What stays with you afterwards
Separated tasks instead of one mush
An internal staff portal, an outward-facing customer portal and putting the processes themselves in order are three different jobs at three different prices. We name which one you have.
An honest answer about ready-made products
For an internal staff portal an off-the-shelf product is often cheaper than bespoke development — and we will say so plainly, even when it loses us the order.
The boundaries of bespoke work, named
Bespoke development is justified in two cases: people from OUTSIDE the company sign in, or money and your own logic live inside, and the ready-made product does not have it.
A decision rather than a proposal
You leave this page and the review with an answer — build or do not build — rather than with a document for something you do not need.
When people come to us with this
Four situations people arrive at this page with.
"We need a corporate portal"
Different people mean three different things by that: a place for staff documents, internal requests, and a portal for customers. The first step is working out which one it is.
You have already priced the ready-made ones
The figure looked large and the thought "let us build our own, it will be cheaper" appeared. Usually it will not be — and we explain why.
There is a portal, but nobody uses it
A documents section was set up and the work goes around it. That is not a development problem, that is a problem with how the work is organised.
People from outside have to sign in
Customers, dealers, contractors. This is where an off-the-shelf product stops coping — and where bespoke work wins.
A clear order, no surprises
1 · A conversation
Half an hour about who asks you what, and how often: customers, dealers, partners, staff. No access to your systems is needed at this step.
2 · A map of the questions, and the first screen
We show which questions eat your people’s time and pick what the portal closes first — usually the status of the work and a place to put files. The map stays with you either way.
3 · We take it into service
We build the portal, connect it to your systems, open it to the first users and stay around: we watch what they actually use and tell you what changed and why.
The figure is named in a quote for your task, once it is clear who signs in, what they do there and which of your systems the portal talks to. There is no price list here on purpose: the spread of work is very wide, and an "average price" would mean averaged work.
What we do ourselves and what we do with partners
We do this ourselves
We build outward-facing portals: for customers and for partners and dealers. Where people from outside the company sign in, bespoke work wins — ready-made products are designed for staff, not for counterparties.
We do the review even when the work will not come to us: understanding what is actually being asked for is the first step either way.
We build this out for you
If the review shows that what you need is order in the work rather than a portal, that is a neighbouring job — and a cheaper one.
We run this with a partner
We do not implement ready-made boxed platforms and we are not a vendor’s partner. If the answer is "buy the ready-made one", we will say so, and the choosing and installing will not be done with us.
Where a partner does part of the work — say, your accounting system is extended by its own contractor — we stay your single point of contact: we set the task, watch the timing and answer to you for the result. The contract names the contractor honestly — no "we do everything in-house".
What people usually ask
So are you for ready-made products or against them?
When is bespoke work justified after all?
Do you implement the well-known boxed platforms?
Let us look at your task
Half an hour about who asks you what and how often — no access to your systems and no commitments.
We call back during working hours. Company details are optional — if you give them, we read the open registries first and come to the conversation prepared.