We built Halvard because we were the customer
For three years we ran a shop in Cambridge and lost every Monday morning to a spreadsheet. Halvard is the tool we wished someone had sold us.
- Founded
- 2019
- People
- 26
- Businesses
- 1,400
Ten years in five lines
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2016
Two of us open a homeware shop on Mill Road, Cambridge. A till, a web shop and a courier account.
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2018
The Monday spreadsheet takes four hours. We write a script to fill it in. Three neighbouring shops ask for a copy.
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2019
Halvard Software is founded. The shop is sold to our first employee, who becomes our first customer.
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2022
Five hundred businesses. Alerts and the Monday digest ship; the digest becomes the most-used feature by a distance.
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2026
1,400 businesses, 26 people, still in Cambridge. Per-site views for groups with many locations.
What we believe about dashboards
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Fewer numbers, read every week
We would rather you read five numbers every Monday than scroll past forty. Our starting dashboards are short on purpose.
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A person answers support
Support is answered by the people who build Halvard, in Cambridge, during UK working hours. No chatbot sits in front of them.
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Your data is not the product
We charge for the software. We do not sell, share or train anything on what your tools send us.
Some of the people you will talk to
Twenty-six of us in a converted print works off Mill Road. No offshore support desk and no account managers who have never seen the product.
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Esme Halvard
Co-founder, product
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Daniel Okafor
Co-founder, engineering
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Rhiannon Kerr
Head of customer success
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Sami Mansour
Data engineering lead
Come and see us
We are at Unit 4, 21 Mill Yard, Cambridge. Customers are welcome for a coffee and a look at how other businesses set up their dashboards — just let us know you are coming.
