Custom software that matches your processes — not the other way round.

When custom software is the right decision

• Your core process differs from the industry standard on purpose — and that difference is your advantage.
• You run three to five systems that do not talk to each other, and the gap is filled with manual work every day.
• A standard product would fit 60 % of the case, and the remaining 40 % costs more than building your own.
• You depend on a vendor whose roadmap is not yours.
• A spreadsheet has grown into a business-critical system over the years, and nobody wants to be responsible for it.

When it is not

We will tell you in the first conversation. Accounting, payroll, CRM and time tracking are solved problems. Building custom software for them is, in almost every case, burning money. If we see that at your company, we say so. Even when it costs us the job.

What you get

Architecture that outlives the hype. We choose technologies by whether they, and developers for them, will still exist in eight years — not by what came up in conference talks last month.

Code other people can read. Documentation, tests and structure are part of the delivery, not an afterthought. You should be able to change supplier at any time. If you stay, it should be because of us and not because you have no way out.

Operations designed in from day one. Monitoring, logging, backup strategy, deployment automation and incident plans belong to the first delivery. A system without an operations concept is not finished.

Your code is yours. Full transfer of rights, repository access from day one, no black box.

What does it cost?

The honest answer: it depends, and anyone who names a number before discovery is guessing.

What we can say: the Discovery Sprint costs [AMOUNT] at a fixed price and gives you a cost range accurate to roughly ±25 %. After that we work either time and materials with an agreed budget cap, or in fixed-price sections. Our day rate is [AMOUNT].

→ Ask us for our detailed cost model

Editorial notes

Technology list in the tech block: please replace with your actual stack. The source lists these entries explicitly as an illustrative example only.

The German page links here to the insight article on custom software costs (/insights/was-kostet-individualsoftware/). There is no English equivalent, so the link points to /en/contact/. Repoint it once the article is translated.