Software development
Web application development for businesses with a real process
Not a marketing site. The application your team uses every day, or the portal your customers log into.
Context
What we build
Client and customer portals. Internal tools that replace a spreadsheet holding a process it was never designed for. Booking, quoting, and job-management systems for businesses whose process is genuinely their own. Integrations that make two pieces of software you already pay for behave like one.
The pattern is the same each time: an operational process that matters, currently running on something that does not fit, held together by one person’s habits.
We will tell you if a configured off-the-shelf product would do the job. It usually would, and it is usually cheaper. Custom is worth it when your process is the thing that makes you money.
Scope
How a build runs
- Paid discovery producing a written scope and a real number, credited against the build
- Working software in front of you every fortnight, not a reveal at the end
- Boring, widely used technology chosen so your next developer can be anyone
- Automated tests on the parts where being wrong is expensive
- Deployment and monitoring set up before launch, not after the first outage
- Documentation and accounts in your name from day one
FAQ
Questions people ask
How long does a web application take?
A focused internal tool is typically eight to sixteen weeks including discovery. Anything longer than that we would rather break into releases, because a six-month project with no working software in the middle is how requirements and reality quietly separate.
What technology do you use?
Widely used, well documented, and easy to hire for. We deliberately avoid anything that would make you dependent on us specifically, because the point is that you could take this to another team and they could pick it up.
Do you work with our existing application?
Often, yes. Taking over an existing codebase starts with a short assessment of its state and what it would cost to work in safely. Occasionally the honest answer is that a rebuild costs less than the repair, and we would rather tell you that in week one.
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Next step
Find out what this would look like for you
A 20-minute call. We ask what breaks, what it costs you, and who handles it now. If we are not the right fit we will say so.