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Every new hire needs accounts, every new customer adds records, and every new platform is another supplier holding your data. 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Most teams struggle because their data is spread across SharePoint, a CRM and a dozen spreadsheets","Four levels to work through: asking and exploring, instructing, reviewing, then automating","Start from a real pain point, consolidate the data behind it, then pilot on actual work and measure the output","Written-down processes are gold dust. They are what make the results consistent","speaking",{"title":98,"description":105},[129,132,133],{"name":130,"role":131},"Jason Mashinchi","Managing Director",{"name":88,"role":89},{"name":134,"role":135},"Mike Lewzey","Head of Operations","events\u002Fcambs-b2b-north-2026","Peterborough’s biggest business event of the year, in the Chamber’s 100th year in the city. 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The morning brought together manufacturers, policymakers, researchers and innovators from across the region’s defence and security cluster.",[27,256,257],{},"Sir Laurie Bristow opened with a keynote on international affairs and security, followed by panels on international trade, Cambridgeshire’s growing defence cluster, and turning research into commercial products. Between sessions, Millie and Mike were on the stand with Kinabase, talking to manufacturers and defence organisations about keeping quality records, traceability and reporting in one place.",[27,259,260],{},"Thank you to the Chamber and TWI for hosting, and to everyone who stopped by the stand. If we didn’t get the chance to talk on the day, we’d be glad to pick up the conversation.",{"title":42,"searchDepth":43,"depth":43,"links":262},[],{"lat":264,"lng":265},52.11713,0.225884,"2026-09-18","\u002Fimages\u002Fevents\u002Fcambs-b2b-north-2025.jpg","Jason Mashinchi, far left, on a Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce business breakfast panel","Jason on a Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce panel in 2025.","A morning on the stand with manufacturers, policymakers, researchers and innovators from the region’s defence and security cluster.","Cambridge",{},"\u002Fevents\u002Fmanufacturing-defence-security-summit-2026",{"title":275,"body":276,"points":277},"On the stand","We spent the morning on the stand with Kinabase, talking about how we help manufacturers and defence organisations keep their operations running smoothly, with quality and traceability in one place.",[278,279,280],"How regulated manufacturers keep quality records, traceability, reporting and audit evidence in one place","The spreadsheets and workarounds that slow an operation down, and what to do about them","The operational questions teams never seem to have time to solve",{"title":213,"description":254},[283,284],{"name":88,"role":89},{"name":134,"role":135},"events\u002Fmanufacturing-defence-security-summit-2026","We exhibited at the Cambridgeshire Chamber’s summit at TWI on Granta Park, a morning of manufacturers, policymakers, researchers and innovators from the region’s defence and security cluster.","08:00–13:30","Parking on site at Granta Park, ten minutes from junction 10 of the M11.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cambridgeshirechamber.co.uk\u002Fevents-training\u002Fevents\u002Fmanufacturing-defence-and-security-conference\u002F","TWI, Granta Park","t352eVgBXTeIik7idzOhED7_6RshD34JWPCDwxEGxVs",{"id":293,"title":294,"address":295,"agenda":296,"agendaTitle":249,"body":312,"category":108,"coords":325,"date":328,"description":316,"draft":47,"endDate":6,"extension":48,"format":110,"guest":6,"image":329,"imageAlt":330,"imageCaption":6,"lead":331,"location":332,"meta":333,"navigation":65,"organiser":334,"path":335,"presence":336,"recording":6,"registration":6,"role":171,"seo":342,"speakers":343,"stem":346,"summary":347,"ticketNote":348,"time":349,"travel":350,"url":351,"venue":352,"writeUp":6,"__hash__":353},"events\u002Fevents\u002Fsafari-networking-exhibition-oct-2026.md","Safari Networking & Exhibition","73 Western Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3SP",[297,301,305,308],{"time":298,"title":299,"detail":300},"08:30","Exhibition opens","Arrival and light refreshments, and the first chance to walk the stands.",{"time":302,"title":303,"detail":304},"09:00","Safari Session 1","A short welcome from Suffolk Chamber, then the first guided round of networking.",{"time":9,"title":306,"detail":307},"Safari Session 2","The second guided round, with networking and the exhibition running for everyone else.",{"time":309,"title":310,"detail":311},"12:00","Exhibition closes","We were on the stand until the end.",{"type":24,"value":313,"toc":323},[314,317,320],[27,315,316],{},"Suffolk Chamber of Commerce closed out its Safari Networking year in West Suffolk with an exhibition alongside it at the XR Lab in Bury St Edmunds, run in partnership with West Suffolk College as part of the West Suffolk Business Festival.",[27,318,319],{},"Two guided safari sessions ran through the morning. Rather than working a room full of strangers, people moved between pre-sorted groups and spent around fifteen minutes at each table, with the exhibition and free networking open either side. It was deliberately informal and open to any job role, which made it a gentle start for anyone new to networking, or new to a role and building up contacts.",[27,321,322],{},"We were on the stand and at the networking sessions through the morning, from the doors opening at 08:30 to the exhibition closing at 12:00. Thank you to Suffolk Chamber and West Suffolk College for hosting, and to everyone who stopped by. If we didn’t get the chance to talk on the day, we’d be glad to pick up the conversation.",{"title":42,"searchDepth":43,"depth":43,"links":324},[],{"lat":326,"lng":327},52.252152953586844,0.6965527394048089,"2026-10-06","\u002Fimages\u002Fevents\u002Fsafari-networking-exhibition-oct-2026.jpg","The XR Lab, a white room with angular black tables and a wall of screens","A morning of networking, informal chats and thoughtful discussions about the ideas and challenges facing growing businesses in West Suffolk.","Bury St Edmunds",{},"Suffolk Chamber of Commerce","\u002Fevents\u002Fsafari-networking-exhibition-oct-2026",{"title":165,"body":337,"points":338},"Millie and Mike were on the stand from the doors opening, talking through where Kinabase fits and sitting down with people to go through their operational questions.",[339,340,341],"How teams keep their records, reporting and day-to-day operations in one place rather than six","The spreadsheets people have been meaning to replace, and the processes nobody has written down yet","The free networking either side of the safari sessions, when the room was quieter",{"title":294,"description":316},[344,345],{"name":88,"role":89},{"name":134,"role":135},"events\u002Fsafari-networking-exhibition-oct-2026","The Suffolk Chamber’s last Safari Networking and exhibition of the year, in the XR Lab as part of the West Suffolk Business Festival. We exhibited and joined the networking sessions through the morning.","Through the event website","08:30–12:00","Parking on site at the University and Professional Development Centre, ten minutes from Bury St Edmunds station.","https:\u002F\u002Fmy.suffolkchamber.co.uk\u002Fcalendar_detail.html?eid=97CF6B62-AE37-44AE-8925-0751BBFBC2F0","XR Lab, University and Professional Development Centre","c_FGPtb9CXu9phKqXh-n92GT5XQN1aXXzgogI61eiAo",{"id":355,"title":356,"address":6,"agenda":357,"agendaTitle":6,"body":380,"category":45,"coords":6,"date":393,"description":384,"draft":47,"endDate":6,"extension":48,"format":49,"guest":6,"image":394,"imageAlt":395,"imageCaption":6,"lead":396,"location":63,"meta":397,"navigation":65,"organiser":6,"path":398,"presence":399,"recording":6,"registration":407,"role":81,"seo":410,"speakers":411,"stem":414,"summary":415,"ticketNote":92,"time":93,"travel":6,"url":6,"venue":6,"writeUp":6,"__hash__":416},"events\u002Fevents\u002Ftoo-many-tools.md","Too Many Tools, Too Many Spreadsheets",[358,361,364,368,372,376],{"time":9,"title":359,"detail":360},"Too many tools, or not enough?","Why businesses end up paying for multiple disconnected platforms, relying on increasingly complicated spreadsheets, or doing both at the same time.",{"time":13,"title":362,"detail":363},"Making sense of the software market","An overview of the main software categories, what they are designed to do and where the gaps and overlaps usually appear.",{"time":365,"title":366,"detail":367},"10:45","Choosing the right tools for the job","How to compare established platforms, smaller providers and the growing number of AI-powered tools against the work you actually need them to do.",{"time":369,"title":370,"detail":371},"10:50","Case study: consolidating multiple platforms","How we helped one of our clients remove several disconnected platforms and centralise their data and operations in one place.",{"time":373,"title":374,"detail":375},"11:00","Bringing the team with you","Practical ways to introduce new processes and tools without disrupting day-to-day work or sending people back to their personal spreadsheets.",{"time":377,"title":378,"detail":379},"11:10","Questions and next steps","Bring your own software tangle for the Q&A, and leave with a clearer idea of what to look at first.",{"type":24,"value":381,"toc":391},[382,385,388],[27,383,384],{},"Most businesses seem to end up at one of two extremes. There is a platform for finance, another for marketing, another for projects and several more silently renewing in the background. Or there is one spreadsheet doing the work of a CRM, a project tracker, a finance system and whatever else needed somewhere to live that week.",[27,386,387],{},"Neither option looks particularly expensive at first. A £20 monthly subscription feels manageable, and Excel is already there. The cost becomes clearer when you multiply subscriptions across the team, use only a fraction of the functionality and still spend productive time finding files, checking versions and working around gaps.",[27,389,390],{},"In this webinar, we look at the problem that using too many or not enough tools creates for businesses, map out the current software landscape, look at how to choose tools that fit the job and the budget, and share practical ways to introduce change without losing the team along the way.",{"title":42,"searchDepth":43,"depth":43,"links":392},[],"2026-08-27","\u002Fimages\u002Fevents\u002Ftoo-many-tools.jpg","A member of our team sketching on a whiteboard while colleagues look on","Many businesses either have a new platform for every function, or another sheet in the spreadsheet they already know. Both become expensive once you account for duplicated work and the time spent trying to find the right data.",{},"\u002Fevents\u002Ftoo-many-tools",{"title":68,"body":400,"points":401},"This session is for anyone whose software costs keep creeping up, whose shared drive is becoming a maze of spreadsheets, or whose team still relies on personal workarounds despite all the platforms already in place. Bring your questions for the Q&A at the end.",[402,403,404,405,406],"A clearer view of which pattern your business fits and how much it is costing you","A current map of the main categories of business software and what they are designed to do","A way to evaluate tools against the job, the budget and the people who need to use them","A framework for introducing a new platform or process without losing the team or disrupting day-to-day work","A worksheet to take back to your own operation and start on",{"url":408,"label":79,"note":409},"https:\u002F\u002Fportal.kinabase.cloud\u002Fform\u002FtmjTUTLk-7tGgZY9ng_Yr3QWSGLQtCxd7uZGs8GArSQ","45 minutes, free, online. Bring the platforms, spreadsheets and workarounds you’re trying to make sense of.",{"title":356,"description":384},[412,413],{"name":85,"role":86},{"name":88,"role":89},"events\u002Ftoo-many-tools","Does your business have a separate platform for every function, or a growing maze of spreadsheets for everything? 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Across the two days it ran keynotes, live demonstrations, hands-on workshops, fireside conversations and investor pitches, with over a thousand delegates through the door.","2026-05-28","\u002Fimages\u002Fevents\u002Fwest-suffolk-ai-festival-2026.jpg","The entrance to Eastern Education Group’s building at West Suffolk College","Over a thousand delegates, a room designed to look like the inside of a spaceship, and a surprisingly grounded set of conversations about what AI is actually doing for regional businesses.",{},"Eastern Education Group and Orbital Global","\u002Fevents\u002Fwest-suffolk-ai-festival-2026",{"title":165,"body":448,"points":449},"Day two, on the stand. Most of the useful conversations were with teams who have tried a few AI tools and are working out how any of it connects to the systems they already run on.",[450,451,452],"Reconnected with familiar faces from across the Suffolk and Norfolk tech community","Met new contacts working on the same operational problems from different directions","Talked through where AI is earning its place day to day, and where it is still a solution looking for a problem",{"title":419,"description":439},[455,456],{"name":88,"role":89},{"name":134,"role":135},"events\u002Fwest-suffolk-ai-festival-2026","Two days of AI across the East Anglia innovation cluster, in a £2m XR lab that looks like a film set. We took a stand and spent day two talking to people.","09:00–16:30","Parking on site at the University Professional Development Centre, ten minutes from Bury St Edmunds station.","https:\u002F\u002Feasterneducationgroup.ac.uk\u002Fevent\u002Fai-festival-2026\u002F","XR Lab, West Suffolk College","nZWc0W0EM2-lSDm3IwbK3WqGc9H5muReoYbqiKUz_dY",1791858060311]