App builds Custom business app development, built around you.

Our custom business app development builds apps and internal tools around how your business actually runs, not the other way round. Instead of bending your work to fit off-the-shelf software, you get one tool that follows your process, for your team or for your customers.

In short

  • Customer apps and internal tools.
  • Built around your process, not a template.
  • Monthly care keeps it working after launch.
  • A Crown add-on, from $14,993, with care from $691 a month.

01 — Who it’s for

When a custom app for small business makes sense

It makes sense when off-the-shelf software forces your team into workarounds: spreadsheets, copying and pasting, three tools for one job. If a ready-made tool already fits how you work, use it. It’s cheaper, and we’ll tell you so. A custom app is worth building when your process is your advantage.

A good fit if

  • Your team runs the business on spreadsheets and workarounds.
  • You have a process no off-the-shelf tool handles well.
  • Your customers would book, order or track something more easily in an app.
  • You plan to keep and grow the tool for years.

Not a fit if

  • A ready-made tool already does most of what you need.
  • You’re still working out how the process should run.

We build for every kind of business. See the industries we work with.

02 — What’s included

What’s included in an app build

Everything from working out what the app must do to keeping it running after launch. We map your process, design the screens, build and test the app, launch it with your team and look after it with monthly care. You deal with the same two people from start to finish.

  • Process mapping and a written scope before any build
  • Screen design for phone, desktop or both
  • The build and its testing
  • Launch with your team or your customers
  • Monthly care: fixes, updates and small changes
  • Built by the same two people you already talk to

Smaller jobs may not need an app at all: automation often removes the busywork for less.

03 — How we run it

How we run an app build

Like everything we do, it starts with the problem, not the technology. We map the process first, agree a scope and a price, build in stages you can try as we go, then launch it with your team. Monthly care keeps it working after that.

  1. 1

    Step 1

    Audit

    We look at how the work happens now and write down what the app has to do.

  2. 2

    Step 2

    Scope & build

    We agree the scope and the price, then build in stages you can try as we go.

  3. 3

    Step 3

    Launch & learn

    Your team or your customers start using it. We fix what real use turns up.

  4. 4

    Step 4

    Care

    Monthly care keeps the app updated and working as your business changes.

04 — Pricing

What custom business app development costs

An app build is a Crown add-on, from $14,993, with monthly care from $691. Added to Crown, it costs 20% less than buying it on its own. Anything above the starting price depends on what the app has to do, and we agree it before we build.

  • With Crown: from $14,993, plus care from $691 a month.
  • 20% less than buying it on its own.
  • Crown: from $4,612 a month, plus a one-time setup from $7,628.
  • On Launch or Growth: quoted as a separate project on the call.

Prices in USD. Ad spend is paid by you directly to the platforms, never routed through us or marked up. See every plan and what it includes.

05 — Questions

Questions about app builds

Most are about whether to build at all, what care covers and how the app fits with what you use now. The short answers: buy if a ready-made tool fits, care keeps the app working after launch, and we check what your current tools allow before scoping anything.

Buy, if a ready-made tool fits how you work. It’s cheaper and faster. Build when your process is what sets you apart and every tool on the market forces workarounds. We’ll tell you which on the call, even when the answer is to buy.

Find out if a custom app is worth building

Book a free strategy call and walk us through the workaround that costs you the most time. We’ll tell you whether a custom app, an automation or a ready-made tool is the right fix for it. If you don’t need an app, we’ll say so, and tell you what we’d use instead.