Seventeen kinds of system, and the ones we turn down.
Most projects here are two or three of these at once, because that is how businesses actually work. A quoting system that does not produce the invoice is half a job, and you would feel the other half every month.
Every range below is what work of that shape has actually cost. Three minutes on the estimator turns it into a figure for yours, with the split across every phase and a live date.
Get a figure for yours- 01Customer and salesEvery customer, conversation and deal in one place, arranged the way your business works rather than the way a software company guessed it might.£45k–£120k
- 02Invoicing and paymentsInvoicing that matches your contracts however awkward they are, takes payment the way your customers want to pay, and follows up on its own.£38k–£95k
- 03Access and auditAccess controlled to the person and the record, every change recorded, and your answer ready the day an auditor, a client or a regulator asks for one.£32k–£85k
- 04Planning and schedulingWork, people and equipment scheduled against real constraints, reshuffled in seconds when something changes, and visible to everyone who needs to know.£48k–£140k
- 05ReportingOne honest set of figures drawn from every system you run, assembled by nobody, argued over by nobody, and ready on the first of the month.£30k–£75k
- 06Quoting and proposalsYour pricing rules, however involved, applied correctly by anyone on the team, inside a document that looks like it came from you.£34k–£88k
- 07Client portalsA calm, private place your clients sign in to, see exactly where their work has got to, and get what they need without emailing anybody.£30k–£80k
- 08Documents and approvalsForms filled in once, routed to whoever has to agree, signed, filed where you will find them again, and chased the moment they stall.£30k–£70k
- 09Field work and jobsThe job tracked end to end, your engineer given what they need on their phone, and the paperwork finished before the van leaves site.£55k–£160k
- 10BookingsAvailability your customers book against themselves, with every one of your real rules applied, and far fewer people failing to turn up.£30k–£70k
- 11Stock and assetsStock, tools, vehicles and installed equipment tracked accurately enough that you stop buying things you already own.£35k–£90k
- 12Joining systems upThe systems you already pay for, talking to each other reliably, so a thing entered once appears everywhere it belongs within seconds.£30k–£65k
- 13Leaving a systemA planned, reversible move off the system that is holding you back, without losing a single record or a day of trading.£35k–£110k
- 14Reading documentsPaperwork arriving by email or on a phone camera, read accurately, checked against what you expected, and put in front of a person only when it needs one.£38k–£95k
- 15MembershipsMembers joining, paying, renewing and getting what they pay for, without anybody in your office administering a single one of them.£32k–£85k
- 16MarketplacesA platform where your suppliers and your buyers find each other, agree terms and pay, with your commission taken cleanly every time.£65k–£200k
- 17Compliance recordsThe records your regulator, your insurer or your biggest client requires, captured as the work happens and produced on demand in minutes.£32k–£80k
18Where we stop
The work we turn down, and why.
Anyone can say yes to everything, and plenty do. A clear no is what makes the yes worth having, and it is the fastest way to tell a specialist from a generalist.
Each of these sits outside what this studio does well, so you get pointed at somebody who does them properly instead of a team learning the craft on your budget.
- Apps in the Apple or Google stores
- What gets built here works on a phone properly, through the browser, and pins to a home screen like any other app. A true store app is a different craft with its own release cycle, and you will get better work from a studio that does nothing else.
- Software inside a physical product
- Firmware, embedded controllers and anything certified as part of a device. The system your people use around it, and the connection to whoever makes it, is very much on the table.
- Anything a life depends on
- Medical devices under MHRA regulation, clinical decision-making, aviation, and control systems where a fault injures somebody. These need a regulatory quality system, and you should never accept one from a supplier who cannot show you theirs.
- Trading and settlement systems
- Order execution, market making and anything carrying an FCA permission of its own. The reporting and back-office work around the edges of yours is well within scope.
- Testing your defences by attacking them
- The controls and the evidence get built here. Penetration testing and red teaming are a separate speciality, and you get an introduction to people who do it properly.
- Games, and anything drawn in 3D
- A different craft needing different people, and you would end up with something nobody here would put their name to.
- Work under £30,000
- Below that, the discovery and assurance that make a build worth having cost more than the build itself, so you would be buying process instead of software. No Fear Tech takes on smaller work, does it well, and charges you less for it.
19Whatever we build
Some things are in every single one of them.
It works on a phone
Properly, not as a shrunken version of the desktop screens. People on site get what people on site need.
It is quick
Fast enough that nobody thinks about it. Slow software gets worked around, and a worked-around system is a wasted one.
Everybody can use it
Readable at a distance, usable by keyboard, and sensible with a screen reader, whether or not you have asked for it.
It keeps a record
Who changed what, and when. Not because anyone is being watched, but because the question always eventually gets asked.
It is yours
Handed over outright with everything needed to run it, change it, or give it to somebody else entirely.
It backs itself up
And the backups get restored on a schedule to prove they work, because an untested backup is only a hope.
Not sure which of the 17 yours is?
You do not need to be. Describe what is going wrong in your own words and the estimator works out the shape of it, prices it, and gives you a date, in about three minutes.
Or ring 01603 552024. A person answers it.