Software you cannot buy off the shelf

Software that fits already exists

Then buy it. We help with the choice and the roll-out, and we earn not one cent from the vendor.

It fits eighty per cent

Then we check whether the missing twenty per cent can be solved with an interface or a small addition. That is almost always cheaper than building something new.

The way you work is what sets you apart

When the exact way you work is the reason customers come to you, nothing off the shelf fits — then building pays.

The sum over five years

Standard software costs licence times users times month. Building your own costs development once plus maintenance. We put both side by side, including the price rises that are planned into the subscription.

Taking down the requirements

Not as a wish list, but as sentences from the shop floor: “In the morning the foreman enters who is on site.” Sentences like that become the specification (Lastenheft); what is not in it does not get built.

Prototype

Clickable screens before a line of code exists. Changes cost minutes here, days later on.

First working version

The smallest program you can already work with. It goes into daily use while the rest is still being built — otherwise you notice a flaw in the thinking only after months.

Acceptance

Criteria agreed beforehand: what the program has to do for the invoice to fall due. Not a feeling, but a list to tick off.

Instruction

An hour with the people who work with it. Anyone who never gets the software explained carries on using the paper slip.

• Runs in the browser, on phone and computer, with nothing to install.
• Entering data works without a network and transfers later, as soon as there is a signal again.
• Interfaces to what is already running — stock control, accounting, payroll.
• Daily backup, and the restore is rehearsed once, not only set up.
• Every change to a record stays traceable. That protects your people too.

The source code

You get it. Any other developer can carry on with it, even if you fall out with us.

The rights of use

No restriction, no term, no user count.

The documentation

How it is built, where it runs, what to do when it does not run.

Maintenance is a separate contract, billed by time spent and cancellable at any time. A program that only runs for as long as you keep paying is not your own — that is a subscription with extra steps.