Amokby Gurpreet
The Solomon Islands from high above at dusk, north up. Messages from Gurpreet in Kuala Lumpur arc across the sea and land on Gizo, Munda, Honiara and Auki.

For Solomon Islands businesses

Every customer message should land.

I’m Gurpreet, co-founder of Biji-biji Initiative and Mereka in Malaysia. I make sure every call, WhatsApp, email and enquiry reaches you, and you pay only after you’ve tested it.

See prices

Honiara is three hours ahead of Kuala Lumpur, so I start early.

What I check

Six ways in. I test every one.

Customers reach you in six ways. I try each one on a real phone, the way they do, and note anything that stops a message getting through.

  • Call

    Every phone number taps to call, and it is the right number.

  • WhatsApp

    WhatsApp buttons open a chat with your number, not one a digit short.

  • Email

    Email links open a real address, and mail to it arrives.

  • Enquiry form

    Your form sends, and the message reaches someone who reads it.

  • Facebook

    Your page’s button, phone number and hours match how you work.

  • Google

    Your Google listing shows the right number, hours and website.

If something is wrong, I tell you exactly what, and how to put it right. Pass that to your web person, or I can do it.

How a check runs. An illustration with no real business in it: one of the six is broken until it is fixed.

Before you spend anything

Your free Customer Reach Report

Every business I contact gets one, made for them. A personal report on every way a customer can reach you, tested on a real phone, with screenshots and the exact fix.

  • Every call, WhatsApp, email, form, Facebook and Google route on your website tested in a real phone browser
  • What a customer sees when each one fails, with a screenshot
  • The exact correction, written so whoever maintains your site can apply it

Fix it yourself, hand it to whoever looks after your site, or ask me to do it. The report is yours either way.

Customer Reach Report

Prepared for Your business

Tested on a phone · six ways in · with screenshots

  • CallWorks
  • WhatsAppOpens the wrong number
  • EmailMail does not arrive
  • Enquiry formWorks
  • FacebookWorks
  • GoogleHours out of date

What a customer sees

The button opens a chat with a number that is two digits short.

The fix

wa.me/677·······

A sample layout, not a real report: no business is named. Yours shows your own website, page and listing.

Fixed prices, in Solomon dollars

You pay after it works.

You know the price before I start. Anything extra is quoted first, and done only if you agree.

If anything we fixed is not working when you test it, you pay nothing.

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Customer Reach Report

Free

A personal report on every way a customer can reach you, tested on a real phone, with screenshots and the exact fix.

  • Every call, WhatsApp, email, form, Facebook and Google route on your website tested in a real phone browser
  • What a customer sees when each one fails, with a screenshot
  • The exact correction, written so whoever maintains your site can apply it
  • Sent with our first message

Reach Fix

SBD 1,500

We fix every broken route in your report, test each one end to end, and send you a before and after.

  • Every broken or risky route in your report corrected: call, WhatsApp, email, enquiry form, Facebook button and Google listing details
  • Each route tested end to end on a real phone after the change
  • A one-page before and after, sent on WhatsApp
  • 14 days of free corrections after handover
  • Paid after you have tested it
  • 2–4 working days

Reach Care

SBD 3,000 a year

Every route tested again each month, anything that breaks fixed within two business days, and small updates included.

  • A monthly test of every route a customer uses to reach you
  • Anything that breaks fixed within two business days
  • Up to 30 minutes a month of small text, price, hours or photo updates
  • A short monthly note on WhatsApp: what we tested and what we changed

One payment covers twelve months. Cancel any time and unused full months are refunded. Any month we miss a two-day fix, that month is refunded.

  • One payment for the year

Reach Site

From SBD 6,500

A fast, light mobile website built around how your customers actually contact you, with every route tested before launch. Only when your report shows you need one.

  • Up to five pages, written with you from what you already publish
  • Call, WhatsApp, email and enquiry routes wired and tested
  • Under 300 KB on a phone, so it opens on mobile data
  • Your domain, content and accounts stay yours
  • SBD 2,600 to start; SBD 3,900 after you approve the finished site, before it goes live
  • 7–12 working days

Reach Fix + Care SBD 3,900 The Reach Fix, then a year of Reach Care. Paid once, after you have tested the fix. SBD 600 less than the two apart.

How paying works

By bank transfer, against a written invoice from our Malaysian company. Your bank adds its usual fee for an overseas transfer.

Gurpreet, smiling, in glasses and a scarf

Who you’d be working with

Hello, I’m Gurpreet.

I trained as a physicist, then spent fifteen years building things that work for people.

I co-founded Biji-biji Initiative and Mereka in Malaysia. Amok is my own small studio for Solomon Islands businesses: I bring the same care to a WhatsApp button that I brought to a factory floor.

I speak English, Malay, Punjabi and Hindi.

You can check that here: my LinkedIn profile.

Fifteen years of building

A plant, a factory, a makerspace. Your website is in good hands.

  1. 012007–2010 · University of Manchester

    Learning to gather light.

    A physics degree, with a thesis on constructing a liquid mirror telescope. You can spin one further down this page.

  2. 022011–2012 · GASK Natural

    From theory to a working plant.

    As managing partner and head of R&D, I designed, engineered and built a complete biomass processing plant.

  3. 032012–2016 · Biji-biji Initiative

    Making room for makers.

    Co-founder and Chief Digital Officer of a sustainable design and manufacturing company known for its art installations. Our impact framework was adopted by MaGIC for the national accreditation of impact-driven enterprises, and I founded Biji-biji Ethical Fashion, shown at KL Fashion Week in 2017 and 2019.

    18,000 ft²a three-storey factory, 20 people

  4. 042016 onward · Mereka

    A place to learn, and to build.

    CEO and co-founder of a 12,000 ft² makerspace in Kuala Lumpur, with classrooms, a kitchen and labs. In Sabah I designed and taught a digital-literacy pilot for stateless youth.

    RM 1.6Mraised from 120 investors by equity crowdfunding

  5. 05Now · Amok

    Small fixes, real difference.

    The same attention, pointed at the small things that stop a customer reaching a Solomon Islands business. Small actions can lead to significant change.

Along the way

  • 2019US International Visitor Leadership Program
  • 2016Ashoka Changemakers Exchange, Japan
  • 2014Alliance BizSmart Challenge champion, ahead of 20 finalists
A liquid mirrorSpin a liquid and it becomes a mirror: parallel light in, one point of focus.ω 2.80 rad/s · 26.7 rpm · f = g/2ω² = 0.63 m

Manchester, 2010 · The thesis

Spin a dish of liquid and gravity pulls it into a perfect curve: a mirror that gathers faint light to a single point. Building one was my physics thesis.

Gathering small details until the picture is sharp is still how I work. A message is the same: it either arrives, or it doesn’t.

WhatsApp is quickest

Send me your business name. I’ll send you a report.

You deal with me directly. Tell me your business and the website, Facebook page or listing you’d like checked.

Run a web or IT firm in the Solomons? I can work behind the scenes for you, and your client stays yours. Ask me for trade prices.