Custom AI Engineering.
Software built for how your business actually works, when the thing you need does not exist as a product you can buy.
When does a business need custom software instead of an off-the-shelf tool?
When the tool is making you work its way instead of yours. If your team keeps a spreadsheet beside the app, if two systems never agree, or if the job you do every day has no software that fits it, a custom build is usually cheaper than the hours lost. I built Klenara for my own cleaning company for exactly that reason, and that is the kind of thing this is.
Screens land when the first build ships
We run two trading companies on software we wrote. Klenara handles the operations for one of them daily — the X-ray on the homepage shows the real screen and the code underneath it.
That is the standard here. Not a wrapper around someone else’s API, but a system your business runs on.
It starts with £250 and a scoping session, because a fixed price for real software requires understanding the problem first. That £250 comes off the build. If the session concludes you should not build anything, we will say so and you will have spent £250 to avoid spending £5,000.
Questions people ask.
- How do you price a custom build?
- A paid scoping session first, credited against the build. You get a written scope and a fixed price before anything is built. The figure on this page is the floor; the scope sets the number and it does not move mid-build.
- What does it run on?
- Standard, boring technology: a database, a web app that opens on a phone, hosted in an account you own. No proprietary platform you cannot leave, and the code is yours.
- What has been built this way?
- Klenara, the operations app my cleaning team uses daily to run jobs, changeovers, staff and invoicing. It is the first customer of everything on this page, and its screens are on the work page.
- How long does a build take?
- It depends entirely on scope, which is why the date is agreed at scoping rather than guessed here. Small internal tools can be weeks; a full operations system is months, delivered in working stages so you are using it before it is finished.