Custom Internal Tools
Replace your spreadsheets with software that actually works
Most small businesses run on a patchwork of spreadsheets, email threads, and manual processes. I build lightweight custom tools — dashboards, job trackers, client portals, quote calculators — tailored to how your business actually operates. No off-the-shelf bloat, no per-seat licensing fees.
Built for how your business actually runs.
Most businesses end up running on a patchwork of spreadsheets, shared documents, group chats, and subscription tools that almost do what’s needed — but not quite. The workaround becomes the system, and the system becomes the bottleneck. A custom internal tool is the alternative: a bespoke web application built specifically around how your business actually operates, with none of the compromises that come from bending an off-the-shelf product to fit.
This might be a job tracker for your team, a client portal where customers can see their project status, a dashboard that pulls data from the tools you already use, a simple booking system tailored to your service, or an internal hub that finally replaces the five spreadsheets everyone’s updating separately. It’s built the same way every website we deliver is built — hand-coded with Next.js and React, hosted on Vercel’s global edge network, fast, secure, and made to last.
Because every tool is specific to your business, scope and pricing are handled individually. We start with a conversation about the problem, work out the simplest version of the tool that solves it, and quote the job upfront.
Bespoke web app built around your specific workflow — job tracker, client portal, quote calculator, dashboard, or whatever the job needs
Hand-coded with Next.js and React, deployed on Vercel's global edge — fast, secure, zero per-seat fees
Integration with your existing tools where it makes sense — Xero, Google Sheets, your CRM, email, booking platforms
Mobile-responsive across desktop, tablet, and phone so your team can use it wherever they work
Source code and data fully owned by you — no vendor lock-in, clean handover if you ever want to move it
Fixed quote upfront with no hourly rates, scope creep, or surprise invoices
If you’re running a process out of a spreadsheet three people are editing simultaneously, paying per-seat fees for a SaaS product you barely use, or rebuilding the same report every week, a custom tool is usually cheaper over its lifetime. If an off-the-shelf product would genuinely do the job better, we’ll tell you that honestly rather than build something you don’t need.
Job trackers, client portals, quote calculators, booking systems, internal dashboards, and data hubs that pull from the tools you already use. If it’s a web-based tool that your team or customers would use in a browser, it’s in scope. Everything is hand-coded with the same stack as our websites — Next.js, React, deployed on Vercel.
Pricing depends entirely on scope — a simple quote calculator is a different job from a full client portal with user accounts and permissions. We start with a free scoping conversation, work out the simplest version of the tool that actually solves the problem, and provide a fixed quote upfront. No hourly rates, no scope creep.
You do. Source code, data, the lot. If you ever want to move it elsewhere, we hand it over clean — the same way we handle websites. You’re never locked into us, and nothing we build depends on a proprietary platform you can’t leave.