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Business application development

Web application development for work that has outgrown its tools

Browser-based applications your team can use anywhere, built around the process rather than assembled from whatever the last product could be made to do.

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  • Cisco
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  • Compassion UK
  • Oracle
  • WSBC Bank
  • Essar
  • Port of Algoma
  • WSD
  • Headlines Advertising
  • T&S Heating
  • Marsham Court Hotel
  • Cubot
  • Equel
  • Fairhaven Healthcare
  • Great Step
  • FindUsOnWeb

The situation

When the tool becomes the constraint

Most web application projects start the same way: something that worked at a smaller scale has stopped working, and the workarounds have become the process.

  • A process spread across a spreadsheet, an inbox and a shared drive
  • People waiting on someone else to run a report or make a change
  • No way to see the current state of work without asking
  • Different teams keeping their own version of the same list
  • A desktop tool that only works in the office
  • Rules enforced by training and memory rather than by the system

What it covers

What a web application build covers

  • Process and workflow

    The steps, approvals and handoffs made explicit, including the ones currently happening in email.

  • Interface design

    Screens designed for the people who will use them all day, which is a different problem from designing a marketing site.

  • Roles and permissions

    Who sees what and who can approve what, enforced by the system rather than by convention.

  • Integration

    Connections to the finance, CRM and operational systems the work already depends on.

  • Reporting and dashboards

    Live views of the work, so status questions stop being asked of people.

  • Performance and accessibility

    Fast on ordinary connections and usable with a keyboard and a screen reader, both of which are far cheaper designed in than retrofitted.

How we work

How a web application is built

In increments, with something usable early. The most expensive mistakes in software are design mistakes discovered late.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Understand the objective, the users and how the work actually runs today.

  2. 02

    Prototype

    Put a working interface in front of the people who will use it before the logic behind it is built.

  3. 03

    Build and integrate

    Deliver in increments you can use, connected to the systems around it as it goes rather than at the end.

  4. 04

    Launch and iterate

    Release, watch how it is really used, and adjust. First versions are always partly wrong.

Outcomes

What you are left with

  • One place where the work happens, visible to everyone who needs it
  • Rules enforced by the system rather than by memory
  • Access from anywhere, without a desktop install or a VPN hop
  • Reporting from live data rather than a weekly export
  • A codebase you own, with the documentation to go with it
  • Something that can be extended rather than replaced when things change
Software development lifecycle loop: idea, architecture, prototype, development, testing, deployment, monitoringIdeaArchitecturePrototypeDevelopmentTestingDeploymentMonitoring

Platforms and tooling

What we build with

Front end

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS

Back end

  • .NET
  • Node.js
  • Java
  • Python
  • REST
  • GraphQL

Data and hosting

  • SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Docker

Named as platforms we work with, not as formal partnerships.

Questions we are usually asked

A web application works on every device with a browser and needs no install or app store review, which usually makes it the right first move. A native app earns its cost when you need offline use, camera, location or push notifications as core features rather than conveniences.

It depends on scope and integrations, but you should expect to be using a real increment within weeks rather than seeing nothing until the end. We give a scoped estimate after discovery rather than a figure before anyone has seen the process.

Partially, yes — a web application can cache data and queue actions for when the connection returns. Full offline working with heavy local data is one of the cases where a native app is genuinely the better answer.

Designed in rather than added later. Keyboard operation, colour contrast, focus handling and screen-reader semantics cost very little during the build and a great deal to retrofit. If you have a WCAG requirement to meet, tell us at the start.

Normally that is most of the point. A web application that cannot see the data in your CRM or finance system just becomes another place to rekey things.

Either of us. We can deploy into your cloud account and hand it over, or host and manage it ourselves. What matters is that the choice is deliberate rather than inherited from whoever built it first.

Talk to us

Talk to someone who has built this

Not a salesperson working from a form. Tell us what the problem looks like and someone who has delivered this kind of work will come back to you, usually within one working day.

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