How much does custom software development cost?

Smaller builds start around $9,500. Platform, SaaS and multi-integration work is quoted after discovery, because an honest number needs the architecture first. Payment is a deposit plus milestones tied to phases, so you never pay for work you haven't seen.

How long does it take to build custom software?

Two to three weeks of discovery and architecture, a first production release at four to six weeks, then six to twelve weeks of build-out depending on scope. Most projects reach a version real users can use inside three months.

What technologies do you build on?

TypeScript across the stack, Next.js and React on the front end, Node or Python services behind it, and PostgreSQL for most data. We justify every choice during architecture rather than defaulting to it, and we work in your existing stack where one is already in place.

Can you build an MVP first and scale it later?

Yes, and that is usually the right sequence. The difference is that we architect the MVP as the first slice of the real system, so scaling it means adding to it rather than rebuilding it once it works.

Who owns the code and the intellectual property?

You do, from the first commit. Your GitHub organisation, your cloud account, your IP. Everything is infrastructure as code, so there is nothing locked in our heads or on our accounts.

Can you take over a project another team started?

Yes. We start with a paid audit covering architecture, test coverage, dependency risk and a prioritised list of what to fix first — so you get something useful whether or not you continue with us.

Software Development

Custom platforms, SaaS products, MVPs and AI features — architected once, built properly, and handed over running.

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Custom platforms, SaaS products, MVPs and AI features — architected once, built properly, and handed over running.

Scope My Project View our work

Deliverables: 05; artefacts handed over
Phases: 04; build milestones
Engagement: Software Development; Software Development

Software Development

Software that holds a business together is adifferent problem from software that demos well. Webuild the first kind — the platform your customerslog into, the product you charge for, the systemyour operation depends on — and we architect it tosurvive its own success.

The problem

Sound familiar?

If more than one of these describes where you are today, this is the service that fixes it.

The MVP became the product
What was built to test an idea is now carrying paying customers, and every new feature costs more than the one before it.
The last team left mid-build
An agency or a contractor handed over a half-finished codebase with no record of what was decided, or why it was decided that way.
Estimates are guesses, and they run low
With no tests, no types and no boundaries, nobody can say what a change will touch — so every date slips and no one saw it coming.
The idea is clear, the path to production isn't
You know what needs building. What you don't have is the architecture, the team, or a sequence that gets there without a rewrite halfway.

How we deliver it

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Scope before estimate
A paid discovery produces the architecture, the sequence and a fixed price — so the number you sign is one we can stand behind rather than a range that drifts.
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Something real in production early
The first release is a narrow slice that works end to end for real users, not a prototype. Everything after it is addition rather than replacement.
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Architecture that survives the roadmap
Data model, service boundaries and integration points decided deliberately in week one, because those are the choices that are expensive to reverse later.
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The team that scoped it builds it
Senior engineers from discovery through launch. Nothing is handed down to a cheaper bench once the contract is signed.
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AI where it earns its place
Retrieval, classification and agent workflows built in when they solve a real problem — with evaluations and cost ceilings attached, not as a feature to announce.
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Handover from the first commit
Your repository, your cloud account, documented as we go. There is no version of this where the knowledge only exists in our heads.