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Everything from the first sketch to the tenth release

We design, build, launch and support software. Hire us for the whole journey, or for the one part your team cannot cover.

Services

What you can hire us for

Mobile app development

Android and iOS applications, start to finish. Built for the devices and networks your users actually have — mid-range Android, metered data, patchy signal. We handle store submission, release management and the monitoring that tells you when something breaks.

Web platforms & business systems

The software your operation runs on. Customer-facing web applications, admin consoles, reporting dashboards and internal tools, with role-based access and audit trails so you can see who did what.

UI/UX design

Design that survives contact with real users. User flows, wireframes, visual design and a clickable prototype you can put in front of someone before we write production code. Cheaper to change a screen than a system.

APIs & system integration

Connecting your product to everything it depends on. Payment gateways, banks, telecom aggregators, logistics partners, or the legacy database nobody wants to touch. Documented, idempotent and retry-safe, so a timeout never becomes a duplicate charge.

E-commerce & payments

Selling and collecting money online. Storefronts, checkout, wallets and settlement, with the ledger discipline that keeps balances correct when a provider fails mid-request. This is the work we have done most of.

Cloud, hosting & DevOps

Making releases boring. Staging and production environments, automated deployment, backups you have actually tested, and alerting that reaches a person before your customers do.

Support & maintenance

Someone still there after launch. Monitoring, incident response, ongoing releases and a named contact who answers. Monthly, cancellable, and entirely optional — you can take the code and run it in-house instead.

Industries

Where we have done this before

We are not experts in everything, and we will say so. These are the sectors where we already understand the providers, the regulations and the failure modes.

Deepest experience

Fintech & payments

Wallets, top-ups, bill payments, collections and settlement. We know the Nigerian telecom aggregators, the electricity billers and the banks, because we run systems against them.

Retail & e-commerce

Storefronts, checkout and order management, including the payment and delivery integrations that decide whether a sale completes.

Media & entertainment

Streaming and content apps that behave sensibly on unreliable connections rather than stalling without explanation.

Logistics & delivery

Dispatch, tracking and driver applications, with the offline tolerance that field work demands.

Education

Learning platforms, school management systems and the portals that parents and administrators actually use.

Something else?

Tell us anyway. If it sits outside what we are genuinely good at, we will say so and point you somewhere better.

Commercials

Three ways to work together

Every engagement starts with the same paid discovery week, so the price you are quoted is based on real understanding rather than a guess.

Model A

Fixed-price project

A defined scope, a fixed price and a delivery date. Best when you know what you want built and need certainty on cost.

  • Written scope before any code
  • Payment in milestones
  • Changes re-quoted in writing

Model B

White-label licence

Launch on software we already run, under your own brand. Lower upfront cost and a much faster launch.

  • Live in weeks, not months
  • Your branding and your rates
  • We handle uptime and providers

Model C

Monthly retainer

An ongoing block of engineering time for products that keep evolving. Best after launch, or when you need a team you can rely on.

  • Agreed capacity each month
  • Priorities you set
  • Thirty days notice either way

What it costs

Honest pricing, before you ask

We cannot put a single number on "an app" any more than a builder can price "a house". What we can do is tell you exactly what moves the number, so you can judge a quote — ours or anyone else's.

Smaller builds

A focused first version

One platform, few or no third-party integrations, a scope deliberately cut to what you need to launch and learn. Measured in weeks.

Most projects

A complete product

Mobile and web, an admin console, and the integrations that make it useful. Measured in months, and the integrations set the timeline.

Ongoing

Support retainer

Monitoring, incident response and ongoing releases after launch. Cancellable with thirty days' notice, and entirely optional.

Three things that move the number

Integrations, not screens

Clients estimate by counting screens; screens are the cheap part. Each external service you connect to brings its own test environment, failure modes and support queue. Ten screens with four integrations costs more than forty screens with none.

Whether money is involved

Software that moves money needs idempotent requests, reversal paths, double-entry balances and reconciliation. Skipping that work does not save money — it defers the cost to your first month in production.

How much is still undecided

A project with settled business rules is a construction job. One where the rules get discovered along the way is research. Both are legitimate; they cannot be priced the same, and a fixed price on an unsettled scope ends in an argument.

Before you ask

Straight answers

It depends on scope, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can promise is a fixed number in writing after the discovery week, before you commit to a build. If budget is the constraint, say so early and we will tell you what is realistic within it.

A straightforward app is measured in weeks. Anything with third-party integrations is measured in months, and it is the integrations — not the screens — that set the timeline. We start that work early because it is the part that slips.

On a fixed-price project, yes — full source, repositories and deployment access transfer to you on final payment. On a white-label licence you own your brand, your customers and your data, and the shared platform stays ours. We tell you which you are getting before you sign.

Yes. We often take one part of a project — the mobile app, the API layer, the infrastructure — and work alongside an in-house team on the rest. We will agree the boundary in writing so nobody is guessing who owns what.

Often. We start with a paid review of what exists, then tell you plainly whether it is worth continuing or rebuilding. We would rather lose the larger job than talk you into a rewrite you do not need.

Whatever you choose. Take a support retainer and we monitor, patch and release for you; or take the code, the documentation and a handover session, and run it with your own team. We do not make leaving difficult.

Next step

Start with the discovery week

One paid week, one written scope, one fixed price. You keep the document whether or not you build it with us.