Custom software development
Software built around how your business actually works, by a senior team that designs, builds and supports it, with the source code handed over to you.
Built for your process, not the other way round.
Off-the-shelf tools are the right answer until the workarounds start costing more than the licence: data copied between systems, spreadsheets nobody trusts, and a process bent to fit the software. That is the point where custom software pays for itself.
We start by understanding the work your team does every day, then build the smallest piece of software that removes the biggest cost, and grow it from there. It can be a web platform, a mobile app, an integration between systems you already use, or all three.
We have worked across thirteen sectors, from healthcare and health education to logistics, retail and ecommerce, so we usually recognise the shape of the problem quickly.
Business web platforms
Customer portals, booking and operations systems, and internal tools in one place.
Mobile apps for staff and customers
Android and iOS apps, including offline-capable field apps like a surveyor app.
Integrations
Connect your CRM, accounting, payments and legacy systems so data is typed once.
Workflow automation
Approvals, reminders, reports and data movement that run without anyone chasing them.
Legacy modernisation
Rebuild an ageing system on a modern stack and migrate the data safely.
Support and maintenance
Monitoring, updates and improvements after launch from the team that built it.
Sound familiar?
- Key processes run on spreadsheets, email and memory
- Your team re-enters the same data in several systems
- Off-the-shelf software forces workarounds every day
- An old system is slow, insecure or impossible to change
From call to release.
Work we have shipped.
Manage My Moves
A UK removals and storage platform, rebuilt from an ageing system with a web portal and a surveyor app.
Read the Manage My Moves case studyHealthcare · Mobile and webeC-Card
A stalled health app, taken over and shipped to Android and iOS.
Read the eC-Card case studyHealth education · Web platformESHS E-Learning
An online training platform for a sexual health service, delivered in two months against a four-month estimate.
Read the ESHS E-Learning case studyStraight answers before you ask.
Custom software or an off-the-shelf product?
If an existing product fits your process with little change, use it. Custom software makes sense when the workarounds, licences or lost time cost more than building, or when the software is part of what makes you different.
How do you price custom software?
Either a fixed price against a written scope, sent within 48 hours of the intro call, or dedicated developers by the month for work that will keep evolving.
Do we own the software?
Yes. You own the code, the repositories and the intellectual property, and an NDA is signed before you share details.
Can you take over software another team started?
Yes. eC-Card is one example: we took over a stalled health app, shipped the pending features and launched it on Android and iOS.
Tell us what you are building.
A senior team member usually replies within minutes, and always within one business day.