Portals · Dashboards · Internal tools · You own it
Web Applications & Portals
Software your team and customers log into: member portals, booking and order systems, dashboards, internal tools. Scoped after a paid discovery, built in short cycles, and owned by you.
What is it?
A web application is software that runs in the browser and does real work: a portal where members renew and pay, a dashboard where managers see today's numbers, a back-office where staff process orders. Unlike a website, it has users, roles, data and rules. We design it around how your operation actually runs, then build it with a modern stack you can hire for later.
- Built around a real workflow, mapped in discovery, not a feature list.
- Roles, permissions, audit trails and exports from day one.
- Modern, hireable stack: TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL, hosted abroad.
- Source code, data and credentials are yours. No lock-in.
Most projects like this disappoint. Here's why ours don't.
- Built to a brief nobody validated — the system ships and the team works around it.
- Black-box code — you cannot maintain it or move it after the developer leaves.
- Scope creep without a plan — the build balloons and never actually ships.
- Launched and abandoned — no monitoring, no backups, no one accountable.
- Paid discovery first — we map how your business actually runs before we build.
- You own everything — source code, data and credentials are yours from day one.
- Weekly demos — you see working software every week, not at the end.
- Care and Growth plans — we stay on to run, monitor and improve it.
Customer portals, admin dashboards and internal tools built around your workflow.
Customer & member portals
Sign-up, renewals, payments, documents and messaging for clubs, schools, associations and subscription businesses.
Admin dashboards
One screen for the numbers that matter, pulled from your systems, with exports your accountant can use.
Booking & order systems
Appointments, reservations, orders and delivery tracking, with WhatsApp notifications built in.
Internal tools
Replace the spreadsheet everyone edits: forms, approvals, inventory, field reports.
Integrations
Connected to your accounting, payment gateway, WhatsApp and whatever you already run.
Documentation & training
Admin guide, technical documentation and a training session for your team.
The DevLab method, applied to this work.
- 01
Discover
We map the workflow this touches, the people who use it and what 'working' means to you.
- 02
Scope
You get a written scope, a fixed price and a timeline before any code is written.
- 03
Build
Short cycles, weekly demos, and a staging version you can put in front of real users.
- 04
Launch
Deployed on infrastructure registered to you, documented, with training for your team.
- 05
Care
A monthly plan keeps it monitored, backed up, updated and improving.
Paid discovery, then a fixed project quote.
Discovery is priced by the size of the organisation and the systems involved, and is credited toward the project. You receive a written scope, an architecture outline and a fixed price. Larger projects are split into milestones.
What clients ask before they start.
Because it produces something you keep: a written scope, an architecture outline and a fixed quote. It also means we've understood your workflow before promising a price.
Often paired with this service
Have something that needs building?
Tell us what you're trying to build or fix. We come back with an approach, a realistic timeline and a cost — discovery first, and the work is yours from day one.