Irish Stone
Yard visits, samples, stockyard supply and merchant accounts. Granite, limestone, sandstone, marble and cut-to-order pieces.
Phil Stone
Stone on the ground. Software from the same work.
I sell natural stone at Irish Stone across Northern Ireland and ROI, and I build live trade tools from problems I meet in the yard and on site — STOCut, DupeStack, Todayworks and CertPing.
Supply & hard landscaping
Day job: residential and trade stone from Hillsborough — paving, cobbles, steps, kerbs, coping and bespoke work.
The Hillsborough Collection
An Irish Stone brand for outdoor spaces — curated ranges and trade support from the same yard.
Live trade software
Each product has its own domain and checkout. Intros live on this site; signup and billing sit on the product sites.
STOCut
Nest on real stock and remnants, pull a warehouse CSV, print cutting sheets, write offcuts back. Built because we kept losing usable pieces between jobs.
DupeStack
Branded cleaners and feeds stripped back to bulk actives — for people who want the molecule, not the marketing.
Todayworks
Daily diary, photos, snags and handover PDFs from the phone — offline-first for small crews.
CertPing
Crew matrix, PDF vault and expiry emails before Gas Safe, CSCS or insurance slips.
Hub
Bespoke business systems on the proprietary Hub Framework: one system of record the company runs on, designed, built and set up around its own process. The Hub runs in production at Irish Stone, the reference client; the packaged release follows in July 2027.
StoCAD
Browser CAD for the workshop, redesigned in dark. Draw in millimetres and the plan, schedule and cutlist follow, then send the cutting plan to STOCut. Free to try at app.stocad.co.uk.
StoMTO
Measure on the drawing in the browser and export the list. Plans stay in your folder. Solo £19.99/mo, Yard £79.99, Merchant £199.99. Merchant can bridge a quote pack to the Hub you connect.
Bespoke business systems
Designed, built and set up on the proprietary Hub Framework — the core every build starts from.
Alongside the stone trade and the products above, I design, build and set up bespoke business systems: the operational backbone a company runs on, shaped around how that business already works instead of making the business fit a template. Every build runs on the proprietary Hub Framework, so it starts from a core that is already proven in production — records, sign-in and permissions, files, integrations and reporting — and the work goes into the modules that business actually needs.
The first build runs at Irish Stone, the reference client: quoting, costing, stock, freight, jobs and invoicing for the day job, staff sign-in only, live today at thehillsboroughcollection.com. CertPing and Todayworks stay standalone services, and the packaged, off-the-shelf Hub — the same framework configured for a new business — is scheduled for release in July 2027.
If the business runs on spreadsheets, a shared inbox and a filing cabinet, that is the usual starting point. Get in touch, or read the full write-up.
Personal projects
Steadfast
Faith, fitness and food in one offline-first app — built for my own habits first; free if you want to use it.
Drone
Public stills and film from places I fly across Northern Ireland, with a media map of shoots.
A bit more
I'm based in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland — husband to Amy, dad of four, follower of Jesus. When the diary allows I hike Cave Hill, the Mournes and the Glens.
Private Lab experiments (Horizon, Locktight) run on my own money only — not advice, not client services. They stay in the Lab menu for transparency.
Stone: natural stone page · Software: product sites above · Everything else: contact or links.
Away from the desk
Recent posts from @philipkstone — family, faith, stone and NI hills.
