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Custom Software Developers in London

London has more software agencies than anywhere in the UK, which makes choosing one harder, not easier. We're not one of them. We're in Gravesend, on the edge of London, about thirty minutes from London Bridge by train.

Talk to Rob and Jaseor ring 01474 639 089

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

The problem with choosing in London

There's the sheer number of agencies, most describing themselves in almost identical terms, and many routing the real work offshore. You meet a smart person in a nice office, and somebody else entirely builds your software.

What varies is whether a firm writes custom code or assembles platforms, whether it's done your kind of integration, and whether the people pitching are the people delivering.

With us, the person you meet is Rob or Jase, and one of us stays on the job until long after it's live.

Three questions for any London firm, us included

  • Do you write code, or set up platforms?

    Some firms assemble configurable products and call it bespoke. That can be fine, but you should know which you're buying.

  • Have you done this kind of integration?

    The hard bit of most business software is connecting it to everything else.

  • Will I work with the person pitching?

    If not, ask to meet the person you will work with.

More in our guide to choosing a software company.

Close enough for the meetings that matter.

Day to day the work runs remotely, with one of us on the end of the phone. That suits most London clients, who don't want to give up a morning for a status update.

When it matters, such as a kick-off, a workshop with your team or a go-live, we'll come to you.

What we've done for London firms

Without the names: a specialist concrete contractor whose web platforms we've upgraded and redesigned over more than two years, and a catering equipment hire company in Barking whose database we linked to a new website.

Over the years our clients have ranged from national publishers to distribution and fashion ecommerce businesses, including Telegraph Media Group and Hearst.

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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What we build for London businesses

  • Order and warehouse systems

    Stock, picking, despatch and delivery tracking, built for how your warehouse really runs.

  • Custom CRM

    Built around how you manage accounts, pipeline or cases, not how a vendor assumes you do.

  • Workflow tools

    Job management, scheduling, quoting and sign-off, so the process stops living in one person's head.

  • Integrations

    The packages you already run, joined up so nobody retypes anything. If it has an API, we can connect it.

  • Old systems, moved on

    Ageing databases, Access, COBOL and early PHP brought up to date without stopping the business.

  • Reporting

    Figures that are always current, instead of someone spending half a day in spreadsheets.

What a small team can't do

We ought to be straight about this. We're small on purpose, so we're the wrong choice for a programme that needs fifty people or a procurement process with its own department.

Most business software isn't like that. A CRM, an order system or a customer portal needs a few experienced people who talk to each other and to you, and AI has shifted the sums even further towards small teams. How we use it.

Questions from London businesses

  • Why look outside London?

    Because what you want is the right people, not the right postcode. We're close enough to be in the room when it counts.

  • We've already got a system. Do we have to replace it?

    Usually not. We'd read what you've got first and tell you honestly what's worth keeping.

  • Do you send work offshore?

    No. Everything's written in-house, in the UK.

  • What happens after it goes live?

    We look after it: fixes, improvements, security updates and hosting, from the people who know your code.

  • How do we start?

    Tell us what's going on. It goes straight to Rob and Jase, and the first chat is free.

What it's like to work with us

You'd start with a conversation with Rob or Jase. We want to know how the work gets done, what goes wrong and what it costs you. Then we build in two-week steps, each with a fixed price and something you can use at the end of it.

There's no six-month silence followed by a big reveal. You see it, you tell us what's wrong, and you decide whether to carry on.

The code's yours, and so is the data. Every job comes with 90 days of bug fixes, and after that most clients ask us to look after it.

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.

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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.

Book a call with usor ring 01474 639 089

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