Software Development
Web, mobile, backend and cloud work delivered by engineers who work in your repositories, your tools and your release process.
Custom software is usually worth building when the process is genuinely yours, when off-the-shelf tools force you to work around them, or when the integration between two systems is the product. The engineering is the easy part to describe. What decides whether a build succeeds is whether your team can maintain it afterwards.
Plenty of builds deliver something that runs and cannot be changed. No tests, no documentation, one person who understands it, and an invoice for every small change. We work in your repository and your tools, write down decisions as they are made, and hand over something your own developers can pick up.
When custom software is the right answer
Custom software earns its cost in three situations: the process is genuinely specific to your business, the off-the-shelf products force your team to work around them, or the integration between two systems is itself the value. Outside those, buying is usually cheaper than building, and we will say so.
How the work is run
- Your repository
- Work happens in your version control and your project tooling, so nothing sits in an account you cannot reach.
- Short increments
- Something demonstrable every couple of weeks. Not a six-month silence followed by a reveal.
- Written decisions
- Why the stack, why the data model, why this approach. Recorded while the reasoning is fresh.
- Tests where they matter
- Not blanket coverage. Tests around the logic that would cost money to get wrong.
- A real handover
- Repository, deployment steps, documentation and a walkthrough with your own developers.
What we need to start
- The problem the software solves, and who uses it
- The systems it has to talk to, and whether their owners will cooperate
- Any constraints on stack or hosting that come from your side
- Who on your team will review work and make decisions
- The deadline, and whether it is real
The measure of a good build
Six months after handover, your own team adds a feature without calling us. That is the test. A build that only its author can change is a subscription, not an asset.
Other services
Tell us what you are trying to fix
Describe the problem in your own words. We will say which service applies, and whether we are the right people for it.