Customer portals
Logins, accounts, documents, billing history, the things customers keep calling your office to ask for.
Custom web application development
When a website is notwhat you actually need.
Some businesses need pages. Others need software, something customers log into, something staff run the day on, something that talks to the systems you already pay for. That is a different discipline, and it is the one we came from.
What this covers
The shapes this usually takes
Booking and scheduling
Real availability, real constraints, real confirmations. Not a form that emails somebody who then checks a calendar.
Internal tools
The spreadsheet that runs your business, rebuilt as something that cannot be broken by a stray paste.
Inventory and orders
Stock, orders and fulfillment in one place, tied to whatever you already sell through.
Dashboards and reporting
Numbers pulled from the systems that hold them, on one screen, current.
Integrations
Making two systems that were never meant to speak to each other do it reliably.
The part most quotes leave out
The back end is the product.
Anyone can put a screen in front of you. The work is underneath: a database designed so the data stays correct, permissions so the wrong person cannot see the wrong record, and a system that still behaves on the day it has a hundred times the traffic. We build that first, because retrofitting it is where projects die.
How a build runs
Staged, so you are never betting the whole budget
01
Scoping call
No charge. What it needs to do, who uses it, what it connects to, and whether it is worth building at all.
02
A written scope
The build broken into stages, each with a number and something working at the end of it.
03
The riskiest part first
Stage one takes on the biggest unknown rather than the easiest win, so you find out early whether this works.
04
Launch and handover
Your repository, your database, your hosting accounts, documented. No lock-in and nothing held back as leverage.
- ENGAGEMENT
- SCOPED PER PROJECT
- TYPICAL TIMELINE
- 6 WEEKS TO 6 MONTHS
- BUILT IN
- STAGES
- WHO OWNS THE CODE
- YOU DO
- ACCESSIBILITY
- WCAG 2.1 AA, BUILT IN
- PROCUREMENT
- VPATS, W-9S, INSURANCE
Fair questions.
How much?
Quoted, and it needs a real scope to be honest. These are multi-month engagements rather than quick jobs, and they are built in stages so you are never committing the whole budget at once. The scoping call costs nothing.
How is this different from a website?
A website presents information. An application does work, it holds data, enforces rules, and changes what it shows based on who is looking. Different job, different build, different price.
What if we already have something half-built?
That is the custom development service. We pick up other people's codebases regularly, and reading one honestly is the first thing we do.
Do we get locked into you?
No. You own the code and the accounts from day one. If you want to take it in-house later, we will help you hand it over.
Can you handle enterprise procurement?
Yes, insurance certificates, W-9s, security questionnaires, VPATs. 15+ years of it with universities and national brands.
Next step
Bring us the problem, not the spec.
The best builds start from what is going wrong, not from a feature list. Thirty minutes on the phone and you will have a straight answer about whether this is worth building.