Software Development

Custom Software Development

Plenty of agencies will build your software. Far fewer have taken a product of their own from idea to market, with real users, real uptime obligations and a real roadmap. We have: SiteBeacon, now a standalone product, was conceived by Lemon Hive and initially built by this team, analysing performance, accessibility and carbon across every page of the sites it watches. Kohere delivers professional websites for SMEs as a productised service. We build custom software the way we build our own: to be operated for years, not handed over and forgotten.

Our software team works in Node, Python, Nuxt and Rust across a group of more than 30 specialists in London, Oxford and Dhaka, and our seven-plus years of headless engineering means the software we build speaks fluently to the web estates around it.

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What We Build

SaaS products

From first prototype to paying customers: multi-tenant platforms, billing, onboarding, dashboards and the operational tooling behind them. SiteBeacon is our own proof that we can take a product from idea to production and keep it there.

The benefit: a partner who has felt the consequences of software decisions as an operator, not just a builder.

Custom Platforms and Internal Systems

When off-the-shelf tools stop fitting the way your business works, we build systems shaped around it. Our Learn LMS is the pattern: a full learning management system with administration and client interfaces, delivered in six months by a five-developer team and now managing training, assignments and progress tracking for its client's customers.

The benefit: the workflow your business actually runs, instead of the closest approximation a vendor sells.

APIs and Integration Engineering

The unglamorous work that makes estates function: connecting ERPs, CRMs, commerce engines and third-party services into one coherent system, with the API design and documentation to keep it maintainable.

The benefit: systems that behave as one product, whoever built the pieces.

MVPs For Start-ups

For forward-thinking start-ups, our Dhaka engineering structure changes the arithmetic: senior-level product engineering at a cost that stretches a seed budget meaningfully further than a London-only team can.

The benefit: more product shipped per pound raised, built on foundations that survive success.

Proof, Including Our Own

SiteBeacon is a product we conceived and initially built, now standing on its own: monitoring at page level for Core Web Vitals, WCAG accessibility and carbon emissions, used to watch every estate we maintain.
Learn is a custom LMS delivered for RTS Group, whose Head of Learning Technology called it "a fantastic product against our brief, with great attention to detail on UI and UX".
Kohere productises our website engineering for SMEs. Three different shapes of software, one team.

Development Phases

Discovery & planning

The discovery and planning phase focuses on finding out about your current situation, this will include the current software, business and business structure, and the current customer acquisition process.

Flow map/wireframe/UI

Once we have reviewed the situation will start building a flow map including UI structures. We will review this with you, building out a clear structure, at this point will review development timeframes based on the complexity of the structure.

Design UI/UX

Once the map and UI have been agreed we will start populating wireframes, building out a full design and prototyping the UI. We use Figma so you will be able to see the progression of the designs as they are built out, feedback is vital for us during this phase, with regular meetings and the ability to make comments through Figma directly on the designs.

Development

With all the work from the previous three phases, we will have a clear plan for the development of the software. Throughout the development, we continually check coding quality and work in agile sprints with reviews and planning at the end of each sprint.

Qa & testing

Although there will be continuous reviewing of the codes during development, as we near the end of the development phase our QA and testing department will start reviewing the code and UI, ensuring both structure and quality of coding is exemplary.

Launch & post launch support

Once everything is complete, we can work through the deployment of the software. Whether it is through our hosting or your own, we will help you with configuration and deployment, and ensure that the launch is smooth. We will be there after launch to ensure everything runs smoothly.

Software Solutions Technologies

Our team is proficient in working with various CMS platforms, including Sanity, Strapi, and Prismic, and front-end frameworks like React, Svelte, Remix, and Vue.js. We leverage these technologies to build scalable and agile software solutions that drive business growth.