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[Trades & field services]
[Project name — placeholder]
[One or two lines on what the business was doing before and what we built to replace it.]
- Timeline
- [X weeks]
- Package
- [Launch]
- Result
- [Measured change]
Custom software, built fast
Software built around how your business actually works.
We combine experienced product people with AI-accelerated development to build web apps, portals and SaaS products in weeks — at a fraction of what a conventional agency charges.
- Typical build
- 2–8 weeks
- Typical cost
- $2,500–$9,500
- Code ownership
- Yours, always
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The problem
Most businesses don't need software. They need one specific thing fixed.
These are the six situations we see most often. Nearly every project starts as one of them.
Quoting takes hours and half the quotes never get chased.
Every quote is rebuilt from scratch in a document, then priced from memory. Nobody knows which ones are still open.
Job & quoting system
Clients keep emailing to ask where their job is at.
The answer already exists in three places internally. Someone spends an hour a day retyping it into replies.
Client portal
A critical process runs on one spreadsheet only one person understands.
It has grown for years and now holds the business together. If that person leaves, so does the process.
Internal tool
Bookings are double-handled and payments arrive by bank transfer.
Times get written down twice and get missed. Chasing money takes longer than doing the work.
Booking & payments
We have a product idea but no way to build a first version.
The idea is clear and there are people willing to pay. Quotes to build it have all come back too high.
SaaS build
Someone spends days a month copying data between systems.
The same numbers get rekeyed into a second and third tool. Every copy is another chance to get it wrong.
Integration & automation
What we build
Three things we build most often
Different shapes, same approach — scoped in writing, priced up front, live in weeks.
Client portals
Give your customers a window into their own work.
Your customers sign in and see exactly where things stand — job status, documents, invoices and history — without emailing anyone to ask.
Every question answered in the portal is a phone call your team doesn't take, and it makes a small business look like a considerably larger one.
- Customer sign-in
- Live job status
- Documents & files
- Invoices & payments
- Message history
- Email notifications
- Typical package
- Launch — 3–4 weeks
560x380 — client portal dashboard
Operations & job systems
Replace the spreadsheet everyone's afraid to touch.
We take the process that runs your business out of a fragile spreadsheet and put it into a system with proper records, permissions and history.
Staff see their own work, managers see everything, and nothing depends on one person remembering how the tabs fit together.
- Jobs & scheduling
- Staff assignment
- Quotes & pricing
- Time and cost tracking
- Reporting & export
- Audit history
- Typical package
- Launch — 3–4 weeks
560x380 — job scheduling board
SaaS products
A first version you can put in front of paying customers.
We build the smallest version of your product that a customer would actually pay for — sign-up, the core workflow, billing and an admin view.
You get something real to sell and learn from in weeks, not a twelve-month build that guesses at what the market wants.
- Sign-up & onboarding
- Subscription billing
- Core product workflow
- Admin back-office
- Usage dashboards
- Customer support tools
- Typical package
- Platform — 5–8 weeks
560x380 — SaaS admin and billing
Our process
From first call to live in four weeks
Here's the shape of a typical project.
01
Scope
2–4 days
A 30-minute call, then a written document: what it does, every screen, the timeline and the fixed price. Free, and yours to keep.
02
Build
1–6 weeks
You get a working link in the first week and watch it change daily. Two short check-ins a week, no status meetings.
03
Launch
3–5 days
Testing, your feedback, your domain, live. We hand over the code and every account in your name.
04
Support
30 days, then optional
Thirty days of fixes included. After that, a Care Plan or a clean handover to your own team.
Pricing
Priced before we start, not after
Every project is quoted at a fixed price once the scope is written. No hourly billing, no change-order arguments.
Sprint
$2,500
fixed price
1–2 weeks
- Timeline1–2 weeks
- User typesOne
- Core workflow
- Secure sign-in
- Hosting & custom domain
- Stripe payments & subscriptions
- Dashboards & reporting
- Automated email
- File uploads & documents
- Third-party integrations
- AI features
- Admin back-office
- Staged rollout
- Fixes after launch30 days
Launch
Most chosen$6,000
fixed price
3–4 weeks
- Timeline3–4 weeks
- User typesStaff, admin, customer
- Core workflow
- Secure sign-in
- Hosting & custom domain
- Stripe payments & subscriptions
- Dashboards & reporting
- Automated email
- File uploads & documents
- Third-party integrations
- AI features
- Admin back-office
- Staged rollout
- Fixes after launch30 days
Platform
$9,500
fixed price
5–8 weeks
- Timeline5–8 weeks
- User typesUnlimited
- Core workflow
- Secure sign-in
- Hosting & custom domain
- Stripe payments & subscriptions
- Dashboards & reporting
- Automated email
- File uploads & documents
- Third-party integrations
- AI features
- Admin back-office
- Staged rollout
- Fixes after launch30 days
Prices in NZD. We work with clients worldwide and can invoice in USD, AUD, GBP or EUR.
After launch, Care Plans start at $80/month — hosting, monitoring, backups and support.
Care Plan detailWhat comes built in
The parts that usually cost extra
These are standard in everything we build, not line items on a quote.
Payments & subscriptions
Stripe checkout, recurring billing, invoices and a self-service customer portal.
Accounts & permissions
Secure sign-in, social login, and separate access for admins, staff and customers.
Dashboards & reporting
Live metrics, filtering and one-click export to Excel or CSV.
Automated email
Receipts, reminders, notifications and digests that send themselves.
Scheduling & calendars
Bookings, availability and two-way Google and Outlook Calendar sync.
Files & documents
Secure uploads, storage and generated PDFs.
AI features
Document extraction, summarising, classification and natural-language search.
Accounting integration
Xero, QuickBooks and other accounting platforms.
Business integrations
HubSpot, Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and anything with an API.
Security
Row-level permissions, encrypted connections, daily backups and audit trails.
Mobile
Works properly on a phone and installs to the home screen like an app.
Multi-currency & timezone
Built in from the start for businesses operating across borders.
Selected work
Recent builds
What the business was doing before, what we built, and what changed.
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[Professional services]
[Project name — placeholder]
[One or two lines on what the business was doing before and what we built to replace it.]
- Timeline
- [X weeks]
- Package
- [Platform]
- Result
- [Measured change]
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[Health & clinics]
[Project name — placeholder]
[One or two lines on what the business was doing before and what we built to replace it.]
- Timeline
- [X weeks]
- Package
- [Sprint]
- Result
- [Measured change]
By the numbers
Built to be relied on
- [XX]+
- Projects delivered
- 2–8 weeks
- Typical build time
- [XX]%
- Lower than agency quotes
- 100%
- Code ownership transferred
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Common questions
The things people ask first
Yes, deliberately, and it's a large part of why the price is what it is. AI handles scaffolding, boilerplate, test coverage and refactoring — the mechanical work that used to consume most of a development budget. Every line is reviewed, tested and deployed by us. You're paying for judgment and accountability, not typing speed.
You do, in full, on final payment. Source code, database, hosting accounts and domain. No licence fees and no proprietary framework you can only maintain through us.
You take the repository and go. The stack is standard and widely used, so any competent developer can pick it up. We do a handover call and leave documentation.
Payments are handled entirely by Stripe and never touch our systems. Sign-in uses managed authentication. The database uses row-level permissions so users only ever see their own records, connections are encrypted, and backups run daily.
We're based in New Zealand and work with clients across Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. Almost all of the work happens over video calls and a shared link, and we hold overlap hours for whichever time zone you're in.
Many don't exactly. Book a call and we'll scope it properly — the written scope is free either way.
Tell us what's broken.
Thirty minutes, no pitch. You'll leave the call knowing roughly what it costs and how long it takes — even if you never hire us.