Custom Software & Data Products
Software built to be handed over.
Most custom software at this size is not a moonshot — it is the tool that fills the gap between two products you already own, or the data product you want in front of your own customers.
not in scopeconnecting systems you already runAutomation & Integration
What this silo does not cover, stated in full rather than left to the rail: connecting two systems you already run isAutomation & Integration. This silo is for the system that does not exist yet.
We build in Python and .NET on Azure, on the assumption that we will not be the ones maintaining what we build in three years — which is also why we build it the way the method below describes, rather than the way that is fastest to walk away from.
What we build
- Internal line-of-business applications that run a process nothing off-the-shelf handles.
- Integrations with no off-the-shelf connector.
- Customer-facing data products and portals.
- Reporting APIs.
The handover standard
- Repository ownership. The code is in your source control from the first commit, not delivered as an archive at the end.
- Documentation written for the next engineer, not for the invoice.
- A deployment pipeline your team can run without us.
- A runbook for what actually happens when something breaks.
- A knowledge-transfer session with the people who now own it.
When you should not build
Sometimes the right answer is not to build. If a product already does what you need, we will point you at it instead of billing for a worse version of it. If the real problem is a process, not a missing system, fixing the process is often cheaper and faster than software — and we will say so.
The proof is this site
This website is built and deployed exactly the way we build for clients: source control from the first commit, code review, and an automated deployment pipeline. TheStatic Web Apps case study walks through the architecture, the CI gates and the real monthly run cost — the one part of our work you can inspect before hiring us.
How we build
Source control from the first commit. Every project starts in a repository, not a folder on someone's laptop.
Review on every change. Nothing ships without a second pair of eyes on the diff.
Automated deployment. A pipeline builds and deploys the same way every time — the same pipeline this site itself ships through.
Tests where a defect costs money. Coverage is targeted at the parts of the system where being wrong is expensive, not a percentage target for its own sake.
Documentation for the engineer who inherits it. Written for whoever owns this in three years, not for the invoice.
Built for
- The tool that fills the gap between two products you already own, and nothing off-the-shelf handles.
- An internal application running a process specific enough that a generic product does not fit.
- A data product you want to put in front of your own customers.
- A team that wants to own the result afterward — the code, the pipeline, and the decisions behind them.
Not a fit
- What you need already exists as a product — we would rather tell you that than build a worse version of it.
- You want a body shop adding headcount to your team indefinitely, with no handover in view.
- The real gap is a connection between two systems you already run, not a new one — see Automation & Integration.
- You need a large, multi-year platform build — a different shape of engagement than this team is set up for.
Source control, review and access practices for this work follow the same standard described everywhere else.
Start with the assessment, not the migration.
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