Custom software development
Software shaped around your business, not the other way round.
- Engagement
- Fixed-scope build, then monthly retainer
- Typical timeline
- Working software in 2 weeks · 8–20 weeks to first production release
- Starts at
- $12,000
Discovery is scoped and priced separately so you can stop after it with a usable plan and no further obligation.
Book a callYou're probably reading this because
If two or more of these describe your situation, a 30-minute call will be worth your time.
- Your team runs the business out of spreadsheets that only one person truly understands.
- You pay for SaaS that covers 70% of your process, and staff manually patch the other 30%.
- A developer built something years ago, left, and now nobody dares change it.
- Growth is capped by how many hours your people can spend on manual data entry.
- You've been quoted a rewrite and have no idea whether the number is reasonable.
Concretely, what we deliver
Written as deliverables rather than activities, so you can tell whether you received them.
- 01
Discovery and scope you actually own
We map your current workflow, name the bottleneck, and write the scope down in plain language with fixed boundaries. You keep that document whether or not you hire us to build.
- 02
A working application in production
Not a prototype that dies on a laptop. Deployed, monitored, backed up, with real authentication and permissions, on infrastructure you own.
- 03
Automated tests around the money paths
Billing, permissions, data integrity, and anything touching customer records get test coverage. We aren't chasing a coverage percentage; we're protecting the code that would hurt you if it broke.
- 04
Documentation and handover
Architecture notes, runbooks, environment setup, and recorded walkthroughs. Written so a new developer can be productive without us.
- 05
Source code and infrastructure in your accounts
Your GitHub organization, your cloud account, your domain. We work inside your perimeter, not ours.
Our approach, and why
The reasoning matters more than the method. If you disagree with the reasoning, we should talk before you hire anyone.
We start with the bottleneck, not the feature list
Most requests arrive as a list of screens. We work backwards from the constraint (the step that costs the most hours or loses the most revenue) and build that first. It means you see value before the project is finished, and it keeps scope honest.
Small releases, visible from week two
You get a staging URL early and it updates continuously. Weekly demos are real software you can click, not slide decks describing progress. When something is wrong, you catch it in week three instead of month five.
Boring technology on purpose
We choose stacks with deep talent pools and long support horizons: Laravel, Next.js, .NET, Python, Postgres. Novel technology is a liability in software you plan to run for a decade. We use it only where it earns its keep.
Built to be handed over
We assume you may one day hire in-house engineers, or another vendor. Standard framework conventions, no proprietary abstractions, no lock-in to us. A vendor who makes themselves impossible to replace has misaligned incentives.
Technologies we use for this
- PHP / Laravel
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- .NET / C#
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- AWS
- Azure
- Docker
Selected per project against your team's existing skills and hiring market, not against what's fashionable. If your system runs on something not listed, ask.
What changes for you
- Manual steps disappear from the workflows that consume the most staff hours.
- One system of record replaces the spreadsheet sprawl.
- Your process becomes an asset that scales without proportional headcount.
- You stop paying for SaaS seats that only partially fit.
What people ask about custom software development
Yes, entirely, and it lives in your repositories from the first commit. Ownership transfers as work is delivered and paid for. There is no point at which we hold your codebase hostage.
They will, and the process assumes it. Scope changes are priced as written change orders against the original document. What we don't do is absorb changes silently and surface a schedule slip three months later.
Usually. We start with a paid technical audit (typically one to two weeks) that tells you honestly whether the codebase is worth extending or should be replaced. Sometimes the answer is that you don't need us.
Production data stays in production. We develop against anonymized or synthetic datasets, and access to live systems is scoped to named individuals and revoked at project close.
Often combined with
Software Architecture
Architecture, technology selection, and technical due diligence for systems that have to survive scale and staff turnover.
AI & Intelligent Automation
LLM features, document processing, and automation that connect to your real data and hold up under production load.
Systems Integration
Connect your CRM, ERP, PMS, billing and internal tools so data moves once, automatically, and stops being retyped.
Let's talk about your custom software development project
Thirty minutes with an engineer who can scope it. You'll leave with a view on approach, a budget range, and an honest answer about whether we're the right firm, including when we aren't.