How it works · Discovery · Blueprint · Scope · Build · Live

Most software projects go wrong quietly, then all at once. You will see ours every two weeks.

Fixed scope agreed before code. Working software at every sprint review. If something is going wrong you will know by week four, not at handover.

6–10
Weeks for a Foundation build
2
Weeks between demos
30
Days hypercare after go-live
7platforms live
3countries
0projects repriced after signing
100%source code owned by the client
The five phases

What happens, and what you get at the end of it.

Every phase ends with something you can hold: a written summary, a fixed-price proposal, a signed scope, working software. Nothing ends with a status update.

Phase 01 · Week 0

Discovery call

Thirty minutes, free. We map how your agency runs today, where the manual work sits, and whether a build makes sense for you at all. Some agencies are told to wait, and that is a real answer we give.

You leave with: an honest read on fit and a ballpark price.
Phase 02 · Week 1

Blueprint

One week, paid, credited in full against the build. We map your workflows properly, identify which automations would pay off in your operation, and produce an outline architecture.

You leave with: a workflow map and a fixed-price build proposal, yours to keep either way.
Phase 03 · Week 2

Scope and price locked

Every screen, every feature and every integration written down in plain language, with wireframe walkthroughs before any code exists. You approve it before we start. Anything added later is priced separately and never changes the original figure.

You leave with: a signed fixed-scope, fixed-price, fixed-date contract.
Phase 04 · Weeks 3 to 8

Build, in fortnightly sprints

Two-week sprints. At the end of each one you get a call and working, clickable software, not a progress report. Feedback goes into the next sprint. This is the part that stops a project failing silently.

You leave with: software you can click through yourself.
Phase 05 · Weeks 9 to 10

Go live, in parallel

Your data is migrated, your team is trained with recorded sessions for future starters, and the new system runs alongside the old one for a week or two. You switch over when you are ready, not when we are.

You leave with: a live platform and your team already using it.
Then · 30 days

Hypercare, then your choice

Thirty days of same-day fixes, included in every build. After that a monthly support retainer is available from the team that built the platform, not a general helpdesk. It is optional and you can stop it at any point.

You leave with: the source code, the infrastructure and the data.
Inside the build

Why fortnightly demos matter more than the plan.

A fixed price protects you from cost overrun. It does not protect you from being handed the wrong thing. Seeing it every two weeks does.

01

Core and data model

The foundation everything else sits on. Reviewed and approved before anything is built on top of it, because this is the layer that is expensive to change later.

02

Your most important workflow first

Whatever your operation lives or dies on, built early. Working in a browser at the first sprint review, not described in a document.

03

Compliance and documents

Your market's requirements built in and tested, with expiry alerts and blocking rules working. Not a module bolted on at the end.

04

Portals and mobile

The parts your workers, clients or families actually touch. Reading the same records your office team works from.

05

Automation and AI

Matching, chasing, reconciliation and parsing switched on against your real data, so you can see what it does before go-live.

06

Integrations and reporting

Payroll, accounting and job boards connected, dashboards built, and the whole thing tested end to end before launch phase begins.

If a sprint review shows something is wrong, we change it in the next sprint. That is what the two-week cycle is for. The alternative is discovering it at handover, when changing it is expensive for everybody.

Wherever you operate

Compliance is scoped to your market, not translated into it.

The process is the same in all three markets. What changes is what gets built into Phase 03, and we scope it from your regulator rather than adapting somebody else's.

United States

HIPAA controls where facility integrations require them, OIG exclusion screening, state licensing rules, and EVV with Medicaid billing for home care. US-hosted infrastructure.

US

Ireland

NMBI registration and Garda vetting tracking, HIQA inspection evidence built as work happens, HSE requirements, and GDPR-compliant EU hosting.

Ireland

Canada

Provincial college registration and vulnerable sector checks, with privacy configured per province: PHIPA in Ontario, PIPA in British Columbia, HIA in Alberta, PIPEDA federally. Canadian-hosted.

Canada
Before you start

What agencies ask about the process.

Including the ones about what happens when something goes wrong.

What if we change our minds mid-build?+
Small changes inside the agreed scope go into the next sprint at no cost. Anything genuinely new is quoted separately before it is built, and you decide whether to add it. What does not happen is the original price moving because the work turned out harder than we thought. That risk is ours.
What if it slips?+
The timeline is contractual, not an estimate. If we are running behind, you will see it at a sprint review rather than hearing about it at the end, because there is working software to look at every two weeks. Slippage is discussed when it is two weeks old, not two months.
How much of our time does this take?+
A 30-minute call, a few hours across the Blueprint week, an hour to walk the wireframes, and a 45-minute sprint review every two weeks. Training at go-live takes a half day for your team. Beyond that, we work and you carry on running the agency.
Do we have to pay it all upfront?+
No. The build is split across three milestones: 30% to start, 40% at the mid-build review once you have seen working software, and 30% on go-live. Agencies run weekly payroll against 45 to 75 day receivables, so the schedule is designed to sit alongside that. The Blueprint fee is credited against the first milestone.
What happens to our existing data?+
It is migrated as part of the go-live phase, and the old system keeps running in parallel for a week or two while your team builds confidence. You switch over when you are ready. Nothing is turned off on a date we picked.
What if we want a different developer later?+
You own the source code, the infrastructure and the data on completion. There is no licence, no lock-in and nothing that stops another developer picking it up. We would rather you stayed because the work is good than because leaving is hard.
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Ready when you are

Start with a call. Decide after the Blueprint.

Nothing is committed until the scope is signed at the end of week two.

Not ready for either? Ask us to arrange a call with a client already running one of these platforms. No pitch, just their experience.

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