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When low-code runs out of road.

Bespoke web, mobile, and internal platforms — built by tight pods of senior engineers, shipped on modern Azure rails, and handed over so your team can keep them.

When to choose custom

Sometimes the right answer is a real build.

Power Platform earns its place for ~70% of internal workloads. The remaining 30% — performance-critical surfaces, products you'll sell, complex user experiences, integrations that touch a hundred systems — need engineering.

Our pods stay small, senior, and accountable. Three people who own the build end-to-end will beat a ten-person factory every time. You get a system you can actually maintain, on a stack that won't surprise you in three years.

What we deliver

Built for the work — not for the deck.

Web

Modern web applications

Next.js, React, TypeScript — built for performance, accessibility, and the long tail of edge browsers your customers actually use.

Mobile

Mobile-first products

React Native or native iOS/Android where the experience justifies it. Offline-capable, push-aware, App Store-ready.

API

API and integration layers

Azure Functions, App Service, Container Apps, or APIM-backed gateways. The right amount of microservices — not the maximum.

Data

Data and event platforms

Event-driven architectures on Azure Service Bus and Event Grid. Postgres, Cosmos, or SQL — chosen by workload, not by religion.

Identity

Identity and security

Azure Entra ID, B2C for customer-facing, role-aware authorisation, and the SOC-friendly logging that gets you past a security review.

Ops

Observability and SRE

Application Insights, structured logging, SLO-driven alerts, and runbooks your on-call team will read at 2am.

How we work

A measured, honest path from idea to production.

01

Shape

Two-week shaping sprint. We map the problem, the constraints, and the smallest thing that proves value. Sometimes the answer is 'don't build it'.

02

Architect

Architecture decision records, security threat model, and the stack you can defend in six months.

03

Build

Two-week sprints, demos in working software, and feature flags for everything risky. Production is the target from day one.

04

Hand over

Documentation, runbooks, paired on-call, and a runway to operate without us. We're done when your team is confident, not when the contract expires.

Where it lands

Patterns clients keep coming back for.

Operator-facing internal platforms

Internal tools that replace eight spreadsheets and three Access databases. The build pays back in operator time, often before the third release.

Customer self-service portals

Branded customer portals with SSO, tight Dataverse integration, and the UX polish that justifies the build over Power Pages.

Productised SaaS workloads

Multi-tenant SaaS products with tenant isolation, billing integration, and the kind of build quality you'd take to a Series B.

Outcomes you can defend

What good looks like.

  • A system fast enough to feel native and reliable enough to take for granted.
  • Architecture you can explain to a sceptical engineer in an hour.
  • Documented runbooks and SLOs your team owns.
  • Honest TCO, including hosting and operating costs.
  • Source code you control — no escrow, no licence trap.
Frequently asked

The questions clients ask first.

Why not just use Power Apps for everything?
Because Power Apps optimises for the next form, not the next year. When you need extreme performance, complex front-end interactions, or a product you'll sell — engineering wins. We'll be honest about which side of the line you're on.
What's your tech stack?
Default is TypeScript + Next.js for web, .NET 9 or Node for services, Azure for infrastructure. We use what fits the problem, not what's on our CV.
How do you keep small pods accountable?
Working software every two weeks, observable in production. No status decks. If progress slips, you'll see it in the demo before you see it in the report.
Can we take the codebase in-house?
Yes, always. Documentation and source control are non-negotiable. We measure ourselves on hand-over quality.

Let's scope a first conversation.

Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll come back with a point of view, not a sales pitch.