Custom software
Custom software built around how you work.
Web and mobile apps for your office, your field crews or your customers, for when nothing off the shelf fits the way the business actually runs. Built to production standard, then handed over.
01What it is
Off-the-shelf software is the right answer more often than people selling custom software admit. It stops being the right answer when the business has to bend around it: three products stitched together with spreadsheets, a process the software cannot represent, or a way of working that is the reason customers choose you.
That’s when custom software earns its keep. We build web and mobile applications on mainstream, well-supported technology, with tests, logging and monitoring from the first release, so the result is something any competent engineer could pick up later, not a mystery only we understand.
02Where it pays
- Field apps for iOS and Android that capture hours, site records and sign-offs
- Office tools that replace a tangle of spreadsheets or an old Access database
- Scheduling, costing and reporting in one place instead of separate files
- Platforms your customers or students use directly
- Internal systems that encode how the business actually works
03How we build it
Working software early
You see working software early and often, not a big reveal at the end.
Built to last
Tests, logging, monitoring and a runbook, so it keeps working after we leave.
You own it
The code, the data and the accounts are in your name from day one.
Nothing exotic
TypeScript, React, React Native, Python and AWS, so you’re never stuck with us.
Systems we’ve built
Questions owners ask
Should we build custom software or buy a product?
Buy, if a product fits your process without workarounds. Build when the business has to bend around the software, or when the process is part of why customers choose you. Sometimes the right answer is a product plus a small integration, and we’ll tell you when it is.
Who owns the code?
You do. The code, the data and the accounts it runs in are in your name from day one.
Do you build mobile apps?
Yes. Field apps for iOS and Android sit alongside the web app the office uses, working from the same records, so what is captured on site doesn’t need retyping.
Will it work with our existing systems?
It should, and we make sure it does. New software that ignores your accounting or payroll system just creates a new copy-and-paste job, so connecting it is part of the build.
What happens after launch?
It’s handed over tested, monitored and documented, running in accounts you own. We can stay on for support and new work, or hand it to your own team.
Got work your team shouldn’t be doing by hand?
Tell us how the business runs and where the time goes. We’ll tell you honestly what’s worth building, and what isn’t.