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What we do

Custom software,
built and handed over

When the thing you need doesn't exist as a product — because it's specific to how you work — we build it, on your infrastructure, and you own it.

The problem

Off-the-shelf software encodes an average version of a process. That's usually fine, and where it is, you should buy it — we'd tell you to.

It stops being fine when the process is the thing you're actually good at, or when you'd be paying for a large platform to get one capability. That's when building the narrow thing you need costs less than bending a product to fit, and leaves you owning it rather than renting it.

What we build
01

Internal platforms

The system your business runs on when no product fits the way you work — CRM, jobs, capacity, onboarding, whatever the shape actually is.

02

Industry-specific tools

Where your sector's software is dated, expensive or doesn't exist, and the workaround has become a spreadsheet nobody can safely change.

03

Regulated integrations

Where the compliance bar is high. We've built and cleared HMRC's production checklist for Making Tax Digital agent software, verified end to end.

04

Learning and content platforms

Catalogue, checkout, accounts, progress, certificates — plus the pipeline that turns your source material into finished courses.

05

Replacing the critical spreadsheet

Not by rewriting it, usually. By moving the facts underneath it somewhere with rules, so a wrong formula stops being a wrong number in the business.

06

Handover, properly

Your accounts, your keys, your data, documented. No lock-in and nothing to unpick if you walk away.

Proof

Fifty courses, built by pipeline

A full learning platform with checkout, progress and certificates — and an extraction pipeline that turned a folder of Word documents into around 1,600 lessons.

Business Nous — learner view
Fifty courses, built by pipeline
Case study

An online academy, built from scratch

Fifty courses and around 1,600 lessons in a custom learning platform — with the workbooks, narrated video and certificates generated from the same source.

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Straight answers

The things people ask.

Isn't custom software expensive?

It can be, which is why we scope small first. One useful thing, fixed price, defined finish — then you decide whether there's a next thing. The expensive version is a twelve-month programme agreed before anyone knows what's needed.

What if it takes longer than you thought?

Our problem. The price is the price.

Who owns what you build?

You do — the code, the data and the infrastructure, in your own accounts.

What happens if we stop working with you?

You keep everything and it keeps running. We'd rather you could leave and chose not to.

Will you work alongside our own developer?

Yes. We'll take the piece nobody has time for and stay out of the way.

What do you build with?

Whatever suits — typically a modern web stack with a Postgres database, deployed on managed hosting. If that matters to you we'll talk about it properly; if it doesn't, it's our problem rather than yours.

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