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Custom software, built by people who ask awkward questions first

Off-the-shelf software makes you work its way. Custom software works yours. If your business has outgrown its spreadsheets, or you're paying for three systems that don't talk to each other, this is what we do.

You'll be talking to one of us, not a salesperson.

What we actually build

  • Business systems

    CRMs, order management, job tracking, quoting, the software your day runs on.

  • Custom CRM software

    Built around how you really manage customers. We run our own business on one.

  • Warehouse systems

    Stock, picking, despatch, built around your warehouse rather than someone else's.

  • Web applications

    Portals for customers, suppliers and staff, anything that lives in a browser.

  • APIs and integrations

    Getting your systems to agree with each other, so nobody retypes anything.

  • Access and Excel replacements

    The file everything depends on, turned into something several people can use at once.

  • WordPress

    Custom plugins and integrations, when a theme and a handful of plugins won't do.

  • Custom Shopify work

    Apps, integrations and migrations for stores that have outgrown the app store.

Most of the job happens before the code.

You'll start by talking to Rob or Jase. We want to know how the work gets done today, who does it, what goes wrong and what it costs you. Quite often the answer is smaller than you thought, and we'll say so.

Then we build in two-week steps. Each one has a fixed price and something you can actually use at the end of it. You see it, you tell us what's wrong, and you decide whether to carry on. There's no six-month silence followed by a big reveal.

Because AI does a lot of the typing, those steps get through far more than they used to. Our developers still design it, check every change and answer for it.

How you'd work with us

You own it

The code is yours, and so is the data. If you ever want to leave, we'll hand it all over.

You know the price

Fixed price, step by step. You commit to the next two weeks, not to a number someone guessed at the start.

We stay

Every job comes with 90 days of bug fixes. After that, most clients ask us to look after it.

Jase

Before anyone writes a line, I want to know what happens when two people press the same button, or the delivery turns up short, or the system at the other end goes down. Those are the questions that decide whether software survives contact with your business.

Jase

We've been working with Rob and the team for about 10 years now. They helped us build a completely bespoke CRM from scratch which manages our daily business and is always well maintained.
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Do you need custom software at all?

Maybe not. If something off the shelf does 90% of what you need, buy it and get on with your life. We'll tell you if that's the case, even though it costs us the job.

Custom makes sense when the way you work is part of why customers pick you, when the workarounds are costing more than the software would, or when you've got a system nobody will touch. Thinking of building it yourself with AI? Read this first.

Photos of Rob and Jason, who run Dev Partners

Hello, you get us

Rob on the left, Jase on the right. No sales team and no account managers. One of us is on every job, from the first chat to long after it goes live, and the people writing your code sit in the same small team.

Meet everyone

Tell us what you've got

It goes straight to Rob and Jase. You'll hear back from one of us, usually the same day, and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people.

Just want it checked? Code audit, £250 + VAT