Platforms

Software shaped around your business

Most companies eventually outgrow the tools they started on. The website says one thing, the booking system says another, and the real business runs on spreadsheets nobody trusts.

We build the platform underneath instead — a tailored website and application that serves your customers on the outside and your team on the inside — then host it, secure it and keep it running.

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Why businesses come to us

Nobody sets out to buy custom software. They set out to stop losing hours, losing records and losing customers to systems that were never built for the way they work.

The template runs your business

Off-the-shelf software forces your operation into somebody else’s workflow. Your team invents workarounds, and those workarounds become the real process.

Six tools that never speak

A site here, a booking tool there, a spreadsheet for the rest. The same information gets typed three times and disagrees in all three places.

Per-seat pricing that punishes growth

Every new hire, every extra location and every added module raises the bill for software you still do not own or control.

Nobody owns the outcome

The host blames the developer, the developer blames the plugin, and the certificate expires on a Saturday. One team, accountable end to end, fixes that.

A platform is the whole stack, not just the pretty part: the server it runs on, the domain and certificate that make it trustworthy, the accounts that let people in, the database that holds the truth, the integrations that connect it to everything else — and the team that keeps all of it healthy. That is what the following sections cover, and we handle every one of them.

Infrastructure

Hosting

Your platform runs on infrastructure we provision, tune and watch — not on a shared box you were sold and left to babysit.

We size the environment to the workload, deploy it behind a hardened reverse proxy, and keep staging and production separate so nothing untested ever reaches your customers. Releases go out without downtime, and if something does go wrong we roll back to the previous build in seconds.

  • Dedicated, right-sized servers — never oversold shared hosting
  • Zero-downtime deploys with instant rollback
  • Separate staging and production environments
  • Nightly encrypted off-site backups, restores tested
  • Uptime and error monitoring with alerts to us, not to you
  • CDN and asset caching so pages land fast anywhere
Production environment Managed
Uptime target
99.9%
Deploy window
Zero downtime
Backups
Nightly, off-site
Monitoring
24/7 automated
Rollback
Under 60 seconds
Identity

Domains

The address your customers type is a business asset. We help you choose it, register it, and make sure it stays yours.

We search and register on your behalf, keep the registration in your name, and configure DNS properly — apex and www, mail records, subdomains for staging or regional sites. Renewals are tracked and automatic, so nobody in your company ever gets the email that says your domain expired last week.

  • Domain search, registration and transfers handled for you
  • Registered in your business name — you own it outright
  • DNS configured correctly: apex, www, mail and subdomains
  • Automatic renewals with expiry tracking
  • Redirects from alternate spellings and legacy addresses
  • Email deliverability records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) set up
DNS records Managed
A
yourbusiness.com
CNAME
www → apex
MX
mail routing
TXT
SPF / DKIM / DMARC
CNAME
staging.yourbusiness.com
Trust & Security

SSL and Domain Management

Every page you serve is encrypted, and every certificate renews itself long before it expires.

An expired certificate turns your website into a full-screen browser warning — one of the fastest ways to lose a customer mid-purchase. We issue certificates, automate renewal, force HTTPS across the whole site, and cover every subdomain you run. Then we keep watching, because the point of managed security is that you never have to think about it.

  • Certificates issued and auto-renewed before expiry
  • HTTPS enforced site-wide with modern TLS only
  • Wildcard coverage for every subdomain you add
  • Security headers, HSTS and safe cookie policies
  • Expiry monitoring with alerts long before the deadline
  • One place to see every domain and certificate you own
Certificate status Managed
yourbusiness.com
Valid
www.yourbusiness.com
Valid
app.yourbusiness.com
Valid
Renewal
Automatic
TLS
1.2 / 1.3 only
Access

User Account Systems

Give your customers a login, your staff a workspace, and yourself a record of who did what.

Authentication is where most custom builds quietly go wrong. We implement it properly: secure sessions, email and passwordless sign-in, role-based permissions so a technician sees jobs and an owner sees revenue, and an audit trail behind every sensitive action. Customers get self-service — profiles, documents, order history, invoices — which is work your team stops doing by hand.

  • Email, password and magic-link sign-in
  • Roles and permissions — owner, staff, customer, contractor
  • Customer self-service portals for records and documents
  • Team invitations, onboarding and account approval flows
  • Session security, password resets and account recovery
  • Audit logging on every sensitive action
Roles Managed
Owner
Full access
Manager
Team + billing
Staff
Assigned work
Customer
Own records
Audit log
Every change
Your Data

Databases

One structured source of truth, designed around how your business actually works — and always exportable.

Most businesses run on a pile of spreadsheets, an inbox and somebody who remembers things. We model your real entities — clients, jobs, quotes, assets, inventory, whatever they are — into a relational database with proper constraints, then build the screens your team uses to work with it. Migrations are versioned, backups are automatic, and your data stays yours in an open format.

  • Schema modelled to your operations, not a generic template
  • Relational integrity so records cannot silently disagree
  • Versioned migrations — schema changes without data loss
  • Search, filtering and reporting built over the top
  • Automated backups with tested point-in-time restore
  • Full export on demand — no lock-in, ever
Schema Managed
clients
1 → many projects
projects
1 → many invoices
invoices
1 → many payments
users
many ↔ many roles
audit_log
append only
Connected Systems

Integrations

Your platform talks to the tools you already pay for, so information stops being retyped between them.

Payments, accounting, email, calendars, SMS, mapping, e-signature, suppliers, carriers — if it has an API, we wire it in; if it does not, we usually find another way. Data flows automatically in the direction your business needs, with retries and failure alerts so a silent outage at a third party does not become a silent outage in your operations.

  • Stripe payments, subscriptions, checkout and payouts
  • Accounting sync so invoices land in your books
  • Transactional email and SMS notifications
  • Calendar, scheduling and dispatch connections
  • AI assistants wired into your own data and workflows
  • Custom APIs and webhooks for anything bespoke
Connected Managed
Stripe
Payments & billing
Accounting
Invoice sync
Email / SMS
Notifications
Calendars
Scheduling
Webhooks
Everything else
Ongoing Care

Platform Services

Launch day is the start of the relationship. We keep the platform current, secure and growing with the business.

Software that is never touched again decays: dependencies age, requirements shift, and the thing that fit you last year gets in the way this year. Platform Services is the ongoing engagement — content and feature updates, security patching, performance work, analytics you can act on, and a direct line to the people who built your system rather than a ticket queue.

  • Content, copy and imagery updates on request
  • New features and refinements as the business changes
  • Security patching and dependency maintenance
  • Performance tuning and Core Web Vitals work
  • Analytics, reporting and conversion review
  • Direct support from the team that built it
Included each month Managed
Updates
Content & features
Patching
Continuous
Monitoring
Uptime & errors
Reporting
Traffic & revenue
Support
Direct to the builders

How a build runs

Four stages, one team throughout. You always know what is being built, what it costs and when you will see it.

01

Discovery

We sit down with the people who do the work and map how the business actually runs — including the parts that live in somebody’s head.

02

Design & scope

You get a written scope, a data model and designs before a line of production code is written. Fixed expectations, no surprises.

03

Build

Hand-written code, reviewed and tested, delivered in visible increments you can log into and use as it comes together.

04

Launch & run

We migrate your data, cut over the domain, and stay on as the team that hosts, secures, updates and extends it.

Tell us what your business actually needs

Bring us the process that is costing you hours, the system that will not talk to the other one, or just the website you have been putting off. We will tell you honestly what it takes to build — and what it costs to run.

We read every enquiry and reply within one business day.