Enterprise applications,
engineered as products.
Portals, workflow, operational systems and low-code accelerators, engineered for reliability, security and long-term maintainability, with SLOs the same way customer-facing systems get.
'Internal' is not the same as 'unimportant'. The apps that run operations deserve the same discipline as the apps that face customers, because when they fail, the whole business slows down.
Portfolio & disposition
Buy, low-code, or custom, decided per capability, not up-front as a religion.
Packaged wins where the process is commodity. Low-code wins where the process is real but not differentiating. Custom earns its place where the process is genuinely a differentiator or COTS fits poorly.
The output is a per-capability disposition rather than an all-or-nothing verdict.
'Internal' is not the same as 'unimportant'. The apps that get SLOs are the apps that age.
Design & build
Target architecture, information architecture, integrations and controls designed end-to-end. Roll-outs stage by cohort with rollback ready.
We prefer APIs and events between systems over point-to-point connections, and versioned data models over ad-hoc structures. Standards live in the platform layer so application teams focus on business logic.
Roles, permissions and audit are engineered from day one, because retrofitting them is expensive.
Reliability
SLOs, monitoring, incident response and test discipline treated as first-class, because internal apps fail visibly and expensively.
Availability, latency and throughput targets per surface. Structured incident response. Change control that supports velocity rather than fights it.
The apps that get this discipline compound in value. The ones that don't quietly become the reason nobody trusts IT.
Managed run
Post-launch operations, quarterly release adoption and continuous improvement, so applications stay fit for purpose instead of drifting.
Reliability, adoption, cost and change cadence monitored as ongoing engineering. Enablement is designed in, so ownership genuinely transfers to your team.
A healthy internal-app estate is not one that never changes, it's one where change is safe, cheap and reversible.
Toolkit
Framework, platform and vendor selection is driven by the shape of the work and the team who'll own it, not by whichever ecosystem is loudest this year. The list below is representative, not prescriptive.
- Framework
- TypeScript · React · Next.js · .NET · Java · Node.js
- Workflow
- Camunda · Temporal
- Low-code
- Power Platform · OutSystems · Mendix · Retool
- Data
- Postgres · SQL Server · MongoDB
- Platform
- Kubernetes · AWS · Azure · Datadog
Selected work
What clients ask us first
01Low-code, custom or COTS, how do you decide?
Per capability. Packaged where the process is commodity. Low-code where the process is real but not differentiating. Custom where the process differentiates or COTS fits poorly. We produce a per-capability disposition rather than a verdict.
02How do you approach low-code without creating shadow IT?
By giving citizen developers a paved road, environments, source control, review, security scanning, lifecycle. Otherwise you end up with a 200-app estate no one can safely retire.
03How do you handle modernisation of legacy internal apps?
Rolling waves, never big-bangs. Some apps are retired outright once disposition analysis is done'no users, no criticality' is a legitimate answer.
04How do you keep integrations from becoming spaghetti?
Integration is a first-class engineering surface with contracts, ownership and monitoring. Point-to-point is technical debt from day one.
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