Custom applications
for the way you work
Standard software does almost everything. Rarely the one thing you actually need. I build the tool that closes the gap.
Typical cases
Where standard software does not fit, workarounds grow: spreadsheets travelling by email, notes on paper, a process only one person carries in their head. Five patterns that keep coming up.
Reporting kept alive in Excel
Overviews and reports somebody updates by hand, until the file gets too big or two versions start living side by side.
Forms and data capture
Input that happens away from a desk: on a tablet, on the phone, on site. With required fields that make sense where they are filled in.
Data several people need at once
The moment two people open the same file, a spreadsheet is the wrong tool. An application handles the overlap.
Dashboards
Numbers from the systems you already run, visible in one place instead of four exports nobody reconciles.
Interfaces
Two programs that do not talk to each other, and a person retyping data between them.
How this runs
It starts with the process, not the technology. What gets built follows from that.
Conversation
We talk about the process: what happens today, who is involved and where it stalls.
Assessment
You get an assessment of what is sensibly buildable and what it costs. If an existing tool would do, I tell you that.
Build
I build the application and show it to you early enough that you can still change course.
An application that belongs to you
- Handover
- The application is yours, with a documented handover. How it works is written down, not only in my head.
- Accessibility
- Built in from the start here too, rather than added afterwards.
- Operation
- I run and maintain it if you want me to. You are not tied to anyone.
- Scope and price
- We work those out once it is clear what the tool has to do.