Software shaped around your business, not the reverse.

The awkward jobs are the point

Plenty of shops build brochure sites. Far fewer will take on an integration against an ERP with sparse documentation, or inherit a decade-old PHP application with no tests and keep it running while it is modernized.

That is the work we started in and it is still the work we are best at. We came up through servers and back-end code, so the parts of a project that are usually someone else's problem — deployment, database performance, what happens under load — are not handed off here.

How we scope it

Custom work goes wrong when nobody agreed what "done" meant. So we define it up front: what the software must do, what it explicitly will not do in version one, and what it costs. You approve that before any code is written.

Bigger projects ship in phases, with something usable at the end of each one. You are never funding a twelve-month build with nothing to look at until the end.

Working with what you already have

Most projects are not greenfield. There is an existing site, an existing database, and a process people already rely on. Replacing all of it at once is usually the riskiest and most expensive option, so we tend to start by making the current thing stable and instrumented, then replace pieces where replacing them pays.