Custom software · Apps and web apps
Software made to fit your process, and yours to keep.
Internal tools, custom apps and web apps, built from scratch or tailored. They replace the spreadsheet or database the business runs on, and are handed over with the source.
What it replaces
You may recognise one of these.
- The spreadsheet one person understands.
- The Access database nobody dares open.
- The form-and-email chain that is really a workflow.
How it fits
Measured against the work, then built to it.
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The shape of your work
We write down how the work runs today: the steps, the exceptions, the people and the data each one needs.
What you doYou show us the spreadsheet and the people who use it.
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Where products leave gaps
We hold the products you use, or could buy, against that shape. Where they fit, you keep them. Where they leave gaps or overhang, we mark them.
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Made to measure
We build the part no product covers, on what you already pay for where possible, and test it against your real cases.
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Yours to keep
It is handed over with the source, the documents and the access. Nothing stays locked with us.
What we build
Four kinds of work.
Internal tools
- Scheduling and records
- Tracking
- A dashboard over data kept in several places
Apps and web apps
- Built from scratch or tailored
- Opened in a browser, by your staff or your customers
- Hosted by us or by you
Portals
- Customers act on their own records
- Contractors see and update their own work
- No second copy of your data
Taking over a system
- A vendor-held or failing system
- Your data recovered from it
- Replaced, or kept running and documented
Build or buy?
If a product already fits, we say buy it.
Custom is for the part no product covers, or where bending a product costs more than replacing it. The assessment says which.
Buy when
- A product covers the process as it runs
- The gaps are small and can be closed by settings
- Its cost over time is lower than building
Build when
- No product covers the part that matters
- Bending a product costs more than replacing it
- You need to own the code and the data outright
Built before
Built before BI Margin.
A scheduling and records application built on top of the Microsoft 365 data an office already used, through the Graph API and SharePoint. In daily use.
5+ years of hands-on software development, integration, optimisation and automation.
Handover
Yours when it is handed over.
- The source code.
- Documentation of what it does, where it runs and how to change it.
- The access and the accounts.
- The data recovered from whatever it replaced.
Hosted and looked after by us, if you want. See Hosting and care.
Quoted in writing after the assessment.
Custom apps are priced once the process is mapped. The Systems Assessment has one fixed price and ends with a fixed quote in writing.
Next step
Describe the process, not the software.
Book a call. You get a fixed quote in writing after the assessment.