Build and maintain
We build software, and then we keep it alive.
Not a template with your logo dropped in, and not a handover followed by silence. Everything below is built around how your business really operates, secured from the first architecture decision, and supported for as long as you run it.
Photo — Naboth Otieno
How we think about it
Software is only good if it survives a Monday
Anything looks fine in a demo. The test is whether it holds up when five staff are using it at once, the network is slow, and somebody uploads a file nobody planned for.
So we build for the ordinary day rather than the launch day: sensible loading times on mobile data, forms that tell you what went wrong, error handling that doesn't lose your customer's order, and backups you can actually restore from.
The catalogue
What we build, in detail
Business websites
A site whose job is to bring in enquiries. Mobile-first, fast on Nigerian networks, written to be found on search, and built on a page editor your own staff can update without calling us. Includes contact forms that reach a real inbox, WhatsApp handoff, and analytics so you can see what's working.
Web platforms and portals
When the website is the product rather than the advert: customer portals, booking and scheduling systems, member areas, school and clinic records, admin dashboards. User roles and permissions, an audit trail of who changed what, and reporting you can export.
Mobile apps
iOS and Android from a single codebase, so you're not paying twice for the same feature. Push notifications, offline handling for patchy signal, and store submission done under your own developer accounts — you keep control of your listings.
Online stores and payments
Product catalogues, variants, stock levels, delivery options and checkout, wired to local payment gateways. Orders land in one dashboard instead of across chat threads, and receipts go out automatically.
Internal tools and automation
The work that quietly saves the most money. Staff dashboards, approval workflows, inventory tracking, automated reports, invoice generation — usually replacing a spreadsheet that three people edit at once and nobody trusts.
Security built in, not bolted on
Encryption in transit and at rest, passwords hashed one way so no list of them exists, prepared statements on every query, least-privilege accounts, and an audit trail of who did what. Decided in the first architecture meeting rather than patched in after a scare. See exactly how we protect your data →
How delivery runs
Four stages, and you see the work at each one
Discovery and scope
Goals, users, constraints and success measures written down and agreed before anyone opens a code editor.
Design
Wireframes first, then real screens. You approve the look and the flow while changes are still cheap to make.
Development
Short build cycles on a staging link you can open any time, with version control and code review behind it.
Testing, launch and handover
Security, performance and usability checks, then go-live and a documented handover of every account and credential.
The half people forget to ask about
Maintenance: what happens for the next three years
A launch is not the end of a project, it's the start of running one. Libraries go out of date, certificates expire, storage fills up, traffic grows, and somebody eventually needs a password reset at an inconvenient hour.
Monitoring that pages a human
Uptime, error rates and response times watched continuously. We usually know something is wrong before your customers do, and you get told what happened rather than left to notice a quiet outage.
Security patching on a schedule
Most breaches use a known hole in an old library that nobody updated. Dependencies are monitored against published vulnerabilities and patched on a cycle — not the week after something goes wrong.
Backups that get restored
Daily, encrypted before they leave the server, stored off-site. A backup nobody has restored is a rumour, so we run a real restore on a schedule and give you the retention period and recovery time in writing.
Performance as you grow
Queries that were fine with 500 records are not fine with 500,000. We watch for it, add the indexes, tune the caching and resize the hosting before slowness turns into lost customers.
Changes and small features
Businesses change. A maintenance arrangement includes a monthly allowance of development time for the adjustments that come up, so small requests do not need a new contract each time.
Inherited systems welcome
We take on software other people built and abandoned. First we audit it and tell you honestly what state it is in — including if the right advice is to rebuild rather than keep patching.
Or take it in-house
If you would rather run it yourself, we will train your team and hand over the documentation instead. Both are fine. Being stuck with us because nobody else can read the code is not — every account, credential and repository is in your name from day one.
Photo — RDNE Stock project
Not sure what you need?
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