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Software that keeps up when your business does.

Off the shelf tools are brilliant, right up until the day they are not. When your spreadsheets start to scare you and the workarounds have workarounds, we build the real thing underneath: the databases, servers and internal tools that hold it all together and stay quick when everyone piles on at once.

Book a callSee what's insideUsually 8 to 16 weeks
Sound familiar?

You did not set out to build a system from duct tape.

It sneaks up on everyone. A tool here, a spreadsheet there, and one clever person who is the only one who truly knows how it all fits together. It works. Right up until they take a holiday, the numbers stop matching, or you hire five people and the whole thing groans under the weight. That wobble is exactly what we are here for.

Right now
A spreadsheet That one app Bob's laptop Four logins A group chat Copy, paste, pray
After we are done

Everything, in one place.

Quick. Documented. Boring in the very best way.

We build the boring stuff, brilliantly. The database nobody notices. The server that simply never falls over. The admin panel your team quietly loves. Unglamorous, invisible, and the reason everything else works.

That is the job, and we are oddly proud of it.
What you get out of it

Fewer 3am surprises. A lot more speed.

These are numbers we have actually hit, not a wish list. Where you land depends on the mess we are starting from.

99.9%+
It stays up. Even on your busiest day, especially then.
Under 1s
Pages that load before you have finished blinking.
60 to 80%
Fewer things breaking once we have been through it.
What's inside

The parts that do the heavy lifting.

We scope it to what you actually need. Most builds are some mix of these six, and you will only ever pay for the ones you use.

A platform shaped to you

Software built around the way you already work, instead of forcing your team to bend around a tool that only half fits. It fits like it was made for you, because it was.

APIs that make your tools talk

We wire your systems together properly, so your data stops living in fourteen browser tabs and a group chat, and starts flowing where it should on its own.

Servers set up properly

Sized for real traffic and locked down before anyone can knock. Quick when it is quiet, and still quick when everyone shows up at once.

Speed you can feel

We hunt down the slow bits and tune until pages fly, then throw a crowd at it to make sure they still fly when it counts.

Security that is not an afterthought

We check the locks while the doors are still closed, not in a panic the week after launch. Safe before it is ever public.

Docs your team will thank us for

The whole thing written down in plain language. A new developer is useful in hours, not weeks, and nobody has to decode a mystery to keep it running.

The stack

Modern tools. Written by hand. All yours.

We build the whole thing, front to back, on technology that is current and proven, and we write the code ourselves. Nothing here will embarrass you in two years, and there is no template or plugin holding your business hostage down the line.

Frontend
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwind
Backend
PHP 8.5LaravelNode.jsPython
Data
PostgreSQLMySQL 8Redis
Infrastructure
DockerAWSCloudflareLinux
Written by us, end to end. No templates, no page builders, and nothing you will have to rip out in two years.
How it goes

Four steps, and never a mystery.

The build itself is usually eight to sixteen weeks, in weekly milestones you can watch happen in your portal.

30 minutes

A proper chat

Half an hour on what you are wrestling with, straight with the person who would build it. If we are not right for you, we will say so.

Fixed price

The plan, in writing

What we will build, when it lands and what it costs, agreed before we touch a keyboard. The number does not wander off later.

8 to 16 weeks

We build, you watch

Milestones you can see in your portal, and a written note every week, so you are never left chasing us or wondering how it is going.

Yours to keep

Handover, for real

The full codebase, the docs and the keys. Support after launch, and we are around whenever you want us back.

Before you ask

Fair questions, straight answers.

Do we have to bin the tools we already use?

Only the ones fighting you. We keep what works, plug into it where it makes sense, and build around the rest. No rebuild for the sake of a rebuild.

Will it cope when we grow?

That is rather the point. We size and structure it to scale, and load test it hard before launch, so a busy Monday is never its first real test.

What if we need to change things later?

It is your codebase, documented and yours. Change it whenever you like, with us or with your own team. No lock in, no black box, nobody holding your data to ransom.

How much of our time will this eat?

A kickoff, a weekly check in, and a quick review at each milestone. We come to you with clear decisions to make, not a pile of homework.

Goes nicely with

It rarely turns up alone.

A solid platform is the floor everything else stands on. Here is what usually gets built on top of it.

Fancy a system that pulls its weight?

Tell us what is creaking, in a sentence or three. We will give you a straight answer on whether a custom platform is the fix, and a rough idea of what it would take to get there.