Services
Five services.
Everything here is available inside a Tech Partnership, from your monthly fee. Most clients start there.
How this works.
Three phases. You can stop after any of them.
What gets built
Which of these you end up with depends on what the analysis finds — not on what you pick off a menu beforehand.
After it's live
After it's live
A Tech Partnership, with days every month for the next thing. Or Maintenance, from £450 a month, to keep what's running healthy.
Tech PartnershipMaintenanceWhat it costs.
The analysis is priced by the size of your business, because that's the one number both of us know before anyone walks in. Everything after it is quoted once we know what we're building.
6 to 20 people
£3,000
A map, a roadmap and a fixed-price proposal, all three yours to keep either way, judged against a working prototype we build with your own data and demonstrate.
6 to 20 people
£3,000
One or two departments, and usually one person holding the whole thing together.
21 to 50 people
£5,000
Enough departments that the handovers between them are where the cost is.
51 and above
From £8,000
More ground to cover, and more people whose way of working has to be understood before anything changes.
The build
From £12,000
From £12,000 for a system for one job, from £30,000 for a department. Websites and smaller jobs are quoted as a job once the analysis says what to build.
Maintenance
From £450/month
When you stop the partnership, or after a one-off build
- Hosting, security and backups
- Security and software updates
- Fixes to anything we built, up to half a day a month
- Next-working-day response, as a target
- One month's notice
New work isn't included. Come back to a partnership any time.
The analysis is a separate piece of work with its own deliverable, so it doesn't come off a later build. Pricing it that way is what keeps the recommendation honest.
The Mikerry Rail platform was built twelve years ago and still runs their operation. You can read what we've built and what it did, or see the week-by-week detail on how we work.
Not sure what's right for you?
Take the 5-minute assessment. 12 quick questions, and we'll tell you honestly whether you need a partnership, a one-off build, or nothing from us at all.
Know roughly what you'd spend? The first conversation is free, and you'll leave with a number.
Book a 30-minute callWhat you own at the end of it.
- The software.
- You own what we build. It's yours, not licensed back to you.
- The data.
- Yours, exportable, whenever you want it. No hostage-taking.
- How the work actually gets done.
- Written down properly, and built into the system rather than filed next to it, so the procedure and the software can't drift apart. Most businesses have a process document and a real process, and they stopped matching years ago. You keep this whatever happens to us.
- The ability to leave.
- We build on standard, well-known technology. If you ever want to take it elsewhere, another developer can pick it up without an archaeology dig, and we'll help with the handover rather than making it difficult.
- No lock-in on the retainer.
- Maintenance is rolling with one month's notice. If we're not earning it, you should stop paying it.
The Mikerry Rail platform is twelve years old. Nobody has ever been trapped into it.
What we don't do.
- Hourly billing.
- Fixed scopes, fixed prices. If we estimate badly, that's our problem, not your invoice.
- Work we don't think will pay for itself.
- If the maths doesn't work, we'll say so in the first conversation. It happens more often than you'd think.
- Rip-and-replace.
- If something is already your system of record — the accounts package, or the specialist software your industry runs on — it stays your system of record and we integrate with it. Anything with an API, we can work with. Replacing something that works is an expensive way to feel busy.
- Rent out developers by the day.
- We'll take a defined brief and build it. What we won't do is hand you bodies and let you direct them, or build something we think is wrong without putting that in writing first.
- Disappearing at go-live.
- The handover isn't the finish line. It's roughly the halfway point.
- The cheapest quote.
- There'll usually be one. It's rarely the one that ends up costing least.
The questions this usually raises.
Not sure which one you need?
That's what the first conversation is for. It's free, it takes half an hour, and you'll leave knowing whether the thing is worth doing at all, including if the answer is that it isn't.