The Ayrshire Business Awards 2026 gave the team behind Geco Connect a special reason to celebrate, as The Solutions on Demand Group received the Innovation Award on Friday 2 October.

With a base in Stewarton and strong roots in Ayrshire, we’re proud to receive this recognition close to home. With Geco Connect forming an important part of the Group’s innovation story, it’s also a chance to share the purpose behind the platform and the work being done to support professionals in residential care and specialist education.

More time for the work that matters

In residential care and specialist education, recording information is part of everyday life. From daily updates to safeguarding records and progress reports, that information helps teams understand a young person’s experiences and coordinate their support.

But when records sit across disconnected systems, bringing everything together can take time. Details may need to be entered more than once, and preparing reports can mean searching through information held in several places.

Those are the kinds of challenges Geco Connect was developed to address.

By bringing daily recording, outcomes, safeguarding, child voice and reporting into one connected platform, Geco aims to reduce repeated administration and make information easier to use. The system can be configured around the way an organisation works, supporting both the professionals recording information and the leaders who need a clear view of their services.

The ambition behind it is simple: to give teams more time to focus on children, young people and the relationships at the heart of care and education.

Listening to the people who use it

Developing a useful platform starts with understanding the working day of the people it is designed for.

Practitioners and service leaders bring experience of what works, where time is lost and what would make their responsibilities easier to manage. Their feedback remains central to Geco Connect’s continuing development.

Martin Boyle, Managing Director at The Solutions on Demand Group and Founder of Geco Connect, said:

“We’re proud to receive this recognition in Ayrshire, where our business has strong roots. Geco Connect has grown from listening to people working in care and education and understanding the pressures they face.

“Our aim is to make the recording and reporting side of their work easier, giving them more time to focus on the children and young people they support. This award means a great deal to our team and everyone who has helped shape the platform.”

Celebrating our Ayrshire Innovation Award

The Ayrshire Innovation Award is a shared achievement for our colleagues and the collaborators who have contributed their time, ideas and expertise to Geco Connect.

It also creates an opportunity to open up more conversations about the challenges facing care and education, and how thoughtfully developed technology can help.

Thank you to Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce, the awards organisers and everyone who has supported us along the way.

As we celebrate, we’ll keep listening to the people working in the sector and building on what we learn, with children and young people remaining at the centre of that work.

Want to see how Geco Connect could support your organisation? Get in touch to arrange a demonstration.

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