Bespoke Software Studio
Software built around your business, not the other way round.
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We build custom systems for businesses that have outgrown off-the-shelf, and we run a growing line of subscription products of our own. Everything from the ground up. Nothing from a template.
- Discipline
- Custom software, web and mobile
- Delivery
- Remote-first, clients in any time zone
- Model
- Commissioned builds and subscription products
- Ownership
- Commissioned, yours outright. Products, ours to run.
- Contact
- Direct with the people who build it
Studio Readout
Own it outright, or subscribe and let us run it.
Which one you want depends on whether the software is your advantage or just your plumbing. We will say plainly which we think it is.
We build it. You own it.
A system designed and built for one business, to a fixed specification and a fixed price. When it ships, it is yours completely.
- ▸Source code, repositories and documentation transferred to you
- ▸Hosting, domains and third-party accounts in your name
- ▸Your data stays yours, exportable at any time
- ▸Optional support retainer, never a condition of using it
For a business whose process is the competitive edge.
We build it. We run it. You subscribe.
Products the studio owns and operates, licensed per seat or per organisation. You get the tool without inheriting the maintenance.
- ▸Hosting, updates, backups and security handled by us
- ▸Predictable monthly or annual cost, no build budget
- ▸Roadmap shaped by the people actually paying for it
- ▸Your data exportable on request, including if you leave
Product pipeline
For a team that wants the tool, not the problem.
Six things we get asked for most.
Every project is scoped from scratch, so read this as a map of territory rather than a menu. If your problem sits between two of these, that is usually the interesting one.
Custom web applications
The system your business actually runs on, built to your process instead of someone else's assumptions about it.
Client-facing sites and portals
Fast, accessible, properly built. Booking, accounts, documents and payments where your customers expect them.
Internal tools and automation
The spreadsheet that six people edit at once, turned into something that cannot be broken by accident.
Data, dashboards and reporting
One number, one source, updated automatically. Reporting that takes minutes a month rather than days.
Integration between systems
Your accounting, CRM and operations software, made to talk to each other so nobody rekeys the same record twice.
Support and iteration
Software is never finished. We stay on to fix, extend and adapt it as the business changes shape.
Four stages, in this order, every time.
Scope
We map what you actually do today, workarounds included. Then we decide what software should do about it, and what it should leave alone.
Specification
A written build spec with fixed deliverables, a timeline and a price, agreed before a line of code is written. No moving target.
Build
Short cycles with working software at the end of each one. You use it as it grows, so surprises surface early and cheaply.
Handover
On a commissioned build, everything transfers to you with documentation. On a subscription product, we keep it running and you keep using it.
Off-the-shelf makes you fit the software.
Every workaround your team has invented is a feature somebody decided not to build for you.
Packaged software is designed for the average of thousands of businesses. Yours is not average, which is why the process ends up bent around the tool: the extra spreadsheet, the shared inbox, the one person who knows the trick. That friction is a real cost, it just never appears on an invoice.
Bespoke reverses the arrangement. On a commissioned build you pay once and own the result, the software does the specific job rather than approximating it, and when the business changes the software changes with it instead of blocking you.
It is not the right answer for everything. If a well-supported product already does the job, we will tell you that and point you at it. We would rather lose a project than build you something you did not need.
Tell us what you are trying to build.
We take a small number of projects at a time so each one gets proper attention. Leave your details and we will come back with a straight answer on whether we are the right fit, and when we could start.