Making systems that were never meant to talk

API design, third-party integration and middleware — so data moves between your systems without a person retyping it.

The cost of retyping between systems

Almost every business over a certain size has somebody whose job includes copying data from one screen into another. It is slow, it is error-prone, and it is almost always cheaper to fix than to keep paying for.

Integration work is unglamorous and unforgiving: the interesting part is not the happy path but what happens when the other system is down, returns something unexpected, or silently changes its format. We build for that, and we make failures visible instead of letting them queue up quietly.

Who this is for

If one of these sounds like your situation, it is worth a conversation.

Double entry between systems

Orders typed into accounts, leads typed into the CRM. Every keystroke a chance to be wrong.

Reports that never reconcile

Two systems, two numbers, and an argument every month about which is right.

Opening your platform up

Customers or partners want an API. Designing it well the first time saves years.

How we work

Engineering practice, stated plainly, so you can hold us to it.

You own the code

Your repository, your infrastructure, from the first commit. No hostage-taking, no licence to renegotiate.

Working software every fortnight

Something you can open and use, not a progress report. If a sprint produced nothing you can click, we say so.

Tests where they earn their keep

On the logic that would be expensive to get wrong. We do not chase a coverage number for its own sake.

Handover assumed from day one

Written so your team, or the next agency, can pick it up. That is a feature, not a risk to us.

Part of Technology

Part of Technology

Software that carries the business

Custom software, web and mobile applications, cloud platforms and the integrations that hold them together — built to be maintained, not just launched.

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What we commit to

What we commit to

  • A fixed price for a fixed scope, or a rate — never both at once
  • One named engineer who knows your system, not a rotating pool
  • Weekly written updates, including the weeks that went badly
  • Your data exportable in a documented format, always
  • No lock-in: no proprietary framework you can only maintain through us
How a build runs

How a build runs

Four stages. You can stop after any of them and still have something worth having.

Discovery

We map the process as it really is, agree what the software must do, and write down what it will not. You get the plan whether or not you build with us.

Design and architecture

Screens, data model, and the technical decisions that are expensive to reverse later. Reviewed with you before anyone writes code.

Build

Two-week cycles, each ending in something you can use on a staging environment. Priorities can change between cycles; scope inside one cannot.

Launch and support

Deployment, monitoring, and a support arrangement sized to what you actually need — which is usually less than you were quoted elsewhere.

Common questions

Almost always, and considerably less disruptive. Replacement makes sense when the system itself is failing you; integration makes sense when it works but will not talk to anything.

That is the interesting part, and where most integrations are weak. We build retries with backoff, a dead-letter queue for what cannot be delivered, and alerting — so a failed sync is noticed the same day rather than at month end.

Often, through scheduled exports, database views or screen-level automation. It is less elegant and it still beats a person retyping.

Is this the right fit?

Tell us what you are trying to do. If API & integrations is not the answer, we will say so.

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