AI
It's the biggest change in how software gets made in our whole careers, and honestly it's a joy. We get through in days what used to take weeks. Here's how we use it, and where we don't let it near.
You'll be talking to one of us, not a salesperson.
A brilliant typist. A terrible architect.
That's how we think about it. AI is wonderful at producing code, reading code and doing the dull work nobody enjoys. Treat it like a very fast junior developer and it's the best colleague you've ever had.
It doesn't know your business. It won't ask whether this is the right thing to build. It'll tell you it's finished when it isn't, with complete confidence. Somebody has to know better, and that's our job.
That's people. Rob or Jase talking to you, asking why. AI helps us write it up, not decide it.
AI is superb at this. It can get through a codebase nobody understands and show us where the bodies are buried, which is half the reason we like taking on old software.
Much of it now comes from AI, working to a design one of us has set out, in the style of the system it's joining.
A developer reads every change. Tests run on all of it. Nothing goes live because a machine said it was fine.
Our name's on it. If it breaks, you ring us, not a chatbot.
I've been writing code for about 25 years, and I'm having more fun now than I ever have. I'd hate anyone to think we're just tolerating AI. We love it. We just don't trust it unsupervised.
You get more software for your money, and you get it sooner. Things that weren't worth building a few years ago now are. Small businesses can have the sort of tailored systems only big companies used to afford.
And we'll always tell you how your software is being made. There's nothing to hide. It's just how good software gets built now.
Fair question. If AI does the typing, why pay proper rates? Because we never really charged for typing. You're paying for working out the right thing to build, checking every change, and having someone to ring when it matters.
It's why we build in two-week steps, each with a fixed price and something you can use at the end. How quickly we got there is our business. What you get for your money is yours, and that goes up.
Plenty of businesses do. Your team's probably using it already, pasting in things that shouldn't leave the building. We can set up private AI on hardware you own, so your documents stay with you, and build whatever it needs to connect to your own systems. Rob explains how it works on his own site, or talk to us about it.
Good for you. Seriously. It's a brilliant way to find out what you want. When it needs to stand up to real customers, we'll take it from there. And before you commit to doing it all yourself, have a look at what it really costs.
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.