What we build
There is a category of business problem that a website cannot solve. When your operation has complexity — multiple users with different roles, data that needs to be tracked over time, automated workflows, payments, reporting — you need something more than a brochure site. You need an application.
We build the things that run your business. That includes:
- SaaS products — multi-tenant platforms sold as a subscription, with billing, user management, and per-customer data isolation
- Booking and reservation systems — availability management, real-time slot allocation, confirmation flows, and calendar integrations
- Portals and dashboards — customer-facing or staff-facing interfaces that surface the right data to the right people
- Internal tools — operations software, CRM replacements, job management, or anything your team currently does in a spreadsheet
- Business process automation — workflows that remove manual work, reduce errors, and give you time back
If it involves users logging in, data being stored, and business logic that needs to run reliably — that is what we do.
Example: Lettivo
Lettivo is a multi-tenant property management SaaS platform we have built and continue to develop. It is used by mid-market student accommodation operators to manage their entire operation — from properties and beds to maintenance, communications, and analytics.
As of today, Lettivo manages over 835 beds across multiple operators. Each operator has their own completely isolated database. When a member of staff at one organisation logs in, they cannot see a single record from any other organisation — not by accident, by design. That kind of data architecture is not something you can bolt on to a page builder or a plugin-heavy CMS. It is built from the ground up.
Lettivo includes booking analytics that show operators exactly how their occupancy is trending, AI-powered calling tools that help staff handle high-volume enquiry periods, and legal tooling that generates the correct documentation for tenancy agreements under UK law. It processes payments through Stripe and has been built to scale with the operators using it.
That is the kind of work we do. Not demos — running software, used every day by real businesses.
How we approach the build
Before we write a line of code, we scope the problem. We want to understand what your users actually need to do, where the current pain is, and what success looks like. A clear scope upfront means fixed-price delivery is possible — we quote what it costs, and we build what we quoted.
We work iteratively. That means you see the application taking shape throughout the build, not just at the end. If something needs to change based on what you see, we can catch it early rather than unpicking finished work. We deploy to a staging environment so you can test against real data before anything touches production.
After launch, we do not disappear. Web applications require ongoing maintenance — security patches, dependency updates, performance monitoring. We provide that as a retainer or on an as-needed basis, whichever suits your situation.
The technology
We build on a stack we know inside out. That matters because when something goes wrong — and eventually, something always does — we can diagnose and fix it fast.
- Laravel 12 — our primary framework. Battle-tested, secure, and built for applications of every scale
- Livewire — reactive UI without the complexity of a separate frontend framework. Pages feel fast and interactive without a React or Vue layer to maintain
- Tailwind CSS — consistent, maintainable styling that scales as the application grows
- MySQL — relational data storage, properly normalised and indexed
- Redis — caching, queues, and session management for performance at scale
- Stripe — payments, subscriptions, and billing, implemented correctly
- Cloudflare — CDN, DDoS protection, and DNS, sitting in front of everything
We host on managed infrastructure through Laravel Forge, with servers we can tune precisely. Your application is not sharing resources with thousands of others on a shared host.
What it costs
Custom web applications typically range from £5,000 to £25,000+ depending on scope and complexity. A focused internal tool or booking system sits at the lower end. A full SaaS product with multi-tenancy, billing, and an analytics layer sits at the upper end — or beyond, depending on what is involved.
We do not quote by the hour. We scope the work carefully and provide a fixed price. You know exactly what you are getting and what it costs before any work begins. If the scope changes, we talk about it — there are no surprise invoices.
If you are not sure whether your problem warrants a custom application, tell us about it. We will give you an honest answer. Sometimes the right tool is a simpler website. Sometimes it is a spreadsheet with some automation. And sometimes you genuinely need a proper application, and we will tell you why.
Why not just use an off-the-shelf solution?
Off-the-shelf software is the right answer in many situations. If your needs match what a product does out of the box, using it is faster and cheaper than building from scratch.
Custom development makes sense when your business has a process or a workflow that is genuinely different — when you have tried the existing tools and found they either cannot do what you need, or they force you to adapt your business to fit the software rather than the other way round. We have built Lettivo precisely because the property management software on the market was not built for mid-market student accommodation operators. The existing tools were either built for large enterprise (expensive and overcomplicated) or built for small private landlords (too simple). Neither fit. So we built what actually fit.
That is the conversation we have at the start of every engagement: is there something that already exists that could work? If there is, we will tell you. If there is not, we build it.