It is 6pm. You have finished with your last client, the kettle is on, and instead of putting your feet up you are chasing a payment that should have landed three days ago. Then you're sending texts to tomorrow's clients, reminding them of their appointment time, and squinting at your diary, wondering if you have somehow…

You bought the scheduling app. You signed up for the invoicing software. You watched three YouTube tutorials at midnight and still cannot get the thing to do what it promised on the sales page. You are not failing at tech. Tech is failing you. And honestly, the whole industry has a lot to answer for.

When you’re running a business on your own, your tools are effectively your teammates. But if you pick the wrong ones, or use them the wrong way, they just become another thing on your to-do list that makes you want to scream.

After years of "businessing," both in big corporates and for myself at OpsWiz, these are the 10 tools