around it.

The work clusters around Infinity Park, Pride Park, Litchurch Lane, Raynesway, Spondon and Derby Commercial Park, with access from the A38, A52 and A50, with the M1 a short run east.

Derby pairs naturally with Nottingham for us, and we will often do both in the same visit.

Nearby towns

Also covered from Derby

  • Burton upon Trent
  • Ilkeston
  • Belper
  • Ashbourne
  • Long Eaton
  • Castle Donington

Questions

Working with GTX Digital in Derby.

What businesses in Derby ask first.

Can you build systems that meet aerospace or rail documentation requirements?

We build to support them. The recurring requirements are configuration control, immutable audit trails, controlled document revisions, traceability from finished item back to material, and retention periods measured in decades rather than years. Those are architecture decisions taken at the start. The certification itself remains your quality function’s responsibility and we build to their protocol.

Our system has to outlive the project. How do you handle that?

By treating the handover as a deliverable rather than an afterthought. Code in your repository, infrastructure in your cloud tenancy, written architecture notes, a data dictionary, a deployment runbook and a test suite — all written for a developer who has never spoken to us. In Derby that question gets asked more often than anywhere else in the Triangle, and it is the right question.

Which services do you offer in Derby?

All 19 of them. GTX Digital covers four pillars — Build (software, web design, platforms, SaaS, mobile apps and legacy replacement), Connect (portals, APIs, CRM and ERP integration), Automate (workflow automation, document AI, data pipelines and reporting) and Grow (technical SEO, answer engine optimisation, generative engine optimisation, AI search visibility, and conversion and analytics). Each has its own Derby page linked above.

How quickly can you get to us?

Derby pairs naturally with Nottingham for us, and we will often do both in the same visit. Derby is inside the corridor we deliberately concentrate on, so an initial session is usually a matter of finding a diary slot rather than planning a trip. Delivery then runs remotely with scheduled on-site reviews, which is what most clients prefer once a project is underway.

Next step

Start with a technology review in Derby.

A short, structured conversation about where your systems are costing you time, margin or growth — and what the realistic options are. We will come to you.

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