Where we’ve come from

Built from real business life.
Not a boardroom guess.

PopUsIn began with a simple booking problem. The more we listened to service businesses, the clearer it became that bookings were only one part of the day. Customers, work, training, support, people, compliance and money all needed to work together.

Two perspectives. One practical platform.

Technology experience meets everyday service-business reality.

PopUsIn is deliberately built from both sides of the desk: the technology, governance and commercial decisions behind a platform, and the day-to-day reality of serving customers and growing a service business.

Built around real work. Always listening and improving.
Co-Founder — Product, Technology & Operations

Stephen Lears

Stephen has spent more than 20 years working across IT leadership, technical architecture, service management, compliance, finance, commercial planning and team leadership. He leads the connected product vision and turns complex business needs into practical systems.

Strategic. Technical. Solutions focused.
Co-Founder — Customer & Business Experience

Lorraine Hart

Lorraine built her career in nails and beauty before developing The Hart Haus and a broader service, training and product business. She brings first-hand experience of customer care, repeat relationships, day-to-day operations and what small businesses actually need from their software.

Customer focused. People driven. Results obsessed.
Partners in life and business. Different strengths, one shared vision: helping businesses thrive.
The journey so far

A booking idea became a much bigger promise.

01

Make booking better

Create a friendlier, richer booking experience for appointment-led businesses.

02

Connect the customer journey

Bring customers, teams, payments, websites, courses and follow-up together.

03

Follow the work

Recognise that jobs, support, stock, people and compliance also need shared context.

04

Build the business platform

Develop products in stages while protecting simplicity, industry fit and honest release status.

What we believe

Software should fit the business—not make the business fit the software.

That means industry-specific language, connected data, transparent pricing, helpful migration support and enough flexibility to grow without turning the interface into a control room nobody understands.

Help shape what PopUsIn becomes next.

We are actively building with early businesses across service, training, pet care and other industries.