Services

Technology work, and the honest advice around it

Six things we do well. If what you need isn't here, we'll tell you — and usually point you at someone who does it properly.

  • Web applications

    Web applications built around how your business actually works, not around a template. Interfaces your staff can use on their first day.

    • Custom business portals
    • React and Next.js
    • Responsive by default
    • API integrations
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  • Business ICT consulting

    Aligning technology with what the business is trying to do. We start with your operations and work back to the systems, not the other way round.

    • Digital transformation
    • IT strategy
    • Process review
    • Technology assessment
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  • Web hosting

    Managed hosting with real uptime, real backups and someone who answers when something breaks. Scaled to what you need rather than what we'd like to sell.

    • Managed hosting
    • Monitored uptime
    • Automated backups
    • TLS and hardening
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  • ERP advisory

    Choosing and implementing an ERP is expensive to get wrong. We help you work out what you actually need before anyone signs a licence.

    • Needs assessment
    • Vendor selection
    • Implementation support
    • Staff training
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  • Desktop applications

    Desktop software for the work that doesn't belong in a browser — point of sale, production floors, anywhere the connection can't be relied on.

    • Cross-platform builds
    • Offline-tolerant
    • Local database integration
    • Hardware support
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  • Cloud computing

    Moving to the cloud without moving your problems with you. Infrastructure that scales with the business and costs what it should.

    • Migration planning
    • Infrastructure as code
    • Cost control
    • Disaster recovery
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Who you're selling to

B2B, B2C, C2B, C2C — and why it changes the build

These get used as though everyone knows them. They're not marketing labels, they're engineering constraints: who's on each side of the transaction decides what the software has to do. Pick the one that sounds like you.

Business to business

One business sells to another business. The buyer is an organisation, not a person, and organisations buy differently.

Your companyAnother company

What it forces the software to do

  • Accounts that represent a company, with several staff under one
  • Roles and permissions — who may order, who may approve, who may only look
  • Credit terms and invoices, not card-on-delivery
  • Price lists that differ per customer
  • Integration with their accounting or ERP, because the data has to land somewhere
  • An audit trail, since someone will eventually ask who approved what

What that looks like here

A distributor portal where supermarket chains place wholesale orders against agreed credit terms, each branch ordering under the group's account, with the finance office approving anything above a set figure.

Where these usually go wrong

The sales cycle is long and the software is judged by the buyer's accountant, not the person using it. Budget for the integration work early — it is almost always bigger than the screens.

Usually involves:Web applicationsERP advisoryBusiness ICT consultingStart a B2B project
How we work

The same three steps, whatever the project

  1. 01

    We start with your operations

    Before anything is designed, we sit with the people doing the work. What the software should do becomes obvious once you've watched a day of the job it's replacing.

  2. 02

    We agree what it will cost to be wrong

    Every project has assumptions. We name them up front, say which ones we'd bet on, and structure the work so the expensive ones get tested first.

  3. 03

    We build it so someone else could maintain it

    Documented, tested, and free of clever tricks only their author understands. You should never be trapped with us because nobody else can read the code.

Not sure which of these you need?

That's a normal place to start. Describe the problem and we'll tell you what it would actually take to fix — including when the answer is 'nothing we sell'.