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Custom software · Scoped in writing

You probably should not buy custom software. This page starts by talking you out of it.

Custom software you did not need is the most expensive thing we could build you. Run the decision below against your own situation; three of the four verdicts cost you nothing.

Talk to AliWhen it is the right call

Does an existing product do eighty per cent of what you need?

The five builds

When it is the right call

Every so often the thing that makes you money is the thing no product covers. Five builds keep being worth it.

A client portal
Justified when answering the same question has quietly become part of someone's job.
Booking with real rules
Crews, equipment, travel time, compliance windows. Rules no generic tool holds.
Job and case tracking
Work passes through many hands and status lives in heads.
Making systems talk
Staff retype the same data into a second screen every day.
Retiring the spreadsheet
One author, no history, formulas nobody will touch.
Timeline
Scoped per project. Nothing starts without a written scope and a fixed number.

If an existing product does eighty per cent of it, we will point you at that product. Custom software you did not need is the most expensive thing on this site.

What it costs

No day rates and no estimates that grow. The scope names the edge cases before we price them.

A scoped build

Fixed, in writing, per project

Scoped per project. Nothing starts without a written scope.

What moves the number:

  • How many systems it has to talk to
  • How much business logic lives in the rules
  • Who logs in: staff only, or clients too
  • What has to be migrated out of the spreadsheet
Book the call

A defect in what we scoped is ours to fix, not a change request. Support afterwards is quoted separately, never baked into the build.

The paperwork, in plain English

This might be the wrong page

These five overlap, and buying the wrong one first is the most expensive mistake available here. Go sideways if this sounds more like your week.

  • If an off-the-shelf CRM would genuinely do the job, which is usually, you want

    CRM

  • If what you actually need is a site that converts rather than a system, you want

    Websites

Still reading?

Then the missing part might genuinely be your business. Bring us the spreadsheet everyone is frightened of, and we will look at the thing you are working around.

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