towpath — horizontal lockup Towpath Built on the water
No. 01 The estate Cambridge · est. 2025

We sit on water but we look for the stars.

Manifesto
§ 01

Towpath Digital builds small, smart software for UK small businesses. A constellation of products that share one brand, one ethos, one promise: cheap to start, polished to ship, human-checked before you see it.

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Eight products. One brand.
UK SMB SaaS · cheap to start, polished to ship.
No. 02 The estate Eight products · one brand

Eight products,
one constellation.

Each product solves one job. They share a brand and an ethos, but they do not depend on each other. Use one. Use all. Use whichever fits the work in front of you.

No. 03 The thesis What we actually do

Calm software,
built deliberately.

Three things we believe, ordered the way we work: where we came from, how we ship, what we refuse to do.

I.

Built on the water

Hamish started Towpath from a narrowboat on the Grand Union Canal. The estate's products are named after the world they came from: the canal towpath, the marinas, the campsites, the small businesses you meet along the way. Every product feels different but reads the same.

II.

Cheap to start, polished to ship

Every Towpath product follows the same loop. AI drafts the work, a human polishes it, the customer gets the human version. We sell the polish, not the AI. That is the whole point of the estate.

III.

A constellation, not a monolith

Eight products, one brand, one login (eventually). Use one. Use all. Use whichever fits the work. No tied bundles, no lock-in, no upsell into the suite you did not ask for.

No. 04 Where we are A small estate, quietly compounding

By the numbers,
as of today.

Pre-launch · May 2026
01 / 04
62,111
UK businesses in the GotAPal directory.
02 / 04
8
Tools in the estate, launched or in build.
03 / 04
2
Founder-led, with a growing crew of friends-with-skills.
04 / 04
£0
Built without external funding. Growth is organic.
02 / 04
0
Verified Pals across UK trades.
03 / 04
£0k / mo
Combined run-rate across the eight products.
04 / 04
0
Staff in total. Still tiny on purpose.

We do not want to be the biggest UK SaaS estate. We want to be the most thoughtful one. The one where every product feels like it was built by someone who would be embarrassed to ship anything else.

Hamish Lowry-Martin Founder, Towpath Digital · Cambridge
No. 05 Who we build for Partners, plainly

Who we
work with.

Towpath ends up alongside a handful of different organisations most weeks. Not a sales list, not a logo wall, just who we tend to work with around the UK.

Marinas & boatyards

Chains and independents, inland and coastal.

Marina chains and independent boatyards across the UK. Our software runs the bookings, the berths and the payments in the background, while the gate stays staffed by humans.

Trade bodies & councils

Associations, regional councils, sector bodies.

Trade associations, regional councils and sector bodies that work with UK small businesses. We surface their members on GotAPal and route enquiries back the right way.

Managed service providers

MSPs and small-business IT shops.

Managed service providers that look after the kit alongside us. WeeBox sits inside their stacks; we handle the watching, they handle the hands-on bits.

Footnote We're not actively raising. If you're an aligned investor or a partner working with UK SMBs, we're open to the right conversation. Investors & partnerships

Built by people,
in the UK. Get in touch.

OfficeTowpath Digital Ltd
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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