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Shopify or Custom? The Questions We Ask Before Recommending Either

Custom ecommerce or Shopify? Five questions that decide it, from a company that builds custom marketplaces and tells clients when a platform is enough.

How Much Does a React Native App Cost? What 25 Shipped Projects Taught Us About Estimates

React Native app cost explained in team-weeks: what drives the number, typical ranges per app type, and how to get an estimate you can rely on.

Healthcare

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Designing Health Apps That Collect No PHI: A Practical Data-Minimization Guide

How we design wellness, clinical and health data apps to work without PHI, and what to do properly when sensitive data is the product.

AI Development

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RAG for Company Documents: What Works in Production and What Only Works in Demos

What changes between a RAG demo and production: chunking, permissions, evaluation, cost, and the questions users really ask.

Web Development

Migrating AngularJS to Angular Without a Rewrite: A Module-by-Module Plan

The incremental AngularJS to Angular migration plan we use, so the app keeps serving users while modules move one at a time.

AI Development

From Photographed Pages to Structured Data: Building OCR and LLM Pipelines That Actually Work

Anyone can demo OCR plus an LLM. A production pipeline handles crooked photos, mixed languages and real uploads. The architecture we use.

Building Offline-First Sync in React Native: What Field Apps Taught Us

The offline-first architecture we use in React Native: local-first storage, sync queues and conflict handling, learned from real field apps.

React Native vs Flutter: How We Choose for Client Projects

React Native vs Flutter for client projects: who maintains the app, how it fits your stack, how it ages, and the questions that decide it.

Taking Over a React Native Codebase: Our Audit Checklist

Inherited a React Native app? Audit builds, dependencies, native code, crashes, security, tests and store compliance before fixing anything.

Ecommerce

How to Build a Multi-Vendor Marketplace: Where the Work Really Goes

A marketplace is not a store with more sellers. Onboarding, listings, messaging, split payouts, transaction states and disputes, in build order.

Healthcare

HIPAA Compliant App Development: What Engineers Can Promise and What Only Your Lawyers Can

Compliance is a property of an organisation, not a feature. The safeguards engineers can deliver, what they cannot, and what to ask any vendor.

AI Development

Business Process Automation: Five Workflows Worth Automating First

Five workflows worth automating first: document intake, approvals, manual reporting, routine communications and onboarding, and why.

Multi-Role Mobile Apps: One Codebase for Drivers, Dispatchers and Managers

How we structure roles, navigation, permissions, data and testing so one mobile codebase serves drivers, dispatchers and managers.

Web Development

Rescuing a Legacy PHP Application: Stabilise First, Then Modernise

The order we work in on inherited PHP apps: reproducible builds, a supported PHP version, tests around what matters, then modernisation.

Working With Us

How to Write a Software Brief That Gets You an Accurate Estimate

Estimate accuracy depends on the brief. What to include, what to leave out, and how to recognise a proposal that understood you.

Working With Us

Fixed Price vs Dedicated Team: Which Engagement Model Fits Your Project

Fixed price, dedicated team or capped time and materials: when each works, when it fails, and the staged combination most projects use.