Software shaped like your business, not like a vendor's.
Every business has a handful of processes that no product sells because they are specific to how you work. Those usually end up as a spreadsheet with sixty columns, an email thread, and one person who knows the order things have to happen in. Custom applications are worth building at exactly the point where working around the software costs more than the software would.
This is for you if
- A critical process runs on a spreadsheet that one person maintains and everyone depends on
- You pay for a platform and use a fraction of it, because the rest does not match how you operate
- Your team rekeys the same data between two systems that both have APIs
- Customers, suppliers or partners email you for things they should be able to look up themselves
It isn't, if
- An off-the-shelf product would do this. We will check first, and if one exists we will name it, because building a worse CRM than an existing CRM is a bad use of your money.
- You want a consumer app in the app stores. That is mobile app development and it is scoped differently.
- The process changes every month and nobody can say what it is this month. Automating a moving target automates whatever it was on the day we asked.
What actually happens.
- 01
Watch the process before modelling it
Including the parts nobody documents: the check someone does by eye, the exception that happens twice a year, the field that means something different on Fridays. These are what make the difference between a tool people use and one they route around.
- 02
Data model and permissions first
Who may see what, who may change it, and what the audit trail records. Retrofitting permissions into an application built without them is close to a rewrite, so it happens before the screens.
- 03
Build against the systems you already run
Integrations with the ERP, CRM or accounting system are part of the build rather than a phase two that never gets funded. Two systems that do not talk is the problem we came to fix.
- 04
Roll out to one team, then the rest
The first team finds the things no specification would have. Fixing those before the second team sees it is the difference between adoption and a workaround.
What you get
- Line-of-business applications built around your process, not a vendor's
- Customer, partner and supplier portals with real permissions
- Integrations with the ERP, CRM and accounting systems already in place
- Role-based access and an audit trail from the first release
Built with
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Node.js
- Auth
The outcome
Your team stops working around the software and starts working in it.
Internal software for the work your business actually does: portals, back offices, and the operations tools no vendor sells.
Get a free consultationScope and a fixed price before anything is committed. No obligation to proceed.
No dark periods. No surprise invoices.
A structured engagement from the first call to launch, so you always know what is happening and what it costs.
Week 1 · Discovery
Scope & fixed price
Then, every week after
A working demo.
The ones people actually ask.
Isn't a no-code tool cheaper?
For a form and a table, yes, and we will tell you when that is what you need. It stops being cheaper at the point where permissions get real, the data volume grows, or the per-seat pricing meets your headcount, which is usually when people call us.
Can it integrate with our ERP?
Usually. Where a modern API exists this is routine; where the integration is a nightly file drop we build for that instead and say so up front rather than discovering it in week six.
Who owns the application?
You do, in full: code, data and infrastructure definitions. There is no runtime licence and nothing that requires us to keep it running.
What happens when we need changes later?
Either your team makes them, which is why the handover includes the documentation to do it, or you keep us on a support arrangement. Both are real options; being unable to choose is not.
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What is the most expensive thing your team still does by hand?
Tell us, and we'll tell you honestly whether software can fix it, and roughly what it would cost. No pitch deck.