About Workup

A new way for managing your people and your business

Workup is the all-in-one platform for technology companies to manage their people, projects, and time; efficiently, affordably, and in one place.

Why Workup?

We have two core beliefs that drive everything we do.

Simplicity

Simplify running a successful business
Businesses don’t want a mix of tools that don’t talk to each other. Workup brings everything together, reducing friction and helping you focus on what matters.

Value from AI

Get value from AI quickly and easily
AI should empower teams — not slow them down. That’s why Workup makes it simple to implement and instantly valuable across your organization
How we bring it all together
Workup supports your key business processes, fuelled by deep data and powerful AI. With Workup, your tools and your intelligence finally work as one.

The Key Benefits of Workup?

Rapid Onboarding
We can rapidly onboard your business onto Workup so you can be up and running in days not weeks. We want you to get real value out of the platform as quickly as possible.
Unified Experience
Workup is an "all-in-one" platform that helps you run your business better. Your key business workflows and data is in one place enabling simpler and more productive way of working.
AI Powered
Workup allows you to get the benefits of AI without the hassle. Our AI provides secure access to all your business data so AI knows about your team, projects and customers so can provide a truly, useful assistant to your work.
Future Proof
Workup is a system that grows with you. We are rapidly adding features to ensure that Workup is the go-to platform to support the future of work.

Our History

The idea for Workup came from running our previous business, Contigo. We had a range of applications for HR, scheduling, project and task management and project billing which had to be tied together by spreadsheets. There must be a better solution, but we couldn't find it.

So for our next venture we decided to build that platform ourselves. We started building Workup in 2022 and fully committed in late 2023 when Rich joined. We had our first customers in early 2025 and our AI powered version will be released in late 2025..

Meet Our Founders

Ade Bullock

Ade Bullock is the CEO, CTO and Co-Founder of Workup. Ade is an experienced technologist and a second-time tech founder who has built platforms for blue-chip companies in telecoms, energy and financial markets. As a second-time founder he fully understands the difficulties in starting and growing a small business and brings both deep technical and business expertise to Workup.

Ade enjoys listening to and creating music, loves great food and travels the world when he can.

Rich Cooper

Rich Cooper is the COO and Co-Founder of Workup, leading operations, partnerships, and go-to-market strategy.  With over 15 years’ experience managing teams and delivering projects across digital and professional services, he brings a grounded, people-first approach to building tools that make work simpler and smarter for small businesses.  

He’s currently balancing start-up life with an MBA at Warwick Business School, applying what he learns straight into practice.  Outside work, he’s usually at the side of a sports pitch with his two sons or trying to keep pace on the field himself.