Software Solutions for Growth Businesses

Pinnacle Logistics: Unifying 4 Legacy Systems into One Platform

We designed and built a unified operations platform that consolidated all four systems into a single application with real-time data synchronisation, automated workflow triggers, and comprehensive dashboards. Legacy data was migrated with full audit trail preservation.

Learnify: Building an EdTech Platform from Design to API to Launch

We provided full-stack delivery — UX research and design, frontend development, backend API architecture, video streaming integration, payment processing, and LTI compliance for institutional adoption. The platform was built with scalability in mind from day one.

“We were running four separate systems that didn't talk to each other — fleet management, warehouse, CRM, and invoicing all in their own silos. They unified everything into a single platform that our entire operations team now lives in. The reduction in manual data entry alone saved us two full-time roles worth of effort. It has genuinely transformed how we operate on a daily basis.”

“Building an EdTech platform requires integrating with dozens of external services — payment gateways, video hosting, LMS standards, authentication providers. Their API integration expertise was outstanding. Every integration was properly documented, error-handled, and monitored. We have had zero integration failures in production, which given the number of moving parts is remarkable.”

“Our business was drowning in manual processes — spreadsheets for everything from tenant management to maintenance scheduling. They built us a complete property management solution that automated 80% of our administrative workload. My team went from fire-fighting daily operational problems to actually focusing on growing the business. The return on investment was evident within the first month.”

We start by understanding your current scale and your realistic growth trajectory over the next two to three years. We then design architecture that handles that anticipated scale — without over-engineering for theoretical scenarios that are unlikely to materialise. The key decisions are around data architecture, caching strategy, and how services are decomposed. We make these decisions explicitly, with the growth context in mind, rather than using patterns that happen to be fashionable.

Yes. We have significant experience with incremental, zero-downtime legacy modernisation. The approach depends on what you have: sometimes a strangler-fig migration is appropriate (replacing the legacy system one component at a time while keeping it live); sometimes a parallel-run migration where both systems operate simultaneously during a transition period; sometimes a phased rollout to specific user groups or regions before full cutover. We will recommend the approach that best fits your specific situation.

We work with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. We are not dogmatic about which cloud provider to use — we recommend based on your specific requirements, your existing vendor relationships, and the services best suited to your architecture. For most growth-stage UK businesses, AWS is the most common starting point due to breadth of services and regional availability, but GCP and Azure have strong use cases in specific contexts.

For projects where requirements are expected to evolve — which is common for growth businesses entering new market segments or building novel capabilities — we work in short agile cycles that allow priorities to be adjusted between sprints. We scope the first sprint in detail and plan subsequent sprints at a higher level, refining requirements as we go. This reduces the risk of building the wrong thing before you have enough information to know what the right thing is.

Yes. Many of our clients engage us on a monthly retainer basis after an initial project. Retainer arrangements provide dedicated engineering capacity on a predictable cost basis, which suits growth businesses who have a continuous development roadmap rather than discrete project needs. We are genuinely set up for long-term partnerships — not just project work.