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Custom Software Development
Custom software development in Australia
Software built from the ground up around how your business runs: the rules and the edge cases that no packaged product was written for.
Overview
What this is
Custom software is built for one organisation from a blank page. Instead of changing how you work to fit a product, the software is written to match the process you already have, including the parts that make your business different.
Businesses come to us when the gap between what they do and what their tools support has grown too wide: work tracked across email and spreadsheets, monthly reports pulled together by hand. Custom software closes that gap and takes the manual load off your team.
We are careful about when it is worth it. Custom software costs more upfront than a subscription and it is yours to maintain. It pays back when the process is core to how you make money and no product fits it well.
Included
What’s included
Discovery and scope
A fixed-price engagement that documents how the work happens today and produces a build plan with a fixed price and timeline.
Architecture and design
A technical plan and interface design matched to your workflow and the systems the software has to talk to.
Development
Senior developers building in short cycles, with working software to review every couple of weeks and no offshore handoffs.
Integration, testing and release
Connections to the accounting, CRM, or industry systems you already run, automated tests, a documented release process, and an agreed support arrangement once it is live.
Approach
How we approach it
Understand
We map the current process end to end: where the time goes and which rules are firm rather than habit. We write it down and confirm it with the people doing the work.
Simplify
We look for steps to remove before we automate anything. The cheapest software is the code you do not write, so we keep the first release tight.
Build
Senior developers build in short cycles. You get working software early and steer the direction while changes are still inexpensive.
Improve
Once it is live we stay on to extend it as the business changes and keep an eye on performance and running cost.
Stack
Tech we use
An honest starting point, not a fixed menu. We pick per project and tell you why.
- PostgreSQL
- Laravel
- Node.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Python
- AWS
- Docker
FAQ
Common questions
- How is this different from Bespoke SaaS?
- Bespoke SaaS is a specific kind of custom software: a multi-user web platform with logins for staff or customers. Custom software development is the broader category and covers internal tools, integrations, and back-office systems that are not always SaaS-shaped.
- Will it lock us in to you?
- No. The code is yours, in your repository, with documentation. We build on widely used tools so any competent developer can pick it up.
- How do you price a build?
- Discovery is a fixed price. At the end of it you get a fixed price and timeline for the first release, based on an agreed scope. There is no open-ended hourly billing.
- How long until we see something working?
- You review working software within the first few weeks and every couple of weeks after that. A first release is usually live in three to six months, depending on scope.
- What if our requirements change during the build?
- They usually do. Short build cycles mean we adjust as we go. Larger changes to scope are priced and agreed before we start on them.
Existing Software
Inherited something half-built or stalled? We take it over, tidy it up, and move it forward.
Learn more →MVP Development
The smallest version worth shipping, in weeks, so you can learn before you spend big.
Learn more →If this sounds like your project, Discovery is the next step.Start with a fixed-price Discovery — you get the scope, the plan and the number before you commit.
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