Custom software your business runs on.
Platforms, portals and internal systems, built to enterprise standard. Priced before the first line of code: fixed price per milestone, staff engineers, and everything in your name.
Most custom builds fail one of three ways.Each one is answered below.
The budget runs away.
Hours get billed, scope creeps, and the number you signed was only the opening bid.
It breaks at the first big customer.
No single sign-on, no roles, no audit trail. The enterprise deal becomes a rebuild.
You’re locked in.
The agency holds the code, the servers and the knowledge. Leaving means starting over.
You sign off every milestone.The next one starts after.
- Blueprint
- For larger builds: a clickable prototype, and every milestone priced and dated.
- Staging link
- Working software to click through, from the first milestone.
- Sign-off
- Each milestone is tested against criteria agreed up front.
- Proposal, signed off
- M1 · Accounts and roles, signed off
- M2 · Booking and tracking, signed off
- M3 · Billing, in your reviewstaging.northwind.app
- Invoices raised from delivered loads
- Synced to the accounting system
- Totals match the shipment ledger
- M4 · Launch, next
Built to enterprise standard.What an IT team checks is built in from the start.
Built for businesses like yours.The work, and what it changed.
Pet industry · Custom software
How BarkIQ launched a platform its biggest breeders run on
- From scope to production
- 11 weeks
- From scope to production
- Breeding programs at launch
- 3
- Breeding programs at launch
Web3 · Custom software
How Exoplace moved off a failed build without losing a creator
- Users migrated
- 5,000
- Users migrated
- Hours of downtime
- 0
- Hours of downtime
“Every milestone landed on the date in the proposal, and we only paid for work we’d already signed off. After two agencies that ran over budget, that alone was worth it.”
Jerry YangFounder, BarkIQWhat’s yours, in writing.You can walk away with everything you’ve paid for.
- CodeYou
- HostingYou
- DatabaseYou
- DocsYou
- DomainYou
- PaymentsYou
- Price
- Fixed per milestone.Changes are priced and approved before anyone starts them.
- Team
- One lead, start to finish.From your first call to handover.
- Warranty
- 60 days after launch.Defects in the agreed scope, fixed free.
- In full
- Your protectionsEvery term in plain language, before you sign.
Questions, answered.Before you sign anything.
How much does a build cost?
Every build is priced to its scope, so there’s no number on this page. The proposal gives you a fixed price for each milestone, in writing, before you commit. A larger build is scoped first in a paid Blueprint.
How long will it take?
It depends on what you’re building. The proposal puts a date on every milestone, and you see working software at each one, not a status report.
What if we need to change something mid-build?
Ideas change once you see working software. A change is priced and approved before anyone starts on it, so the price you signed only moves when you agree it should.
We already have a product. Can you build on it?
Yes. We start by reviewing the code, then tell you plainly whether to build on it, harden it, or move off it. If what stands in your way is a security review, see Enterprise readiness.
Can you work alongside our engineers?
Yes. We can build in the same codebase as your team, or hand over to them when you’re ready. After launch, the same lead can stay on: Ongoing development.
Do we need a technical person on our side?
No. Your lead explains every decision in plain language, and you’re never asked to review code.
We only need a first version, fast.
Then start smaller: a two-week build at one fixed price. See Focused MVP.
Tell us what you’re building.
One call with our team. You’ll leave with a straight answer on fit, and a proposal if it’s right.
Not ready for a call? Write to us.