Internal tools and admin systems
The thing your team runs the business on, currently spread across a spreadsheet, a shared inbox and somebody’s memory. One system, one version of the truth, permissions that match how you actually work.
In detail →Custom software development for the work no product quite fits.
Every business has a process that is genuinely its own — usually the part that makes it worth choosing. That process tends to end up in a spreadsheet, a shared inbox and somebody’s head. We turn it into a web or mobile application that fits it exactly, and hand you the keys.
Custom software development is building an application around a process a business already has, rather than changing that process to fit a product. It is worth doing when the process is your advantage, or when an off-the-shelf tool needs so much bending that you end up maintaining the bend.
What we build
What kinds of custom software do we build?
Different names, one underlying job: get the work out of the places it doesn’t belong and into something built for it.
Customer and partner portals
Somewhere your clients can log in, see their own data, submit what they need to submit and stop emailing you to ask where things stand.
In detail →Replacing a spreadsheet
The file that quietly became the system. We keep the logic buried in its formulas and move it somewhere that can enforce rules, control access and record what changed.
In detail →Integrations and APIs
Two systems that both hold the truth, differently. We make them agree, on a schedule you can see, with failures that surface instead of passing quietly.
In detail →Reporting and dashboards
The report that currently takes a day a week to assemble by hand, assembled instead by the system that already holds the numbers.
In detail →Legacy rebuilds and takeovers
Software somebody else wrote, that still works and nobody dares change. Repaired where that is honest, replaced one workflow at a time where it isn’t.
In detail →Mobile applications, iOS and Android
For work that happens away from a desk — on a site, in a van, on a shop floor, sometimes with no signal. Built to sync when the connection comes back rather than fail when it doesn’t.
When it’s the right call
Custom is not automatically better. Sometimes it’s just correct.
Building beats buying when the process is the advantage, or when the product you’d buy needs so much bending that you end up maintaining the bend. A few signs you’re there:
- The spreadsheet has more than three editors and nobody fully trusts it
- Your process is genuinely unusual — it’s why customers choose you
- You’re paying per seat for a product you use ten percent of
- Two tools disagree and someone reconciles them by hand every week
- The workaround has its own workaround
- Onboarding a new hire means teaching them the exceptions
- You’ve been quoted for a product that needs customisation to fit anyway
What you end up owning
Everything. That’s the point.
A build that leaves you dependent on the people who built it isn’t finished. Walking away should cost you nothing but the work already done.
Source code, in your own repositories from day oneYours
Cloud accounts, domains and API keys in your nameYours
The database and everything in itYours
Written documentation and a recorded walkthroughIncluded
A fixed price, agreed before the build startsIncluded
Ongoing support, if you want itOptional
Technology
Boring choices, deliberately.
We pick tools you could hire for in five years, not the ones that made the front page this month. If your team already runs something else and runs it well, we build in that instead — the stack should match who maintains it.
TypeScript, React and Next.jsWeb
Node.js or Python, depending on what the work leans onBackend
React Native, or native when the app needs the hardwareMobile
PostgreSQL by default; something else only with a reasonData
Your cloud account — AWS, Cloudflare, wherever you already areHosting
Honest scoping
What we’ll talk you out of.
Problems a product already solves
If something off the shelf does the job for a monthly fee, buying it beats building it. We’ll tell you which one and how to configure it, and that conversation is free.
Rebuilding everything at once
The big-bang replacement is how these projects die. We find the one workflow costing you the most and replace that first, while the rest keeps running.
Features nobody asked for
Scope agreed up front, in writing, in plain language. Anything added later is priced as a change rather than absorbed into a deadline that quietly slips.
Tell us what’s slow, manual, or held together with spreadsheets.
Describe it in plain language. We’ll tell you whether it’s a build, an integration, or something you should just buy.