Build custom software around the way your business works
Our engineers develop custom applications around your business workflows, records and integrations. We use AI to expedite development, while our team makes the design decisions, builds the system and tests it with the people who will use it.
Delivered for a manufacturing and warehousing business
Built in React, Angular, Node.js and .NET
When your software no longer fits the business
“We looked at three off-the-shelf tools and none of them fit how we work.”
Packaged software is built for the average business in your category. The moment your process has a genuine exception, you end up customising someone else's assumptions instead of running your own.
“Our developers are stretched thin on support tickets and cannot start something new.”
A separate build team can take on the new application while your developers maintain existing systems. The scope should define responsibilities, technical access and how both teams review changes.
“We tried to hire for this and the search went on for months with nothing to show for it.”
Commissioning a build gives you access to a delivery team for the agreed scope. Compare that option with hiring against the work you expect to retain in-house after launch.
Applications shaped around your workflow
We start with the task your team needs to complete and the systems it depends on. The agreed workflow informs the interfaces, data model and permissions. Short development cycles give your team working software to review as the application takes shape.
Web applications for daily operations
Browser-based systems your team runs the business on, distinct from a marketing website. Built for the workflows sales, operations and finance repeat every day.
Mobile applications, native and cross-platform
Field teams, drivers and borrowers get an app built for the phone they already carry, feeding the same data the office dashboard reads.
Cross-platform enterprise applications
One codebase running across web, iOS and Android, where maintaining three separate versions would slow down every future change.
Line-of-business applications
A single department's system, with the approval rules, permissions and records that department needs, built without waiting on a company-wide platform decision.
CMS-based marketing websites
The website where content is the job. A different kind of build from a web application, and one we design to work alongside it.
Make the first release a complete piece of work
A useful first release lets someone finish a task. A request can be entered, checked, assigned and found again by the right person. Agree that sequence, its exceptions and its acceptance criteria before adding more screens. Our engineers use AI assistance to expedite development, then review the code, integrate the changes and test the workflow with your team.
The schedule includes access to existing systems, data preparation and time for your team to review the result. These dependencies are covered in our project timeline guide.
Connect the application to the work around it
An application may need to receive an approved invoice, update a customer record or return a status to another team. Define those connections alongside the main workflow. Business process automation can handle document capture and routine handoffs, while the application gives people the records and controls they need.
In ERP Solution for a Global Apparel Company, the browser application brought sales, stock, production and dispatch into one shared system.
Engineer the AI capability around the task
When an application needs an AI capability, our engineering work starts with the task and the information behind it. Frontier models are one option for complex language and reasoning requirements. Model selection belongs alongside decisions about the interface, data, connected tools and the result a user needs. Compare candidate models on representative inputs, response time and usage cost.
We design a knowledge-based assistant around a defined information source. An assistant updating a record needs a permitted action and a validation step. These are different requirements. System integration connects the tools and records involved, while guardrails define the access and actions allowed within the application.
Evaluate the result against complete user tasks, including missing information and exceptions. Those checks help decide whether the feature is ready to extend beyond the first workflow.
Compare a packaged product with a custom application
Assess workflow fit, integration needs and long-term ownership before choosing how the software will be delivered.
Workflow fit
Evaluate how well standard features and configuration support your process.
Design the workflow and exceptions around agreed requirements.
Integration
Check available connectors, access limits and extension support.
Scope the required connections as part of the build.
Delivery
Allow time for configuration, migration and user adoption.
Plan a first working release and subsequent implementation stages.
Ongoing cost
Include licences, extensions, support and future changes.
Include development, hosting, maintenance and future changes.
Choose the right application for your team
Web Application Development
Bring orders, requests, approvals and operational records into a browser application.
ExploreMobile App Development
Give field teams and customers a practical way to work from their phones.
ExploreCross-Platform Enterprise Apps
Share application logic across web, mobile and desktop where it suits the work.
ExploreWeb & CMS Development
Publish and maintain your website through reusable templates and a clear editing workflow.
ExploreFrom requirements to working software
Discovery
We walk your current workflow with the people who run it and record where work stalls, duplicates or waits.
Scope and quote
A fixed price and a dated plan, issued after discovery. Payment runs against milestones.
Design
Review the proposed workflow, interfaces and data requirements before implementation. The design work follows the scope of the project.
Build and review
Implement the agreed scope in short cycles, review the changes and test the behaviour with representative records and exceptions.
Integrate and release
Test the required connections, confirm acceptance with your team and release according to the agreed rollout plan.
Support
The team that built it handles updates, integrations and support calls after go-live.
Technologies we work with
Grouped by the layer it sits in. Every tool here is one we have shipped with.
Languages and frameworks
Cloud and infrastructure
Integration
Content and design
Inventory Management: Optimizing Manufacturing and Warehousing
- Sector
- Manufacturing & Warehousing
- Client
- A manufacturing and warehousing business
- Engagement type
- Custom inventory management build
- What we built
- Barcode and QR scanning with a central stock dashboard across warehouse and production
Questions about Custom Software Development
The stack follows the mapping phase rather than the other way round. Once we know your data volumes, your team's existing skills and what the application has to integrate with, we choose from React, Angular, Vue, Node.js, .NET or Java, whichever fits the constraints rather than a default preference.
Discuss the application you need
Bring the workflow, the people who use it and the systems it needs to connect. We can help define a useful first release.